Newsletter n.º 148 – January 2023

Investigação, criatividade e compromisso cívico

The year 2022 brought a progressive retrieval of the unconstrained dynamics of meetings and interactions. With the global relief of the health crisis, research activities resumed their pre-Covid-19 pace. Within this more flexible remote environment, CECS researchers organised and held more than a hundred events under various designations: seminars, workshops, meetings, congresses, conferences, roundtables, and a summer school.

Regarding scientific activity, the CECS’ outputs partly stemmed from 22 R&D projects and seven direct projects. Throughout the year, 32 new applications for funding were submitted, six with confirmed approval, whereas some support programmes are still to communicate their results. In this context, the CECS welcomed 26 research grant holders and one junior researcher.

In 2022, the three journals promoted by the centre – Comunicação e Sociedade, Revista Lusófona de Estudos Culturais and Vista – published two thematic volumes each. In the Editora UMinho catalogue, four books were published under the seal shared with the CECS, adding to nearly a dozen books of the CECS researchers’ authorship or organisation.

In the scope of education, 20 doctoral theses were concluded in the courses affiliated with the CECS and supervised by members of its team. According to the same criterion, i.e., within the scope of the ICS courses supervised by members of the CECS, 73 Master’s projects (dissertations and internship or project reports) were completed.