Monitoring and Evaluation of community interventions

Social Inclusion

Children's rights

Risk and protection (sexual abuse; child friendly justice; youth gaming/gambling)

Community, Education and Development

 Joana Alexandre holds a 5-year degree in clinical psychology and advanced specialization in psychotherapy accredited by the Portuguese Order of Psychologists (OPP), along with EMDR-N1 certification. Her academic journey includes a master's and PhD in social psychology from ISCTE, supplemented by an internship in Adelaide, Australia. During the last 15 years she has been monitoring and doing impact evaluations in different funded social projects – at a local level, with municipalities (e.g., C4i: Communication for Integration) and at a national level (e.g., Playgroups for Inclusion; By your side) - planning, collecting and analysing data, and writting reports of results & recommendations. Joana Alexandre was also Quality Monitor of the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) for an international study from OECD on socioemotional competences (2018). She has been coordinating (project management) at a national level Erasmus+ projects or integrating other Erasmus+ projects on inclusion and education (e.g., GRIT, Yard4all; KidLe). She ... [more info]