Location

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto - FPCEUP

Schedule

Start date: 10:00 - 5 Jun 2025

End date: 15:18 - 7 Jun 2025

Speakers

Álvaro Domingues, Geographer, PhD in Human Geography and Prof. Associate of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto, FAUP in the Integrated Master and PhD courses, and researcher at CEAU, Center for Studies in Architecture and Urbanism at FAUP. Professor of the PhD course Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories at ISCTE, Lisbon, and of the Master in Architecture at the University of Minho. Professor of the Summer Courses at the Serralves Foundation 2005-2008. Invited Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, 2006, and Granada in 2005. 
Among other works, he is the author of Paisagens Transgénicas (Museu da Paisagem, Lisboa, 2021), Volta a Portugal (Contraponto, Lisboa, 2017), Território Casa Comum (with Nuno Travasso, FAUP, Porto, 2015), Rua da Estrada (Dafne, Porto, 2010), Vida no Campo (Dafne, Porto, 2012) and Urban Policies I and II (with Nuno Portas and João Cabral, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 2003 e 2011), City and Democracy (Argumentum, Lisboa, 2006). He writes for the Público newspaper

António Nóvoa, honorary Rector of the University of Lisbon, an institution of which he was Rector between 2006 and 2013. Full Professor at the Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, since 1996. Ambassador of Portugal to UNESCO, in Paris, between 2018 and 2021. Doctor in Educational Sciences from the University of Genève, in 1986. PhD in History from the University of Paris IV – Sorbonne, in 2006.

Linda Evans,  (full) professor of education at the University of Manchester in the UK, where she is currently the deputy head of the School of Environment, Education and Development. Her research is located in the broad field of working life in education contexts, and incorporates foci on, inter alia, professionalism, professional development, researcher development, workplace attitudes, and leadership. She is known for having developed original theoretical perspectives and conceptualisations, including conceptual models of the componential structures of professionalism and professional development. A former student of European studies and modern European languages, Linda remains a fluent French speaker and speaks reasonably fluent German. She has presented numerous invited keynotes and plenaries, including in Belgium, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Republic of Ireland, Australia, Mauritius, Indonesia, Brazil, Russia and South Africa. During an academic career that has spanned three decades, she has published around 90 academic papers, eight authored books and one co-edited book, and is currently working on her latest monograph, A Research Agenda for Educational Leadership: Critical Scholarship for a New Direction, to be published by Edward Elgar in 2026. In her leisure time she enjoys reading, visiting historic sites, and watching Manchester United. She is looking forward to a new era of success for the team under Portuguese head coach Ruben Amorim!