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Guilherme Costa holds a master's degree in Urban Studies awarded by ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon and a degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University of Lisbon. His research interests are within the fieldwork of urban studies. As a contracted researcher, he participated in the H2020 T-Factor project (NOVA University, Lisbon, 2020-2021), H2020 UpLift.Eu (CESIS, Lisbon, 2021-2022), H2020 Smart2B (SCML, Lisbon, 2023-2024), FCT GreenCity4Aging (SCML, Lisbon, 2023) and AAL BeauCoup (SCML, Lisbon, 2023-2024). He has also been a member of the LXNIGHTS Research Group since 2021, where he had the opportunity to develop cutting-edge research in the field of urban night. He is the author and co-author of several publications and scientific conferences on the emergent field of Night Studies.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Guilherme Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Guilherme
  • Guilherme Teixeira
  • Teixeira Costa, Guilherme

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
9817-22FF-6A6C
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1409-7539
Researcher Id
AAE-1617-2022

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology
  • Social Sciences - Economic and Social Geography - Urban Studies
  • Social Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2023/09/01 - 2027/09/01
Ongoing
 Sociologia (Doutoramento)
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2022/09/01
Ongoing
 Estudos Urbanos (Mestrado)
Major in Sociologia Urbana e do Território
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/05/23 - 2022/05/27
Concluded
 Gestão de Dados de Investigação (Outros)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
2017/09/01 - 2020/08/15
Concluded
 Sociologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Sociologia urbana
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/01 - 2022/06/30 Research Trainee (Research) Centro de Estudos para a Intervenção Social, Portugal
2020/12/01 - 2021/02/25 Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/04/16 - Current Global HR Data Analyst Hovione, Portugal
2023/06/07 - 2024/04/15 Gestor de Projetos Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/06/07 - 2024/03/31 Smart2B: Upgrading smartness of existing buildings through innovations for legacy equipment
101023666
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
Ongoing
2023/06/07 - 2024/03/31 GreenCity4Aging: os efeitos dos passeios verdes urbanos na mobilidade, integração social e idadismo em relação às pessoas mais velhas
2022.03478.PTDC
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
 Associação para a Inovação e Desenvolvimento da FCT
Ongoing
2023/06/07 - 2024/03/31 BeauCoup: Building Active User Experience to Bring Culture to the People
AAL-2021-8-156-CP
Researcher
Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/09/01 - 2022/09/01 UpLift: Young People's voices at the centre of Youth Policy
870898
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
2020/12/01 - 2021/02/25 T-Factor: Co-creating Cities with Temporary Urbanism
868887
Researcher
European Commission, Belgium
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Costa, Guilherme. "The Taxi Driver and the City. (post)Pandemic Navigations of Lisbon. An Ethnography Approach of the Night Appropriation". In Crisis, Conflict and Celebration. Ethnographic Studies of European Cities, 1-419. Portugal: Palgrave Macmillan, 2025.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9719-6
  2. Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Martins, João Carlos; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme. "The touristification of Lisbon's nightlife: Impacts on the tangible and intangible cultural heritage". In Handbook on Tourism-Gentrification, edited by Gravari-Barbas, Maria; Guinand, Sandra. London, United Kingdom: Handbook on Tourism-Gentrification, 2024.
    Submitted
Conference abstract
  1. Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme. "Night Taxi Drivers as 'Culture Brokers': Implications for the Nocturnal Tourism". Paper presented in 16th ESA Conference, Tension, Trust and Transformation, Porto, 2024.
    Published
  2. Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Costa, Guilherme. "The Night Owl´s Dilemma. Analyzing the Complexities of Coexistence between Traditional Night Taxi Drivers and App-Based Drivers in Lisbon". Paper presented in 4th International Conference on Night Studies, 2023.
    Published
  3. Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "Leve-me a casa, se faz favor: An ethnography of (post)pandemic taxi drivers experience in night hours in Lisbon". Paper presented in 3rd International Conference on Night Studies (ICNS.LX), Lisboa, 2022.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Nofre, Jordi.. "Cuando se enfría la noche. Sobre la turistificación del antiguo barrio rojo de Cais do Sodré y la autenticidad de la vida nocturna de Lisboa. (When the night cools down. On the touristification of the former redlight district of Cais do Sodré and the authenticity of Lisbon's nightlife)". Estudios turísticos 228 (2024): 77-97. https://estudiosturisticos.tourspain.es/index.php/ET/article/view/1244.
    Published • 10.61520/et.2282024.1244
  2. Gerardo-Ponciano, Filomena; Inês Filipe; Costa, Guilherme; Nuno Mateus; Miguel Brito. "Como Potenciar o Futuro da Sustentabilidade Energética: Através das Crianças e Jovens". Journal of Studies on Citizenship and Sustainability (2024):
    Accepted
  3. Teixeira Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "The 'Post-pandemic Night Taxi Driver':: A New Research Agenda within the field of Night Studies". Sociologia (2024):
    Submitted
  4. Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. "O que nos dizem as manifestações dos táxis? Reflexões em torno de um objeto sociológico". Plataforma Barômetro Social (2023):
    Open access • Accepted
  5. Jordi Nofre; João Carlos Martins; Manuel Garcia-Ruiz; Guilherme Teixeira Costa. "Una aproximación geográfica a los impactos de la turistificación del ocio nocturno en el barrio de Cais do Sodré, Lisboa". Estudios Geográficos (2023): https://doi.org/10.3989/estgeogr.2023135.135.
    10.3989/estgeogr.2023135.135
  6. Costa, Guilherme; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel. Corresponding author: Costa, Guilherme. "O Código da Noite". Equatorial (2022):
    Published
  7. Nofre, Jordi.; Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel; Martins, J. C.; Costa, Guilherme. "Cuando la Turistificación mató la noche en Cais do Sodré, Lisboa". Ábaco - Revista de Cultura y Ciencias Sociales (2022):
    Published
  8. Guilherme Teixeira Costa; Otávio Raposo; João Carlos Martins; Manuel Garcia-Ruiz; Jordi Nofre. "Lazer noturno e resistências juvenis em tempos de (pós-)pandemia: o caso dos jovens do bar Antù em Lisboa". Antropolítica - Revista Contemporânea de Antropologia (2022): https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2022.i3.a54935.
    10.22409/antropolitica2022.i3.a54935
Report
  1. Costa, Guilherme. 2021. T-Factor Pilots. https://www.t-factor.eu/d2-2-t-factor-pilots-regeneration-projects-masterplans-temporary-uses/.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/10/21 Caminhos Noturnos: Trajetórias de Vida (Inesperadas) de Jovens Motoristas de Táxi na Noite de Lisboa ESA RN27 Midterm Conference Territories, Communities and Sustainability: views from Southern Europe
European Sociological Association (Portugal)
2023/10/11 The Night Owl´s Dilemma. Analyzing the Complexities of Coexistence between Traditional Night Taxi Drivers and App-Based Drivers in Lisbon 4rd International Conference on Night Studies (ICNS.LX)
CIES, ISCTE-IUL (Portugal)
2023/09/22 Transição energética participativa: capacitar os jovens através do projeto SMART2B ESA RN27 Midterm Conference Territories, Communities and Sustainability: views from Southern Europe
European Sociological Association (Portugal)
2023/09/04 A geographical analysis of the impacts of the touristification of nightlife in the neighborhood of Cais do Sodré, Lisbon EUGEO 2023
(Barcelona, Spain)
2023/06/14 Cuando la turistificación mató la noche en Cais do Sodré, Lisboa SocAntur - IV Congreso Internacional 2023 de Sociología y Antropología del Turismo
Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain)
2023/04/05 Capitalismo de Plataforma: Uma etnografia das perceções e atitudes dos taxistas noturnos de Lisboa. XII Congresso Português de Sociologia
Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
2023/03/14 Women, Work and the Male Culture. An ethnographic approach of the night taxi driver in Lisbon ´s city center. Final International Congress "Noz Num"
Université de Bretagne Occidentale (France)
2022/10/13 Searching for the "last friday night": Closing policies during pandemic times City, work and precarity
CICS.NOVA - Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/10/05 Leve-me a casa, se faz favor. An ethnography of (post)pandemic taxi drivers experience in night hours in Lisbon International Conference on Night Studies
ICNSLX (Portugal)
2022/10/04 The Taxi Driver and the City. (Post)pandemic navigations of Lisbon, an ethnography approach of the night appropriation V Midterm Conference of European Sociological Association’s Research Network 37 (Urban Sociology)
Georg Simmel Center for Metropolitan Research (Humboldt-University Berlin) (Germany)
2022/06/14 (post)Covid nightscapes. An ethnographic review of the tactics adopted by venue owners to survive night closing policies. Towards the Post-Pandemic City?
Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) (United Kingdom)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2023/04/18 - 2023/04/18 Integração dos GIS na investigação sobre a diversão nocturna: Desafios e soluções
Seminar
 Informação Geográfica para a gestão municipal: casos de estudo
Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2022/04/01 - Current European Sociological Association(ESA)

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2021/12/01 - Current LXNIGHTS
Member
 Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
Distinctions

Award

2019 NOVA Young Talent Awards
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal