Teresa Duarte Martinho is a research fellow at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-ULisboa). She specializes in the study of the culture sector, and in particular cultural policies, cultural occupations and  the consequences of the digitalization of culture. She holds a doctorate in Sociology, awarded by ISCTE-IUL. She undertook post-graduate study at the  (ICS-ULisboa), between 2012 and 2017. She was a researcher at the Observatório das Actividades Culturais (Cultural Activities Observatory) between 1996 and 2011. In this organization, founded in 1996 by the Ministry of Culture, the ICS and the National Statistics Institute, she was a member of the research teams involved in numerous projects relating to cultural policies, work and careers in the cultural and arts sector (http://www.gepac.gov.pt/oac-1996-2013.aspx). She was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, where she taught the Introduction to the Social Sciences class in the Psychology course (2016-2023). Between 1990 and 1996 she was a journalist, focusing mainly on the arts and culture. She organized the conferences  ‘Cultura em Digital em Portugal 2015’ (Digital Culture in Portugal 2015) and 'Artificial Intelligence and Big Data: Everyday Life, Human Rights, Democracy'  on the implications of big data for various domains of life in society (Lisboa, 2019).

In addition to the culture sector, her areas of interest are biographical research related to post-colonial studies and to the contribution of women to social theory.

She has undertaken research into the digitalization of culture, having jointly edited the book Cultura e Digital (Culture and the Digital) (2016, Afrontamento). She also did research into the consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 for the culture sector, jointly authoring the book chapter “Mapping culture in Portugal: From incentives to crisis”, in the book entitled Cultural Policy in Ibero-America (2019, Routledge). She carried out research into Amílcar Cabral life and work (2017, Palgrave Macmillan; 2023, Springer). In addition to book chapters, she has published articles in various international and indexed journals, such as Análise Social, Tempo Social, Social Sciences and the International Journal of Cultural Policy.

She was a member of the research team of the project Inquérito às Práticas Culturais dos Portugueses 2020 (Survey of Cultural Practices in Portugal 2020) commissioned from the ICS in 2020 by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. She was a member of the research team which worked on the project Mapear os Recursos, Levantamento da Legislação, Caracterização dos Atores, Comparação Internacional (Mapping Resources, Survey of Legislation, Description of Main Actors, International Comparison), commissioned from the ICS in 2013 by the Secretary of State for Culture. She was the co-principal investigator  of the project A imprensa e a edição digital de informação: projeto de estudo de novos actores, organizações e tendências (The press and digital publishing: outline for a study of new actors, organizations and trends) commissioned from the ICS in 2017 by the ERC - Entidade Reguladora para a Comunicação Social (Media Regulatory Authority).

She is the scientific consultant for the documentary on cultural habits promoted by the Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation to highlight the changes in five  decades of democracy in Portugal (1974-2024).