GROUPS & NETWORKS

INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

  • Regular participation in international conferences across Europe, North and South America, Asia (ISHPES, NASSH, NeMLA, CESH, Lusitanistentag, among others).

  • Collaboration with international research networks:

INCT-Estudos do Futebol Brasileiro, Brazil

International Research Network on the History of Women and Sport, Spain

H-Net–H-Sport, University of Michigan, USA

Member of the ACCOMPLISSH network (Horizon 2020, European Union)

Play the Game, Denmark

NATIONAL ENGAGEMENT

  • Founding member and coordinator of the History and Sport Group

  • Member and former coordinator of the History, Memory, Public Space Group (CEIS20- University of Coimbra)

  • Member and former coordinator of the Communication, Journalism and Public Space Group (CEIS20- University of Coimbra)

  • Former member of the Political History — Regimes, Transitions and Memory Group (IHC- NOVA University of Lisbon)

  • Former member of the Actors, Powers and Social Changes Group, CIDEHUS-University of Évora

  • Former member of the Portuguese Contemporary History Network

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION & SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION

Organisation and scientific coordination of international conferences and thematic congress sections in History, Media and Sport.

  • Founder and organiser of the History and Sport Conferences and the Communication and Sport Meetings (nine international editions), as well as other academic events in History, Media, Sport and Football.

  • Coordination of thematic sections and panels at major international congresses in Europe and the Americas.

  • Member of scientific committees and evaluator of proposals for international academic conferences.

  • Chair and moderator of sessions in international academic events (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Chile and Brazil).

Other activities

EDITORIAL & PEER REVIEW ACTIVITY

  • Editorial coordinator of the History and Sport Book Series (over a decade of continuous activity)

    – https://www.edicoesafrontamento.pt/collections/historias-e-desporto

  • International editor of H-Sport (H-Net, University of Michigan), contributing to global scholarly exchange in sport history

    – https://networks.h-net.org/h-sport

  • Guest editor and coordinator of several thematic issues in international journals dedicated to History, Media and Sport Studies

  • Regular referee for numerous peer-reviewed journals in Contemporary History, Communication and Sport Studies, including the International Journal of the History of Sport and Communication & Sport.

PUBLIC OUTREACH

  • Scientific coordination and curatorship of institutional memory projects, including the Legacy Liga Portugal Museum (Porto) and the Centenary Project of the Coimbra Football Association (AFC).

  • Portuguese partner and collaborator in the exhibition Um goleiro, uma garantia: Guarda-Redes de Moçambique, Instituto Guimarães Rosa/Centro Cultural Brasil, Maputo (Mozambique), 2022.

  • Author of the technical report on national football titles, commissioned by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF).

  • Regular collaboration with national media and participation in public debates on sport, media and cultural memory.

  • Public lectures and science outreach initiatives in schools, cultural institutions and museums.

DISTINCTIONS

  • Publication grants awarded by the Portuguese Government Office for the Media (Gabinete para os Meios de Comunicação Social) for the books:

    República, Desporto e Imprensa – O Desporto na I República em 100 primeiras páginas (Republic, Sport and the Press – Sport in the First Republic in 100 Front Pages, 2012).

    História da Imprensa Desportiva em Portugal (History of the Sports Press in Portugal, 2011).

    A Europa e Portugal na Imprensa Desportiva, 1893-1945 (Europe and Portugal in the Sports Press, 1893-1945, 2006).