Graduated in Clinical Psychology from the University of Coimbra, she pursued a master's and Ph.D. in Social Psychology at ISCTE (with a research internship at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). She holds a specialization in Work, Social, and Organizational Psychology and an advanced specialization in Psychotherapy (OPP), with training in EMDR (Levels 1 and 2). She has been a lecturer at ISCTE and a researcher at CIS since 1999, having held several management roles during this period: currently she is the director of the Master’s in Community Psychology and Child and Youth Protection in Risk Situations (also in 2018–2019) and President of the Specialized Ethics Committee in Psychology; she was also President of ISCTE’s Pedagogical Council (2019–2023). She has coordinated and collaborated on social and community intervention studies and projects, particularly focusing on their evaluation at the local level (e.g., Communication for Integration - C4i/Amadora; CMSintra- ADN Socioemocional 2.0; CMCascais - Crescer a Tempo Inteiro), national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion/Grupos Aprender, Brincar, Crescer; Programa Escolhas - 7G; studies for the CNCS), and internationally (e.g., ISCWeB - International Survey on Children's Well-Being; GRIT - Growing in Urban Education and Diversity Erasmus+ Project; Yar4All). In 2018, she served as a Quality Monitor for the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on an OECD-led project on socio-emotional skills and was a technical and scientific consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation on the Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies Projects (2018–2022). In addition to her focus on inclusion (she was involved in drafting the Portuguese Diversity Charter), she has recently worked in the areas of risk (e.g., gambling and adolescence, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University) and child and youth protection. Along with colleagues, she has developed materials to promote children's rights (Discovering Children’s Rights, published by the Portuguese Parliament), prevent child sexual abuse (The Adventures of Búzio and Coral; Picos and Avelã Explore the Treasure Forest), and support children's hearing in court (Hearing the Child: Best Practice Guide; João Goes to Court/The Day Mariana Didn't Want; Project 12: www.projeto12.pt). In 2017, she participated in the T.A.L.E. project (Training Activities for Legal Experts), which aimed to train professionals in implementing the Council of Europe's Guidelines on Child-Friendly Justice. She is a member of the CSIS Child Safeguarding in Sport Steering Committee and the Scientific Council of the UBUNTU Leaders Academy. She has been a trainer at CEJ on Hearing the Child (2016–2023) and supervised family support teams (SCML, 2017–2020). She served as a consultant for ACRIDES (Cape Verde) and is currently consulting for the Council of Europe on a project related to child-friendly justice. Currently, she is part of the VITA Group, which monitors cases of sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults within the Catholic Church in Portugal. She received the OPP 2020 South Career Award.

My work is at the interface of social, environmental and community psychology, focusing on how individuals and communities receive and enable laws for sustainability, namely those regulating protected areas and biodiversity conservation. I am interested in citizens’ involvement in environmental issues, and representations and identities linked to social and environmental risks. 

PhD in Psychology (2020, Iscte-IUL) and MSc in Community Psychology and Child Protection (2010, Iscte-IUL). Currently, I am a researcher at the Center for Psychological Research and Social Intervention (CIS/Iscte), working on the project "All4Children - The Integrated Family Fostering Model (MIAF) to promote the quality of fostering and protection practices in Portugal" (funded by FCT). Also, I am teaching in the Master of Forensic Psychology at the Lusófona University of Lisbon (since 2020). My research interests have focused on maladaptive parenting, namely neglect, and the explanatory mechanisms of emotional and cognitive deprivation in parent-child interactions, particularly in contexts of poverty. I have also professional experience in intervention with children, young people, and families in the child protection system.

PhD in Sociology, in Theory and Method. Full Professor in the Department of Social Research Methods at ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon. Director of School of Sociology and Public Policies. Director of the Postgraduate in Data Analysis in Social Sciences. Expert in methodological issues and quantitative data analysis. Senior researcher at the Center for the Research and Study of Sociology (CIES-ISCTE-IUL). Area of research is focused inside the quantitative and multivariate methods for categorical and quantitative variables, mainly methods of interdependence and dependence; multilevel models; longitudinal models; measurement models, mediation and moderation models; estimation with bootstrapping. She teaches several courses of multivariate statistics and advanced data analyses on Master and PhD Programs. She has coordinated research projects and she has participated in several research national and international projects, developing her skills of advanced data analysis with quantitative methods. She has published several books and several articles in Portugal and abroad.

Lígia Monteiro has a Ph.D. from the UNL/ISPA-IU. Presently is an assistant Professor at ISCTE- University Institute of Lisbon, and a researcher at CIS-IUL - CED (Community, Education and Development) research group. She has a background on educational and developmental Psychology (ISPA-IU/UNL) and has participated in several research projects  studying the impact of parenting (mother and father) and family dynamics on children’s socio-emotional development, during the first years of live.  She has her work published in several peer-review journals, and book chapters/books.