Maria Ilídia de Meireles Cabral da Rocha holds a degree in Modern Languages and Literatures, specialising in English/German, from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Porto (1999), a Master's degree in Education Sciences from the Portuguese Catholic University (2008) and a PhD in Education Sciences from the same university (2013).
She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education and Psychology of the Catholic University of Portugal, coordinator of the Support Service for Educational Improvement (SAME), coordinator of the PhD course in Education Sciences and is an integrated member of the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH-UCP).