Vera Lúcia Marques Coelho. Vera Coelho has a PhD degree in Psychology, more specifically in the field of Educational Psychology from the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of Porto University. Her PhD, finalized in 2019, has focused on the relations between the quality of interactive processes in inclusive preschools and children´s - with and without disabilities - participation, engagement, and developmental outcomes. Child inclusion, quality of educational settings and developmental trajectories are still her main areas of interest in her teaching and research activities. Since she has finished her PhD, she started to work as an assistant professor at the University of Maia (UMaia), where she has coordinates, since 2021, the master's degree in educational and school psychology (ESP). In her commitment to her career as a university professor, she believes in the interdependence of the teaching and research processes as fundamental for high-quality practices in academia. She is an integrated researcher in the Center for Psychology at the University of Porto, in the Development and Education group. In her research, she is committed to the transferability of the research and the need to conciliate high-quality and rigorous methodological approaches with the real-life needs and potential of the research in improving the quality of inclusion in education, as well as the lives of children and families, particularly those in vulnerable situations, as for instance children with disabilities and/or at risk. Over the last years she has participated in several national and international research projects, both as a team member and as coordinator, in the field of ESP with a particular focus on inclusion, early childhood intervention, quality of educational settings and its relations with child development, wellbeing, and participation.