Rosalina Pisco Costa, Sociologist and assistant professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Évora (Portugal). She obtained her PhD in 2011 from the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. She was a Fellow of the Foundation for Science and Technology and Visiting Student at the Morgan Center for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life/ University of Manchester, with a grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2012, she was distinguished with the Early Stage Family Scholar Award by the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association. She is the author of numerous publications with peer review, and she regularly participates in the main national and international scientific meetings. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research series (SCOPUS).

Research Interests:

Family; Everyday Life; Consumption; Mobility; Qualitative, Sensorial and Creative Social Research Methodologies.

Main Projects:

• 2019 – 2021: Investigadora no projeto “Modelação e Predição de Acidentes de Viação no Distrito de Setúbal". Universidade de Évora e Guarda Nacional Republicana. Projeto financiado pela FCT;
• 2017 – 2019: Investigadora no projeto “Diagnóstico Juvenil do Concelho de Évora. Investigadora”. Câmara Municipal de Évora e Universidade de Évora;
• 2016: Investigadora responsável pelo projeto “A Presença do Homem (Pai) no Parto: contextos, experiências e significados”. Universidade de Évora;
• 2015: Investigadora responsável pelo projeto “(Por) Portas e Travessas. Quotidianos do Envelhecimento no Centro Histórico de Évora”. Universidade de Évora;
• 2013 – 2014: Investigadora responsável pelo projeto “VID@S: Vida Pessoal à Distância e Mobilidade Universitária Internacional”. Universidade de Évora.

• COSTA, Rosalina (2017). Knockin' on Digital Doors. Dealing with online [dis]credit in an era of digital scientific inquiry. In Moe Folk & Shawn Apostel (Ed.), Establishing and Evaluating Digital Ethos and Online Credibility. Hershey: IGI Global: 46-65. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-1072-7.ch003;
• COSTA, Rosalina (2014). Ephemeral Masculinities? Tracking Men, Partners and Fathers in the Geography of Family Holidays. In Thomas Thurnell-Read & Mark Casey (Eds.), Men, Masculinities, Travel and Tourism. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan: 120-138. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137341464_9;
• COSTA, Rosalina Pisco (2014). Backpacks, Driving, Fun and Farewell: Examining the Ritual Experience of the Weekend amongst Non-resident Parents and their Children. Leisure Studies (Special Issue ‘The Weekend’, Guest Editors: Jill Ebrey & John K.  Walton), 33(2): 164-184. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2013.833287;
• COSTA, Rosalina Pisco (2013). The Hands that (yet) Rock the Cradle: Unveiling the Social Construction of the Family Through the Contemporary Birthing Ritual. In Patricia Neff Claster & Sampson Lee Blair (Eds.), Visions of the 21st Century Family: Transforming Structures and Identities (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Volume 7). Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited: 105–131. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/S1530-3535(2013)0000007007;
• COSTA, Rosalina Pisco (2013). Family Rituals: Mapping the postmodern family through time, space and emotion. Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 44(3): 269–289. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23644602.