Patrícia Oliveira received her PhD in Political Science, from the University of Lisbon, Institut of Social Sciences and Politics (Portugal) with a thesis entitled "Political Culture in Documentary Film in Portugal (1974-2012)", funded by the Portuguese national funding agency for science, resarch and technology, FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PhD Grant SFRH/BD/89754/2012). Since 2012 she is guest assistant professor at the Department of Arts and Philosophy at the Univesity of Beira Interior (Covilhã, Portugal) in the field of political science, and assistant professor at the Faculty of Law at the University Lusíada (Fundação Minerva, Oporto, Portugal) in the field of international relations. She is vice-coordinator and PhD researcher of the Political Observatory (www.observatoriopolitico.pt), a research association on political studies created in 2009 at NOVA University, and now based on the University of Lisbon at ISCSP. She also holds a position as a collaborator at CIAC - Center for Research in Communication Sciences and Arts from the University of Algarve (Portugal). She is member of the editorial board of the Political Observer | Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política (www.rpcp.pt). Patrícia Oliveira has a masters and bachelor degree in political science and international relations from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal). In 2007, she participated in the EU's programme ERASMUS+ at SciencesPo Paris (Paris, France). Between 2012-2015 she was invited to co-coordinate and lecture an international seminar at SciencesPo Paris, Poitiers Campus (France). Since her early studies, Patrícia Oliveira pursuits interdisciplinary approaches to political science and its methods and her main research areas of interest are political science, political theory, political culture, cultural politics and documentary film. She participated in national and international conferences, seminars, and published scientific articles in national and international peer reviewed journals, chapter books, journal editorials and e-working papers. Patrícia Oliveira is deeply commited to develop interdisciplinary approaches and to conduct research towards the importance of the arts&culture for the democratization of the political system, in order to attain sustainable development goals (SDGs - Agenda 2030). Between 2017-2018, Patrícia Oliveira provided scientific and technical support to the Delegation of Portugal to UNESCO, Paris (France). Since then, she enrolled in several multi-level and multilateral projects. Patrícia Oliveira is strongly committed to develop research networks, not only with researchers but also with practitioners towards the promotion of open science and of a more inclusive and diversity scientific culture.