Clara Sarmento, (Ph.D. in Portuguese Culture) is Tenured Full Professor and director of Centre for Intercultural Studies, Polytechnic of Porto (P.PORTO), Portugal (www.iscap.ipp.pt/cei). She is also course director of MA in Intercultural Studies for Business, P.PORTO, member of Anthropology Advisory Board and Guest-Editor, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (CSP), UK. Academic background: Aggregation in Cultural Studies, University of Aveiro, Portugal. PhD in Portuguese Culture, MA in Anglo-American Studies, Graduate in Portuguese-English Studies, University of Porto. Current research topics: Intercultural Studies and Communication; Ethnography; Feminist and Gender Studies; Culture Applied to Business, Tourism and Development. Research themes within COST Action CA18126: Graffiti and Street Art (www.streetartcei.com). Distinctions: ‘American Club of Lisbon Award for Academic Merit’; CES Award for Young Social Scientists, U.COIMBRA; PRODEP III (EC) grant; ‘book of the month-Social Sciences’, CSP; PAPRE (P.PORTO) for papers in high quality journals; Gardners’ (UK) ‘Author of the Month’; Santander UNICOVID Award for project “Street Art Against COVID”; Santander Grant Best Practices in Digital Education.
COST provides networking opportunities for researchers and innovators in order to strengthen Europe’s capacity to address scientific, technological and societal challenges. There are three strategic priorities: promoting and spreading excellence, fostering interdisciplinary research for breakthrough science and empowering and retaining young researchers and innovators.
Writing Urban Places proposes an innovative investigation and implementation of a process for developing human understanding of communities, their society, and their situatedness, by narrative methods. It particularly focuses on the potential of narrative methods for urban development in European medium-sized cities.
