Inês Casquilho-Martins is a social worker with a Master's and PhD in Social Work.

She is Assistant Professor at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon and researcher at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon (CIES-Iscte) and at the Lusíada Research Center on Social Work and Social Intervention (CLISSIS) - Lusíada University. Between 2019 and January 2024 she was Assistant Professor in the three cycles of study in Social Work at ISSSL - Universidade Lusíada, where she coordinated the Master's in Social Work and the research line "Teaching and Training in Social Work" at CLISSIS.

Her research interests include different areas and fields of social work, social policies, social protection systems, social assistance, migration, community development and training skills in higher education. In this field, her research has focused on making contributions from her scientific area to the study of contemporary social problems and public policies in different areas of social protection. She also invests in the pedagogical and scientific promotion of social work training. 

In 2019, she received the Silva Leal Prize, awarded by Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa and the Secretary of State for Social Security for her doctoral thesis in Social Work “Models of social protection in societies with austerity programs”. 

She was Online Learning's technical and pedagogical coordinator for the promotion, preparation, production and dissemination of iscte e-learning courses (2017-2019).