Rosalina Pisco Costa is a sociologist, Associate Professor at the Dept. of Sociology and affiliated researcher at CICS.NOVA.UÉvora - The Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, University of Évora (UÉ), Portugal. She holds a degree in Sociology and a Master's degree with a specialisation in Family and Population Studies, from the UÉ, under the supervision of J. Manuel Nazareth. She was a Foundation for Science and Technology Fellow and Calouste Gulbenkian Student Scholar at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life, University of Manchester, under the supervision of Carol Smart. She completed her PhD in Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon in 2011, under the supervision of Ana Nunes de Almeida, and was awarded the Early Stage Family Scholar Award by the International Sociological Association in 2012. She has been teaching sociology at the university level since 2000. She currently teaches undergraduate, masters and doctoral programmes in sociology, both at the UÉ and since 2015 at the inter-university doctoral programme OPENSOC. Since 2005, she has also collaborated with the Nursing School, Escola Superior de Enfermagem S. João de Deus, teaching topics on the sociology and anthropology of the family to nurses specialising in maternal health and obstetrics. Her research covers a wide range of topics related to families, gender, and personal life; lifecourse, childhood and youth; everyday life, mobilities and consumption studies; social time and life stages; ritualisation, memory and family aesthetics; digitalisation and the platformization of the family; trajectories, transitions, and experiences in higher education; history and institutionalisation of sociology in Portugal; and ethics in social sciences, while crosswise exploring QDA software, qualitative, sensory and creative social research methodologies. She regularly takes part in the most important national and international sociological meetings as a speaker, session organiser and chairperson. She has published widely and internationally in books and peer-reviewed journals, and has contributed thematic entries to specialised encyclopaedias. She is a member of the editorial board of scientific publications and regularly participates, by invitation, as a reviewer for various journals. With Sampson Lee Blair, State University of New York, USA, she has co-edited the volumes 'Childbearing and the Changing Nature of Parenthood', 'Transitions into Parenthood: Examining the Complexities of Childrearing' and ‘More than just a 'Home': Understanding the Living Spaces of Families’. She has been Director of the Dept. of Sociology, elected member of the Scientific Council of the School of Social Sciences, and UÉ Representative on the OPENSOC Programme Committee. She is currently Director of the Master degree course in Sociology. She has actively participated in the design of key academic documents and institutional milestones. She coordinated the multidisciplinary team responsible for carrying out the study “School Dropout in Higher Education - Case Study of the UÉ” (2015) and co-authored the 1st Comprehensive Plan for Student Participation at the UÉ (2022). As Pro-Rector (2017-22), she was in charge of the Gender Equality Office, the elaboration of the 1st Gender Equality Plan, and the implementation of the Management System for the Reconciliation of Professional, Family and Personal Life (NP 4552:2022). In May 2023, she was elected as a member of the coordinating team of the Families and Life Course Section of the Portuguese Sociological Association for 2023-27. Outside the Academy, she has been a National Independent Expert for the European Commission in the framework of the EU Union Mutual Learning Programme in Gender Equality Artificial Intelligence and Gender Biases in Recruitment and Selection Processes (2020), and, since June 2022, she has been an external consultant to the Equality in Local Life Team (EIVL) of Évora City Council (CME).