Orlanda Tavares
Orlanda Tavares is a researcher at the Research Centre on Child Studies (CIEC) at the University of Minho, Institute of Education and a collaborating researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED). She completed her PhD in Educational Sciences in the University of Porto, Portugal, in 2011. Her research interests cover a broad spectrum of topics related to education, such as social equity, international student mobility, access policies and employability.
Currently, she is the Principal Investigator (PI) for the research project on the impact of COVID-19 on Portuguese higher education access policies, funded by Edulog, Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation. In addition, she is an active member of the Network on International Student Mobility (COST Action CA20115), co-leading the WG3 COVID-19 Systematic Review on the integration of international students and participating in the WG2 General Systematic review on social inequalities in access to and during international student mobility, as well as in the Network on "Rising nationalisms, shifting geopolitics and the future of European higher education/research openness (OPEN), CA22121. She was also a member of the research team commissioned to evaluate the Erasmus+ programme 2014-2020 in Portugal, by the Erasmus+ National Agency. She is currently a member of the editorial board of the European Journal of Higher Education and of Perspectives: policy and practice in higher education.
Áreas de interesse académico e científico Areas of academic and scientific interest
- Higher education policies
- Equity
- Academic inbreeding
- Internationalization
- Employability
- Quality assurance