PhD in Sociology - Labour relations, social inequality and unionism (FEUC, 2019). Master in Psychology (Minho University, 1998) and in Sociology (ISCTE, 2011). In the PhD thesis he addressed the conflict around unemployment in a context of austerity.
Besides work, (un)employment policies, social movements, conflict and colective action, her interests include the themes of poverty; social inequalities considering the categories of class, gender and ethnicity; immigration policies and cultural diversity; feminisms; marxism; movement-relevant theory; participatory-action-research.