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Cristina Gil is an Invited Professor (Professora Adjunta Convidada) at Escola Superior de Educação – Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (ESE-IPS) in Portuguese Sign Language Interpreter Training (TILGP) and co-founder of the Deaf Studies Lab (CECC). She obtained a PhD in Culture Studies (Faculty of Human Sciences - UCP, 2020) with transdisciplinary research in Culture Studies, Utopian Studies, and Deaf Studies. She coined the neologism Deaftopia to refer to utopian representations and discourses in Deaf communities and Sign Language Peoples worldwide. This research was conducted with a full scholarship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2016-2020). During her PhD, she was a visiting scholar at Gallaudet University in Washington (USA). She also holds an Advanced Studies Diploma in Languages, Literature and Cultures, specializing in Cultural Studies (School of Social Sciences and Humanities - NOVA FCSH, 2014), a Master’s in Deaf Communities, Education and Signed Languages (Universidad de Barcelona, 2010), and a Bachelor’s in Portuguese Sign Language Interpretation (ESE-IPS, 2007). During her studies, she also participated in the Erasmus Program at Högskolan Väst in Trollhättan, Sweden. In 2013, In 2013, she was recognized by the University of Minho as a certified instructor for Deaf Education and Special Needs Education. Cristina Gil’s research interests lie in the field of human diversity, particularly in the disciplinary boundaries between Deaf Studies, Deaf History, Deaf Cultures, Deaf epistemologies and ontologies, and Signed Language Interpretation and Translation Studies. Her most recent work includes a chapter on Deaftopias in Utopian Possibilities: Models, Theories, Critiques (2023) and a chapter on Deaftopias in The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literature (2022). Email at cristinagil8@gmail.com.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Cristina Gil

Citation names

  • Gil, Cristina

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
151F-8316-FDB5
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1356-998X
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=U0kcetsAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT
Researcher Id
U-1181-2018
Scopus Author Id
58595450900

Email addresses

  • cristina.gil@ese.ips.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Portuguese gestual language
English
Spanish; Castilian
French
Other
Education
Degree Classification
2016/10/01 - 2020/10/30
Concluded
 Estudos de Cultura (Doutoramento)
Major in Culture Studies - Utopian Studies - Deaf Studies
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
"Deafopia: Utopian Representations and Community Dreams by the Deaf (Thesis)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18 Magna Cum Laude
2013/09/01 - 2014
Concluded
 Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))
Major in Especialidade: Estudos Culturais
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
 17
2013/06/21
Concluded
 Certified Instructor in Special Needs Education and Deaf Education - awarded due to relevant academic CV and career (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Formal acknowledgement
2008 - 2010
Concluded
 Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil (Master)
Major in Comunidad Sorda, Educación y lengua de signos
Universitat de Barcelona Departament de Psicologia Evolutiva i de l'Educació, Spain
"El Liderazgo en la Comunidad Sorda Portuguesa: Estudio cualitativo sobre cuatro líderes sordos" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2002 - 2007
Concluded
 Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil (Licenciatura)
Major in Translation and Interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal - Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal , Portugal
 16
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/10/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2018/10 - 2018/11 Visiting Researcher (Research) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Portugal
Gallaudet University, United States

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/10/15 - Current Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal - Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal , Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal - Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal , Portugal
2016/02 - 2016/09 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal - Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal , Portugal
2013 - 2014 Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal
2011 - 2013 Tutor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2011 - 2013 Assistant (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Instituto de Ciências da Saúde, Portugal
2011 - 2012 Visiting Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2004 - 2016 Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes Freelancer (Several) Portuguese Sign Language Interpreter, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/10 - 2020/11 Lisbon Consortium Full-Scholarship
PD/BD/128194/2016
 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Liam Benison; Cristina Gil. "Deaftopia: Utopian Representations and Community Dreams by Sign Language Peoples.". Portugal: Universidade do Porto, 2023.
    10.21747/978-989-746-359-4/uto
  2. Andreia Rodrigues; Cristina Gil; Joana Conde e Sousa; Andreia Rodrigues. "Intérprete de língua gestual de conferência - entre o atual e o ideal - estudo de caso em Portugal". In Línguas de sinais além-mar: propostas de investigação e desafios, edited by Correia, {Isabel Sofia Calv{\'a; Isabel Sofia Calvário Correia; Custódio, Pedro Balaus; Ronaldo Manassés Campos, 59-73. São Paulo, Brazil: e-Manuscrito, 2022.
    Published
  3. Cristina Gil. "Deaftopias". In The Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures, 267-278. Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-030-88654-7_21
  4. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "O Mythomoteur Surdo". In Línguas de sinais: cultura, educação e identidade, 75-92. Ex-Libris, 2019.
    Published
  5. Gil, Cristina; Pereira, Joana; Silva, Ana. "Translation and Interpretation Practices in Portuguese Sign Language: the Academic Setting at Pro_LGP.". In Cartografias da Surdez: Comunidades, Línguas, Práticas e Pedagogias, edited by Coelho, Orquídea ; Klein, Madalena. Porto, Portugal: CIIE/Livpsic, 2013.
    Published
  6. Joana Pereira; Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil; Ana Silva. "Práticas de Tradução e Interpretação de Língua Gestual Portuguesa: o Contexto Académico na Pro_LGP". In Cartografias da Surdez: Comunidades, Línguas, Práticas e Pedagogias, 67-77. Livpsic, 2013.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deaftopia: utopian representations and community dreams by sign language peoples". Paper presented in 21st Utopian Studies Society Conference, 2021.
    Published
  2. Cristina Gil. "Cultural implications of gender construction in Portuguese Sign Language and historical considerations on gender segregation in the Portuguese Deaf community". Paper presented in Between Feminine and Masculine - Language(s) and Society, Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  3. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "The End & Destination Eyeth - Questioning Methodology". 2020.
    Published
  4. Cristina Gil. "Beyond the hearing line. Utopian representations of Flournoy’s Commonwealth". Paper presented in IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture, Lisboa, 2019.
    Published
  5. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Utopian places and wishful replacement". Paper presented in VIII Graduate Conference, Lisboa, 2018.
    Published
  6. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. ""See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil": Donald Trump and the Deaf community". 2018.
    Published
  7. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Os direitos humanos e a pessoa Surda". Paper presented in Conference 20 years of bachelor’s degree on Translation and Interpretation of Portuguese Sign Language, Setúbal, 2018.
    Published
  8. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Reversed alterity: Deaf depictions of hearing people". Paper presented in VII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, Lisboa, 2018.
    Published
  9. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "“The people of the eye” – George Veditz e a Preservação das Línguas Gestuais". Paper presented in Conference 10 years of Portuguese Sign Language, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  10. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deaf identities and the Emergence of Deaf Gain". Paper presented in VII Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture - Global Translations, Lisbon, 2017.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Gil, Cristina; Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Conviviality and Collective Forms of Cultural Unawareness in Sun Kim’s artwork.". Paper presented in IX Lisbon Summer School in the Study of Culture: Convivial Cultures, Lisbon, 2021.
  2. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Beyond the hearing line: utopian representations of Flournoy’s Commonwealth". Paper presented in New Perspectives: III JRAAS Conference, Porto, 2019.
    Published
  3. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deafblindness – Professional Challenge for Teaching staff and Portuguese Sign Language Interpreters". Paper presented in Cycle on Translation and Interpretation for Portuguese Sign Language, Setúbal, 2019.
    Published
  4. Gil, Cristina. "Deaftopia: Utopian Representations and Community Dreams by the Deaf (8 lectures/presentations) at Gallaudet University as a visiting scholar". 2018.
  5. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil; Joana Pereira. "Deaf Way nos Estudos Culturais: a bandeira Surda da diversidade". Paper presented in VII National Congress of Deaf People – 20 years on the Constitutional Recognition Portuguese Sign Language: It was worth it!, Lisboa, 2017.
    Published
  6. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deaf Culture: the constant threat of extinction". Paper presented in European Summer School in Cultural Studies, Bergen, 2017.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Cristina Gil. "Deaftopia: utopian representations and community dreams by the deaf". Paper presented in World Congress of World Federation of the Deaf, 2019.
Journal article
  1. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil; Genie Gertz; Joana Morêdo Pereira; Tom Humphries. "Editorial: Deaf Culture". Diffractions 7 (2023): 1-11. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/43711.
    Published • 10.34632/diffractions.2023.15941 • Editor
  2. Regina Maria de Souza; Brito, F. B.; Cristina Gil. "Projeto de uma colônia agrícola de surdos: uma surdotopia no século XIX francês?". ETD - Educação Temática Digital 24 4 (2022): 796-810. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/etd.v24i4.8669147.
    10.20396/etd.v24i4.8669147
  3. Gil, Cristina; Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "A liderança na Comunidade Surda Portuguesa: Estudo qualitativo sobre quatro líderes Surdos". Cadernos da Saúde Nº1 Vol 4 4 1 (2011): 43-52. http://repositorio.ucp.pt/bitstream/10400.14/12490/1/CSaude_4-1%20%283%29.pdf.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34632/cadernosdesaude.2011.2813
Magazine article
  1. Gil, Cristina; Joana Moredo Pereira; Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deaf Way nos Estudos Culturais: a bandeira Surda da diversidade", MEDI@ÇÕES, 2019, http://mediacoes.ese.ips.pt/index.php/mediacoesonline/article/view/205/pdf.
Online resource
  1. Gil, Cristina. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Portuguese Sign Language (United Nations - Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner). 2017. http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/UDHRinsignlanguages.aspx.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gil, Cristina. "Deaftopia: Utopian Representations and Community Dreams by the Deaf". PhD, Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, 2020.
  2. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "Deaftopia: utopian representation and community dreams by the deaf". PhD, Faculty of Human Sciences, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.14/32141.
  3. Gil, Cristina; Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. "El Liderazgo en la Comunidad Sorda Portuguesa: Estudio cualitativo sobre cuatro líderes sordos". Master, Universitat de Barcelona Facultat de Formació del Professorat, 2007.
Website
  1. Cristina Gil; Bruno Mendes; Orquídea Coelho; Paula Liques. Social-haptic dictionary. 2022.

Artistic / Performance

Musical composition
  1. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil. Co-adaptation of the song in Portuguese Sign Language from Xpresso Lírico poem/song “Portugal De Luto”. 2019.
Video recording
  1. Cristina Gil; Paulo Vaz de Carvalho. 2023. Documentário comemorativo dos 25 anos de TILGP na ESE/IPS.
  2. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil; Joana Pereira; Helena Cristina Horta Sustelo do Carmo; Ana Soares; Joana Pereira (Producer). 2017. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Portuguese Sign Language.

Other

Other output
  1. Adaptation of the song in Portuguese Sign Language "Tinha de Ser" by João Paulo.. 2021. Cristina Gil. https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/publications/4734306b-c5b2-492e-ad49-5702ab003bdc.
  2. Communication as a former sign language interpreter and as a Deaf Studies/Culture Studies researcher at Encontro de Intérpretes Língua Gestual Portuguesa – Percursos Profissionais e Partilha de Experiências. 2017. Cristina Isabel Caciones Gil.
  3. Braille adaptation of the entire PRO_LGP manual collection (26 books). 2011. Cristina Gil. http://www.uceditora.ucp.pt/site/custom/template/ucptpl_uce.asp?sspageID=1308&lang=1.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/12/04 Pathways in Deaf Culture
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
2023/12/04 Diffractions n. 7 Launch - Guest-editorial Team
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC)
2023/12/04 Portuguese Deaf Cultural Map - Introduction Diffractions N.7 and the Deaf Studies Lab launch session
(Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/09/28 Invited lecture for Bachelors in Applied Foreign Languages (FCH-UCP)
2023/09/04 “Building up Social Haptic Signs – The Portuguese team” at Hapticconf 2023
Ca' Foscari University of Venice
2023/07/08 Deaftopias e os alicerces da Cultura Surda
Associação de Profissionais de Lecionação de Língua Gestual
2023/06/28 Deaftopia
École des hautes études en sciences sociales
2023/05/12 Workshop Guia-interpretação de Surdocegos
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2023/04/01 Deaf Culture and Interpreting: Challenges Aula Aberta "Cultura Surda e Interpretação: Desafios"
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/02/25 Deaftopia
Associação Portuguesa de Surdos
2022/09/22 Invited lecture for Bachelors in Applied Foreign Languages (FCH-UCP)
Faculty of Human Sciences
2022/01/17 No trilho da cultura surda: deaftopias
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2021/12/18 Deaftopia
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2021/12/18 Invited lecture about Deaftopia
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2021/11/26 Deaf Indigenous Communities in the Amazon and Portuguese linguistic communities REDE 26 - Educação de surdos em rede
2021/11/22 Masterclass - Deaf Cultural Empowerment through Deaftopias Deaf Cultural Empowerment through Deaftopias
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/10/26 Interpreter Training in Brazil and Portugal
Rede 26 - Educação de Surdos em Rede
2021/09/23 Invited lecture for Bachelors in Applied Foreign Languages (FCH-UCP)
Faculty of Human Sciences
2021/07/05 Profissão de risco: o intérprete de línguas gestuais como performer de alta competição
Associação Nacional e Profissional da Interpretação - Língua Gestual
2021/05/31 Profissão de Risco: O Intérprete de Línguas Gestuais como Performer de Alta Competição” on Health risks for Sign Language Interpreters
Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal
2021/05/20 Profissão de risco: o intérprete de línguas gestuais como performer de alta competição
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra
2021/05/20 Profissão de Risco: O Intérprete de Línguas Gestuais como Performer de Alta Competição Workshop “Profissão de Risco: O Intérprete de Línguas Gestuais como Performer de Alta Competição” on Health risks for Sign Language Interpreters
(Coimbra, Portugal)
2021/03/23 InterCECCtions InterCECCtions
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/03/23 The cultural unawareness of bicultural artwork InterCECCtions
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/07/23 Deaftopia: Utopian Representations and Community Dreams by the Deaf (Poster Presentation) XVIII World Congress of the Deaf
World Federation of the Deaf (Paris, France)
2019/07/02 Beyond the hearing line: Utopian Representations of Flournoy’s Commonwealth IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture
Faculty of Human Sciences - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2019/05/17 Beyond the hearing line: Utopian Representations of Flournoy’s Commonwealth New Perspectives: III JRAAS Conference
Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2019/01/19 Deafblindness – Professional Challenge for Professors and Portuguese Sign Language Interpreters Workshop Cycle TILGP ESE/IPS
Escola Superior de Educação de Setúbal IPS (Setúbal, Portugal)
2018/12/06 Utopian places and wishful replacement VIII Graduate Conference on Replacement Replaceability in Contemporary Culture
School of Human Sciences - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/10/10 Visiting scholar as a phd researcher student hosted by the Deaf Studies and American Sign Language at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. (1 month stay) several presentations & meetings on my ongoing research for students, staff and faculty members
Deaf Studies and American Sign Language at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. (Washington D.C., United States)
2018/03/24 Human Rights and the Deaf Conference 20 years of bachelor’s degree on Translation and Interpretation of Portuguese Sign Language
School for Higher Education of Setúbal – Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (Setúbal, Portugal)
2018/01/26 Reversed alterity: Deaf depictions of hearing people VII Graduate Conference in Culture Studies on Alterity and the Research Imagination
School of Human Sciences - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11/25 Deaf Way In Culture Studies: the Deaf flag of diversity VII National Congress of Deaf People – 20 years on the Constitutional Recognition Portuguese Sign Language: It was worth it!
Federação Portuguesa das Associações de Surdos (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/11/11 The people of the eye – George Veditz and the Preservation of Sign Languages Conference 10 years of Portuguese Sign Language
Institute for Health Sciences at Catholic University of Portugal (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/09/25 Introduction to Deaf Culture and Portuguese Sign Language: Dia Europeu das Línguas at Applied Foreign Languages Bachelor degree
Faculty of Human Sciences
2017/08/18 Deaf Culture: the constant threat of extinction European Summer School in Cultural Studies (ESSCS) in Bergen, Norway on "Living Together"
http://www.folk.uib.no/hlils/te17/ (Bergen, Norway)
2017/06/28 Deaf Identities and the Emergence of Deaf Gain (conference-paper) - VII Lisbon Summer School on Global Translations with Portuguese Sign Language (LGP) Interpreting VII Lisbon Summer School on Global Translations
Faculdade de Ciências Humanas - Universidade Católica Portuguesa (Lisboa, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/12/04 - 2023/12/04 Diffractions N.7 and the Deaf Studies Lab launch session (2023/12/04 - 2023/12/04)
Other (Co-organisor)
2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21 Conferência de Comemoração dos 25 anos de TILGP sobre Arte e Cultura Surda (2023/04/21 - 2023/04/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2023/04/20 - 2023/04/20 Liga Extraordinária de Futuros Intérpretes (2023/04/20 - 2023/04/20)
Other (Co-organisor)
2022/11/23 - 2022/11/23 Multiplier Event - Social Haptic Signs for the Deaf and Blind in Education (2022/11/23)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
2021/12/09 - 2021/12/10 Between feminine and masculine: language(s) and society (2021/12/09 - 2021/12/10)
Conference (Other)
 Faculty of Human Sciences, Portugal
2021/11/29 - 2021/12/04 XI Graduate Conference in Culture Studies (2021/11/29 - 2021/12/04)
Conference (President of the Organising Committee)
2021/01/21 - 2021/01/22 X Graduate Conference in Culture Studies (2021/01/21 - 2021/01/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2019/03/16 - Current Research assistant (interviews with Deaf people) on a research conducted by Joana Pereira, PhD student at the University College London - research conducted at Associação Portuguesa de Surdos & Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra.
Other
 Comunidade Surda e Música
University College London Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry, United Kingdom

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/07/25 Characterization of Pain in Portuguese Sign Language Interpreters in School Interpreters in School Context
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Inês Marques Peres (Master)
Research Centre for Communication and Culture (CECC), Portugal
2021/10/14 Intérpretes de Língua Gestual Portuguesa – Origem e Evolução. Motivação, formação, legislação, Condições de trabalho, carreira e intervenção
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Vânia do Carmo Sousa Lourenço (Master)
Faculty of Health Sciences and Nursing, Portugal
2016/01/07 Juri member for Specialist Title
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Joana Conde e Sousa (Other)
Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra, Portugal
2015/01/07 Juri member at the Specialist Title attribution (Línguas e Literaturas Maternas) to Joana Conde e Sousa - Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra – Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra
(Thesis) Arguer
 Joana Conde e Sousa (Other)
Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra Escola Superior de Educação de Coimbra, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2011 - Current National Association of Sign Language Interpreting Professionals - ANAPI-LG founding member, former secretary of the general assembly, currently a member.
2023 - 2025 Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (External organisation) Member
2011/07/05 - 2011/07/05 Associação Nacional e Profissional da Interpretação - Língua Gestual (External organisation) Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2024/04/19 - 2024/04/20 EIPE – VIII Encontro de Investigação e Práticas em Educação (Event)
2023 - 2024 University of Porto (External organisation)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/11 - Current LGP3i Project Consultant LGP3i, Portugal
2022/03 - 2022/12 Social Haptic Signs for the Deaf and Blind in Education Erasmus +, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Deaf Culture Consultant - Soap opera TVI, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2019 - Current Evaluation and supervision Committee
Member
 Higher School of Education of Setúbal, Portugal
2023 - 2024 Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (External organisation) Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal
2019 - 2020 Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal (External organisation) Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal

Interview (newspaper / magazine)

Activity description Newspaper / Forum
2024/03/14 Imaginem… Uma comunidade Access Lab
2023/03/29 "No som ou no silêncio." CNN Portugal
2022/04/23 Documentary National Day for Deaf Education (Participation) Signomy
2022/01/16 Deaftopias Campeão das Províncias
2011/01/02 The first deafblind student in university Jornal de Notícias

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/04 - 2023/12/04 Diffractions (2183-2188) Universidade Católica Portuguesa
2023/12 - 2023/12 Diffractions (2183-2188) Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Distinctions

Award

2020 PhD Magna Cum Laude (unanimously 18 out of 20)
Faculty of Human Sciences, Portugal
2016 Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (4 year) doctoral scholarship PD/BD/128194/2016
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 PhD Research Scholarship by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
2010 Master of Arts - Excellent Cum Laude
University of Barcelona, Spain

Title

2013 Certified Instructor in Special Needs Education and Deaf Education - awarded due to relevant academic CV and career
Universidade do Minho, Portugal