Her research interests are plurilingual and intercultural education, university-school partnerships, teacher professional development, and professional learning communities. She is a member of UIDEF (Unit of Research and Development in Education and Training) and a collaborator at CIDTFF (Research Centre ‘Didactics and Technology in Education of Trainers’). Since 2008, she holds a Ph.D. in Language Didactics, focusing on Teacher Education, from the University of Aveiro, and was a post-doctoral fellow in those same areas.