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Diversity in Doctoral Education: Subjects, Contexts and Epistemic Pluralism in the Production of Scientific Knowledge

9–10 July 2026

The Interdisciplinary Research Center for Education and Development (CeiED) announces the 16th Researchers’ Meeting, to be held on 9 and 10 July 2026. This edition invites the academic community to engage in a critical reflection on diversity in doctoral education, considering it not as an accessory element, but as a structuring dimension of contemporary ways of training researchers and producing knowledge.

Recent debates on doctoral education have emphasized that doctoral programmes now host increasingly heterogeneous populations, shaped by diverse social backgrounds, academic trajectories, linguistic affiliations, professional engagements, and future expectations. In this context, diversity goes beyond the social composition of doctoral candidates: it is also reflected in the plurality of experiences, perspectives, linguistic repertoires, and ways of questioning reality that inform research processes. Thinking about doctoral education today therefore requires acknowledging that the opening of doctoral and postgraduate education to new publics presents institutional challenges, but also creates conditions for a genuine epistemological enrichment of science.

In this regard, reflections promoted by EUA-CDE (2022) have shown that the expansion of doctoral education creates space for greater diversity and inclusion, while also highlighting challenges related to the integration of underrepresented groups in the production of scientific knowledge. It is further emphasized that multilingualism and diversity of backgrounds are not obstacles to research quality; on the contrary, they can broaden analytical horizons, expand research perspectives, and strengthen the social relevance of doctoral training.

Within this framework, the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (2021) is particularly relevant, as it advocates for more accessible, inclusive, collaborative scientific systems that are attentive to dialogue among different communities and knowledge systems. This perspective aligns with the Convention against Discrimination in Education (1960), which affirms the principle of equal opportunities in access to education, and with the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2005), which reaffirms intercultural openness and equitable access to knowledge as fundamental conditions for more just and democratically sustainable societies.

It is within this context that the 16th CeiED Researchers’ Meeting proposes to discuss the relationship between diversity, educational contexts, and epistemic pluralism in the processes of scientific knowledge production. In particular, it seeks to understand how different trajectories, affiliations, and experiences influence the construction of research objects and theoretical-methodological choices, and how higher education and research institutions can foster more inclusive, reflective, and intellectually plural environments.

The meeting thus aims to serve as a space for critical reflection on the challenges and possibilities of contemporary doctoral education, bringing together contributions that problematize the relationships between science, advanced training, cognitive justice, institutional responsibility, and social transformation.

Participants

CeiED invites undergraduate, master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students, as well as researchers and faculty members from Universidade Lusófona, and students from partner institutions with established agreements in related fields, to take part in this meeting. The aim is to foster a broad debate on the present and future of doctoral education. More than a space for presenting work, this meeting seeks to establish itself as a forum for discussion and exchange on the role of diversity in renewing academic research and in building a more open, plural, and socially relevant science.

9 July

10 July

Abstract Submission

Submissions are invited for abstracts of individual research projects (ongoing or completed), as well as collective projects developed within the framework of curricular units, ReLeCo, or UNESCO Chair Study Groups. Abstracts must include the following elements:

• research question
• objectives
• theoretical and methodological framework
• results or conclusions (if available)

Each proposal must include:

• a title
• 3 to 5 keywords
• must not exceed 300 words (excluding spaces)

Presentation duration: 7 minutes
Submission platform: Even3

Full Paper Submission

Participants who wish to be included in the conference proceedings may submit a full paper in digital format.

• The file must be submitted in .doc (Microsoft Word) format and may be written in Portuguese or English.
• The text must follow the guidelines of the Organizing Committee, whose template is available on the submission platform.
• The Organizing Committee reserves the right not to publish texts that do not comply with the established formal criteria.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: until 31 May 2026
• Notification of acceptance: 23 June 2026
• Full paper submission for proceedings: until 30 September 2026

Registration

Participation in the meeting is free of charge, but registration is mandatory HERE.

Dissemination

We look forward to your participation in enriching this essential debate on doctoral education. To support the visibility and documentation of the 16th CeiED Researchers’ Meeting, participants are invited to tag CeiED on Instagram (@ceied.ulusofona) and use the hashtag #16encontroCeiED in their social media posts.

Coordinators

• Lucimar Dantas
• Marcelo Lages Murta

Organizing Committee

• Adel Pausini
• Catarina Nunes de Almeida
• Carla Galego
• Felisberto Costa
• Henrique Godoy
• Lucimar Dantas
• Marcelo Lages Murta
• Rosa Serradas
• Sónia Cardoso

Scientific Committee

• Adel Pausini
• Alcina de Oliveira Martins
• Ana Paula Silva
• Ana Sofia António
• Ana Vale Pereira
• André Freitas
• António Teodoro
• Carla Galego
• Catarina Nunes de Almeida
• Cristina Sin
• Dulce Franco
• Elisabete Pinto da Costa
• Elsa Estrela
• Ernesto Candeias Martins
• Filomena Parada
• Gorete Pereira
• Inês Vieira
• Jacinto Serrão
• João Filipe Matos
• João Robert Nogueira
• João Sampaio Maia
• José Viegas Brás
• Judite Primo
• Liliana Rodrigues
• Louise dos Santos Lima
• Lucimar Dantas
• Luiza Baldan
• Luzia Lima-Rodrigues
• Marcelo Lages Murta
• Margarida Belchior
• Maria Constança Vasconcelos
• Maria de Nazaré Castro Coimbra
• Maria Neves Gonçalves
• Maria Odete Emygdio da Silva
• Mário Antas
• Mário Moutinho
• Marta Maria Jecu
• Nuno Fraga
• Patrícia Ferraz de Matos
• Pedro Jesus
• Regina Duarte
• Rosa Serradas Duarte
• Sofia Micaela Castro da Silva
• Sónia Cardoso
• Teresa Teixeira Lopo
• Vitor Duarte Teodoro

Contact

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The Bachelor’s Degree in Education Sciences – Social Education at Lusófona University – Lisbon University Center,

Susana Oliveira,  a doctoral researcher at CeiED, is leading the training course “Photovoice and Fragmented Writing as a Reflection Process for Teachers”, aimed at teachers in Lower Secondary (3rd Cycle of Basic Education) and Upper Secondary Education. The initiative offers an innovative approach to professional development, combining visual practices and reflective writing as tools for critical analysis of teaching experiences, teacher identities, and contemporary educational contexts.

The training will take place on 7 and 21 March 2026, from 15:00 to 18:00, at Lusofona University – Lisbon University Centre, amounting to12 hours of accredited professional development through the relevant Teacher Training Centre.

Integrated within a doctoral research project in Education funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), this initiative reinforces CeiED’s commitment to critical and creative professional learning grounded in research, contributing to the enhancement of teacher reflection and pedagogical innovation.

Registration here.

The Seminar Literacies, Citizenship and Emancipation will take place on 21 January 2026 (Wednesday), from 3:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., with online transmission. This event will mark the official launch of the ROMPANTE Project (2024.16621.PEX), promoted by CeiED – Interdisciplinary Research Center for Education and Development in collaboration with CES – Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra.

Bringing together national and international researchers, the Seminar aims to provide a space for reflection and debate on the core concepts of mutual recognition, literacy and emancipation. In the context of current phenomena of uncertainty, social disruption, fragmentation, and the reconfiguration of the role of knowledge, technologies and institutions, the Seminar will place particular emphasis on discussing the role of education for citizenship in the development of a critical, informed awareness capable of contributing to the quality of democratic processes and practices.

In partnership with the António Sérgio Training Centre (CFEAS), this event is certified for participating teachers in Portugal as a Short-Term Training Action (Ação de Curta Duração – ACD), under Order no. 5741/2015 of 29 May, for the purposes of career progression of teaching staff – early childhood educators, primary and secondary school teachers, and special education teachers.

Those interested in obtaining this certification must register mandatorily at the following link: https://www.cfantoniosergio.edu.pt/centro/index.php/.

The event will be held and streamed online. Participation is free.

Access link for participants not registered at the António Sérgio School Training Center.

PROGRAMME

3:30 p.m. – Opening | Teresa Teixeira Lopo (Lusófona University – Lisbon University Centre, CeiED).

3:45 p.m. – Otherness as an educational potential for emancipation and citizenship | José Viegas Brás (Lusófona University – Lisbon University Centre, CeiED, ReLeCo Memory, Citizenship and Sociomuseology).

4:15 p.m. – Artificial intelligence and deliberative politics: new obstacles to communicative emancipation | Alexander Gerner (FilmEU University, CICANT).

4:45 p.m. – Literacy/ies: theoretical approaches and emancipatory purposes | Daniel Bart (Université Toulouse 2 – Jean Jaurès, UMR EFTS).

5:15 p.m. – Paulo Freire, democratic education and critical citizenship | Licínio Lima (University of Minho, CIEd).

5:45 p.m. – Debate | Moderation and concluding remarks by Ana Maria Seixas (University of Coimbra – CES and Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences).

6:20 p.m. – Closing | Teresa Teixeira Lopo (Lusófona University – Lisbon University Centre, CeiED).

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Within the scope of the above-mentioned call, we inform you that, in accordance with the referenced notice, two (2) applications were received. We hereby communicate the results of the evaluation and the consequent final ranking of the candidates.

List of Candidates:

• Manuel Tavares Gomes
• Felisberto Costa

2. Final Classification List of Candidates (CFC), on a scale from 0 to 10:

Interview Classification

In view of the results and the option provided for in the Call Notice, the Evaluation Panel decided not to conduct interviews. Consequently, the curricular evaluation accounted for 85% and the motivation letter for 15% (as established in the first phase), corresponding to 100% of the candidates’ evaluation.

Accordingly, within the scope of the above-mentioned applications, the candidate selected for the award of the scholarship was Manuel Tavares Gomes.

The Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Education and Development (CeiED) thanks the candidates for their interest and wishes everyone the greatest academic and/or professional success.

COFAC – Cooperativa de Animação e Formação Cultural, crl / Universidade Lusófona, hereby announces the opening of a call for applications for the award of a Research Grant for a Master’s degree holder