is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie post-doctoral fellow at the department of social work of Royal Holloway University of London, where he studies parents' involvement in policy design, participatory practices with parents to children at risk and parent advocacy programs in the UK. He wrote his Ph.D. on the poverty-aware paradigm in child protection settings and he has significant experience as a practitioner working with parents of children at risk. He combined his theoretical and practical knowledge when teaching social workers at the framework of the implementation of the Poverty-Aware paradigm by the Welfare Ministry.