Rosa Cabecinhas

Rosa Cabecinhas is a lecturer in the Department of Communication Sciences and a researcher at the  Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) at the University of Minho. She was director of the Department of Communication Sciences, deputy director of CECS, director of the Master’s in Communication Sciences and director of the Doctoral Programme in Cultural Studies.

She has conducted interdisciplinary research and coordinated several national and international projects on intercultural communication, media, and memory. She was the coordinator and principal investigator of several projects funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology and the European Commission. She was vice-chair of the COST network ‘Social psychological dynamics of historical representations in the enlarged European Union’ (2012-2016). She was Principal Investigator of the project ‘Migrations, media and activisms in Portuguese language: decolonising mediascapes and imagining alternative futures’ PTDC/COM-CSS/3121/2021. She is currently the coordinator of the CECS team in the European research consortium CONCILIARE – Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage, funded by the Horizon Europe programme.

She participated in the founding of Sopcom (Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences) and Intercult (International Association of Researchers of Cultures). She was part of the team that founded the Permanent Seminar on Communication and Diversity, which she has coordinated since its foundation, and participated in the founding of Sopcom’s Working Group on Intercultural Communication, serving as deputy coordinator.

Her works include Preto e Branco: A Naturalização da Discriminação Racial (Black and White: The Naturalisation of Racial Discrimination) (2017, 2nd edition), Comunicação Intercultural: Perspectivas, Dilemas e Desafios (Intercultural Communication: Perspectives, Dilemmas and Challenges) (with Luís Cunha, 2017, 2nd edition) and Abrir os gomos do tempo. Conversas sobre cinema em Moçambique (Opening the slices of time. Conversations about cinema in Mozambique (with Ana Cristina Pereira, 2022).