DIANA ALVES

UNIVERSITY OF PORTO. PORTUGAL

Diana Alves is a professor and researcher at University of Porto. She is also a clinical psychologist at the Service of Psychological Intervention for Children and Adolescents at FPCEUP, where she coordinates the Specialized Unit of Learning Difficulties. She has been a consultant in several interventions implemented in educational contexts aiming to promote the emergent literacy, socioemotional competence of children. She conducts research in the field of developmental psychology, as well as academic, socioemotional competence in children, having published both papers and book chapters.

She is focused on the predictors of school-age children’s peer acceptance. Although the focus of her research is on basic socio-emotional mechanisms of peer acceptance, her work has several educational implications, since it emphasizes the importance of Multi-Tiered System of Supports aiming to promote children’s academic and socioemotional.

She has empowered research experience through participation in some competitive research grants at the European (e.g., Erasmus KA3+ Policy Experiment: proW project) and national levels (FCT-funded AdoPt). She is currently involved in one international research project, the school-wide action-research project Schools2030. Her expertise in SEL, whole-school, and academic competence for children and adolescents will be an asset to this project.