On March 25th, our JRAAS group kicked off its first cinema cycle of 2026 “Time Capsule: Futures Gone By” (with the support of Associação Luso-Britânica do Porto) with the film V for Vendetta (2005), directed by James McTeigue. In order to start off the session, Professor Joana Caetano, PhD kindly provided an engrossing introduction to the film.

We recently hosted Professor Mauro Sarrica at the Centre for a few days. He is a Full Professor of Social Psychology from the Sapienza University of Rome and will soon be joining the University of Padua. Given that his research spans environmental and peace psychology, we organised a roundtable on the social aspects of the energy transition. The following day we had the opportunity to briefly interview him regarding his work on the matter.

New year. New beginnings. New JRAAS team.

There are many ways we could go about this, but, seeing as we went through the predicament of taking several dozen photos until we could agree on one, we might as well start there. Of course, the camera might have found a less demanding crowd in a group of strangers, but as four friends who have known each other for over a year and half, we were very demanding on our poor photographer. Begrudgingly, we have included the group favourite as the cover for this entry.