@article {4041, title = {Academic engagement in Portugal: the role of institutional diversity, individual characteristics and modes of knowledge production}, journal = {Studies in Higher Education}, year = {2022}, pages = {1-14}, abstract = {

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) play a crucial role in knowledge society by providing and disseminating knowledge. In this regard, academics have been encouraged to collaborate with society, leading to the emergence of new modes of knowledge production. Several institutional and individual factors have been identified as determinants of the academic engagement. Hence, using data from a survey delivered to a representative sample of Portuguese academics, this paper analyses the influence of different modes of knowledge production, institutional diversity and individual characteristics on distinct dimensions of academic engagement (Formal Research Collaboration; Informal Dissemination of Knowledge; Commercialization of Knowledge; and Teaching-related Activities and Supervision of Students). We propose as research hypotheses the existence of an influence of individual academics{\textquoteright} values, identity and types of knowledge on the engagement with society, addressing them using a linear regression. Results suggest the influence of CUDOS, (i.e. communalism, disinterestedness and organized scepticism) and PLACE, (i.e. proprietary, local, authority, commissioned and expert) on academic engagement, although this influence differs according to distinct dimensions. The findings also reveal differences according to the type of institutional affiliation. Moreover, the study confirms the relevance of individual characteristics in explaining different forms of academic engagement, such as gender, discipline and seniority. Since the results do not align entirely with the theory, this paper may be of particular relevance to launch a discussion around the type of engagement higher education institutions intend to promote and how far their own characteristics and those of their academics may influence such engagement.

}, keywords = {Academic engagement, commercialisation, modes of knowledge production, polytechnic, university}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2022.2042241}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03075079.2022.2042241}, author = {Anabela Queir{\'o}s and Teresa Carvalho and Maria Jo{\~a}o Rosa and Ricardo Biscaia and Pedro Videira and Pedro Teixeira and Sara Diogo and Ana Melo and Hugo Figueiredo and Rui Amaral Mendes} } @article {3953, title = {Competition and diversification in higher education: Analysing impacts on access and equity in the case of Portugal}, journal = {European Journal of Education}, year = {2022}, abstract = {

In recent decades, higher education has experienced a massive expansion worldwide, which has often been linked to increasing higher education diversification. New sectors and new types of institutions emerged with this massification process to offer more diversified types of advanced training. At the same time, this expansion was often embedded in a political economy that increasingly favoured market forces, leading to growing privatisation and competition in the higher education sector. This article explores the relevance of institutional diversification and competition in higher education for access and equity in Portugal. The case of higher education in Portugal is particularly interesting since Portugal has a diverse system both in secondary education and in higher education, with significant vocational and private sectors at both levels (besides the more common academic and university tracks and public institutions). We analyse the profile of new cohorts of entrants by sector (public vs. private higher education institutions) and fields of study. Our results suggest that private secondary schools provide an advantageous track for accessing higher education, especially to prestigious programmes and institutions to which students compete to access. The analysis also indicates that socioeconomic background is a very relevant factor for access to higher education. Although students whose parents do not have a higher education degree may enrol in higher education, those whose parents have higher levels of educational attainment tend to enrol in more prestigious programmes and institutions, to which access is more competitive.

}, doi = { https://doi.org/10.1111/ejed.12501} } @article {3968, title = {International students in Portuguese higher education: Who are they and what are their choices?}, journal = {Studies in Higher Education}, year = {2021}, pages = {1-14}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2021.1916907}, author = {Cristina Sin and Orlanda Tavares and J. Aguiar and Ricardo Biscaia and Alberto Amaral} } @article {3959, title = {International students in Portuguese higher education: who are they and what are their choices?}, journal = {Studies in Higher Education}, year = {2021} } @article {4222, title = {Performance Indicators for Research and Cultural Creation Activities in Polytechnic Higher Education Institutions: A Consensus Building Approach}, journal = {Research@UA}, volume = {11}, year = {2021}, chapter = {40} } @conference {4102, title = {Does Taking a PhD Abroad Increase the Number of International Publications? Reflections From the Best Self-Reported Publications in Portuguese Academia}, booktitle = {14th International Technology, Education and Development Conference}, year = {2020}, month = {2-4 March, 2020}, publisher = {IATED Academy}, organization = {IATED Academy}, address = {Valencia, Spain}, abstract = {

This paper contributes to the debate on academics{\textquoteright} internationalisation and academic research productivity by focusing on knowledge diffusion.
The policy measures to foster national innovation systems and Higher Education Institutions (HEI) are entrenched in the establishment of the European Research Area and in the European Higher Education Area. These two settings also represent the changing dynamics of international academic mobility, which, in turn, can be translated in an increase of extramural collaboration and its importance in academic research activities over the last few decades. In Portugal, public policies on S\&T developed in the last years have fostered an increase of PhD graduates, inciting them to study abroad. Consequently, many PhD students have been studying outside Portugal. Alongside these developments, international publications have been assuming increasing relevance in researchers{\textquoteright} recruitment and career advancement. One of the facets of knowledge production is research performance and research outputs, which in HEI is usually measured in terms of publications produced by individuals and/or research groups. Trying to see if there is a relationship between academic international experiences and academics{\textquoteright} research productivity, we took those PhD graduates who have a contractual relation with an HEI, and asked them whether having graduated abroad favoured a different profile for disseminating knowledge produced with a higher emphasis on publishing internationally. We believe this is so, given the higher orientation that foreign countries may have towards publications in international outlets when compared to Portugal and the fact that being abroad improves researchers{\textquoteright} knowledge of a second or even a third language. Bearing in mind that the internationalisation of the academy varies according to individual, institutional and structural characteristics, and that among factors influencing it, discipline plays a major role, we will be able to assess whether the different types of outputs reported by researchers are dependent on their characteristics, with the main factor being the international experiences of the staff. Using a dataset of 9602 staff members of Portuguese HEI coming from a mandatory questionnaire by the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (covering nearly all doctorates in Portugal{\textendash}in 2012, 83\% of the PhD were employed in HEI), we explore the relationship between the self-reported publication patterns of these staff and the HEI where they obtained their PhD degree (abroad or in a national institution). Statistical inference and econometrics methods were used in order to assess whether this relationship is significant. The analysis was also broken down into different scientific fields to check whether this relationship holds for each scientific field.
Conclusions show a positive effect between taking the PhD abroad and reporting a higher number of international articles (both when considering only journal articles and all international outlets). However, when checking for the robustness of these effects broken down by the ISCED-97 fields of education, that effect does not hold for most fields, being only significantly positive for Arts \& Humanities and Social Sciences, Commerce \& Law, while having null and negative effects for other fields, suggesting that, after all, the overall effect verified earlier was due only to the effect of this variable on some fields.

}, keywords = {academic staff, internationalization, knowledge production \& dissemination, portuguese higher education institutions, self-reported research productivity}, isbn = {978-84-09-17939-8}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2020.0975}, url = {https://library.iated.org/view/DIOGO2020DOE}, author = {Sara Diogo and Ricardo Biscaia and Teresa Carvalho} } @article {4225, title = {O Impacto do Turismo das Aldeias Hist{\'o}ricas de Portugal: Um Quadro de An{\'a}lise (The Impact of Tourism in the Historical Villages of Portugal: A Framework for Analysis)}, journal = {Finisterra}, volume = {54}, year = {2019}, pages = {21-36}, author = {Manuela Nat{\'a}rio and Ana I. Melo and Ricardo Biscaia and Paula Rocha and Carlos Santos and Augusta Ferreira and Dalila Dias and Gon{\c c}alo Gomes and Gra{\c c}a Azevedo and R{\'u}ben Duarte and Rui Pedro Marques} }