Isabel Macedo is a researcher at the Communication and Society Research Centre and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, as well as a master’s degree in Educational Sciences. Her research focuses on the intersection of cinema, migration and cultural memory, critically engaging intercultural communication and postcolonial perspectives to analyse representations of alterity, racism and colonial legacies in contemporary visual culture and the media. She was Co-Principal Investigator of the project MediaMigraActs – Migrations, Media and Activisms in Portuguese Language: Decolonising Mediascapes and Imagining Alternative Futures (FCT, 2022–2025) and is currently a team member of Conciliare – Confidently Changing Colonial Heritage (Horizon Europe, 2024–2027). She previously participated in the projects Social Psychological Dynamics of Historical Representations in the Enlarged European Union (COST Action IS1205; 2013–2016) and Memories, Cultures and Identities: How the Past Weighs on Present-day Intercultural Relations in Mozambique and Portugal (CulturesPast&Present, FCT–Aga Khan; 2018–2022). Her publications include “Film Narratives about Crisis and Austerity in Portugal: Context, Production and Distribution Conditions” (2025), “Exploring Images of Otherness through Cinema: Analysis of Counter-Visualities in Portuguese Films” (2023), “The Shape of History in Portuguese Contemporary Cinema: War, Mythology, and the Memory of Struggles” (2023), “Visual Culture, Education and Intercultural Communication: Focus Groups with Portuguese High School Students” (2023), “African Lisbon at the Cinema: Classroom Conversations about Li ké terra and Cavalo Dinheiro” (2019), and “(Anti)racism, Science and Education: Theories, Policies and Practices” (2019). Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary research developed within consolidated research teams focusing on memory, identities, social representations and intercultural relations. She was the coordinator of the Intercultural Communication Working Group of the Portuguese Association of Communication Sciences (Sopcom, 2017–2021), an Associate Editor of Vista Journal, and the Director of the Lusophone Journal of Cultural Studies. She has co-edited eight books and several journal issues on communication, cinema, cultural memory, migration and intercultural relations. She is currently the Director of the Virtual Museum of Lusophony, a cultural platform of the University of Minho, and a member of the working group of the Portuguese Media Regulatory Authority (ERC): “ERC Regulatory Initiative for the Promotion of Good Practices in Media Coverage of Immigration and Minority Groups” (2026-).