Integrated Researchers

Collaborator Researchers

Integrated Researchers

Alexandra Martins
Current research interests: Impact of emotional intelligence in several contexts (e.g., academic, workplace, health). Mindfulness and yoga as tools to develop emotional intelligence and well-being.

Ana Oliveira
Current research interests: social innovation and entrepreneurship; intervention with families and youth; theories for practice in social work; management and social evaluation; social and intercultural mediation.

Antonela Jesus
Current research interests: social politics; social work theories; entrepreneurship and social innovation; social and human rights; epistemology and research methodologies.

Augusta Gaspar
Current research interests: Empathy, positive emotions and emotion regulation. Emotional development. Pro-environmental behaviour. Designing digital applications and serious games to promote wellbeing and behaviour change.

Bárbara Nazaré
Current research interests: Reproductive psychology; health-related cognitions and behaviors; pediatric psychology; occupational health psychology; couple relationships.

Carolina Maruta
Current research interests: normal and pathological aging (dementia); relationship between sleep and cognition.

Cátia Reis
Current research interests: sleep; chronobiology (circadian rhythms investigation); circadian rhythm disturbances; shift work; sleep deprivation; actigraphy (activity/inactivity behavior continuous monitoring); stress and performance (attention and memory).

Carlos Filipe Duarte
Current research interests: Poverty studies; social protection policies and social minimum regimes; social policy practice in social work, history of social work, child welfare.

Cátia Branquinho
Current research interests: Social participation; psychological health and wellbeing; positive development; social and emotional learning.

Cláudia Simão
Current research interests: group identity and intergroup relations; social networks and online communities; motivated thinking in consumer psychology.

Filipa Barros
Current research interests: study of social cognition processes, emotional processing, and visual/olfactory processing in the general population and in the autism spectrum.

Fredrik Åhs
Current research interests: Stress and anxiety; neuropsychology; behavioural genetics.

Francisco Branco
Current research interests: Poverty studies; social protection policies and social minimum regimes; social policy practice in social work, history of social work, child welfare.

Francisco Esteves
Current research interests: Cognitive processing of emotional stimuli; stress and anxiety; empathy; attention and eating behavior.

Gabriela Álvares Pereira
Current research interests: Aging, cognitive reserve and non-pharmacological/psychosocial interventions in dementia.

Helena Rebelo Pinto
Current research interests: sleep psychology; family sciences; psychology of careers.

Inês Camacho
Current research interests: Family, school, peer group and risk and health behaviours of children and adolescents.

Inês Guerra
Current research interests: policies and theories in social work; health; aging; insertion and intervention with people and families; social monitoring.

Ingrid Zakrison
Current research interests: work and wellbeing; women at work; cross-cultural studies; minorities; refugees. 

Iolanda Galinha
Current research interests: Well-Being and Human Development - Subjective and Psychological Well-being, Emotions, Satisfaction with Life, Meaning in Life - and their predictors such as Personality, Attachment, Interpersonal Relationships and Personal and Cultural Values. Interventions to promote well-being in different life cycle stages and developmental vulnerable contexts.

Joana Carneiro Pinto
Current research interests: Personal and organizational career management, including topics such as dual career couples, commute couples, AI & career management, gamification at work and career anxiety.

Joana Zozimo
Current research interests: evaluation practice; African studies; collaborative learning and the use of social practie theory in education and communicaty development.

Margarida Gaspar de Matos
Current research interests: Adolescents' and Young people Health Promotion; Active citizenship and Social Engagement; Behaviour Change; Public Policies.

Maria Leonor Almeida
Current research interests: psychological assessment in organizations; leadership; creativity; values in organizational context.

Teresa Almeida
Current research interests: leaderships and followership, particularly focusing on the study of followers' profiles and their mechanisms of resistance in destructive leadership processes; wellbeing in organizations.

Marta Pedro
Current research interests: family processes; parenting and child and adolescent development; interrelations between interparental and parenting functioning and children’s psychological well-being; spillover and crossover processes between interparental difficulties and perturbations in parenting and children’s adjustment.

Miguel Arriaga
Current research interests: health literacy; healthy aging; traumatic events; psychosocial support.

Nuno Piçarra
Current research interests: role of technology in human socio-cognitive development; emotional processes; cognitive-constructivists psychotherapies.

Örjan Sundin
Current research interests: stress, depression and anxiety; psychophysiology; emotions and health.

Rita Brito
Current research interests: use of digital educational technologies by children; training of kindergarten teacher and primary school teachers.

Rita Francisco
Current research interests: Health literacy; wellbeing; (mal)adjustment of children and adolescents in different social and family situations; social and emotional learning.

Roberta Frontini
Current research interests: Wellbeing; eating disorders; physical activity and exercise. 

Sandra Oliveira
Current research interests: Emotions and wellbeing; quality of life; positive emotions and mental health; mental health (des)stigmatization; internalized stigma of mental illness.

Susana Costa Ramalho
Current research interests: wellbeing; emotions; couple relationships.

Collaborator Researchers

Anna Bjärtå
Current research interests: attention; depression and anxiety; refugees; psychophysiology, psychological assessment and interventions.

Bárbara Mourão Sacur
Current research interests: child protection system; adoption; foster care; drug prevention.

Elisete Diogo
Current research interests: foster families; child protection system; children's rights in the context of education.

Graça André
Current research interests: human rights; poverty; values; ethics; social worker training.

Inês Bolinhas
Current research interests: anthropology; ethics; ancient and medieval theories about happiness and wellbeing.

José Reis Lagarto
Current research interests: design of the e-learning project; influence of ICT policies in teaching and learning processes.

Paula Nobre de Deus
Current research interests: social work.

Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo
Current research interests: regulation of educational systems; school leadership; safeguarding and child protection; school choice.

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