Vera Rodrigues is a PhD student in Urban Studies at ISCTE-IUL and holds a PhD grant (SFRH/BD/144918/2019) from the Portuguese National Fund for Scientific Research. Her dissertation explores how migrants access healthcare and what kind of health services are offered to them in superdiverse urban metropolitan areas (e.g. Lisbon and Boston). To develop her research overseas she was awarded with an R&D@PhD USA grant by the Luso-American Development Foundation, where she was a visiting pre-doctoral scholar at the University of Massachusetts Boston.  She also has an MA in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Additionally, she has experience as researcher on several transnational research projects funded by the European Union carried out at the Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology of ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Two of them were related to social inequalities at different levels. One of the projects was about the second generation of young African descendants, the second  project was about homeless young people or at risk of homelessness and finally, the last one was focused on migrants’ health. Her research interests focus on health, migration, and social inequalities in urban spaces.