There is a call for applications for a research grant for a doctoral student under the project “MIIT – Mapping Internationalisation conceptions and practices In Teacher education: a snapshot of Portugal” (grant no. 2023.13967.PEX)  funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), and developed at the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education (CIIE) of FPCEUP under the coordination of Thiago Freires.
The MIIT project aims to further the knowledge on the internationalisation of teacher education in Portugal, identifying how key stakeholders (e.g., teacher educators) conceptualise it and mapping the strategies already implemented, including those in the field of internationalisation at home.

 Admission requirements

• Master’s degree in Educational Sciences or in another area of the Social Sciences and Humanities relevant to the development of the project (e.g., Psychology, Sociology)1 .
• Be enrolled in a doctoral programme in Educational Sciences. Alternatively, he/she may be enrolled in a non-academic degree course integrated into the educational project of a higher education institution, developed in association or cooperation with one or more R&D units, to be proven at the contracting act.
• Proficient command of Portuguese language (only applicable if the candidate is not a native speaker of Portuguese, in which case he/she must submit a supporting document).

Preferred requirements

• Knowledge and experience of using qualitative research methodologies, namely interviews and focus groups.
• Research work experience as part of an academic degree or funded research project, using qualitative methodologies, including the collection and analysis of empirical material; the research tasks in which the candidate was involved must be specified.
• (Co)authorship of scientific publications indexed in Scopus/SCImago Journal Rank and/or Journal Citation Reports (JCR) in the field of education and/or other social sciences.
• Proficient command of the English language (to be assessed through the motivation letter, written in English, in accordance with paragraph d) of section 11.2; candidates may also enclose an English language certificate).
• Immediate availability (to be mentioned in the motivation letter). 

Submission of applications
The call for applications is open until February 06th, 2025. 
Applications must be submitted exclusively on the FPCEUP website, at the link https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/cnt_cand_geral.concursos_list 

More Information
https://sigarra.up.pt/spup/pt/NOTICIAS_GERAL.VER_NOTICIA?p_nr=81549
https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/noticias_geral.ver_noticia?p_nr=76117