Following the announcement of the final results of the Foundation for Science and Technology’s 2026 PhD Research Fellowship Competition, we are pleased to announce that the IHC will be hosting five new PhD students who have been awarded a fellowship.
At NOVA FCSH, Ana Correia, José Maria Barbosa and Leonor Mendes will begin their research projects; the latter’s degree will be awarded by the Complutense University of Madrid. Ana Correia will focus on the episcopate of Archbishop D. Moysés Alves de Pinho, seeking to understand the interrelationships between the Catholic hierarchy, the Estado Novo, the Portuguese opposition in Angola, the native clergy, and the Holy See. She will be supervised by Pedro Aires Oliveira, from the IHC, and Fernando Tavares Pimenta, from the CEHA.
José Maria Barbosa will seek to understand, within the framework of cultural studies of memory, the role of the Portuguese clergy in the development and spread of devotion to Our Lady of Fátima in mainland Portugal and its colonial territories. Luís Trindade, from the IHC, and Tiago Pires Marques, from the CHAM, will be his supervisors.
Leonor Mendes proposes to carry out a phenomenological and institutional analysis of the interpreter’s position within the contemporary museum ecosystem, drawing on the methodologies of ‘Practice as Research’ and ‘Critical Autoethnography’. Her supervisors at the IHC will be Rosa Maria Fina and Ana Bigotte Vieira; Olga Fernández will be her supervisor at the Autonomous University of Madrid.
At the University of Évora, the IHC will welcome Diogo Moreno and Rafael Prezado, both under the supervision of Quintino Lopes. Diogo Moreno will study the role of the National Resin Council in the modern production of these compounds and their derivatives in Portugal, assessing its position within the European context. His co-supervisors will be Ignacio García Pereda (CIUHCT) and Cristina Joanaz de Melo (IHC).
Rafael Prezado will analyse the participation of Portugal and its colonial territories in international scientific networks during the Space Age, between the launch of Sputnik-1 in 1957 and the end of the Estado Novo in 1974. Vítor Bonifácio (CIDTFF) will be the co-supervisor of the thesis.
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Following the announcement of the final results of the FCT’s 2026 PhD Research Fellowship Competition -
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