Doctor in Educational Sciences, Master in Educational Administration and Graduate in Physics and Chemistry Teaching. She is a Professor in the Department of Pedagogy and Education, Assistant in the Executive Committee of the Masters in Pre-school Education and in the 1st Cycle of Basic Education, President of the Coordinating Council of Supervised Teaching Practice at the University of Évora and coordinates a Working Group on Teaching and Research in Higher Education at the School of Social Sciences, with a view to the pedagogical training of the academic community of the University of Évora. Teacher in several curricular units (UC), highlights his responsibility in the UC of Knowledge and Professional Development, Doctorate in Educational Sciences and Supervised Teaching Practice in Master's courses. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Research in Education and Psychology (CIEP|UE; Theme 3 - Training and Professional Development), University of Évora and collaborator in the Comprehensive Health Research Centre (CHRC) where the work is aligned and committed with patient health education and empowerment. As part of her networking, she collaborates with the Collège International de Recherche Biographique en Éducation (CIRBE, France). She is a member of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences (SPCE), of the Portuguese Forum of Educational Administration, of the Brazilian Association of (Auto)Biographical Research (BIOGraph) and of the Association Internationale de Histoires de Vie en Formation, et de Recherche Biographique en Éducation (ASIHVIF). She is a member that represents the University of Évora in Comissão de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens de Évora. Their investigative interests focus on training processes, professional education, lifelong learning, professional development, identities and workplace learning. Her researches are doing whit teachers and other professionals, including health and social care professionals. Narrative research, children voices, care and wellbeing linking education and training challenges to life history and are also a part of the current projects. Their studies have focused on such problems, with approaches of a qualitative nature, highlighting narrative research, action-research and case studies in Education. Mobilized by several national and international projects and network research, she is a member of the editorial team of several scientific journals and has publications disseminated nationally and internationally. English is good (listening and speaking).