ISABEL MARIA PIMENTEL DE CARVALHO GUERRA Retired Aggregated  Professor at the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa  (IUL/ISCTE), lecturer in the disciplines of Urban Sociology,  Territorial Sociology ,Methods and Techniques for Evaluation and Planning. Former  Teacher University professor of the University Catholic of Lisbon (UCP).She has a long curriculum of research in mainly in urban sociology, housing, education, social policies  and social exclusion. The experience of inquiry and contracts has been carried through in the scope of the Research Center for Socio-Economic and Territorial Change  (DINÂMIA'CET-IUL) of which is member of the Board since 1982. Its areas of work are the urban and social questions, namely the planning, urban social development, social housing, stakeholders strategies  in context of social change, social exclusion. She has professional experience in planning , and strategic planning  in regional and municipal  level, in housing  issue namely in the analysis of housing needs, housing policies,  regional housing plans.