Cátia Miriam Costa


 

Cátia Miriam Costa

 

Department of Political Economy (ECSH)

CEI-IUL - Centre for International Studies (ESPP) [Institutions, Governance and International Relations]

 

Email:Catia.Miriam.Costa@iscte-iul.pt

 

Cátia Miriam Costa is a researcher in the Centre for International Studies (ISCTE-IUL) and an invited Assitant Professor at ISCTE Business School. Her research has focused on inter-continental exchange phenomena (print press, port cities, etc.), organisational innovations (think tanks, informational movements, etc.), and sustainability (green/blue business models, societal responsability, etc.). She has engaged extensively with knowledge transfer activities, including in the fields of real estate consultancy (sustainable planning), the third sector (project management), training (marketing management), and media activities (regular TV, newspapers, and radio appearances).

 

Cátia is a member of OceanGov (Ocean Governance for Sustainability – Challenges, Options and the Role of Science; https://www.oceangov.eu/). This is a network project supported by The European Science Foundation. She is the coordinating advisor of COOPMAR network (supported by CYTED - The Iberian-American Program of Science and Technology for Development; https://www.facebook.com/RedeCYTED/), which focuses on transatlantic cooperation, public policy and Iberian-American sociocultural communities. She also is consultant of DaST - Design a Sustainable Tomorrow (a landscape collection project; https://designasustainabletomorrow.com/).

 

Her current research agenda is driven toward the digital humanities domain, and focuses on the relation between technology, circulation of ideas, and international communication. Specialised in intercultural relations, she has studied deeply a set of non-European territories: the African, American, Asian cases both in colonial and post-colonial context and their relations with the former colonisers. In what Europe is concerned, Cátia has worked on Eastern European countries (Poland, Russia, etc.) and has enganged with both the civil society and public authorities.

 

She has cooperated with several research centres and networks in the areas of the social and political sciences. At the international level: CEIBA (center for research on culture and development, Catalonia, Spain); “Ars, cultura Y Desarrollo” (organization for the register of orality, Valence, Spain), Kairos-Chairo (program Ibero-american of communities, languages and sustainable development), The Human Geography Research Group (Aberdeen University), network “Appearance Matters” (supported by the European Science Foundation). At the Portuguese level: IICT (Tropical Research Institute), Centre of Iberian Studies, Centre of Peoples and Cultures Research (Catholic University of Lisbon), International Institute Casa de Mateus (Higher Education network), CHAM (Centre for Global History, University of Lisbon), CEsA (Centre for African and Asian Studies, University of Lisbon). She has been involved in the organisation of international conferences and congresses in different scientific areas.

 

Main Publications

 

  • Costa, C. M. & Mendonça, S. (2019). Knowledge-intensive consumer services. Understanding KICS in the innovative global health-care sector. Research Policy. 48 (4), 968-982
    • Times Cited Web of Science®: 2
    • Times Cited Scopus: 4

 

  • Costa, C.M. & Fretes Carreras, Luis A. (2018). Different perspectives on changes and conflict in the transatlantic world. Portuguese Journal of Social Science. 17 (2), 125-129

 

  • Costa, C. M. (2018). Literatura nos jornais: democratização na escrita e na receção . Via Atlântica. 34, 13-29
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  • Costa, C. M. (2014). Internacionalização como contexto para novas políticas de ciência e tecnologia. Parcerias Estratégicas. 19 (39), 27-34

 

  • Costa, C. M. (2012). Parole en mouvement, de l’appartenance communautaire au sentiment d’alterité. Studia Africana. 23, 17-31