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, social inequalities, and the evaluation of decentralized public policies at the local level. In previous projects, including his doctoral research (during which he was visiting researcher at the Institute of Government and Public Policies, in Barcelona), he explored the policy innovation (basic income-inspired policy) within multilevel governance contexts, and labour market studies such as labour market segmentation and the projectification of work. He was invited to lecture in the course Society and Social Policies at Iscte-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa.