Background & context
Grounding the research in what's already known: systematic review of existing studies, deep search and building the context.
Assessment & Research Consulting · Porto & remote
I bring PhD-level expertise to your data.
Surveys, scales and assessments that measure what you want to measure, and bring findings to act on.
13Peer-reviewed articles
2Monographs
8h-index
214Citations
Research record, ORCID →
Citations and h-index: Google Scholar ↗
Buried in data and dashboards that tell you nothing? I bring methodological rigour and turn your data into findings you can act on.
Let’s clear the clutter and keep only the results that matter.
The full research cycle, start to finish.
Some projects need the full cycle, others only a few steps. Scroll through the five stages.
Build & validate
Designing items and indicators, piloting, and testing the instrument properly before it is used.
Skills
Collect the data
Fieldwork, sampling, or assembling data from public sources: the practical realities of getting usable data at scale.
Skills
Analyse
Modelling what's actually going on, and whether it is supported by statistics.
Skills
Deliver
Output built for you to act on: a written report, guidelines, or a data visualisation, communicating the results clearly.
Skills
Problem, method, result.
16 projects across client, independent and academic work. Filter by type, stage or skill. The numbered squares show which of the five stages a project covered, and the filled one is the main stage.
African rice markets and talent intelligence
50 companies and 85 talent profiles mapped from public sources
TidyTuesday: AI exposure and starting pay
285 majors: AI exposure and starting pay were unrelated overall (r = −0.03), but the direction differed by field
Independent
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Video lectures: who learns well on their own?
Two conference talks on a survey of 1,858 students: what goes with preferring video lectures, and how four preference profiles differ in study practices
Academic
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Beyond the average in an employee survey
13 experience items and six working-style profiles behind positive averages
Client
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Urban neighbourhoods, everyday life and wellbeing
458 residents, four neighbourhoods: strong neighbour ties, concern about public space
Client
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Cemetery visitor experience and service modernisation
225 visitor interviews at two cemeteries; families and tourists had very different journeys
Client
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Fair measurement of youth participation across Europe
Published in Frontiers in Education. 18 items, 8,742 young people, 8 countries: item functioning differed far more by country than by age, gender or income
Comparable tests for engineering students in Russia and China
Published in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education. Maths and physics tests built with expert review, psychometric analysis and DIF checks
Academic
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CATCH-EyoU: youth active citizenship in Europe
EU Horizon 2020 project. I worked on the analytical framework and context study, data collection and cleaning, the national report and the technical documentation
Academic
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PhD: assessing youth active citizenship across Europe
Doctoral thesis, University of Porto: a conceptual map of active citizenship, a fairness check across countries and six patterns of participation
Academic
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Digital education and parent-school trust
16,353 parents surveyed; digital experience linked to trust in schools, with limits stated
Customer experience tracking and satisfaction drivers
741 observations over three waves: staff attitudes carried 30% of explained variance
Client
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PISA and educational equity: what the literature says
Scoping and systematic reviews of how socioeconomic equity changed over 20 years of PISA; conclusions depended on how equity was measured
Tracking educational equity through PISA data
Two first-authored papers on PISA 2000–2018 trends: the link between background and achievement, and the spread of outcomes, across up to 87 countries. Poster and conference slides included
Academic
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Full-cycle development of a health literacy scale
54 items, nine scales, N = 1,095; fit and reliability reported
Academic
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How 102 universities support wellbeing beyond campus
282 practices at 97 universities, coded against 127 indicators
Academic
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Background
PhD, Educational Sciences, University of Porto (2020) · MSc, Measurement in Psychology and Education, HSE Moscow (2013) · Registered independent expert, European Commission (REA / EACEA) · Member, EARLI · English, Portuguese, Russian
Get in touch
Tell me what you are trying to research.
If you already have an idea, send it over. I can usually tell you quite quickly whether it will give you what you need.
Common starting points: a survey whose results are noisy, a method that stops working in a new country or group, or a second opinion on a design or analysis before decisions rest on it.