Team

Chair.

Fernanda Bonacho holds a PhD in Communication Sciences, specialising in Communication and Languages, from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She has been an Adjunct Professor at the School of Communication and Media Studies since 1998, where she has taught in the areas of Communication Sciences, Media Studies and Journalism, and Human Sciences. She has held the positions of Coordinator of the master’s degree in journalism since 2021, Coordinator of the Media and Journalism Studies Section, Coordinator of the Journalism Degree Course and Coordinator of the Information and Documentation Services. She has taken part in various research projects in the field of communication sciences and journalism, with internal and external funding for the IPL, including the coordination of the Reading Academy of the World, funded by the national network of Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She is a member of the Scientific-Pedagogical Council of the Language and Culture Centre of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (CLIC), collaborates with the Council of Europe within the scope of Digital Citizenship Education (DCE) and represents the School of Social Communication and Media Studies/Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon in the national network Informal Group on Media Literacy (GILM).

Co-chair.

João Abreu completed his PhD in Communication Sciences in 2014 at ISCTE-IUL, a Master’s degree in Communication, Culture and Information Technologies in 2004 at ISCTE-IUL and a degree in Communication Design in 1997 at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is a Coordinating Professor and Researcher at the School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS-IPL), currently as Coordinator of the Audiovisual and Multimedia Department and Co-Chair of the Unesco Communication, Media Information Literacy and Citizenship Chair. He works in the field of Communication Sciences with an emphasis on communication design, identity design, communication in museums, heritage and landscape. He regularly participates as an author, curator and editor in conferences, exhibitions and publications dedicated to the recording and communication of landscape. He is the founder and Director of the Landscape Museum.

Filipe Barrocas Lima is a Professor at the School of Communication and Media Studies (ESCS-IPL), the Lisbon School of Engineering (ISEL-IPL) and at the School of Education and Social Sciences, in Leiria (ESECS-IPL). He teaches in the areas of multimedia communication, content production and communication design. He has a degree in Audiovisual and Multimedia from ESCS-IPL. Specialist Title in Audiovisual and Multimedia Communication from Politécnico de Lisboa (IPL). PhD student in Communication Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH), developing studies in the area of mental health literacy in streaming content. With more than 10 years of experience in communication consultancy, he has developed much of his professional work in the area of health and well-being communication.

Since 1992, Communication has been a passion and a profession. He was a journalist and director of several publications, including the magazines Farmácia Distribuição, Marketing Farmacêutico, Distribuição Hoje, Negócios&Franchising, Veterinária Atual and Saúde Oral, having been part of the team that thought and created the Almofariz awards. With a degree in Communication and Consumer Behavior, he has the title of Specialist in Advertising from the Polytechnic University of Lisbon. He is a professor at the School of Communication and Media Studies and member of the technical-scientific committee of postgraduate course in Branding and Content Marketing. He was sub-coordinator of the degree in Advertising and Marketing and is coordinator of the post-graduate course in Communication and Marketing in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Above all, he remembers the friends he made in the places he passed through. Because, “in the end, the difference is always made by people.”

PhD in Communication Sciences (variant of Media and Journalism Studies from FCSH-UNL), she researches and teaches in the areas of theory, practics and deontology of journalism. As a researcher, she is particularly interested in issues related to journalistic practices and representations, about which have published work, she is an integrated member of LIACOM (Laboratory of Applied Research in Communication and Media) and a collaborating member of ICNOVA – Instituto de Comunicação da Nova.  She was a journalist and teaches at the School of Media Studies and Communication – Polytechnic University of Lisbon, where she is the Media and Journalism Studies scientific area coordinator and Post-graduation in Sports Journalism sub coordinator.

Tatiana Nunes has a PhD in Communication Sciences from ISCTE-IUL, has a Degree and a Master in Public Relations and Corporate Communication from ESCS-IPL. Tatiana has the Title of Specialist in Strategic Management of Public Relations, by the Polytechnic University of Lisbon. She has been a Public Relations Professor at the ESCS-IPL since 2009 and  is now the Coordinator of the undergraduate degree in Public Relations and Corporate Communication. She has worked as a communication director in organizations from the third sector in Portugal for more than 12 years. Trainer, consultant and researcher in the area of Public Relations and Corporate Communication, Communication for Social and Behavior Change and Health Communication.

Ana Cristina Antunes (Humanities)
Ana Raposo (Strategic Communication)
Ana Teresa Machado (Marketing)
Ana Varela (Storytelling)
Andreia Alves Garcia (Health Literacy)
Cláudia Silvestre (Data Journalism, Statistics Literacy)
Fátima Lopes Cardoso (Visual Journalism)
Fernanda Bonacho (Communication, media literacy)
Filipe Barrocas Lima (Science Communication, Audiovisual and Multimedia)
Filipe Montargil (Audiovisual and Multimedia)
Francisco Sena Santos (Journalism, Radio Broadcasting)
Joana de Souza (Mutimedia Resources Design, E-learning)
Joana Pontes (Documentary, Script Writing, Film Director)
João Abreu (Design Multimedia)
João Barros (Communication and Marketing)
João Rosário (Marketing, Data Science)
Jorge Trindade (Language)
Jorge Veríssimo (Semiotics, Communication Studies)
José Cavaleiro Rodrigues (Creative Industries)
Margarida Carvalho (Arts, Media and Communication)
Maria Duarte Belo (Women Leadership, Ethics and Social Responsibility)
Maria Inácia Rezola (Contemporary History)
Maria João Centeno (Communication and Culture)
Maria José Mata (Journalism )
Nuno Palma (Mutimedia Resources Design, E-learning)
Pedro Marques Gomes (Journalism History)
Ricardo Pereira Rodrigues (Multimedia, E-learning Development, Articulation with Society)
Rita Monteiro Mourão (Communication Studies)
Rosário Correia (Branding and Content Marketing)
Rúben Neves (Audiovisual Communication)
Sandra Miranda (Senior Studies, Media Behaviour Studies)
Sandra Pereira (Public Relations Strategic Management)
Sara Cura (Science Communication, Heritage)
Susana Araújo (Audiovisual and Multimedia)
Tatiana Nunes (Public Relations and Corporate Communication)
Vera Moutinho (Climate Journalism, Multimedia Journalism)
Verónica Silva (Multimedia and TV Production)
Zélia Santos (Statistics)

Cristina Ponte – NOVA FCSH / ICNOVA
Vitor Tomé – UAL / CIES

Maria Donde (Media and Information Literacy Policies, Digital Media Literacy and Citizenship) – Director of International Affairs, Coimisiún na Meán; Senior Vice-Chair EPRA

Sally Reynolds (Media Literacy, Media Education) – Chief Operational Officer for Media&Learning / Director of Media Literacy for EDMOeu / Observer in the European Commission’s Media Literacy Experts Group