Elsa Guedes Teixeira has been engaged in research and teaching at undergraduate and MA levels in both university (FPCEUP) and polytechnic settings (ESE-IPP), including supervising MA dissertations and participating in academic juries. With a background in Sociology, an MA, and a European PhD in Educational Sciences, she has been involved in seven research-funded projects, has co/authored seven articles in peer-reviewed journals, eight books/chapters, four conference papers, and two other publications, and has co/authored 31 oral presentations. Her research has been featured in national media outlets twice and has received three awards. During her PhD fellowship, awarded by the FCT, she completed research internships at European universities, including U.C. Dublin and E.N.S. Lyon, under Kathleen Lynch and Bernard Lahire. She wrote a thesis on the intersections of socio-economic, educational, and affective inequalities in women's lives and their strategies to cope with poverty in the context of active social policies. The thesis aimed to challenge stereotypes related explicitly to poor women by showing the idiosyncrasies of their journeys and using sociological portraits as its primary methodological strategy. She has been internationally engaged through publications and presentations and funded projects that allowed her to work with partners from countries all over Europe, mainly in the field of socio-educational inclusion of people in situations of vulnerability, working with qualitative and participatory methodologies such as digital storytelling and problem-based learning. Her outreach activities include training teachers, students, professionals, and people in vulnerable situations. She has also developed a range of professional knowledge and skills through her work as a sociologist at the Social Inclusion Department of a Portuguese Municipality, where she focused on diagnosis, planning, and developing partnerships for local social development. She has also volunteered with disadvantaged groups, such as teenage mothers and children in schools from underprivileged areas.