Sandra Fernandes

Biography

Sandra Raquel Gonçalves Fernandes is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Education at Portucalense University, Porto, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Education Sciences, specialization in Curriculum Development, from the University of Minho, Portugal, and a graduate degree in Education, by the same University. She is the Head of the Pedagogic Innovation Office (Gabinete de Inovação Pedagógica - GIP) at Universidade Portucalense. She is the coordinator of the new Masters in Innovation in Education, created in 2023. She coordinated the Masters in Education Administration and Management, from 2015 to 2023. She is an integrated member of Portucalense Institute of Psychology (I2P) at Portucalense University and an external collaborating member of the Research Center on Child Studies (CIEC) at the University of Minho. She is member of several national and international research projects, with public funding. Currently, she is member of the project team and coordinates the teacher training action plan in pedagogic innovation for the project “+Sucesso@UPortucalense – Program for Promoting Success and Reducing Dropout in Higher Education’ (2024–2026), funded by the Directorate General for Higher Education (DGES) and the Recovery and Resilience Program (PRR). She is an Associate Editor of the Journal Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice and member of the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Education and Education Sciences (MDPI). She is a founding member and vice president of the Project Approaches in Engineering Education (PAEE) Association. Her research interests include Teacher Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Development, Education Administration and Management, Teacher Performance Assessment, Active Learning, Project-based Learning (PBL), Engineering Education, among others.