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Marta Martins holds a PhD in Sociology (2020) from the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. She is currently a contract substitute professor in Sociology at the University of Salamanca (USAL, Spain). Additionally, she is a research assistant in the Department of Sociology and Communication at the University of Salamanca, where she is engaged in research related to the sociology of crime, specifically focusing on the representation of crime in the media. Furthermore, she was a Trainer and Pedagogical Coordinator for EFA (Education and Training for Adults) classes focused on Social Inequality and media related to the voices of young people. In 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher on the YouNDigital project—Young People, News, and Digital Citizenship (PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021). She has been involved in both national and international funded research projects. From June to December 2023, she was part of the technical team as a sociologist for the Católica In! Innovating to Include project, supported by “Skills 4 Post-COVID - Skills for the Future in Higher Education” (POCH-02-53I2-FSE-000026). Between 2015 and 2020, she was a researcher on a project funded by the European Research Council (ref. 648608), during which she developed her doctoral thesis. Among her publications is the book Transnational Criminal Cases: Media Narratives About the Use of DNA Technologies (Húmus, 2021). She has participated in over three dozen conferences and has extensive experience in co-organizing scientific events, workshops, and training courses on social transformation, digital innovation, social exclusion, media, social control, (in)security, and cross-border criminalization.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Marta Filipa Marques Martins
Gender
Female

Citation names

  • Martins, Marta

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7C1F-931E-0E8B

Email addresses

  • martamartins340@gmail.com (Personal)

Addresses

  • University of Minho, Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS), Campus de Gualtar, 4710-057, Braga, Braga, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/07/02 - 2022/07/09
Concluded
 Revisão Sistemática de Literatura com Mendeley (Outros)
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2021/01/05
Concluded
 Certificado de Competências Pedagógicas (F707410/2021) (Diploma de especialização)
Major in Formação
Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
 Very good
2016/09/01 - 2020/07/22
Concluded
 Sociologia (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Casos criminais transnacionais: média, peritos forenses e performatividade da suspeição/Transnational criminal cases: media, forensic experts and performativity of suspicion" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Very Good (approved with highest praise)
2013/10/01 - 2015/07/01
Concluded
 Crime, Diferença e Desigualdade (Mestrado integrado)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Perspectivas Públicas em relação aos biobancos médicos e para investigação científica em Portugal/ Public perspectives in relation to medical and research biobanks in Portugal (19 valores/Very good)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 17 (Very good)
2010 - 2013
Concluded
 Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Base de dados de perfis de DNA com propósitos forenses em Portugal: questões de âmbito ético, prático e político/ Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy (18 valores/Very good)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 15 (Good)
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/03/01 - 2024/05/31 Full Professor (University Teacher) Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Universidad de Salamanca, Spain

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/01 - 2024/09/30 Invited Assistant Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
Faculdad d Ciencias Sociales, Spain
2023/06/01 - 2023/12/31 Senior Technician Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
2022/05/02 - 2022/11/30 Postdoctoral researcher Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
2021/01/03 - 2022/04/30 Trainer at Education and Training of Adults (EFA) Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
2017/10 - 2020/09/30 PhD Researcher (Investigação Científica) European Research Council, Belgium
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/10 - 2017/09 PhD Researcher (Investigação Científica) European Research Council, Belgium
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2012/10/01 - 2013/06/30 Invited Researcher Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/05/02 - 2022/11/30 Youth, News and Digital Citizenship - YouNDigital
PTDC/COM-OUT/0243/2021
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade Lusófona do Porto, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2015/10 - 2020/10 EXCHANGE-Forensic Geneticists and the Transnational Exchange of DNA data in the EU: Engaging Science with Social Control, Citizenship and Democracy
(Grant agreement 648608)
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 European Research Council
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/06/01 - Current Catholic In! Innovate to Include| 2. 7 Skills 4 Post-COVID - Skills for the future in Higher Education
POCH-02-53I2-FSE-000026
Other
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional de Braga, Portugal
Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Centro de Estudos Sociais
UID/SOC/50012/2019
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2012/10/01 - 2013/06/30 Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy
ref. FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-009231
Invited assistant (internship)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Martins, Marta. Casos criminais transnacionais. Narrativas dos média sobre o uso de tecnologias de DNA/Transnational criminal cases: media narratives on the use of DNA technologies. Braga, Portugal: Edições Húmus. 2021.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Martins, Marta. "Reação. A "conversa" dos números: Na Ciência, pertencemos todos?/Reaction. The "talk" of numbers: In Science, do we all belong?". In Rotas para a investigação em comunicação: um guia de pensamento e prática para início de percurso/Directions for research in communication: a thought and practice guide to starting the journey, 24-26. Porto: Edições Universitárias Lusófonas, 2022.
    Published
  2. Machado, Helena; Martins, Marta; Santos, Filipe. "O "suspeito genético": desafios bioéticos da partilha transnacional de informação genética forense/The "genetic suspect": bioethical challenges of transnational sharing of forensic genetic information". In Bioética no Século XXI/Bioethics in the 21st Century, 315-336. Charleston, USA: CreateSpace Independent Publishing, 2018.
    Published
  3. Machado, Helena; Queirós, Filipa; Martins, Marta; Granja, Rafaela; Matos, Sara. "Vigilância genética, criminalização e coletivização da suspeição/Genetic surveillance, criminalization, and collectivization of suspicion". In Desigualdades Sociais e Políticas Públicas: Homenagem a Manuel Carlos Silva/Social Inequalities and Public Policies: Homage to Manuel Carlos Silva, 529-548. Braga: Edições Húmus, 2018.
    Published
  4. Martins, Marta. "Perspetivas cidadãs sobre participação em biobancos médicos e para investigação científica/ Public perspectives in relation to medical and research biobanks in Portugal". In Genética e Cidadania/Genetics and Citizenship, 224-243. Porto: Afrontamento, 2017.
    Published
  5. Martins, Marta; Machado, Helena. "Entre a utopia e a distopia dos biobancos: (d)esperanças, riscos e benefícios pela voz dos cidadãos/ Between utopia and dystopia of biobanks: hopes, risks, and benefits through the voice of citizens". In Promessas e incertezas da ciência: Perspectivas antropológicas sobre saúde, cuidado e controle/ Promises and uncertainties of science: Anthropological perspectives on health, care and control, 203-228. Porto Alegre, Brasil: Editora Sulina, 2017.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Martins, Marta; Granja, Rafaela; Machado, Helena. "Risco, segurança e criminalidade, o suspeito transnacional/Risk, security and criminality, the transnational suspect". Paper presented in IX Congresso Português de Sociologia - Portugal, território de territórios, Faro, 2016.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Martins, Marta; Matos, Sara; Queirós, Filipa; Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Santos, Filipe; Machado, Helena. "Partilha transnacional de informação genética na UE: Desafios sociais e éticos (EXCHANGE)/Transnational sharing of genetic information in the EU: Social and ethical challenges (EXCHANGE)". 2016.
  2. Martins, Marta ; Matos, Sara; Queirós, Filipa; Amelung, Nina; Granja, Rafaela; Santos, Filipe; Machado, Helena. "Partilha transnacional de informação genética na UE: Desafios sociais e éticos [Transnational exchange of genetic data in EU: Social and ethical challenges]". Paper presented in IX Congresso Português de Sociologia – Portugal, território de territórios, 2016.
Journal article
  1. Martins, Marta. "Performing versions of a transnational CSI effect by professionals involved in police and judicial cooperation in the European Union (invitation)". Journalism and Media (2023):
    Under revision
  2. Martins, Marta. "The 'Men Who Kill' Through the Lenses of the Media: Performing Images of Criminal Suspects". Sociální studia / Social Studies 18 2 (2021): 87-103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/soc2021-2-87.
    Open access • Published • 10.5817/soc2021-2-87
  3. Martins, Marta. "News media representation on EU immigration before Brexit: the "Euro-Ripper case"". Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8 11 (2021): 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-00687-5.
    Open access • Published • 10.1057/s41599-020-00687-5
  4. Machado, Helena; Martins, Marta; Matos, Sara. "Base de dados genéticos forense em Portugal e identidades tecnocientíficas. Análise a partir de grupos focais com estudantes universitários/Forensic genetic database in Portugal and technoscientific identities. Analysis from focus groups with university students". Oficina do CES 403 (2013): 1-21. https://ces.uc.pt/pt/publicacoes/outras-publicacoes-e-colecoes/oficina-do-ces/numeros/oficina-403.
    Open access • Published
Report
  1. Maria José brites; Teresa Sofia Castro; Martins, Marta ; Maria João Leote de Carvalho; Patrícia Silveira; Ana Oliveira; Amaral, Inês; Carla Sousa. 2022. YouNDigital ethical guidelines. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1g3OAHaHuDwmKTpY-4Aug1_-_IKV6m96i/view.
  2. Brites, Maria José; Teresa Sofia Castro; Martins, Marta ; Inês Amaral; Carla Sousa; Margarida Maneta. 2022. YouNDigital - Enquadramento teórico e futuras linhas de pesquisa/ YOUNDigital - Theoretical framework and future lines of research. https://youndigital.com/index.php/disseminacao/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Casos criminais transnacionais. Narrativas dos média sobre o uso de tecnologias de DNA/Transnational criminal cases. Media narratives about the use of DNA technologies". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/74308.
  2. "Perspetivas públicas em relação aos biobancos médicos e para investigação científica em Portugal/Public perspectives in relation to medical and research biobanks in Portugal". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/40849.
  3. "Base de dados de perfis de DNA: questões de âmbito ético, prático e político/Forensic DNA databasing in Portugal - contemporary issues in ethics, practices and policy". Degree, Universidade do Minho, 2013.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2022/10/26 (Re)pensar os jovens e notícias através da literacia crítica dos média/(Re)thinking young people and news through critical media literacy
Lusocom (Porto, Portugal)
2020/01/30 Casos criminais transnacionais que envolvem o uso de tecnologias de DNA: que desafios?/Transnational criminal cases involving the use of DNA technologies: what challenges? I Jornadas Doutorais em Sociologia
(Braga)
2019/09/21 Portraits of 'women who kill' in crime news: the Amanda Knox case 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology,
Ghent University (Ghent, Belgium)
2019/09/11 O "efeito CSI transnacional": que diferentes formas simbólicas a tecnologia de DNA pode adquirir?/The "transnational CSI effect": what different symbolic forms can DNA technology take? IV Conferencia Rumos da Sociologia do Conhecimento, Ciência e Tecnologia em Portugal
Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar, Universidade do Porto, (Porto, Portugal)
2018/09/12 Media narratives of transnational criminal cases: performing notions of borders The Eyes and Ears of Power – Surveillance, History and Privacy
(Copennhagen, Denmark)
2018/07/25 Media narratives about transnational criminal surveillance systems: constructing the "European others" EASST 2018: meetings - making science, technology and society together
(Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2018/07/15 Transnational biosurveillance and criminalization across borders XIX ISA World Congress of Sociology
(Toronto, Canada)
2018/07/09 Pesquisa bibliográfica/Bibliographical research Estágios de Verão
Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS), Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/07/09 Como se recolhem dados empíricos?: casos criminais/How are empirical data collected?: criminal cases Estágios de Verão
Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
2018/06/25 Media narratives of transnational crimes: performing notions of borders Exchange Summer School “Surveillance technologies, criminality, and human rights”,
(Braga, Portugal)
2018/06/07 Media narratives and moral panics: performing notions of borders Surveillance beyond borders and boundaries. The 8th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network Conference
(Aarhus, Denmark)
2018/05/29 Análise de conteúdo da imprensa: um caminho com vários trilhos/Media content analysis: a path with several tracks Summer internships
(Braga, Portugal)
2018/04/26 Narrativas mediáticas sobre fronteiras na Europa: dinâmicas de inclusão e exclusão/Media narratives about borders in Europe: dynamics of inclusion and exclusion A Europa como espaço de diálogo intercultural e de mediação
(Braga, Portugal)
2018/04/19 Crime, genética e investigação criminal/Crime, genetics and criminal investigation Exchange na Escola
Escola Secundária Francisco de Holanda, Guimarães (Guimarães, Portugal)
2018/04/11 Sociedade da vigilância: presente e futuro/Surveillance society: present and future workshop "Sociedade da vigilância, privacidade e direitos humanos"
(Braga, Portugal)
2018/03/12 Crime, genética e investigação criminal/Crime, genetics and criminal investigation Exchange na Escola
Escola Básica Maria Manuela de Sá, Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2018/02/22 Crime, genética e investigação criminal/Crime, genetics and criminal investigation Exchange na Escola
Escola Básica Maria Manuela de Sá, Porto (Porto)
2017/09/13 (Re)construction of territorial borders and politics of inclusion and exclusion 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology
(Cardiff, United Kingdom)
2017/06/22 Performativity of data flows in criminal DNA databases and categories of suspicion Data Power 2017 Conference
(Ottawa, Canada)
2017/06/07 From the lab to the media: DNA technologies on the move Lost in translation? People, technologies, practices and concepts across boundaries
(Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/03/16 Partilha transnacional de informação genética na UE: desafios sociais e éticos/Transnational exchange of genetic information in the EU: social and ethical challenges Programa Qualifica (Feira de Educação, Formação, Juventude e Emprego)
(Porto, Portugal)
2017/01/27 "CSI transnacional?" Modalidades de construção da criminalidade transfronteiriça/"Transnational CSI?" Types of construction of cross-border crime Segundo Encontro da Secção Temática "Sociologia do Direito e da Justiça
(Braga, Portugal)
2017/01/26 Crime, genética e investigação criminal/Crime, genetics and criminal investigation CES na Escola
(Braga, Portugal)
2017 Criminalisation across borders: Geopolitical tensions, and categories of otherness and suspicion 8th Tensions of Europe Conference Borders and Technology
(Athens, Grécia, 7 a 10 de setembro)
2016/07/06 Risco, segurança e criminalidade: O suspeito "transnacional"/Risk, security and criminality: The "transnational" suspect IX Congresso Português de Sociologia - Portugal, território de territórios
(Faro, Portugal)
2016/02/01 Crime, genética e investigação criminal/Crime, genetics and criminal investigation CES na Escola
Escola Secundária Marques de Castilho (Águeda, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2016/02/01 - 2019/09/01 CES na Escola/CES at School (2016/02/01)
Workshop (Other)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/11/12 - 2018/11/14 International Conference: Contemporary Challenges to Forensic Genetics in Society (2018/11/12 - 2018/11/14)
Congress (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/11/02 - 2018/11/02 Ciclos de Cinema 2018/2019 no âmbito do projeto Exchange/Film Cycles 2018/2019 under the Exchange project (2018/11/02 - 2018/11/02)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/10/17 - 2018/10/17 Bug bounties e CTFs: uma nova abordagem para o combate ao cibercrime/Bug Bounties and CTFs: A New Approach to Fighting Cybercrime (2018/10/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/10/12 - 2018/10/12 O desdobramento do poder-saber cinegético: a violência das práticas de segurança na gestão de ameaças/The unfolding of hunting power-knowledge: the violence of security practices in threat management (2018/10/12)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/07/25 - 2018/07/28 Surveillance technologies, Criminality, and Human Rights (2018/06/25)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/07/09 - 2018/07/11 Estágios de Verão/Summer internships (2018/07/09)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/04/11 - 2018/04/16 Sociedade da vigilância, privacidade e direitos humanos/Surveillance society, privacy and human rights (2018/04/11)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/03/06 - 2018/03/06 Meeth2Science (2018/02/06)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2017/11/22 - 2017/11/22 Ciclos de Cinema 2017-2018 no âmbito do projeto Exchange/2017-2018 Film Cycles under the Exchange project (2017/11/22)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/11/07 - 2017/11/07 Academic citizenship and the worthy place for the other in research (2017/11/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/07/11 - 2017/07/11 Meeth2Science (2017/07/11)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Instituto de Saúde Pública, Portugal
2017/03/21 - 2017/03/21 Fragilities of Portuguese Law in the international exchange of DNA data Implications of the Prüm treaty and Decisions (2017/03/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2017/02/20 - 2017/02/20 Think Tank Day: Ethical implications of NGS in the criminal justice system (2017/02/20)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/10/11 - 2016/10/11 Criminal brains: Forensic uses of neuroscience and its social implications (2016/10/11)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/06/22 - 2016/06/22 Clash of the genomes: Populations as brands in personalized medicine (2016/06/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/05/03 - 2016/05/03 EXCHANGE 2016 annual conference: Current and future challenges of forensic genetics in society (2016/05/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/05/02 - 2016/05/02 EXCHANGE scientific advisory council meeting (2016/05/02)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
2016/01/28 - 2016/01/28 Semiotics and visual culture (2016/01/28 - 2016/01/28)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/10/14 - 2022/10/14 Participação em "Methodological Challenges of Doing Audience Research in (post) Covid Times". Online Workshop of ECREA Audience and Reception Studies Section, 14 de outubro (via Plataforma Zoom).
Congress
2022/05/26 - 2022/05/26 Participação em "Table discussion na ICA Preconference". Young people & news in a digital world: local and global perspectives. Via Zoom, ISCOM, Paris.
Round table
 ICA Preconference. Young people & news in a digital world: local and global perspectives
ISCOM, France
2022/05/16 - 2022/05/17 "Serious games against disinformation", virtual training, Tyler Golson, DCN Global
Workshop
 Serious games against disinformation”

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023/04/01 - Current Social Studies (1803-6104)
2022/08/01 - Current Portuguese Journal of Social Science (1476-413X)

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2019/04/09 - 2019/04/09 Crime e média/Crime and media (invitation) Licenciatura em Sociologia (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2018/05/04 - 2018/05/04 Crime e média/Crime and Media(invitation) Mestrado em Crime, Diferença e Desigualdade (Mestrado) Universidade do Minho, Portugal