MARTA ARAÚJO (PhD, University of London, Institute of Education, 2003) is Principal Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES). Her research addresses two complimentary lines of enquiry: i) public policy, political discourse, and ethno-racial discrimination; ii) history education and knowledge production, focusing on the school and public history of colonialism and enslavement. Marta is Vice-President of the Scientific Board at CES, where she co-coordinates the PhD Programme 'Democracy in the 21st Century' (CES/FEUC) and lectures at doctoral level ('e.g. 'Human Rights in Contemporary Societies'). Recently, she was Invited Researcher at the Centre for Research on Ethnic Relations and Nationalism (CEREN) at the University of Helsinki. Currently in the Editorial Board of international publications in the sociology of 'race' and education, she has published internationally in reputed peer-reviewed journals (e.g. British Journal of Sociology of Education, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Patterns of Prejudice, and 'Race', Ethnicity and Education). She has acted as scientific advisor on ethno-racial equality and participated in selected expert meetings at national and international level (e.g. UNESCO, EU Parliament hearing, Secretary of State for Citizenship and Equality). Marta has been similarly engaged in outreach activities, particularly with schoolteachers and students, cultural mediators, social workers, and journalists.