Assistant Professor at the School of Education and Social Sciences (ESECS), Polytechnic Institute of Leiria (IPL). Coordinator of the Master’s Degree in Education Sciences: Education and Community Development at ESECS, IPL.
She is an integrated researcher at the Transdisciplinary Research Center “Culture, Space, and Memory” at the University of Porto and a collaborating researcher at the Interdisciplinary Studies Center in Education and Development (CeiED) at the LusĂ³fona University.
Research Areas: Education/Teacher Training, Social Pedagogy, Socio-educational Mediation, Interculturality, Positive Parenting, Pedagogical Assessment, and Inclusion.