Dulce Martins is a PhD in Education-Psychology of Education, researcher at CIS-IUL (research unit of ISCTE-IUL). She is a staff member in the Educational Territories for Priority Intervention program (TEIP).  Her professional trajectory was initially as a teacher of Math/Science in courses of regular and vocational education for about 9 years at Portuguese public schools. She have been a trainer for teachers courses and workshopsShe had collaborated with national and international researchers  in projects and had published books, books chapters and articles. Her research interests are in citizenship education, identity development and career management in groups with risk/delinquency behaviour or in social exclusion situation.