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Sara Albuquerque (IR)

Sara Albuquerque

Sara Albuquerque é investigadora em História da Ciência no IHC, Universidade de Évora, IN2PAST. É a Investigadora Principal (IP) do projeto KNOW.AFRICA | KNOWledge networks in 19th-century AFRICA: A Digital Humanities approach to colonial encounters and local knowledge in the narratives of Portuguese expeditions (1853-1888) (ref. FCT-2022.01599.PTDC; https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC) e do projeto exploratório W.Box.Project: Ward’s box as a pedagogical object in the dissemination of the History of Science (EXPL/In2Past/2023/07). Anteriormente, trabalhou como investigadora pós-doutoral na mesma unidade de investigação – IHC (2014-2019), no Museu de História Natural de Londres (2013) e nos Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG) (2007-2012), onde atuou como investigadora e digitalizadora. Durante a sua estadia nos RBG, Kew, obteve um prêmio colaborativo e concluiu o doutoramento em História da Ciência no Birkbeck College, Universidade de Londres, em 2013. É Honorary Research Associate nos RBG, Kew e Fellow da Linnean Society of London. Trabalha nas áreas de ciências naturais e humanidades, com interesses particulares em história da ciência, coleções de história natural, museologia, cultura material, património científico, botânica, botânica económica, etnobotânica, gênero, exposições universais, África, América do Sul, expedições (século XIX) e encontros interculturais.

Sara Albuquerque is a researcher in History of Science at IHC, University of Évora, IN2PAST. She is PI of the project KNOW.AFRICA | KNOWledge networks in 19th-century AFRICA: A Digital Humanities approach to colonial encounters and local knowledge in the narratives of Portuguese expeditions (1853-1888) (ref. FCT-2022.01599.PTDC; https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.01599.PTDC) and PI of the exploratory project – W.Box.Project: Ward’s box as a pedagogical object in the dissemination of the History of Science (EXPL/In2Past/2023/07). She worked previously as a post-doctoral researcher at the same research unit – IHC (2014-2019), at the Natural History Museum in London (2013) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (RBG) (2007-2012) as a researcher and digitiser. While at RBG, Kew she obtained a collaborative award and concluded her PhD in History of Science at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2013. She is Honorary Research Associate at RBG, Kew and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. She works in the areas of natural sciences and humanities, with particular interests in history of science, collections of natural history, museology, material culture, scientific heritage, botany, economic botany, ethnobotany, gender, world exhibitions, Africa, South America, expeditions (19th century) and cross-cultural encounters.

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