Cristina Santinho is an integrated researcher, hired by the Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA - ISCTE), funded by FCT. She belongs to the Governance, Politics and Quotidian Research Group. She has a PhD from the Department of Anthropology of ISCTE/IUL with the thesis Refugees and asylum seekers in Portugal: political contours in the field of health (2011). Her area of research, par excellence, has focused on the reception and integration of refugees in Portugal, both from the point of view of health, education and integration through art. LECTIVITIES AND ORIENTATIONS: She coordinates and teaches two courses at CRIA, ISCTE-IUL: 1) "Specialization in Refugees, Human Rights and Reception: National and International Perspectives" and 2) "Living in a Different Culture", which began in 2017. This course was created to facilitate refugee students' access to higher education. She also teaches Multiculturalism at the Languages and Transversal Competences Laboratory (LLCT)-ISCTE-IUL. She taught the subject Immigration and Health in the Master of Development Studies (ISCTE-IUL, 2014). She is frequently invited to give lectures on the topic of refugees, both by ISCTE-IUL faculty and by other universities. She is responsible for the supervision of several Master's and PhD theses in the area of migrations and refugees. RESEARCH/PROJECTS: "Refugees: vulnerability, resilience and inclusion in a democratic society, in a context of socio-economic crisis". She is consultant of several projects, with FCT funding, namely: "The integration of refugees in Portugal: an assessment of the moral duties of assistance and integration policies in the context of European policies and values", (UNL-FCSH) and International Project DAPHNE, academic and multisectoral project to prevent and combat female genital cutting/mutilation (CEI-ISCTE-IUL). She has participated, as a researcher, in several FCT projects, being the most recent: Uncertainty in daily life and (im)possibilities of thinking the future. Changing working conditions and ways of living everyday life. Reconstruindo a vida num contexto de Crise, coordinated by Antónia Pedroso de Lima (CRIA) and RE- HOME: Assessing asylum seekers and refugees reception and integration in Portugal, coordinated by Francesco Vacchiano (ICS). She has also participated as a researcher in the following national and international funded projects: Care as a sustainability factor in crisis situations (Coordination: Antónia Lima); Migration, Integration and Co-development, in Europe Coordination, in Portugal: Cristina Santinho; T-SHaRE - Transcultural Competencies for health and care: Coordination: Chiara Pussetti. AWARDS: In 2017/2018, she received the award from the Portuguese Association of Anthropology, in Category II: Applied Research/Intervention Project, entitled: Project for the integration of refugee students in the academic context/Living in a Different Culture CAREERS: Member of the Board of Directors of the Research Network Center in Anthropology (CRIA-ISCTE,IUL) (2014-2018). Member of the Pedagogical Council of the School of Social Sciences and Humanities, representing the Department of Anthropology, ISCTE-IUL. PARTICIPATION IN ACADEMIC NETWORKS: She co-coordinates several networks, in partnership with researchers from other research centers (CIES-IUL; IGOT; ICS), namely: RMIR - Refugees, Migrations, Initiatives and Reflections (https://www.facebook.com/refugiadosrmir/); and Meetings on Migration Experiences (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1485182381777457/). She integrates RESMI: Higher Education Network for Intercultural Mediation, being active in the area of health (RESMI-Health (http://www.om.acm.gov.pt/-/i-congressointernacional-da-resmi-contextos-e-desafios-da-mediacao-intercultural).