Bruno Oliveira holds a PhD in Public Policy from Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Iscte-IUL), awarded in 2024. He is a social policy researcher, whose research focuses on poverty, employment and social protection policies and the evaluation of decentralized social policies. In previous projects, including his doctoral research (during which he was visiting researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies, in Barcelona), he studied policy innovations (inpired in basic income principles) within multilevel governance contexts. He was invited to lecture in the course Society and Social Policies at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.