Tânia Rodrigues de Almeida holds a degree in Law (FDUC), a postgraduate degree in Child Protection (FDUC) and Criminal Law (FDUL), and a master's degree in Public Law (FDUNL).

In addition to having served as a legal consultant at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa (SCML), in the Legal Support Office of the Department of Social Action and Health (2017-2019) and in the Adoption, Civil Guardianship and Foster Care Unit (2016-2017), she worked in Timor-Leste as a legal advisor to the Minister of Social Solidarity, being responsible for the drafting of national policies and legal instruments in the area of ​​social protection (2011-2016).

She was a legal consultant and member of Child and Youth Protection Commissions in the Lisbon district (2007-2011) and a lawyer in the area of ​​Family Law (2004-2006).

She is an associate lawyer at the Family Law Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra (since 2005), having published a work on the Educational Guardianship Law in the Portuguese Journal of Family Law “Lex Familiae”.

She has been a researcher at CoLABOR since January 2020, in the areas of Social Protection/Solidarity Economy and at DataLABOR.

tania.almeida@colabor.pt