Current research interests

Educação Parental

Intervenção socioeducativa com famílais de crianças de idade pré-escolar

Burnout parental

Programas Parentais

Educação para o divórcio

Promoção de competências sociais e emocionais

Educação de Infância

Evidence Based Intervetion

Programas de formação de educadores/professores para promoção de competências sociais e emocionais

Research Projects

2022 - 2024 - "Projeto Erasmus+: Professionals and parents to Act Towards a Holistic or Whole Approach for early YearS education ", coordinated by Maria João Seabra Santos, sponsored by Erasmus+.
    Project Partnership:
              - Forma.Azione SRL (Itália);
              - Gradinita cu Program Prelungit "Scufita Rosie" (Roménia);
              - Lietuvos Svietimo ir Mokslo Profesine Sajunga (Lituânia);
              - Pomoc Deci Udruzenje Gradjana (Sérvia).

2021-06-1 - 2023-11-30 - "Agentes de Transformação 3C's (Conhecimento, Consciencialização, Capacitação)", coordinated by Centro de Apoio Social de Pais e Amigos da Escola nº10, sponsored by Active Citizens Fund/EEA Grants - Programa Cidadãos Ativ@s.
    Project Partnership:
              - For Fangers Pårørende (Noruega)
              - CódigAtomiko Associação
              - Direção Geral de Reinserção dos Serviços Prisionais
              - Comissão de Proteção de Crianças e Jovens do Concelho de Coimbra
              - Agrupamento de Escolas Rainha Santa Isabel

2021-01-01 - 2022-12-31 - "KINDER Tackling gender stereotypes in education and early childhood: building a Gender-Responsive Pedagogy in Children´s Education", coordinated by Tatiana Moura, sponsored by European Union's Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2014-2020) under grant agreement 101005800.

2020 - 2023 - "CoAction Against COVID-19 - ProChild CoLAB", coordinated by Marlene Sousa, sponsored by Laboratório Colaborativo ProChild CoLAB against Poverty and Social Exclusion.

2017-01-01 - 2019-12-31 - "ISOTIS - Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (Grant agreement 727069)", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by European Commission Horizon 2020, under the call H2020-SC6-REV-INEQUAL-2016.

2017 - 2020 - "The value of prevention and early intervention in early years education and care". ", coordinated by Maria João Seabra Santos (na Universidade de Coimbra), sponsored by Erasmus + project ".

2015 - 2016-12 - "Anos Incríveis para a Promoção da Saúde Mental", coordinated by Maria João Seabra Santos, sponsored by EEA Grants PT06 - 51SM04.
    Project Partnership:
              - University of Tromso (Noruega)
              - ANIP
              - ESEC

2014 - 2016 - "Pooling Study project : Incredible Years", coordinated by Frances Gardner, sponsored by Governo do Reino Unido.
    Project Partnership:
              - Department of Social Policy and Intervention, Oxford University
              - Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London
              - School of Psychology, Bangor University
              - Personal Social Services Research Unit, London School of Economics

2010 - 2013 - "Prevenção/intervenção precoces em distúrbios de comportamento: eficácia de programas parentais e escolares", as coordinator researcher, sponsored by FCT.
    Project Partnership:
              - Instituição Participante - Centro Hospitalar do Porto, EPE (CHP/MS)
              - Instituição Participante - Faculdade de Motricidade Humana (FMH/UTL)

Networks

IIPB (International Investigation of Parental Burnout Consortuim): The purpose of the International Investigation of Parental Burnout (IIPB) is to test the conceptual validity, prevalence and intercultural variation of parental burnout in different cultures around the world. To do this, an international Consortium of 36 countries has been initiated by Professors Isabelle Roskam and Moïra Mikolajczak in collaboration with Maday Valdes Pacheco https://uclouvain.be/fr/instituts-recherche/ipsy/the-international-investigation-of-parental-burnout-iipb.html

Incredible Years