Biography

Beatriz Alexandra Oliveira Carvalho is a PhD candidate in Educational Sciences at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Coimbra, specialising in Education, Community Development, and Adult Education. She is conducting research within the scope of her non-academic environment doctoral project, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), focusing on residential care and the factors associated with the success and failure of family reunification processes. She is affiliated with the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra (CES) as her academic host institution and with ProChild CoLAB as her non-academic partner institution.