1st UC Meeting of Doctoral Schools | Emerging trends and challenges

Head of EUA Council for Doctoral Education, European University Association (EUA).

Dr. Alexander Hasgall is since fall 2017 Head of the EUA Council for Doctoral Education and responsible for a network of more than 267 European Universities from 37 countries, dedicated to the further development and strengthening of doctoral education and research training in Europe. Before assuming this position, he coordinated the “Performances de la recherche en sciences humaines et sociales” (CUS-P3) programme of the Swiss University Rectors conference and was based at the University of Geneva. Dr. Hasgall studied philosophy and history, and received his Doctorate in History at the University of Zurich on the history and discourse of transitional justice in Argentina.

Emeritus Professor of Higher Education Management at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK.

Professor Deem is a sociologist with a significant bulk of work in Sociology of Education and particular research interest in policy and leadership, governance and management of higher education and doctoral education, public service organization, and inequality in educational settings. Prof. Deem is on the Editorial Board of Higher Education Quarterly and Studies in Higher Education, and co-editor of Higher Education (Springer). From 2015 to 2018, she became the first woman to chair the UK Council for Graduate Education.

She has held high-level positions in various excellent research and education institutions in the UK and received important honours and awards for her work (Honorary Fellow of the Society for Research into Higher Education, Honorary DLitt from the University of Leicester; 2013 OBE in the Queen's birthday honours for services to higher education and social science).

Professor (Internacional Relations), Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC), and Researcher at Centre for Social Studies (CES)

Paula Duarte Lopes, PhD in Political Science and International Relations, is a researcher in the area of Peace Studies (Humanities, Migration and Peace Studies Research Group) at the Centre for Social Studies (CES), Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra (FEUC) and Coordinator of the PhD in International Politics and Conflict Resolution. She was Vice-President of the Scientific Council of CES (2016-2018) and coordinated the facilitating team of the Portuguese Strategy of Education for Development (2017-2022). She currently coordinates the Portuguese team in the Erasmus+ project "e-NOTE - European Network on Teaching Excellence". Her research interests focus on global interventionism dynamics, including peace missions, development aid politics and international water governance. She conducted research in Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, France, Portugal, Mozambique and Timor-Leste.

Vice-Rector for Research and 3rd Cycle education, Universidade de Coimbra, and Director of Institute of Interdisciplinary Research, Universidade de Coimbra

Cláudia Cavadas holds a PhD in Pharmacy, in the speciality of Pharmacology, and is an assistant professor with aggregation at the Faculty of Pharmacy of the UC. She leads the research group "Neuroendocrinology and Aging" at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, University of Coimbra (CNC). Prof. Cavadas was responsible for more than two dozen research projects funded by national and international agencies, and for the guidance of nearly two dozen PhD students. She was President of the Portuguese Society of Pharmacology ; and Vice-Director of the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (2011-2013). Currently, she serves as Vice Dean for Research and 3rd cycle education, as well as Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (iii-UC) at the University of Coimbra. She has been a member of the Executive Board of the Coimbra Group since 2019 and was elected Vice-Chair in June 2021.

Coordinator of Science Communication at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research - Universidade de Coimbra (iiiUC)

Ana Santos-Carvalho holds a PhD in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Coimbra (UC). She is a researcher and Coordinator of Science Communication at the Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (iiiUC). She is responsible for several initiatives at the UC, including the European Researchers' Night and the Three Minute Thesis Competition, as well as supporting initiatives such as the UC Doctoral Schools, Promotion of Scientific Culture, Research Seed Awards, among others.

Full Professor, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Coimbra and Researcher at the Centre for Portuguese Literature at the University of Coimbra.

Manuel Portela, PhD in English Culture, is the coordinator of "Digital Mediation and Materialities of Literature" research group at the Centre for Portuguese Literature, and Coordinator of the FCT PhD Program in Materialities of Literature. His work over the last decade focuses on electronic literature and digital publishing, from perspectives of literary studies and the digital humanities. The most significant results of this research can be seen in "Literary Simulation and the Digital Humanities: Reading, Editing, Writing" (Bloomsbury, 2022), "LdoD Archive: Collaborative Digital Archive of the Book of Disquiet" (CLP, 2017-2022), edited by Manuel Portela and António Rito Silva, and "Scripting Reading Motions: The Codex and the Computer as Self-Reflexive Machines" (MIT Press, 2013).