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Lara Ximenes Coelho, Lic.

Centre for Social Studies · University of Coimbra, Portugal — Researcher

Research Areas

  • Communications Theory
  • Journalism

Ongoing Projects

About

Lara Ximenes is a junior researcher on the project UnCoveR: Sexual Violence in Portuguese Media Landscapes, currently underway at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES-UC). She is a master’s student in Journalism and Communication at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC), where her research focuses on media representations of sexual violence in youth and elite sports. She previously was a research fellow at the Health Communication Laboratory of the Faculty of Medicine (FMUC), while simultaneously working with the Science Communication Office at the Centre for Innovative Biomedicine and Biotechnology (CiBB). She was also a recipient of a scientific initiation fellowship at the Institute for Legal Research (IJFDUC).