Jacqueline Ferreira Marques graduated in Social Work in 1997 from the Instituto Superior de Serviço Social de Coimbra. In 2003, at the same institution and under the guidance of Professor Carlos Tomaz Jacques, she took her Master's degree in Social Work. In 2016, she finalised her doctorate in Social Work at Universidade Lusíada under the supervision of Professor Fernanda Rodrigues and Professor Marina Antunes. She began her professional career in 1997 as a social worker. She began teaching in 2000, having worked at Instituto Superior Miguel Torga, Universidade Católica, Instituto Politécnico de Gaya, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Instituto Superior de Serviço Social do Porto and the University of Coimbra. At the latter, she taught for around 13 years. She is an assistant professor at the Lusófona University of Lisbon, where she teaches on the degree programme in Social Work and the Masters in Social Work and Social Policy. Her research focuses on social policies, professional competencies and social inequality. Her publications include: The social worker as an active agent in analysing and implementing public policies. In Eloi Senhoras and Flávia Lemos (eds). Social Assistance - Themes in context. Editora IOLE. pp.123-159, 2023; The (in)visibility of a (frontline) profession in times of pandemic" In Castro, Paulo Alexandre. The Social World after Covid-19. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 154-172, 2023. https://www.cambridgescholars.com/resources/pdfs/978-1-5275-9108-0-sample.pdf; Granja, B. & Marques, J. Le travail social au Portugal: formation, recherche et organisation de la profession. In Emmanuel Jovelin and Laure Lienard (coord.) Le travail social en Europe. Between past, present and future. Collection Politiques et interventions sociales, co-ordinated by Cristina De Robertis, Didier Dubasque, Henri Pascal (pp.319-334). Presses de l'école des hautes études en santé publique. 2022. ISBN : 978-2-8109-1059-5; "Analysing the image of social work and social workers in the Portuguese written press". Simbiótica Revista Eletrônica (2022): https://doi.org/10.47456/simbitica.v9i2.39252; "Tendencias y desafíos del trabajo social. A view from the Portuguese reality". Ehquidad Revista Internacional de Políticas de Bienestar y Trabajo Social 18 18 (2022): 137-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.15257/ehquidad.2022.0016; "Analysing the policy cycle: a tool for Social Workers". Revista Temas Sociais 2 2 2 (2022): 31-53. http://dx.doi.org/10.53809/ts_iss_2022_n.2_31-53; Marques, J.; Reis, C. & Veríssimo, P. Characteristics of unimputable individuals monitored during the completion of their sentence: the case of a penal team in portugal. NORDSCI Conference proceedings 2022, Book 2,Volume 5, ISSN 2603-4107, ISBN 978-619-7495-30-0, DOI paper 10.32008/NORDSCI2022/B2/V5/10, Pages 121 - 130. 2022; "Social Representations, Perceptions and Identities of the LGBTQ+ Community in a Portuguese Prison". Revista Libertas, Juiz de Fora, v. 21, n.2, p. 712-726 (2021): https://periodicos.ufjf.br/index.php/libertas/article/view/34872¸ "A despolitização do rendimento social de inserção". Revista Simbiótica 5 2