Holds a degree in Clinical Psychology (University of Coimbra). She completed her Master’s and PhD in Social Psychology at ISCTE (including a research internship at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). She holds a professional specialty in Work, Social and Organizational Psychology and an advanced specialty in Psychotherapy (OPP), with EMDR training (Levels 1 and 2). She is a lecturer at ISCTE and a researcher at CIS since 1999, having held several management roles during this period: she is currently Director of the Master’s Programme in Community Psychology and Protection of Children and Young People at Risk (also in 2018–2019); she was President of the Specialized Committee on Ethics in Psychology (2023–2025); and she was President of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE for two terms (2019–2023). She has coordinated and collaborated on social and community intervention studies and projects, particularly in the field of programme evaluation, at the local/municipal level, at the national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion/Learn, Play, Grow Groups; Choices Programme, 7th Generation; studies for the National Council for Health Communication), and in other international projects (e.g., ISCWeB – International Survey on Children’s Well-Being; GRIT – Erasmus+ Project – Growing in Urban Education and Diversity; Yar4all). In 2018, she collaborated as a Quality Monitor for the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) in an OECD-led project on socioemotional skills, and served as technical and scientific consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies Programme (2018–2022). In addition to her longstanding interest in inclusion (having been involved in the Portuguese Diversity Charter), she has worked in the field of risk (Gambling and adolescence, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University) and in child and youth protection. Together with colleagues, she has developed materials aimed at promoting children’s rights (“Discovering Children’s Rights”, published by the Portuguese Parliament), universal prevention of sexual abuse (“The Adventures of Búzio and Coral”; “Picos and Avelã Discover the Treasure Forest”), and child hearing in court (“Hearing the Child: A Guide to Good Practice”; “João Goes to Court/The Day Mariana Didn’t Want To”; Project 12: www.projeto12.pt). In 2017, she took part in the T.A.L.E. project (Training Activities for Legal Experts), which aimed to train professionals for the correct implementation of the Council of Europe Guidelines on Child-Friendly Justice. She was a member of the Board of CSIS – Child Safeguarding in Sport and of the Scientific Council of the UBUNTU Leaders Academy. She was a trainer at the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ) on Child Hearing (2016–2023). She provided supervision to family support teams (SCML, 2017–2020). She has served as consultant for ACRIDES (Cape Verde) and for the Council of Europe within a project on child-friendly justice.   She is currently a member of the VITA Group, a monitoring group for situations of sexual violence involving children and vulnerable adults within the context of the Catholic Church in Portugal, and serves on the national board of the Portuguese Psychologists’ Association (OPP). She received the OPP Southern Region Career Award in 2020.

Eunice Magalhães, PhD, is Assistant Professor at ISCTE and Full Researcher at CIS-Iscte - Centre for Research and Social Intervention. She is currently the Director of the Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and Deputy Director of the Department of Psychology. Between 2020 and 2022, she was Deputy Director of CIS-Iscte.    Eunice Magalhães holds a PhD in Psychology from ISCTE. She has led and collaborated on research projects focused on children's rights, child abuse and neglect, residential and foster care, as well as on the mental health of victims of violence (mostly adolescents and adults). Her work has been published in leading journals, books, and book chapters focused on topics such as supportive relationships in alternative care or child protection and children's rights. She regularly presents her work at national and international conferences and actively collaborates with national and international research teams.

PhD in Sociology, in Theory and Method. Full Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Director of School of Sociology and Public Policies. Director of the Postgraduate in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Expert in methodological issues and quantitative data analysis. Senior researcher at the Center for the Research and Study of Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL). Area of research is focused inside the quantitative and multivariate methods for categorical and quantitative variables, mainly methods of interdependence and dependence; multilevel models; longitudinal models; measurement models, mediation and moderation models; estimation with bootstrapping. She teaches several courses of multivariate statistics and advanced data analyses on Master and PhD Programs. She has coordinated research projects and she has participated in several research national and international projects, developing her skills of advanced data analysis with quantitative methods. She has published several books and several articles in Portugal and abroad.

Joana Baptista is an Assistant Professor at the ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon. Her research focuses on the early relational determinants of child development, particularly the quality of caregiver-child interactions. In recent years, she has concentrated on understanding the impact of early adverse experiences, with a special emphasis on how deprived parental care affects children's cognitive, emotional, and behavioral functioning. She is the Principal Investigator of the project All4Children – The Integrated Model of Family Foster Care to Promote High-Quality Child Welfare Practices in Portugal, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2022.03592.PTDC). Her work also explores how the quality of mother- and father-child interactions shapes executive functioning in infants and preschoolers, both in typically developing children and those born preterm. Joana Baptista has published extensively in leading journals and serves on the editorial board of Infant Behavior & Development.

Lígia Monteiro is an assistant professor at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon and a full researcher at the Centre for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS-Iscte). She holds a PhD from NOVA University of Lisbon/ISPA-University Institute and has been awarded several grants through competitive calls from FCT (the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), including a doctoral and two postdoctoral fellowships (one at the Department of Human Development and Family Studies - Auburn University).  With a background on educational and developmental Psychology, she has conducted and participated in several research projects studying the impact of the quality of parenting representations and behaviours, father’s involvement and family dynamics (e.g. coparenting) on children’s socio-emotional outcomes (e.g. attachment and peer interactions) during their early years. She has published her work in several peer-reviewed journals (e.g., Attachment and Human development, Child Development or European Journal of Developmental Psychology); coordinated and participated in special issues on topics such as attachment or fatherhood; as well as books and book chapters. She has presented papers at the most important international conferences, relating to her fields of study. She has collaborated with multiple researchers from Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia.