Academic Management Positions
Position Unit/Area Begin Date End Date
Coordenador do 1º Ano Bachelor Degree in Social Work 2025-09-01 2026-09-01
Coordenador do 3º Ano Bachelor Degree in Social Work (PL) 2024-09-01 2025-09-01
Coordenador do 3º Ano Bachelor Degree in Social Work (PL) 2022-09-01 2024-09-01
Research Networks
Research Network Name Representative Role Period
Citizenship Forum: For the Eradication of Poverty in the District of Vila Real Co-coordenadora do Fórum 2023 - 2024
COST Action CA19143 - Global Digital Human Rights Network (GDHRNet) Membro Investigador 2023 - 2024
COST ACTION CA22156 - Transformations international Experience and Research network for Sustainable futures (TransformERS). Member of WG 1, WG 3 Since 2025
Professional Associations
Association Period
Order of Social Workers (professional licence number 1263) Since 2024
Associação de Profissionais de Serviço Social Since 1997
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Member of scientific event committee Conference THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “QUO VADIS EU?” Between Norms and Power Universidade de Tirana (UT) – anfitriã principal, Faculdade de Direito; Sapienza Università di Roma – Itália; Università di Siena – Itália; Iscte – Instituto Universitário de Lisboa- Portugal; Università di Camerino – Itália; Università di Bologna – Itália 2025
Member of scientific event committee Conference 31st APDR Congress "Ecossistemas regionais de inovação e desenvolvimento sustentável" APDR - Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional 2024
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Conference Social Work in Health: Intervention in Chronic Renal Failure ISCTE/APIR 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) at ISCTE-IUL Conference GDHRNet group meeting and an international seminar; Digital democracy: celebrating 50 years of democracy in Portugal COST Action: CA19143 - Global Digital Human Rights Network 2024
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Seminar or Seminar Cycle Seminário de divulgação da Operação EGO-SAS Excelência Operacional nos Serviços de Ação Social em parceria com a Universidade do Porto e Universidade do Minho. Since 2018
Member of scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Membro da Comissão Executiva para a Comemoração dos 60 Anos do Instituto Superior de Serviço Social 1996
Awards
Award Description Year
Galardão de Mérito Desportivo 2019
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
INTRAS Foundation and UTAD- University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (CETRAD) Portugal (Portugal) Advisor (VIVEMAIS – Cross-border and transdisciplinary community for the design, adoption and use of innovative assistive technologies (Ongoing Project)) 2024 - 2026
Institute for Public and Social Policy (IPPS-Iscte) Portugal (Portugal) Trainer (Chief Tax Officers Course - Leadership Skills) 2024
National Institute for Administration (Department of Knowledge, Innovation & Development) Portugal (Lisbon) Coach (5th Edition of the Mentoring Program for Innovation and Leadership in Portuguese Public Administration) 2024
Brighten, S.A. (Brighten, Consulting) Portugal (Portugal) Advisor (Study of Portuguese Lisbon Public Universities on the business impact of internationalization and preparation of the international higher education offers (Project approved under the Lisbon 2020 Regional Operational Programme)) 2023
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event SOCIAL WORK IN LOCAL HEALTH UNITS: INNOVATING AND EXPANDING IN THE NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE Speaker in Panel 2: INNOVATION AND LEADERSHIP IN SOCIAL WORK MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE WITHIN LOCAL HEALTH UNITS, on the topic: What Challenges in Leadership 2025
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event World Social Work Day 2025 Celebrations: ‘Strengthening Intergenerational Solidarity for Lasting Well-Being’ Moderator of the Thematic Conference | Innovation and Diversity in the Professional Practice of Social Workers 2025
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event CISI - 8th Conference Sustainable Transitions and Disruptive Innovation Round Table: Management, Sustainability and Innovation in Health 2025
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event VI Thematic Meeting of the Parish Social Commission and Oeiras Social Network - Human Rights and Social Intervention As part of our Parish Social Commission and the Oeiras Social Network, the event is aimed at professionals to reflect on good practices and to learn from each other in the area of community intervention. 2024
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Digital democracy: Celebrating 50 years of democracy in Portugal International Seminar e Cost Group Meeting - COST Action: CA19143 - Global Digital Human Rights Network 2024
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Labour Income & Poverty Delocalised workshops on the conditioning factors of poverty. Suitable income - Round of Debates - Citizens' Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Vila Real District 2024
Talk/Conference in public diffusion event Presentation of the book ‘Que Pirâmide Humana?’ by Manuel Heitor Participation in the guest panel for the presentation of the book 'Que Pirâmide Humana? - Knowledge and Public Policy Options in Portugal: 2000-2030' by Manuel Heitor 2024
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Inclused Health - Debate - Citizenship Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Via Real District Delocalised workshops on the conditioning factors of poverty. Ageing and Poverty - Round of Debates - Citizens' Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Vila Real District 2023
Coordination of knowledge diffusion event Signature Protocol for the Creation of The Citizenship Forum: For the Eradication of Poverty in the District of Vila Real Departing from a voluntary interaction between people and entities that organize and gather around a cause, assuming that the eradication of poverty constitutes a national plan, this Forum is represented by Professor Hermínia Gonçalves; Professor Artur Cristóvão and Professor Elsa Justino, who are part of the forum's coordination team. 2023
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Aging and Poverty - Debate - Citizenship Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Via Real District Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Via Real District Delocalised workshops on the conditioning factors of poverty. Ageing and Poverty - Round of Debates - Citizens' Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Vila Real District 2023
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Education, Poverty, Inclusion and Citizenship: Problems, Experiences and Challenges Delocalised workshops on the conditioning factors of poverty. suitable income - Round of Debates - Citizens' Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Vila Real District 2023
Member of organizing committee of knowledge diffusion event Suitable income - Debate - Citizenship Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Via Real District Delocalised workshops on the conditioning factors of poverty. suitable income - Round of Debates - Citizens' Forum for the Eradication of Poverty in the Vila Real District 2023