The purpose of this paper is to provide an example of best practice towards enhancing employability in the cross-sectoral labour market for doctorate-holders. This was achieved through an Erasmus+ KA2 (Strategic Partnership) skills development project which created a training programme (TRANSPEER) involving a multi-disciplinary cohort of researchers at a range of career stages, drawn from universities in Norway...
This work discusses issues related to the conservation of photographic collections placed in religious buildings and makes part of a Ph.D. project on photographic votive offerings (ex-voto) in Alentejo region in Portugal. The ongoing research intends to draw attention on the objects themselves due to their importance to the society as devotional objects, and their relevance to understand local communities throu...
Grant Managers contribute to the mission of research-intensive institutions by helping them to obtain competitive funding. However, their effectiveness in helping institutions and individuals secure funding is poorly studied. In this study, we provide an assessment of the contribution of Grant Managers in attracting competitive funding for research. We compare success rates of funding applications having benefi...
Research managers at science-intensive institutions appear as a continuously evolving group of professionals whose identity is somewhat fragmented, even to themselves. In Portugal, specialized research manager roles have rapidly emerged over the last years alongside the development of a small but consolidated scientific system. In order to get an inside view of the professional identity associated to research m...
A pereira (Pyrus communis L.) é uma espécie frutícola de elevada importância na fruticultura Portuguesa. A produção nacional em 2005-6 foi de 129 mil toneladas para uma área cultivada de 12 mil hectares. Em 2010-11 a produção ascendeu às 220 mil toneladas. A cultivar “Rocha” é das mais importantes em termos de exportação com um volume de vendas em 2005 de 26 milhões de euros para 45 mil toneladas de pêra corres...