/ Investigadores

Clara Barata

Investigador, Investigador Integrado

5 - Políticas e Organizações Educativas e Dinâmicas Educacionais

mclarabarata@uc.pt

Biografia

M. Clara Barata é mestre e doutorada em Educação pela Harvard Graduate School of Education, e licenciada em Psicologia Clinica da Criança e do Adolescente pela Universidade de Lisboa. Foi investigadora responsável dos projetos H2020 ISOTIS (Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society) e PROGRESS Playgroups for Inclusion na Universidade de Coimbra, bem como Marie Curie Individual Fellow no ISCTE-IUL. Foi também analista da Organização para a Cooperação e Desenvolvimento Económico (OCDE). Atualmente é Gestora nas Áreas Estratégicas na Universidade de Coimbra. A sua articulação com os vários setores tem vindo a crescer através da consultoria externa para projetos da OCDE, Fundação Gulbenkian, Eurydice, Ministério da Educação e FCT.

Extra

Temas e problemáticas da atividade científica

Qualidade e Políticas para a Infância e Desenvolvimento

Inclusão e o combate às desigualdades

Integração da dimensão de género na investigação

Publicações mais relevantes no período de 2018-2023

Castro, C., Barata, C., Alexandre, J., & Colaço, C. (2023). Validation of a community-based application of the Portuguese version of the survey on Social and Emotional Skills – Child/Youth Form. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1214032

Russo, V., Barata, M. C., Alexandre, J., Leitão, C., & de Sousa, B. (2022). Development and Validation of a Measure of Quality in Playgroups: Playgroups Environment Rating Scale. Frontiers in Education, 7, 876367. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2022.876367

Guedes, C., Cadima, J., Aguiar, T., Aguiar, C., & Barata, C. (2020). Activity settings in toddler classrooms and quality of group and individual interactions. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 67, 101100. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101100

Cadima, J., Aguiar, C., & Barata, M. C. (2018). Process quality in Portuguese preschool classrooms serving children at-risk of poverty and social exclusion and children with disabilities. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 45, 93-105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.06.007

Alexandre, J., Russo, V., Castro, C., Fazenda, D., & Barata, M. C. (2021, April). The powerful combination of group interviews and drawings: how to give children a voice in the understanding of well-being. In T. Fattore, S. Fegter, & C. Hunner-Kreisel (Eds.), Understanding Children’s Concepts of Well-being - Challenges in International Comparative Qualitative Research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. eBook ISBN 978-3-030-67167-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-67167-9 Hardcover ISBN 978-3-030-67166-2 Series ISSN 1879-5196. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67167-9

Participação em projetos financiados no período de 2018-2023

2022 -2025 SCREENHEALTH (2022.07652.PTDC), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Role: Researcher.

2022 -2023 Skills 4 Pós-COVID - Competências para o futuro no Ensino Superior (N.º de Projeto: POCH-02-53I2-FSE-000024), Programa Operacional Capital Humano [Human Capital Operational Programmme], (Total Grant 412 956.40€, Institution Budget: same). Role: Researcher.

2021-2024 GendER@UC (Gender Equal Research @UC), (OC2-B12), EEA Grants: Work-life Balance and Gender Equality, (Total Grant: 242 862.31€; Institution Budget: 154 888.56 €). Role: Science and Technology Management Fellow

2021-2023 Equity through PISA: results and discourses (PTDC/CED-EDG/2124/2020), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Role: External Consultant.

Orientação de estudantes de pós-graduação no período de 2018-2023

Doctoral Thesis “Playgroups for Inclusion”: Examining quality and longitudinal impacts for families and children participating in a new educational policy for Portugal being developed by Vanessa Russo at the Social and Organizational Psychology Department at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Doctoral Grant PD/BD/128242/2016. To be defended on December 11.

Doctoral Thesis “BoostSEL: the role of school climate in the development of children’s social and emotional skills” being developed by Catarina Castro at the Social and Organizational Psychology Department at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Doctoral Grant UI/BD/154443/2022. Ongoing.

Doctoral Thesis The importance and development of Playfulness in the context of the Portuguese Playgroups (Grupos Aprender, Brincar, Crescer), defended by Carla Colaço at the Social and Organizational Psychology Department at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Doctoral dissertation approved.July 2020

Co-supervision of Master’s thesis Academia pessoas/PESSOAS: o impacto percebido nas competências socioemocionais e no desenvolvimento do self por parte dos participantes, prepared and presented by Patrícia de Almeida Antunes at the Social and Organizational Psychology Department at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis approved with 16 (out of 20) values.Dec. 2020

Co-supervision of Master’s thesis Projeto Sala Aberta - Grupos Aprender Brincar Crescer, perceção de impactos e benefícios, sob o olhar de cuidadores e facilitadores, prepared and presented by Célia Cristina Mendonça Marreiros at the Social and Organizational Psychology Department at ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, Portugal. Thesis approved with 14 (out of 20) values. Dec. 2020