Sofia Castanheira Pais is Assistant Professor at the Department of Education of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (FPCEUP). She holds a PhD in Education from the University of Porto and a postgraduate qualification in Psychology of Development and Education, with a specialisation on Early Intervention and Special Education. In the 2013-2017 period, she held a postdoctoral research fellowship awarded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology and hosted by both the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra and the CIIE. Since 2017, she is full member of CIIE, co-chairing the Participation, Communities and Political Education research and advanced training group. At CIIE she also co-coordinates the Citizenship, Communication and Literacy in Health and Wellbeing strategic area. Her main interests combine education, health and citizenship. Globally, her research privileges the involvement of children and young people through participatory methodologies and many of her publications emphasises the relationship between the life experience of these people with different health conditions and their challenges facing the school and other significant life contexts, giving equally relevance to the role of communities in promoting health literacy and empowerment. In the recent past, Sofia has worked as a consultant on projects related to the health area. At the same time, she has participated both as team member and coordinator of projects financed by the General Directorate of Health, and others with competitive financing. In this regard, she is currently involved in European projects focused, on the one hand, on promoting digital skills of 'digital migrant' adults (Digital Immigrants Survival Kit, grant no. 2019-1-PT01-KA204-060898) and, on the other hand, in-service learning as a pedagogical approach with the potential to reinforce the social dimension of University education (EngageStudents - Promoting Social Responsibility of Students by Embedding Service Learning Within HEIs Curricula, grant no. 2018-1-RO01-KA203-049309). She is also involved as coordinator in a national project, financed by Fundação Belmiro de Azevedo. Sofia participates in a Horizon Europe collaborative research (SCIREARLY - Policies and Practices Based on Scientific Research for Reducing Underachievement and Early School Leaving in Europe, 2022-2025) that has just been approved for funding, and aims to determine successful policy measures and practices based on scientific research to reduce underachievement in basic skills, including digital skills, while fostering psycho-emotional aspects and well-being. She is a member of the Ethics Charter Monitoring Committee of the Portuguese Society of Educational Sciences.