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Sandra Borges Tavares holds a PhD in Youth, Media and Memory Studies from King's College London (Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries). Her work lies at the intersection of Youth, Media and Citizenship with a particular interest in memory studies as a contribution to youth identity and civic engagement with society.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
SANDRA ISABEL BORGES TAVARES

Citation names

  • BORGES TAVARES, SANDRA
  • SIB Tavares
  • SB Tavares

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E61B-2B54-CA6A
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4554-5026
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=oEJoBzMAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&authuser=1&gmla=AJsN-F4w7WwPPBy_MY7nj2vgBsA2mNULlZgweGjUVJ4JW0aO5UMbjmoiep8px1owPcN28s_8fK8FA36mNbxBNB50En9Jx4X7QHs1Hg6F7ioO63zRLS1uuHw

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Spanish; Castilian Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2)
French Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2014/10/31 - 2022/05/01
Concluded
 Culture Media and Criative Industries (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Youth, Media and Memory Studies
King's College London, United Kingdom
"Jovencivic (Re)Framing Youth Citizenship through the memories and imaginaries of the Olympic Games ( London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016)" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass
2017 - 2017
Concluded
 Certification as Trainer/Teacher in Communication Sciences, by the Conselho Científico-Pedagógico de Formação Contínua (Registration CCPFC/RFO-38691/17) (Outros)
Centro Protocolar de Formação Profissional para Jornalistas, Portugal
2004/09/01 - 2008/09/23
Attended
 Ciências da Comunicação (Mestrado)
Major in Comunicação, Cidadania e Educação
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"A programação para crianças na televisão por cabo em Portugal: estudo da oferta dos canais temáticos infantis em 2005" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Muito bom
1999 - 2002
Concluded
 Mass Communication and Cultural Studies (Bachelor)
Major in BA
London Metropolitan University School of Computing and Digital Media, United Kingdom
"The 2001 G8 Summit protests in Genoa: An analysis of the coverage and bias in the mainstream media." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/14 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2016 - 2018 Tutor (University Teacher) King's College Summer Programmes, United Kingdom
King's College Summer Programmes, United Kingdom
2016 - 2017 Assistant (University Teacher) King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities, United Kingdom
King's College London Department of Culture Media and Creative Industries, United Kingdom

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/01/16 - Current Integrated researcher Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Universidade Catolica Portuguesa Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Cultura, Portugal
2019 - Current Researcher Núcleo de Investigação em Práticas e Competências Mediáticas, Universidade Autónoma Lisboa, Portugal
Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal
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2018 - Current Associate Fellowship Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom
2014 - 2019 PhD Researcher King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities, United Kingdom
King's College London Faculty of Arts and Humanities, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Assessor (King's College Experience Awards) King's College London - Waterloo Campus, United Kingdom
King's College Experience Awards, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Graduate Teaching Assistant King's College London Department of Culture Media and Creative Industries, United Kingdom
King's College London Department of Culture Media and Creative Industries, United Kingdom
2015 - 2016 Research Grant International Olympic Committee, Switzerland
International Olympic Committee, Switzerland
2015 - 2016 Researcher (Education Department - Sports for Development) Save the Children, United Kingdom
Save the Children, United Kingdom
2012 - 2014 International Officer Royal College of Surgeons of England, United Kingdom
Royal College of Surgeons of England, United Kingdom
2011 - 2011 Press, Communication and PR Assistant Faculty of General Dental Practice UK, United Kingdom
Faculty of General Dental Practice UK, United Kingdom
2010 - 2010 Press Officer Discovering Latin America Film Festival, United Kingdom
2002 - 2003 Journalist O JOGO, Portugal
O JOGO, Portugal
2002 - 2002 Placement Journalist Diario Digital, Portugal
Diario Digital, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Sandra Borges Tavares. Youth policy, citizenship education and olympic games legacies. Palgrave Macmillan. 2025.
    Published
  2. Sandra Borges Tavares. Youth Policy, Citizenship Education and Olympic Games Legacies. 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3
Book chapter
  1. Sandra Borges Tavares; Ioli Campos. "AI and young people: a review of the current state of the art". In Comunicação e inteligência artificial: perspetivas multidisciplinares, 200-215. UCP Editora, 2025.
    Published
  2. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Case Study 1: Young Londoners’ Memories of the 2012 Olympic Games". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3_3
  3. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Case Study 2: Young Cariocas’ Expectations of Rio 2016 Games". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3_4
  4. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Conclusion and Future Pointers from the Lessons Learned". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3_5
  5. Sandra Borges Tavares. "The Olympics from Youth Perspective: A New Methodological Approach". 2024.
    10.1007/978-981-99-6579-3_2
Conference abstract
  1. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Jovens Media e Cidadania: O papel dos media mediante o legado dos Jogos Olímpicos junto dos jovens". Paper presented in 3 Congresso Internacional em Comunicação e Consumo, São Paulo, 2013.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Sandra Borges Tavares. "A memória e o imaginário dos Jogos Olímpicos: construção de um legado através do discurso cívico e político dos jovens". 2017.
  2. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Intangible legacies of media-events: Young people's memories and expectations of Olympic Games". 2016.
  3. Sandra Borges Tavares. "O papel dos eventos mediáticos na construção de valores de cidadania dos jovens: estudo do caso dos Jogos Olímpicos". 2015.
  4. Sandra Borges Tavares. "Eventos mediáticos e os jovens: o legado das Olímpiadas". Paper presented in 3º Congresso 'Literacia, Media e Cidadania', 2015.
    Published
  5. BORGES TAVARES, SANDRA. "Eventos mediáticos e os jovens: o legado das Olímpiadas". Paper presented in III Conference Literacy Media and Citizenship, Braga, 2015.
    Published
Journal article
  1. "Complexities of the Mundane: Recollections". Polish Political Science Yearbook 46 2 (2018): 271-275. http://dx.doi.org/10.15804/ppsy2017217.
    10.15804/ppsy2017217
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Sandra Isabel Borges Tavares. "Jovencivic: (re)framing youth citizenship through memories and imaginaries of the Olympic Games (London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016)". PhD, King's College London, 2022.
  2. Sandra Borges Tavares. "A programação para crianças na televisão por cabo em Portugal : estudo da oferta dos canais temáticos infantis em 2005". Master, University of Minho, 2008. https://hdl.handle.net/1822/13765.
  3. Tavares, Sandra Isabel Borges. "A programação para crianças na televisão por cabo em Portugal : estudo da oferta dos canais temáticos infantis em 2005". Master, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/13765.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/10/22 GenAI and young people: An exploratory study in the Portuguese context ECREA 2024 Postconference Webinar: Developing Digital Literacies in Algorithmic Cultures
2024/06/28 Uses and gratifications of chatbot generators amongst young people in Portugal 5th International Media Literacy Research Symposium
(São Miguel, Portugal)
2016 ECREA 2016 - Media events: The contesting memories and expectations of young people in relation to the Olympic Games Mediated (Dis) Continuities: Contesting Pasts, Presents and Futures
European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) (Prague, Czech Republic)
2016 IAMCR 2016 - The (in) tangible legacies of media events: young people's memories and expectations of the Olympic Games International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference 27- Leicester. Theme: Memory, Commemoration and Communication: looking back, looking forward
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (Leicester, United Kingdom)
2016 MeCCSA 2016 - Media Events and Youth Engagement Communities
MeCCSA (Canterbury , United Kingdom)
2016 Rio/London: A Tale of Two (Post-Colonial) Cities
King's College London
2015/10/19 Cultural Events, National Identity and Retrospective
Institute of Historical Research (UK)
2015 Institute of Historical Research, London Title: The Intangible Legacy of Media Events: Young People's Perceptions and Memories of the London 2012 Olympic Games https://archives.history.ac.uk/ihrcms/podcasts/sport-and-leisure-history/cultural-events-national-identity-and-retrospection.html Cultural Events, National Identity and Retrospection
Institute of Historical Research (London, United Kingdom)
2013 2013 - III International Congress ESPM (COMUNICON), Sao Paulo, Brazil. Title: Youth, Media and Citizenship: the role of media in the legacy of the Olympic Games COMUNICON 2013
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing (ESPM) Brasil (São Paulo, Brazil)
2013 2013 - II International Conference Literacy, Media and Citizenship, Lisbon, Portugal. Youth, Media and Citizenship: The Olympics legacy, media and government policies in the construction of youth rhetoric in big scale events – Paper presentation II International Conference Literacy, Media and Citizenship

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/06/06 - 2019/06/06 Login:1969-2019 - 50 anos a comunicar em rede (2019/06/06 - 2019/06/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
2019 - 2019 Conference "Login: 1969-2019 | 50 Years Communicating Network - Member of the Organising Committee and Speaker (2019 - 2019)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Fundação Portuguesa das Comunicações, Portugal

Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2025/02/07 - 2025/02/08 Paper / Communication
Congress
 bYou
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017 - 2017 Invited to moderate a workshop on youth media literacy at the USA Embassy, London, about Fake News #mediaminded
Conference
 Media Literacy Youth Conference
Embaixada dos Estados Unidos, United Kingdom
2016 - 2016 Invited Speaker at the conference Rio/London: A Tale of Two (Postcolonial) Cities https://plataforma9.com/congressos/riolondon-a-tale-of-two-postcolonial-cities.htm
Conference
 Rio/London: A Tale of Two (Postcolonial) Cities
King's College London, United Kingdom
2013 - 2013 2013 - III International Congress ESPM (COMUNICON), Sao Paulo, Brazil Moderator of two working groups: a) Communication, Consumption and Childhood; b) Childhood, Rights, Mediations.
Conference
 COMUNICON 2013
Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, Brazil
2012 - 2012 2012 - European Broadcasting Union Conference: Empowering Citizenship through Media Literacy, Brussels, Belgium – Attendance
Conference
 Empowering Citizenship through Media Literacy,
European Broadcasting Union, Switzerland
2011 - 2011 2011 - II Annual Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning Conference: Unsolved problems & Unknown Issues, University of Hertfordshire, UK – Attendance
Conference
 II Annual Quality Assurance and Quality Enhancement in e-Learning
University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - Current Journal of Youth Studies Taylor and Francis

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2017 - Current Associação Literacia para os Media e Jornalismo Member / Trainer

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022 - 2022 Journal of Youth Studies (1367-6261) Routledge
Distinctions

Award

2015 Research Award
International Olympic Committee, Switzerland