My research interests are in language education, literacies in young and adult education, in academic and informal contexts. Disciplinary literacies and the pedagogy of multiliteracies is a current research topic in my work, adopting a sociocultural perspective on literacy I have been Principal Researcher in national research projects, among which: Changing Lives. Literacy in Adult Education (PTDC/CPE-CED/105258/2008) and Coordinator at UMinho of several European Projects such as ELINET (European Policy Literacy Network, European Commission, Contract No. EAC/S05/2013) or Ble*Teach - Developing a Blended Learning Course in Content Area Literacy for Secondary Teachers (E+/VG-SPS-NW-15-30-013892). I publish regularly in international Journals with international teams and I am a member of inumerous international editorial boards of scientific journals.