CeiED’s integrated researcher, Sónia Cardoso, was invited to be keynote speaker at the 8th international conference on Professional and Practice-Based Doctoral Education – ‘Authentic and Transformative Learning in Practice-based Doctoral Education’ 30-31 March 2023 at York Racecourse, York, England. The International Conference on Professional and Practice Doctorates, run in partnership with Middlesex University since 2009, is the leading event focusing on the development, provision and impact of professional, practice-based and practice-led doctorates in institutions across the globe.

The researcher, also participated in the 34th Annual CHER Conference – Sustainable and Responsive Higher Education. In this context, the researcher coordinated and promoted, in collaboration with three other researchers (Teresa Carvalho, University of Aveiro and CIPES; Corina Balaban, The University of Manchester, UK; Hatice Nuriler, Aarhus University, Denmark), the panel ‘Creating responsive and sustainable models of doctoral education’. The conference highlighted the challenges and present opportunities for a more sustainable and responsive higher education.