Director

I am passionate about research that has the power to catalyze transformative change in the world. I firmly believe that education stands as a privileged realm for such profound transformation. My academic journey began with undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Psychology, progressing to a Ph.D. in Education Sciences. Throughout this transformative experience, I skillfully balanced diverse roles as a teacher, education specialist, and researcher. Advancing further, I pursued my first habilitation examination in 2017, specializing in Learning Psychology. Subsequently, in 2022, I presented my second habilitation examination in Management, with a specific emphasis on social innovation and fortifying the link between academia, business and society. My professional career as an academic manager started in 2003, initially as the deputy director at a higher school specializing in social and community development. For over 8 years, I held the position of Vice-Rector for Research, Quality, and Academic Innovation at Univ. Europeia, where I also served as interim rector. Leading the Executive Committees for two Ph.D. programs one in Management and another in Psychology further enriched my diverse experience. Currently, I am Full Professor at Univ. Lusófona. Concurrently, I am actively engaged as the Pro-Rector for Innovation and Research and serve as the Director of two faculties: Faculty of Economic, Social and Business Sciences in Porto, and the School of Economic Sciences and Organizations in Lisbon. Additionally, I am the Director of the INTREPID Lab, a branch of CETRAD. Throughout my career, I have significantly contributed to scientific literature, with publications in indexed scientific journals and authorship of several books spanning the fields of Management, Psychology, and Education. Furthermore, I play an active role as a consultant on education policies, collaborating with esteemed organizations, including POCH, DGEEC, A3ES, CNE, CPLP, EUA, UNESCO, and OECD.

Projects

• Programme: Erasmus+
• Action Type:  KA220-HED - Cooperation partnerships in higher education
• Funding: 400 000,00€
• Participating Organisations: Veleučilište Aspira
• Partner Organisations: UNIVERSITAT AUTONOMA DE BARCELONA, STICHTING HOGESCHOOL VAN AMSTERDAM, UNIVERSITE LYON 1 CLAUDE BERNARD, NATSIONALNA SPORTNA AKADEMIYA VASSIL LEVSKI, COFAC COOPERATIVA DE FORMACAO E ANIMACAO CULTURAL CRL.
• Key Team Members from Lusofona University: Professora Doutora Diana Silva Dias, Profª Doutora Teresa Ribeiro Candeias, Profª Doutora Gina Maria Marques de Carvalho Santos
• Objectives: The project aims to develop and improve competences and skills in higher education students in the field the digital and green transition faced by the European economies, focusing on the sports domain. The project looks to develop a challenge- based approach that connects the education activities in participant HEIs with the needs and challenges of the stakeholders, fostering engagement, doing so in a multidisciplinary and multicultural way, strengthening the students’ knowledge and abilities.