Sofia Marques da Silva is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Porto (FPCEUP), and full member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE). She is a member of CIIE's Directive Board and leads the Youth, Education, Diversity and innovation (JEDi) research and advanced training group. Appointed by the Portuguese Government to be the Deputy Coordinator (2019-2021) of the Portuguese National digital skills and jobs coalition, the National Digital Competences Initiative e.2030 (Portugal INCoDe.2030), and coordinating the first of its 5 pillars (Inclusion), she also also co-chaired the FCT's National Thematic Agenda for Research and Innovation 'Social Inclusion and Citizenship'. She has been appointed the Portuguese expert on the European transition committee of the H2020 for Horizon Europe in the thematic area 'Europe in a changing world - inclusive, innovative and Reflective Societies' (2018-2019). Sofia M. Silva is member of NESET II - Network of Experts on Social Aspects of Education and Training (adviser of the European Commission's DGEAC). She is the convenor of networks 5 of the European Educational Research Association Council (EERA), and, in 2014, she acted as Chair of the annual conference of EERA, ECER (European Conference on Educational Research), hosted by UPORTO. She acted as the Editor-in-chief of the journal Ethnography & Education (Taylor & Francis/Routledge) (2018-2023). Her research experience includes doing ethnographic and participatory research on youth cultures, rural contexts and education, but also quantitative research on youth and schooling. She has participated in experimental social impact studies, producing impact assessment reports for financing entities. Lately she has been involved in researching children and young people from rural and border regions, resilient schools and communities, and also has experience in working in peer mentoring and peer support. With keen experience in leading Portuguese teams of a number of international funded projects, she coordinated the national teams of the EU-funded 'Towards a Sense of Belonging in an Inclusive Learning Environment' (2018-2021; Erasmus+) and 'SIRIUS 2.0 Policy Network on Migrant Education' (2017-2022). She was the PI of 'Grow:Up in Border Regions in Portugal (2018-2022; supported by ERDF/Norte 2020 and FCT). Publishing at national and international level, Sofia M. Silva co-edited reference works as the Wiley's International Handbook on Ethnography of Education (2018) and the SAGE's Doing Educational Research: Overcoming Challenges in Practice (2019).