@article {4011, title = {Invisible researchers in the knowledge society {\textendash} the Uberisation of scientific work in Portugal}, journal = {European Journal of Higher Education}, year = {2022}, month = {03 Aug 2022}, pages = {1-22}, abstract = {

This paper discusses how the\ emergence\ and assumption of the knowledge society as an ideological integration in the European Union (EU) and in the European Research Area (ERA), along with Managerialism and Neoliberalism influences, resulted in precarious and insecure employment relations in the Portuguese scientific system. The knowledge society as a policy idea and discourse has been encouraging the European states to design political initiatives to foster Innovation and Research to promote economic prosperity and social advancement. As a result of Europeanisation policies aiming at fostering Science and Technology (S\&T), there has been a significant increase in the number of PhD graduates. Drawing on a quantitative study based on the data analysis of secondary data, this study shows how the design of knowledge society policies transformed a higher education and research system and induced an increasing number of doctorates, leading, along with managerialism and neoliberalism to the Uberisation of their working conditions. These doctorates have been mainly integrated into the higher education system with short-term contracts to develop tasks within research projects. This association with research projects along with their precarious working conditions turned them into invisible workers inside Higher Education Institutions (HEI), questioning the sustainability of the system.

}, keywords = {academics, Projectification of science, Researchers, scientific work, Uberisation}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1080/21568235.2022.2105371}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2022.2105371}, author = {Teresa Carvalho and Sara Diogo and Bruno Vilhena} } @conference {4095, title = {Deteriorating Working Conditions in Academia {\textendash} The Best Way to Secure Meritocracy? }, booktitle = {15th International Technology, Education and Development Conference}, year = {2021}, month = {8-9 March, 2021}, publisher = {IATED Academy}, organization = {IATED Academy}, address = {Online Conference}, abstract = {

Academic careers have been changing worldwide due to a diversity of both endogenous and exogenous factors. Global trends such as managerialism and New Public Management (NPM) influence changes in careers in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), since these trends translate the spreading of discourses, values and ideologies from the private sector to the public sector. This study examines the impact of NPM on the working conditions of Portuguese higher education academics in the last ten years. The empirical data are based on official statistics on the Portuguese academics employment conditions and the analysis leads to the following conclusions. Changes reveal an increasing corrosion of traditional employment practices. Employment has become more precarious as professionals are increasingly employed on non-tenured contracts. Although this tendency was initially more evidenced in the polytechnic sector, in nowadays universities present even more precarious conditions. In short, this means that despite the political changes in the country in the last years, the development of science in Portugal is still based in highly qualified employment but with equally high precarious employment relations, even if an improvement of the working conditions for those at the top is evidenced. In this context, the prospect of future wealth, rather than current income and working conditions, main represent the driver for young academics to stay in the job. Potential consequences for the meritocratic and excellence values, framing HEIs organisational culture are discussed.

}, keywords = {academics, career, Change, Portugal, working conditions}, isbn = {978-84-09-27666-0}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.21125/inted.2021.1861 }, url = {https://library.iated.org/view/CARVALHO2021DET}, author = {Teresa Carvalho} } @inbook {4036, title = {Transforming Professional Bureaucracies In Hospitals And Higher Education Institutions}, booktitle = {Towards a Comparative Institutionalism: Forms, Dynamics and Logics Across the Organizational Fields of Health Care and Higher Education (Research in the Sociology of Organizations) }, volume = {45}, year = {2016}, pages = {243-269}, publisher = {Emerald Publishing}, organization = {Emerald Publishing}, edition = {R. Pinheiro, L. Geschwind, F. O. Ramirez, K. Vrangb{\ae}k}, keywords = {academics, Doctors, Institutionalism, Nurses, Professional bureaucracies}, issn = {978-1-78560-275-7}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000045021}, url = {https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000045021/full/html}, author = {Teresa Carvalho and Rui Santiago} }