Participants

Ana Catarina Pereira is a Lecturer at the University of Beira Interior, with a PhD in Communication Sciences, specialized in Cinema and Multimedia, by the same university. She has worked for several years as a journalist. She is co-organizer of the book "Geração Invisível: Os novos cineastas portugueses" (2013), author of "Estudo do tecido operário têxtial da Cova da Beira" (2007) and the book "A mulher-cineasta: Da arte pela arte a uma estética da diferenciação ”. She is also the author of several scientific articles published in national and international journals. She has given several conferences, training sessions, workshops and masterclasses in Brazil, Spain, England and Sweden, among other countries.

Joana Cruz is mastered in Psychology of Deviant Behavior by the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the Porto University. She is now a PhD student from the same institution and PhD fellow of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE). Her research covers political and civic participation and the role of arts in this domain. It is financed by national funding of FCT - Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation, with Doctoral scholarship reference PD/BD/114282/2016.

Katy Fitzpatrick has a BA in History of Art, an MA in Visual Arts Education and is currently undertaking a PhD in Education at Maynooth University, Ireland. Her PhD research is on an ongoing project called Art and Philosophy in the Classroom, an innovative interdisciplinary pedagogical approach to contemporary visual art. She recently commenced a new post of Learning and Public Engagement working across Royal Hibernian Academy and Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin. Katy has worked for 14 years in arts/gallery education including: Tate London, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, and The Arts Council of Ireland.