Renata Machado is a lecturer at ES-Social Education ( Polytechnic Institute of Maia; IESF), Lecturer in the Master in Educational Sciences - Social Pedagogy (FEP-UCP); Master in Social Pedagogy by FEP-UCP, currently finishing her PhD in Educational Sciences at the same university. Member of the Research Centre for Human Development (CEDH/FCT). Her main teaching, research and publication areas are: Social Pedagogy, Hospitality and Socio-educational Knowledge; Ethics and Socio-educational Intervention.