Mariana Lameiras holds a PhD in Communication Sciences from the University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. She is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) and serves as co-coordinator of PolObs, the Observatory on Science, Communication, and Culture Policies within the same Centre.
Her expertise lies in e-Participation; Community Engagement for critical and active citizenship; (local) e-Government, including measuring and assessment; Digital Media; Media Regulation; Media Governance; and Public Policy.
She co-leads the group dedicated to “Policies, Regulation and Political Economy of Media” from the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (SOPCOM) and is a national collaborator of the European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) and of the United Nations University Operating Unit on Policy-Driven Electronic Governance (UNU-EGOV).