My research interests are Children, Youth and media, particularly how digital media creation, particularly games, impact several literacies. Cultural Game Jams as a form of transforming youth participation in European Culture and Communities is my recent area of research.

Conceição Costa is a PhD in Communication Sciences - Media Studies from FCSH-Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is an Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona - Centro Universitário de Lisboa, and a Coordinator Researcher at CICANT in Lisbon, Portugal. She is a lecturer at Bachelor degrees, Master degrees and Doctoral degrees at ECATI, teaching curricular units related with Communication and Technology namely: Human-Computer Interaction (Informatics Engineering bachelor degree); Research Methodologies (Game Design Master degree); Seminar at Media, Society and Culture (PhD in Comunnications Science). She was a member of the COST Action ISO906 (2010-2014) and has been involved in several European publications about media literacy and Game-Based Learning.
She was the Principal Investigator of GamiLearning project (UTAP-ICDT/IVC-ESCT /0020/2014) funded by FCT and the coordinator of ECFOLI in Portugal (ERASMUS+) and MILT- Media Literacy for Living Together, funded by the "Media Literacy for All Programme" of the European Commission and of GBL4deaf - Game-Based Learning for Deaf Students funded by FCT and LISBOA2020. She was a research member of the bYou project of Minho University (PTDC/COM-OUT/3004/2020) funded by FCT. Currently she is the PT coordinator and a research member of EPIC WE - Empowered Participation through Ideating Cultural Worlds and Environments: youth imagining, creating and exchanging cultural values and heritage through game-making funded by Horizon Europe.