Decolonising the cultural policy and management curriculum

She was born in Porto. She has a degree in Philosophy (1982), a Master's in Philosophy/Aesthetics (1986) and a PhD in Aesthetics/Philosophy - Faculty of Philosophy Braga/U. Católica Portuguesa (1998). She is Coordinating Professor - Aesthetics and Education - at the Porto Polytechnic School of Education, where she coordinates the Heritage Management degree and the Heritage, Arts and Cultural Tourism Master's degree. She coordinates the research line on Culture, Art and Education - InED (FCT)/ESE-P.Porto, of which she was director. She is a member of various scientific and editorial committees of scientific journals in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. She is an art critic (member of AICA) and independent curator. Her main lines of research are: Aesthetic Education and Contemporary Art; [In]visibility of women in history: thought, work and action; Travelers: writers and artists in the 19th century; Landscape, Travel and Utopia; Writing, Image and Performance - intermediality. She publishes regularly in scientific journals and is the author of books and monographs.