Beatriz Lacerda has a degree and a master's degree in Sociology from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Porto. Since 2023 she is a member of ETNO.URB (The Urban Ethnography Network). She has experience in artistic and community intervention projects in the city of Porto, where she crosses the fields of sociology and cinema, using ethnography and participatory visual methodologies.

Among the projects in which she has participated are "Travessia" (2020-21), "Campanhã Cinema Club" (2021-2023); "Rising Cinema" (2023) and "Inflatable Cinema" (2020-2023). She is currently on a PhD scholarship for the "PERYCREATIVITY: Periheral Creativities: youth, arts and public policies in segregated territories" project, coordinated by Otávio Raposo (ISCTE) and Lígia Ferro (IS-UP), where she will have the opportunity to deepen her research in the areas of territory, youth and creativity, migration and antiracism, ethnography and processes of co-participation.