Eunice Macedo is Assistant Professor at the Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP). She teaches on the BA and master programmes and supervises research students in citizenship education and diversity, gender, innovative pedagogy, intervention methodologies, training evaluation, and professional development. She holds a BA, a Master and a Ph.D in Educational Sciences from the University of Porto. Previously, she graduated as a primary school teacher at the Escola do Magistério Primário do Porto. She worked as a teacher for several years at various educational levels and contexts, including adult education and the education of people with learning difficulties. She is an integrated member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education of U.Porto (CIIE), where she chairs the research community of practice 'Policies of Inclusion and Voices: Diversity, Gender and Intersectionality', a research and advanced training group. She is also responsible for the CIIE's strategic area Engagement of Vulnerable Young People in Education and Training since 2020 and the main coordinator of the CoPIn Polititics of inclusion and voices: Education, Gender and Intersectionality. Her research is focused on education, citizenship and gender, particularly with young people in schools, supports her intervention with communities, in search of ways of education and life linked to happiness and personal fulfilment, and mediated by the world. Eunice has authored a wide number of journal articles on these topics. She has been involved in collaborative research supported by a variety of both national and international bodies. She integrated the team of the EU-funded research project 'Reducing Early School Leaving in Europe' (RESL.eu), in which she developed her postdoctoral research, as well as the teams of other international projects: Teaching for Holistic, Relational and Inclusive Early Childhood Education (THRIECE); Commitment to Democracy through Increasing Women's Participation (CODE_IWP); Learning in a New Key: Engaging vulnerable young people in school education (LINK - as PI); Supporting VET Teachers and Trainers to Prevent Radicalisation (Xeno Tolerance). She coordinated the national team of the EU-funded STALWARTS - Sustaining Teachers and Learners with the Arts: Relational Health in European Schools (2017-2019), and co-led EduTransfer - Learning from Diverse Educational Settings (2018-2022), supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT); ClimActiC - CidadaniaPeloClima: Criando Pontes entre Cidadania e Ciência para a Adaptação Climática (2021-2023); MotivatEyoUth Preventing Early School Leaving in the EU (2019-2021). Currently she is a team member of diverse reserach projects (SCIREARLY: Policies and Practices Based on Scientific Research for Reducing Underachievement and Early School Leaving in Europe; Poder Dynamics In Education Revisited; COSI ed: Social inclusion and common values: the contribution in the field of education and training). She is the Deputy President of the Paulo Freire Institute of Portugal.