Faculty Member, Faculdade de Letras
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Assistant Professor and Director for the MA Museology Studies at the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto. After finishing a first degree in Archaeology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) I pursued my studies at the University of Leicester (M.A. 1991 and PhD 2003) where I presented a thesis on museum professional discourses (The Professional Museumscape: Portuguese Poetics and Politics), supervised by Professor Susan Pearce. I am also currently a researcher at the Instituto de Sociologia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto. I have published on topics relating to my research interests such as museological narratives and discourses, professional museological identity, and contemporary missions for museums. I have also organized several publications and conferences which include, for example, A Cultura em Acção: Impactos Sociais e Território / Culture in Action: social impacts and territory (Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 2003), Reconversão e Musealização de Espaços Industriais / Rehabilitation and musealisation of industrial spaces (Porto: Museu da Indústria do Porto, 2003) e Museus, Discursos e Representações / Museums, discourses and representations (Porto: Edições Afrontamento, 2005), Museus Universitários com Colecções de Ciências Físicas e Tecnológicas em Museus Universitários: Homenagem a Fernando Bragança Gil/ University museums with science collections (Porto: FLUP, 2005). Organization of the I Seminário de Investigação em Museologia o Seminário dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e Espanhola (I Research Seminar for Portuguese and Spanish Speaking Countries), October 2010, Porto (Portugal); Organization of Publication of Seminar Proceedings (3 volumes, Porto: Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Biblioteca Digital, 3 volumes, ISNN 1646-6705). Co-organization with ICOFOM of the II Seminário de Investigação em Museologia o Seminário dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e Espanhola, September 2010, Buenos Aires (Argentina).
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