02100nas a2200205 4500008004100000245010200041210006900143260001600212300000900228520143500237653001401672653003201686653001601718653002001734653001601754100002101770700001301791700001901804856007101823 2022 eng d00aInvisible researchers in the knowledge society – the Uberisation of scientific work in Portugal0 aInvisible researchers in the knowledge society the Uberisation o c03 Aug 2022 a1-223 a

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.

10aacademics10aProjectification of science10aResearchers10ascientific work10aUberisation1 aCarvalho, Teresa1 aDiogo, S1 aVilhena, Bruno uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21568235.2022.210537102194nas a2200181 4500008004100000020002200041245009000063210006900153260005400222520159200276653001401868653001101882653001101893653001301904653002301917100002101940856005101961 2021 eng d a978-84-09-27666-000aDeteriorating Working Conditions in Academia – The Best Way to Secure Meritocracy? 0 aDeteriorating Working Conditions in Academia The Best Way to Sec aOnline ConferencebIATED Academyc8-9 March, 20213 a

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.

10aacademics10acareer10aChange10aPortugal10aworking conditions1 aCarvalho, Teresa uhttps://library.iated.org/view/CARVALHO2021DET00761nas a2200217 4500008004100000022002200041245009100063210006900154250005900223260002300282300001200305490000700317653001400324653001200338653002100350653001100371653003100382100002100413700001800434856009100452 2016 eng d a978-1-78560-275-700aTransforming Professional Bureaucracies In Hospitals And Higher Education Institutions0 aTransforming Professional Bureaucracies In Hospitals And Higher  aR. Pinheiro, L. Geschwind, F. O. Ramirez, K. Vrangbæk bEmerald Publishing a243-2690 v4510aacademics10aDoctors10aInstitutionalism10aNurses10aProfessional bureaucracies1 aCarvalho, Teresa1 aSantiago, Rui uhttps://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/S0733-558X20150000045021/full/html