Rosalina Pisco Costa is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Évora (Portugal). In 2011, she completed her doctoral studies in Social Sciences with a thesis titled ‘Small and Big Days. The Rituals Constructing Contemporary Families’, advised by Ana Nunes de Almeida. She was both an FCT and Gulbenkian scholar at the Morgan Centre for the Study of Relationships and Personal Life of the University of Manchester, therein supervised by Carol Smart. She works mainly in the Sociology of the Family, Childhood, Everyday Life and Consumption Studies, while crosswise exploring different Social Research Methodologies. Her current research interests cover Family, Gender and Personal Life; Social Time and Ages of Life; Ritualization, Memory and Familial Aesthetics; Everyday Life, Consumption and Mobilities; Pathways, Transitions and Experiences in Higher Education; History and Institutionalization of Sociology in Portugal; Ethics in Social Sciences; QDA Software, Qualitative, Sensory and Creative Social Research Methodologies.