Sónia Maria Aniceto Morgado has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Instituto Superior de Ciências Policiais e Segurança Interna since 2012, and from 2008-2022, she was a Visiting Adjunct Professor at the Escola Superior de Desporto de Rio Maior - Instituto Politécnico de Santarém. She has worked as an auditor at the Court of Auditors, as an economic and financial advisor at the Directorate-General for Books and Libraries, and has a hospital administrator. She has also worked as a Coordinating Professor at the Dom Dinis Higher Institute, as an Adjunct Professor at the Higher Institute of Educational Sciences, as an Assistant Professor at the Luís de Camões Autonomous University of Lisbon and as an Invited Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of the Algarve.. She is currently a member of the Scientific-Pedagogical Council of the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security, integrated member of the Research Centre of the Higher Institute of Police Sciences and Internal Security - and coordinates ICPOL's line of research on Work and Police Organization, and a collaborator of the Quality of Life Research Centre of the Polytechnic Institute of Santarém - CIEQV She holds a PhD in Economics and Business Management from the University of Cádiz and a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) in Economics from the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, University of Extremadura, and a Diploma in Advanced Studies (DEA) from the Facultad de Ciencias del Trabajo, of the University of Cádiz, in Economics and Business Management, as well as a postgraduate diploma in Hospital Administration, a Master's degree in Socio-organizational Systems of Economic Activity, and a degree in Economics. She has participated/participates in the research teams of national projects - CSF, CP&Tech, PEIAP, Perceived Sustainability, Physical Activity and Life Quality, Quality of Life at Work: Validation of a Scale in Portugal applied to various sectors of activity - and international projects ¿ IMPROVE APPRAISE, LEADPOL, IMPRODOVA. She is a trainer in economics, management, accounting and related areas, having collaborated with the Court of Auditors, LDN, ANAFRE, the Portuguese Handball Federation. She is an economist, registered with the Order of Economists, with articles published in indexed international scientific journals and with an impact-to factor, knowledge transfer projects, action-research projects and projects funded by H2020 and Horizon Europe. She is a member of the editorial boards review committee of international journals. She has supervised several master's and bachelor's theses, individual final papers and reports for the Police Direction and Strategy Course and the Police Command and Leadership Course. Has chaired juries for the European Joint Masters Program and for Master's degrees. Her expertise is recognized by her peers, as evidenced by her numerous invitations to participate in conferences and congresses, as well as her experience as a session chair. The main areas of professional interest have been health economics, European economics, local economics, social economics, criminal economics, public economics, research methodologies and econometric and/or statistical models, with a remarkable track record of research (e.g. articles) in police sciences , in economic sciences, and in social and human sciences, our author's expertise and insights are widely recognized in the academic community