**About the Editors**

### **Sandra Raquel Gon¸calves Fernandes**

Sandra Raquel Gonc¸alves Fernandes, PhD., is Assistant Professor of the Department of Psychology and Education, at Portucalense University, Porto, Portugal. She holds a PhD in Education Sciences, specialization in Curriculum Development, at the University of Minho. Graduate degree in Education, by the same University. She is the Coordinator of the second cycle of studies in Education Administration and Management at Portucalense University. She coordinates the Pedagogic Innovation Office (Gabinete de Inovac¸ao Pedag ˜ ogica—GIP) at Universidade Portucalense, ´ an institutional structure aimed to promote the improvement of the quality of teaching through pedagogical training and the professional development of teachers. She is an integrated member of Portucalense Institute for Human Development (INPP) of Universidade Portucalense and an external collaborating member of the Center for Research in Child Studies (CIEC) of the University of Minho. She is member of several national and international research projects, with public funding. 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.

### **Marta Abelha**

Marta Abelha, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Department of Education and Distance Learning (DEED), at Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal. She teaches in Higher Education, since 2011. She holds a PhD in Didactic (2011), from the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Concluded her Master in Curriculum Management (2005) and finished her Graduate Degree in Biology & Geology Teaching (2002) at the same University (University of Aveiro). She is an integrated researcher at UID-FCT n◦ 4372, Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning (LE@D) of Universidade Aberta (Portugal). Additionally, she is a collaborating researcher at UID 00460/FCT, Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20), a research unit of the University of Coimbra, Portugal. She has been involved in national and international Educational Research Projects, with public funding. Her research interests focus on Teacher Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Studies, Teacher Collaboration, Assessment and Evaluation in Education, Active Learning, which are also the topics of her publications.

#### **Ana Teresa Ferreira-Oliveira**

Ana Teresa Ferreira-Oliveira, PhD., is an Assistant Professor at Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao, Instituto Polit ˜ ecnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal. She has a Pos Doc in Management ´ and Economics from School of Economics and Management of the University of Porto and a PhD in Work and Organizational Psychology by University of Minho. She is a researcher at CISAS and a professor at Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestao, Instituto Polit ˜ ecnico de Viana do Castelo. ´ Her main research topic includes trust, sustainability, agro-food systems, sustainable organizations, human resource management, behavior, equality, diversity and organizational change in the green deal society; social impact. She coordinates, at IPVC, an Horizon Project funded by the European Comission, FEAST—Food systems that support transitions to healthy and sustainable diets and the project" and a project coordinated by Centre for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) OECD Directorate for Education and funded by the Ministry of Higher Education "Fostering and assessing students' creative and critical thinking skills in higher education". She coordinated other previous international and national funded projects, the latest being an ERASMUS+ project funded by the European Comission: "BeyondScale: Developing the Organisational Capacity of Higher Education Institutions using the HEInnovate platform to facilitate peer learning and a pan-European community of practice". As a researcher she participates in several other funded projects, nationally and internationally. She represents IPVC in PRME, (Principles for Responsible Education) for United Nations and she's an ambassador of Alliance SDS Portugal - SDS 4 - Quality Education through the Global Compact Network Portugal. Previously to academia she was Human Resources Director in the industrial sector, entrepreneur and HR consultant in big companies and municipalities.
