Integrated Researchers
Ana Prioste
Current research interests: family intergenerational transmission; adaptation to chronic disease (e.g., obesity, HIV, sickle cell disease) in childhood and adolescence; identity development.
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: predictors of empathy; empathy and moral sense; empathy and facial expression; empathy in different contexts; interventions on empathy and emotion regulation.
Bárbara Nazaré
Current research interests: reproduction psychology; health-related cognitions and behaviours.
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).
Francisco Branco
Current research interests: poverty; public policies for social protection and social minimum; child welfare; history of social work; social policy practice in social work.
Francisco Esteves
Current research interests: cognitive processing of emotional stimuli; stress and anxiety; empathy; eating behavior.
Joana Carneiro Pinto
Current research interests: careers; life projects; needs assessment; effectiveness of psychological interventions in institutional contexts.
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.
Renato Pessoa dos Santos
Current research interests: military families; resilience; crisis intervention.
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: eating disorders; health literacy; wellbeing and adjustment of adolescents in different social situations; military families; impact of new technologies on family functioning.
Rui Gaspar
Current research interests: communication mediated by ICT; emerging risks perception; health communication; crisis situations; resilience.
Susana Costa Ramalho
Current research interests: wellbeing; emotions; couple relationships.
Collaborator Researchers
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.
Ana Paula Cláudio
Current research interests: creation of serious games; virtual reality applications aimed at anxiety control; development of empathic communication skills; bullying prevention.
Ana Rita Faria
Current research interests: education and training; social sciences; curriculum development and theory; educational evaluation.
Andreia Jorge Silva
Current research interests: aging; health literacy; multimorbidities; epidemiology; public health; disease prevention; health promotion; wellbeing.
Bárbara Mourão Sacur
Current research interests: child protection system; adoption; foster care; drug prevention.
Beatriz Carmo
Current research interests: visualization; augmented reality; virtual reality.
Catarina Vieira da Silva
Current research interests: middle class; social disqualification; social suffering; new poverty; otherness.
Cláudia Simão
Current research interests: group identity and intergroup relations; social networks and online communities; motivated thinking in consumer psychology.
Cristina Godinho
Current research interests: development and evaluation of different types of health promotion interventions through behavioral change (e.g., communication, digital interventions, community interventions, etc.); study of the underlying psychological mechanisms.
Daniela Monteiro
Current research interests: social worker profession; social work research; social work training; social reintegration.
Elisa Veiga
Current research interests: parenting; prematurity; neurodevelopment disorders; children and young people at risk.
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.
Inês Guerra
Current research interests: policies and theories in social work; health; aging; insertion and intervention with people and families; social monitoring.
João Gonçalves
Current research interests: development and social cohesion; adaptation and modernization of social protection; domains, organizational aspects, analysis and evaluation of social policy; management of social policies; social economy; sustainable development.
Joaquim Fialho
Current research interests: analysis of social networks; social diagnosis; social intervention planning; public policy.
Leonor Almeida
Current research interests: psychological assessment in organizations; leadership; creativity; values in organizational context.
Mariana Negrão
Current research interests: parenting and developmental risk; children and young people at risk.
Patrícia Costa
Current research interests: team effectiveness; wellbeing at work; technology and virtual teamwork.
Patrícia Dias
Current research interests: digital media; mobile communication; marketing; public relations.
Paula Godinho
Current research interests: social exclusion; family intervention; citizenship; social policy; community development.
Paula Nobre de Deus
Current research interests: social work.
Paulo Teixeira
Current research interests: social innovation and entrepreneurship; strategical and operational planning, monitoring, evaluation and communication.
Renata Benavente
Current research interests: clinical and health psychology.
Rodrigo Queiroz e Melo
Current research interests: regulation of educational systems; school leadership; safeguarding and child protection; school choice.
Sara Ibérico Nogueira
Current research interests: creativity; psychological evaluation; developmental psychology; giftedness.
Teresa Paiva
Current research interests: sleep; chronobiology; sleep disorders.
Honorary Researchers
Helena Rebelo Pinto
Current research interests: sleep psychology; family sciences; psychology of careers.
José Reis Lagarto
Current research interests: design of the e-learning project; influence of ICT policies in teaching and learning processes.
Research Assistants
Ana Carvalho
Current research interests: health promotion; wellbeing; health communication; sustainable practices.
Beatriz Raposo
Current research interests: psychopathology and socioemotional maladjustment in adolescents; wellbeing; interpersonal relationships.
Mafalda Hormigo
Current research interests: psychopathology and socioemotional maladjustment in adolescents; wellbeing; interpersonal relationships.
Mónica Sesifredo
Current research interests: wellbeing; emotional literacy; mental health in adolescents; health communication.