Mónica Gonçalves

Mónica Gonçalves has a bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice from the University of Minho and a master’s degree in criminal science, with specialisation in criminology from the same university. Her dissertation focused on the prevalence of cyberstalking victimisation among a population of college students, with the aim of studying the habits of usage of social media and its correlation with cyberstalking occurrence.

She did a traineeship at Fembloc, which is a non-profit project based in Catalonia involved in designing a model for tackling digital gender-based violence (incl. victims of hate speech and hate crime) from a feminist intersectional perspective.