Research Projects

GLONATINS - Global Challenges, National Initiatives, and Institutional Responses – Mapping

Portuguese higher education is at a critical stage of its development. Over the last decades the system has undergone a major expansion that led the system from a small, elitist, low research-base, and peripheral to become a mass, research-intensive, and much more internationaliz...

Ranking FIISEG

With the purpose of awarding prizes to their Faculty according to their scientific publications, the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão (Lisboa School of Economics and Management – ISEG) has asked CIPES to develop a ranking of international journals with peer-review, which...
The Importance and Degree of Implementation of A3ES Standards and Guidelines in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions

The growing importance given to quality in higher education and the development of more adequate models to assess quality in this context, especially during the last thirty years, led different countries to establish national systems for the evaluation and accreditation of study...
Generation and Gender in Academia

This project aimed to analyze the generational differences in female academics experiences in higher education.
Performance of Portuguese Schools – Which factors do make a difference?

The quality of education is important for individuals, in that it has a positive impact on their future earnings and quality of life. But its social returns are no less important. Particularly, it is associated with reduced crime and conflict and the promotion of economic growth....

Governing and Governance in Higher Education

The project Governing and Governance in higher education was part of the Eurohesc CRP and aimed to analyse the transformations in the steering and governance models in European higher education. Its main objectives were: 1. to identify and analyse characteristics of the new steer...
Changes in Academic Profession – A Comparative Perspective

This project aimed to analyze changes in the academic profession by reference to the health professions (doctors and nurses).
An Examination of Academic Job Satisfaction and Motivation in Portuguese Higher Education

An important constituent group contributing to the culture of an institution, along with students, is the faculty or academic staff. The academic staff is a key resource within higher education institutions and, therefore, it has a major role in achieving the objectives of the in...

Higher Education Institutions and Academics Perceptions Towards Quality Evaluation and Accreditation

Although quality assurance and accreditation systems have been in operation for a number of years, there are no extensive studies about their effects over teaching and learning quality nor on the different reactions linked to academic tradition and the norms and values of scienti...

Changes in Academic Profession

The aim of the project was to analyze in an international comparative perspective changes in academic profession.

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