Raquel Matos is an Associate Professor, researcher at the Research Centre for Human Development, and Dean of the Faculty of Education and Psychology at Universidade Católica Portuguesa.
She completed her PhD in Psychology at the University of Minho, where she presented the thesis “Life pathways, meanings of crime, and identity construction in young women inmates” (2007).
Over the past decades, she has developed research projects on gender, imprisonment and migration control, as well as on youth delinquency and youth justice. She is currently analysing the impact of gender equality movements on public policies and practices in the justice, health, and education sectors in Portugal. Throughout her career, she has worked collaboratively with academics from other scientific fields, particularly sociology, anthropology, and law, as well as with scholars and professionals from different countries. She has been a visiting researcher at the Universities of Bath, Toronto, and Oxford.
