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Adalberto Fernandes, (PhD in Philosophy of Science, MA in Communication and Bio-Ethics, BA in Communication) is a researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History (NOVA University Lisbon), and a research collaborator at the Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon. He serves as a member of the editorial commission for Kairos - Journal of Philosophy & Science. He has authored published or accepted 16 articles and chapters and delivered 19 presentations on science communication, health communication, participatory processes in science, science festivals, psychology in the media, risk, post-truth, political communication, soft power, censorship, biopolitics, bioethics, critical discourse analysis, social epistemology, science and technology studies and Michel Foucault. He has published two chapters in Routledge's handbooks, and papers in indexed journals: Frontiers in Communication (Q1); Journal of Science Communication (Q2); Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (Q2); Javanost - The Public (Q2); Tripodos (Q2); Social Anthropology (Q2/Q3); Working with Older People (Q3); Estudos em Comunicação (Q3).
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Adalberto Fernandes

Citation names

  • Fernandes, Adalberto

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
A51C-FE73-3A4F
ORCID iD
0000-0002-9713-2186

Email addresses

  • adalberto.castro.fernandes@gmail.com (Professional)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Media and Communications
  • Humanities - Philosophy, Ethics and Religion - History and Philisophy of Science and Technology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2017 - 2023
Concluded
Doctoral Program in Philosophy of Science, Tecnology, Art and Society (Doutoramento)
Fundação da Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
"Biopolitics, Life Sciences and Discourse in Foucault" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Summa Cum Laude
2015/02/07 - 2016/04/26
Concluded
Drug and Pharmacy Law (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
Muito Bom
2011 - 2014
Concluded
Bioethics (Mestrado)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
"O Discurso Sobre o Estado Vegetativo nas Notícias Online em Portugal" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
19
2011 - 2013
Concluded
Science Communication (Mestrado)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"Comunicação de Ciência no Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa e no Centro de Astronomia e Astrofísica da Universidade de Lisboa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2010 - 2011
Concluded
Adolescent Health (Pós-Graduação)
Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Medicina, Portugal
17 Valores
2007 - 2010
Concluded
Communication Sciences (Licenciatura)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"n/a" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/07/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2022/01/03 - 2022/03/30 Carreiras / Categorias Subsistentes FeedInov Colab, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017/01/01 - Current Integrated Researcher Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
2017/09/18 - 2023 PhD Student Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Filosofia das Ciências, Portugal
(...)
2014/08/11 - 2017/08/01 Science Communication Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2012 - 2013 Science Communication Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal
Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017 - 2021 4-year PhD Scholarship
SFRH/BD/120675/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/06/01 - Current Censorship(s):an analytic model of censorial processes
EXPL/COM-OUT/0831/2021
Research Fellow
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Hugo Almeida; Fernandes, Adalberto. "Bombarding the meme - on the atomization of society and meaning". In Critical Meme Reader III: Breaking the Meme (Eds.) Arkenbout, C. and Galip, I. Amesterdam: Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam. Netherlands, 2024.
    Published
  2. Fernandes, Adalberto. "[Accepted] Immunity". In Wiley Handbook of Social and Political Conflict Communication. (Eds.) Samoilenko, S. and Simmons, S. New Jersey: Willey-Blackwell. 2024.
    Accepted
  3. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Science Communication and Radical Trust". In Science Communication and Trust (Eds.) Antoinette Fage-Butler, Loni Ledderer & Kristian Hvidtfelt Nielsen. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024.
    Under revision
  4. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The Medium is the Environment – COP26 Memes as Hypocritical Resistance". In Climate Catastrophe. (Ed) Daniel Binns. Palgrave Macmillan. 2024.
    Under revision
  5. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Foucault's Other to Power". In The Process of Becoming Other in the Classical and Contemporary World. Edited by: Lind, A; Pinto, A. & Lambert, D. Springer. 2024.
    Under revision
  6. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Science Communication as Soft Power". In The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power - 2nd Edition edited by Naren Chitty, Lilian Ji & Gary Rawnsley. Routledge, 2023.
    Published
  7. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Learning (with) Negative Emotions: The Future of Science Festivals". In Festivals and Edutainment (Routledge) - Editeb by Giulia Rossetti, Brianna Wyatt, Jane Ali-Knight. Routledge, 2023.
    Published
  8. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Public Participation in Science (original title: Participação pública em ciência)". In Processos Criativos nas Ciências e nas Artes. A questão da participação pública. (Org.) Catarina Pombo Nabais ., edited by Catarina Pombo Nabais, 99-108. Porto, Portugal: Afrontamento, 2021.
    Published
  9. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Neuroimage of the end-of-life decision (original title: Neuroimagem da decisão em fim-de-vida)". In Responsibility Vanguards - Law, Neurosciences and Artificial Intelligence (original title: Vanguardas da responsabilidade - Direito, Neurociências e Inteligência Artificial). Portugal: Petrony, 2019.
    Published
  10. Álvares, Cláudia; Fernandes, Adalberto. "Giving Voice to the Patient in Vegetative State: Biopolitical Intersections of Discourses on Human Life and Female Body". In Cabecinhas, R. Cerqueira, C. and Magalhães, S. (eds.) Gender in Focus: (new) trends in media. LASICS Centro de Estudos de Comunicação e Sociedade (CECS) Universidade do Minho, 2015.
    Published
  11. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The Vegetative State as ethical "im-possibility" (original title: O Estado Vegetativo como “im-possibilidade” ética)". In Barbosa, A. (Ed.). Pretextos Bioéticos.. Portugal: Faculty of Medicine of the University of Lisbon / Centre of Bioethics, 2014.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Science Communication produces knowledge". Paper presented in Reinventing Science Communication? Challenges for the post-truth era - University of Ljubljana, 13/10/2022 – 14/10/2022, 2022.
    Accepted
  2. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Corrigir informação sobre risco na pandemia da COVID-19". Paper presented in IV CONFERÊNCIA INTERNACIONAL COMUNICAR CIÊNCIA - Universidade da Beira Interior, 2022.
    Accepted
Conference paper
  1. "The Biopolitics of the Other's Discourse (original title: A Biopolítica do Discurso do Outro)". Paper presented in IX Congresso SOPCOM - Comunicação e Transformações Sociais, 2015.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. "Brain Facts and Research 4everyone". Paper presented in Federation of European Neuroscience Societies Forum of Neuroscience - Denmark, 2016.
  2. "Brain: Myths, truths and research about neurosciences (original title:Cérebro: Mitos, verdades e investigação sobre neurociências)". Paper presented in Portuguese Network of Science and Technology Communication Congress, 2016.
  3. "The Neuroethics of Vegetative State in Biopolitics (original title: A Neuroética do Estado Vegetativo na Biopolítica)". Paper presented in ICONE – International Conference on Neuroethics - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2015.
  4. "A Modern Observatory with 150 Years". Paper presented in ASTRONET - Workshop on Astronomy Education and Public Outreach - Haus der Astronomie, Heidelberg, Germany, 2013.
  5. "Professional health relation with patient in rehabilitation - an ethical experience (original title: Relação profissional de saúde com doente em reabilitação – uma experiência ética)". Paper presented in Portuguese-Brazilian Encounter of Nursing and Bioethics - Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Not In My (Media) Backyard: Climate Justice and Global Media Political Economy". Journalim Practice (2024):
    Under revision
  2. Luís, Rita; Fernandes, Adalberto. "Has the concept of censorship gone astray? How to operationalize muddy waters? Half a century of censorship in Portugal.". Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies (2024):
    Published • https://doi.org/10.1080/14701847.2024.2320544
  3. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The Drivers of Academic Novelty in Digital Capitalism: Job Insecurity, Mental Illness and Time Poverty". Emancipations - A Journal of Critical Social Analysis (2024):
    Accepted
  4. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Designing (the) Politics of Participation in Science". Journal of Science Communication 22(03)(2023)Y01 (2023): https://jcom.sissa.it/article/pubid/JCOM_2203_2023_Y01/.
    Published
  5. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The Appeal of Far Right Pandemic Politics: A Southern Europe Case". Javnost - The Public (2023): https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.2023.2162296.
    Published
  6. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The Problematic Scientificity of Psychology in the Media: How Mental Illness Coverage Could Lead to Criminality Prejudice". Tripodos 52 (2022): 71-90. http://dx.doi.org/10.51698/tripodos.2022.52p71-90.
    Open access • Published • 10.51698/tripodos.2022.52p71-90
  7. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Communicating Corrected Risk Assessments and Uncertainty About COVID-19 in the Post-truth Era". Frontiers in Communication 6 (2021): http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.646066.
    10.3389/fcomm.2021.646066
  8. Fernandes, Adalberto. "Older peoples' sacrifice during COVID-19 pandemic". Working with Older People (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/wwop-07-2020-0035.
    10.1108/wwop-07-2020-0035
  9. Adalberto Fernandes. "Science as a virulent myth archive". Social Anthropology 28 2 (2020): 266-267. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12846.
    10.1111/1469-8676.12846
  10. Fernandes, Adalberto. "The biopolitics in the radical alterity of the vegetative state (original title: A Biopolítica na Alteridade Radical do Estado Vegetativo)". Estudos em Comunicação, (17), 167-190. (2014): http://www.ec.ubi.pt/ec/17/pdf/n17a08.pdf.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Short fiction
  1. 2019. "Out-Vitro". In So Fi Zine - sociological fiction zine for arts-based research, edited by Ash Watson, 25. Frances St Press.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/11/21 Book launch and workshop on Science Communication as Soft Power Book presentation: The Routledge Handbook of Soft Power 2nd edition book launch and workshop
Macquarie University (Australia)
2022/10/28 A negação dos fatos científicos não é suficiente para explicar a hesitação vacinal: o caso dos rappers anti-vacinas IBERCOM – Ibero-American Congress of Communication
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
2022/09/28 Trusting that science will fail SECAT – Scientific Expertise, Communication and Trust 2022 conference, 27/09/2022 – 28/09/2022 ]
Aarhus University
2022/09/08 Ethics and Science - Between Deontology and Utilitarianism Summer with Science 2022
Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology
2022/04/30 Science Communication and Uncertainty Workshop for graduate students from "Viver Astronomia" project -
Institute of Astrophysics and Space Sciences (Portugal)
2022 The Politics of Citizen Science IAMCR - International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference 2022
IAMCR
2022 Foucault and the Public VII Congresso Internacional de Comunicação Jornalismo e Espaço Público - Universidade de Coimbra, 13/07/2022 – 15/07/2022
Universidade de Coimbra
2021/06/23 Uncertainty about COVID-19 in the media (original title: Incerteza sobre a COVID-19 nos media) Portuguese Network of Science and Technology Communication Congress
SciComPt (Portugal)
2019/11/22 Politics of Reason in Stengers and Fuller (original title: Políticas da Razão em Stengers e Fuller) [ Lisboa, 22/11/2019 ] Workshop - Questões sobre Bioarte - Organizado por Doutora Catarina Pombo Nabais (CFCUL)
Centro de Filosofia das Ciência da Universidade de Lisboa. (Portugal)
2019/05/09 Poder, saber e acontecimento em Foucault Jornadas de Doutoramento - PDFCTAS - FCUL
FCUL (Portugal)
2017/10/12 From the Cell to the School (Original-title: Da Célula à Escola) Portuguese Network of Science and Technology Communication Congress
2017/06/16 Lingua mentis: the testimony of Vegetative State? (original title: Lingua mentis: o depoimento do Estado Vegetativo?) 2017-06-16 Seminário Internacional - Direito, Neurociências E Inteligência Artificial – Vanguardas Da Responsabilidade - Universidade de Coimbra
2016/05/26 There is no (aprioristic) rigour in science communication (original title: Não existe rigor (apriorístico) em comunicação de ciência) SciComPt Conference, Pavilion of Knowledge - Ciência Viva
2015/12/03 The double translation of Science Communication (original title: A dupla tradução da Comunicação de Ciência) Portuguese Language Congress: a Language of Future - December 2 a 4 de Dezembro, University of Coimbra, Portugal / Congresso Língua Portuguesa: uma Língua de Futuro
2015/07/18 The discursive biopolitical disqualification in Vegetative State (original title: A desqualificação biopolítica discursiva no Estado Vegetativo) II International Symposium EDiSo – Discourses and Societies in Movement. June 18-20, Coimbra, Portugal / II Simpósio Internacional EDiSo - Discursos e Sociedades em Movimento.
2015/05/28 The discursive ethics of science communication (original title: A ética discursiva da comunicação de ciência) Portuguese Network of Science and Technology Communication Congress

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2023/09/07 - 2033/09/08 Conferência Internacional - Decifrando censuras. Da regulação à produção de inexistências, do arquivo à internet: uma abordagem interdisciplinar - Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal (2023/09/07 - 2033/09/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
Instituto de História Contemporânea, Portugal
2022/04/29 - 2022/04/29 "SubPromais" Conference (2022/04/29 - 2022/04/29)
Conference
Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária Centro de Documentação e Informação, Portugal
2021 - 2021 FIC.A - International Science Festival (2021 - 2021)
Festival (Other)
Camara Municipal Oeiras, Portugal
2017/10/12 - 2017/10/13 Member of the Organization Commission of the 5th Congress of Science Communication of the SciComPt Network (2017/10/12 - 2017/10/13)
Congress (Member of the Organising Committee)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/19 - Current Participation in the debate "Meet the scicommers" about careers in Science Communication
Round table
Advanced Course "Connecting Researchers with the Society and Industry" of the" of PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine
Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2020/05/13 - Current Invited participation at the science communication event "PubHd of Lisbon"
2022/02/16 - 2022/02/16 Debate between Adalberto Fernandes, Carlos Fiolhais, Margarida Mano and Susana Aires de Sousa
Round table
Scientific Method: How, Where and When - https://ucpages.uc.pt/iii/ciclo-de-debates-interdisciplinares/eventos/o-metodo-cientifico-como-quando-e-onde/
Institute of Interdisciplinary Research - University of Coimbra, Portugal

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2015 - Current SciComPt - Portuguese Network of Science and Technology Communication
2015 - 2016 EDISO - Asociación de Estudios sobre Discurso y Sociedad

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Member of the editorial commission of Kairos - Journal of Philosophy & Science.
Member

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2023/12/18 - Current Introduction to ethics for the sciences (Coordinator: Professor Ramiro Almeida) - Department of Medical Sciences Institute of Biomedicine - iBiMED, University of Aveiro, Portugal (Mestrado) Universidade de Aveiro Instituto de Biomedicina, Portugal
2023/11/23 - Current Art and Science (coordinated by Professor Cristina Tavares) - Doctoral Program on Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art and Society of the University of Lisbon Doctoral Program on Philosophy of Science, Technology, Art and Society of the University of Lisbon (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2022/12/07 - Current Scientific Publishing Ethics Connecting Researchers with the Society and Industry - PhD Programme in Experimental Biology and Biomedicine - Advanced Courses 2022/2023 - University of Coimbra (Doutoramento) Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular, Portugal
2016/05/28 - Current Master Course Seminar about Science Communication and the Media(Professor Coordinator: Cláudia Cavadas) - Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Coimbra (Mestrado) Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Farmácia, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024 - Current Journal of Bioethical Inquiry Springer
2023 - Current Communication and the Public Sage
2023 - Current Journalism Sage
2014 - Current Cogent Social Sciences Taylor & Francis
Distinctions

Other distinction

2020 travel grant - Croatia APPLY Winter School 2020: Methods of argument analysis and evaluation in public contexts - European network for Argumentation and Public PoLicY analysis (APPLY) - COST Action CA17132: [ 15/01/2020 ]