JoanaMagalhaes

User profile

PhD

Joana

Magalhães

Spain

Area of expertise, interest, main activities...: 

#equalpolicies, health, participatory research, science communication, citizen science, osteoarthritis, biomaterials, gender equality media

About you (please use English): 

Joana Magalhães currently works at Science for Change in citizen science and science communications projects. She has more than 15 years experience working in the fields of Tissue Engineering, Osteoarthritis and Science Communication. Spanish Representative of the Young Scientist Forum for the European Society of Biomaterials (2016-2021), Board Member Spanish Association of Women Scientists and Technologists (AMIT) and Galician Association of Science Communication. She is highly committed to promoting the visibility of women scientists through media, specially regarding the contribution of women in the biomedical field. She has produced and/or co-directed television and radio STEAM-for-health contents for children (I wanna be a scientist when I grow up, Sound Pills, etc) and other publics, with gender perspective, distinguished as National Innovative Practices for the promotion of a scientific culture as well as other science communication awards.

Scientific discipline: 

Engineering and technology, Materials engineering, Medical and health sciences, Health sciences, Social sciences, Media and communications, Interdisciplinary

Stakeholder group: 

Science stakeholders, Scientists & Researcher, Opinion formers, media, Gender equality stakeholders, Women scientists’ organizations

Contact details

Spoken languages: 

English

Galician

Portuguese, Portugal

Spanish

City: 

A Coruña

Social networks: 

https://jomagellan.tumblr.com

https://twitter.com/jomagellan

GenPORT Gender Expert2Expert Directory

Would you like to form part of the GenPORT Gender Expert database?: 

Yes

Area of Gender Expertise: 

Gender in media and communication

Country coverage: 

Europe

Skills and track record: 

Board member Spanish Association of Women in Science (AMIT) - Galician Node: collaborate with policymakers to design and implement equality plans at institutional levels; elaborate gender studies in relation to women representation in awards and royal academies of science; Produce and manage projects of public engagement of health sciences through media from a gender perspective (radio, television award winning programs), women in science correspondent at radio program Member of Gender Working Group FP7 EXPERTISSUES