In 2010, Cecília Roussos began working in Adult Education and Training. She is currently working as a Skills Guidance and Validation Technician at a Qualifica Centre.

In 2013, she completed her Master’s degree in Educational Sciences at the School of Education and Social Sciences of the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria. Her master’s report was dedicated to “Adapting Competence Recognition, Validation, and Certification Processes for deaf adults”.

After graduating in Sociology in 1995 from the University of Beira Interior, and on a scholarship, she went to the Panteion University of Economics and Political Science (Athens) to do a postgraduate course in Criminology (1996-1998).