Catarina Sales Oliveira is associate professor at the University of Beira Interior (UBI) and a researcher at CIES-IUL (Center for Research and Studies in Sociology). She is currently the director of the Master in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation/UBI . Her work brings together themes of gender, citizenship, and the arts, exploring how different forms of mobility — physical, symbolic, and artistic — shape the ways we live in and transform places. She is currently involved in projects about migrations, mobilities, memory, and local development.