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Academics’ Professional Characteristics and Trajectories: The Portuguese Case

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The purpose of this chapter is to present a descriptive and interpretative approach on the changing personal (gender, citizenship, parents’ education) and professional characteristics (work performed, employment status), and trajectories of Portuguese academics. This approach is contextualised in the changes that have emerged in the Portuguese higher education system and institutions since the 1974 democratic revolution. Based on data analysis from the international Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey, the chapter tries to address a set of issues related to some social characteristics of academics, as well as to their career trajectories, sense of commitment/affiliation and perceptions of scholarship and time devoted to teaching and research.

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    Public higher education has 15 universities, 15 polytechnic institutes, 19 higher schools and five institutions of police and military education. Private and cooperative higher education system comprises eight universities and 59 other establishments (academies, institutes and higher schools).

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  1. Department of Social, Political and Territorial Sciences, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal

    Rui Santiago & Teresa Carvalho

  2. CES - Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Sofia Branco Sousa

  3. ISLA Campus Lx Laureate International Universities, and Center for Research in Higher Education Policies, Matosinhos, Portugal

    Diana Dias

  4. Center for Research in Higher Education Policies, and Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education, Porto, Portugal

    Maria de Lourdes Machado-Taylor

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Santiago, R., Carvalho, T., Sousa, S.B., Dias, D., Machado-Taylor, M.d.L. (2016). Academics’ Professional Characteristics and Trajectories: The Portuguese Case. In: Galaz-Fontes, J., Arimoto, A., Teichler, U., Brennan, J. (eds) Biographies and Careers throughout Academic Life. The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27493-5_10

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