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Participating teacher in the book "More diaries from a classroom".

Last updated: November 2023

Sociologist. Research coordinator at the University of Lisbon Institute of Social Sciences. Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Lisbon, 1969. PhD in Sociology from the University of Oxford, 1978.

He was born in Porto in 1982. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Coimbra and a Master's degree in Psychology from the University of Porto. He has a PhD in Digital Media (UT Austin | Portugal) from the University of Porto. He has taken part in several projects on the educational integration of digital media. He has published works on the subjects of digital media and science teaching in a number of national and international forums and journals.

She was born in Valpaços in 1980. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry, a Master’s degree in Multimedia Education and a PhD in Science Teaching and Dissemination from the University of Porto School of Sciences (FCUP). She has published articles in national and international journals on Chemistry, Teaching and Educational Technologies. She has given presentations and lectures in the area of chemistry teaching and computers applied to teaching at schools, congresses and scientific meetings. She is the co-author of textbooks and science books and has helped produce educational software for teaching chemistry and physics.

Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the Nova School of Business and Economics at Nova University Lisbon. She was Administrator of the National Communications Authority and Minister of Education in the 16th Constitutional Government. Her research has been in the area of Microeconomic Policy, in particular Economic Regulation. In recent years she has done research on Education Economics, co-authoring several articles in this area, including retention, the efficiency of publicly funded private schools, the impact of the publication of school rankings, sampling problems in PISA, decisive factors for success in higher education.

He is a visiting assistant professor at the University of Porto School of Economics and a researcher at CIPES. He has a PhD in Economics from the University of Porto. His research focuses on Philosophy and Economics, History of Economic Thought and Economics of Education.

Last updated: November 2023

He has a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Porto School of Economics. He has carried out research in the areas of Economic Growth and the Economic and Non-Economic Benefits of Education.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Minho, researcher at NIPE and CIPES. She holds a PhD in Economics from the Vrij University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in the Netherlands. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Economics of Education and Spatial Economics, particularly in the student decision-making process.

Last updated: December 2022

He is a research economist in the Department of Economic Studies (area of structural studies) at the Bank of Portugal and a visiting assistant professor at the Catholic University of Portugal. He is a member of the research unit of CATÓLICA-LISBON, IZA – Institute for the Study of Labour, GLO – Global Labour Organisation and Iniciativa Educação. He has a PhD in Economics from UCL – University College London and was a short-term consultant at the Development Economics Research Group of the World Bank. His research topics include human capital, the economics of education, programme evaluation, the labour market, microeconometrics and economic development. He has published several papers in international peer-reviewed journals, including the International Economic Review, Labour Economics and the Journal of Population Economics.

He got his PhD in Economics from the University of Amsterdam/Tinbergen Institute in 2007. He is currently Associate Professor at the University of Minho (U Minho) and Director of the PhD programme in Economics at the same institution. He is also a researcher at NIPE (UMinho), CIPES (UAveiro and UPorto) and the Institute of Labour Economics (IZA), Germany, and assists the Bank of Portugal on a permanent basis. His research focuses mainly on Labour and Education Economics and Applied Econometrics. He has written several academic papers, books and book chapters, and has been published in prestigious journals such as Econometrica, the Scandinavian Journal of Economics, Regional Studies and Studies in Higher Education. His work has been cited, among others, in prestigious specialist journals such as Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Industrial and Labour Relations Review and Labour Economics. He maintains research collaborations in several countries, leading and integrating research teams that develop funded projects. He has authored policy-oriented reports on minimum wages, education and employment applicable to the Portuguese labour market. He also has extensive experience in consultancy for both private and public institutions.