Helena Santos is a sociologist and assistant professor at the Faculty of Economics of Porto, where she teaches in the fields of social sciences, sociology, cultural economics and research methodologies. She is integrated researcher at CITCEM (digital culture group) and collaborator at CEF.UP. The main focus of her research activities lies in culture and the arts, including performing arts, cinema, and heritage. While adopting an interdisciplinary perspective, her research draws insights from sociology and cultural economics, with a particular intersection with communication sciences. As such, she has been developing cross-cutting research on topics such as practices and audiences; institutions and agents of production, mediation and creation; interactions between culture, territory and social-human development; and public policies. More recently, she has been interested in issues of health literacy and communication.