Eunice Magalhães, PhD, is researcher at CIS-Iscte and assistant professor at the Master of Community Psychology, Protection of Child and Youth at Risk. From 2020-2022 she was deputy director of CIS. Her research interests include the mental health of vulnerable populations, such as children, young people and adults victims of different forms of violence. In the context of the child protection system (CPS), she is carrying out research into family foster care and residential care.  Her professional experience includes the child and youth protection system, namely as a member of a CPS agency.  

Graduated in Clinical Psychology (University of Coimbra). Completed a master’s degree and PhD in Social Psychology at ISCTE (with a research internship at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia). Specializes in Work, Social, and Organizational Psychology, and holds an advanced specialty in Psychotherapy (Portuguese Psychologists’ Association - OPP), with training in EMDR (Levels 1 and 2). She has been a lecturer at ISCTE and a researcher at CIS since 1999, holding various management roles during this period. Currently, she serves as Director of the Master’s program in Community Psychology and Protection of Children and Youth at Risk (also held this position in 2018-2019) and as Chair of the Specialized Psychology Ethics Commission. She was also President of the ISCTE Pedagogical Council (2019-2023). She has coordinated and collaborated on studies and social/community intervention projects, particularly in their evaluation at local/municipal levels (e.g., Communication for Integration - C4i/Amadora; CM Sintra - ADN Socioemocional 2.0; CM Cascais - Crescer a Tempo Inteiro), national levels (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion/Grupos Aprender, Brincar, Crescer; Programa Escolhas, 7G; studies for CNCS), and international levels (e.g., ISCWeB - International Survey on Children's Well-being; GRIT - Erasmus+ Project - Growing in Urban Education and Diversity; Yar4all). In 2018, she worked as a Quality Monitor for the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) on an OECD-led project on socio-emotional skills and served as a technical and scientific consultant for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the Gulbenkian Knowledge Academies projects (2018-2022). In addition to her interest in inclusion (having been involved in the Portuguese Diversity Charter), she has worked in the field of risk (gambling and adolescence, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University) and child and youth protection, developing, in collaboration with colleagues, materials aimed at promoting children’s rights ("Discovering Children's Rights," published by the Portuguese Parliament), universal prevention of sexual abuse ("The Adventures of Búzio and Coral"; "Picos and Avelã Discover the Treasure Forest"), and child hearing in court ("Hearing the Child: Best Practices 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 trained professionals on the correct implementation of the Council of Europe Guidelines on Child-Friendly Justice. She was a member of the Steering Committee of CSIS (Child Safeguarding in Sport) and the Scientific Council of the UBUNTU Leaders Academy. She served as a trainer at the Centre for Judicial Studies (CEJ) on Child Hearing (2016-2023). Supervised family support teams (SCML, 2017-2020). Acted as a consultant for ACRIDES (Cape Verde) and the Council of Europe on a project related to child-friendly justice. Currently, she is part of the VITA Group, a team monitoring cases of sexual violence against children and vulnerable adults in the context of the Catholic Church in Portugal, and is a member of the national board of OPP. She received the OPP South Career Award in 2020.

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.