Docente
Cristina Sin

Resume

I am an Assistant Professor at Lusófona University (Porto) and a researcher at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Education and Development (CeiED) since 2022. I was awarded a PhD in Educational Research from Lancaster University (UK) in 2012 for a thesis which performed a comparative analysis of the implementation of the Bologna Process in three European countries. Before my current employment, I worked as a researcher at the Portuguese Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), between 2017-2022, and as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Centre for Research in Higher Education Policies (CIPES), with a scholarship from the Foundation for Science and Technology, between 2012-2017. However, my career in higher education started already before the PhD, in 2005, at the Higher Education Academy (UK), where I managed projects on teaching and learning improvement in higher education. I also worked as a research assistant at Lancaster University, during my PhD, on the evaluation of the quality enhancement framework in Scottish Higher Education. I have developed my research in the field of higher education policies, moving from a more general study of European higher education policies and their implementation (Bologna Process) to specific topics such as international student mobility, employability, quality assurance and inbreeding. I have participated as a research member in national and international projects, which were awarded public funding on a competitive basis, and in privately funded national studies on the above topics. International student mobility is my main research interest. I was the Principal Investigator (PI) in a project, funded by the Edulog – Belmiro de Azevedo Foundation, which mapped international students in Portugal and analysed international recruitment strategies. I also contributed as a research consultant to studies commissioned by national and international organisations, including the evaluation of the Erasmus+ programme 2014-2020 in Portugal, commissioned by the Erasmus+ National Agency. I am also a member of two COST Actions: European Network on International Student Mobility (Action CA20115) and Rising nationalisms, shifting geopolitics and the future of European higher education/research openness (Action CA22121). In the former, I have led the execution of two deliverables: a systematic literature review on the impact of Covid-19 on the integration of international students and a systematic literature review on global trends and patterns in international student mobility. Since January 2021, I have served as one of the Associate Editors of European Journal of Higher Education (peer-reviewed, indexed in Scopus and Emerging Sources Citation Index), which has implied managing the peer review for around 40 manuscripts per year. In 2024, I also joined the editorial team of Revista Lusófona de Educação, with broad distribution in Latin America. My research record is solid and extensive, with two co-authored books (one international and one national), 3 co-edited international books, 15 book chapters and 50 articles in reputed international peer-reviewed journals in the area of higher education, most of them indexed in Scopus and/or WoS. I have contributed to debates in the written media internationally (University World News and Times Higher Education) on current topics of public interest in higher education. Over the past five years, I have also engaged in mentoring young researchers and in coordinating research teams. I am a member of academic organisations such as CHER (Consortium of Higher Education Researchers) and IMISCOE (International Migration Research Network).

Graus

• Doutoramento
  PhD in Educational Research
• Mestrado
  English--French
• Licenciatura
  Applied Modern Languages

Publicações

Artigo em revista

• 2025-01-30, The impact of COVID-19 on the social and cultural integration of international students: a literature review, Comparative Migration Studies
• 2025-01-07, International students in less attractive institutions and countries: how integration can make a difference, Globalisation, Societies and Education
• 2024, Off the beaten track: Portugal’s strategies for attracting international students, Policy Futures in Education
• 2024, Impact of international student mobility in rural Portuguese regions, International Journal of Educational Research
• 2023-04-19, Graduate employment: Does the type of higher education institution matter?, Bulletin of Economic Research
• 2023-02-22, International Student Mobility in Psychology: an Analysis of Brazilian Students in Portuguese Higher Education, Trends in Psychology
• 2023-02-01, Comment on accède à l’enseignement supérieur, Cahiers pédagogiques
• 2023, The internationalisation of doctoral education and the strategies to achieve it: the perspectives of Portuguese universities and doctoral students, Studies in Graduate and Postdoctoral Education
• 2023, Publishing review reports to reveal and preserve the quality and fairness of the peer review process, European Journal of Higher Education
• 2023, International Students' Experience of Remote Teaching and Learning in Portugal, Open Education Studies
• 2022-10, Towards a democratic and fair society: Civic competences of Brazilian graduates, Education, Citizenship and Social Justice
• 2022-08-22, COVID-19: Threat or Opportunity for the Portuguese Higher Education's Attractiveness for International Students?, Journal of Studies in International Education
• 2022-06-09, More students and more diverse: new trends in international mobility to Portugal, Tertiary Education and Management
• 2022-01, New perspectives and analytical approaches to better understand academic inbreeding, Higher Education Quarterly
• 2021-04-20, International students in Portuguese higher education: who are they and what are their choices?, Studies in Higher Education
• 2021-01-11, Inbreeding and research collaborations in Portuguese higher education, Higher Education Quarterly
• 2020, Industry–university collaboration in industrial doctorates: A trouble-free marriage?
• 2020, Coursework in industrial doctorates: a worthwhile contribution to students’ training?, Higher Education Research and Development
• 2020, Attracting and recruiting international students in portugal: National and institutional policies,Attirer et recruter des étudiants internationaux au portugal: Politiques nationales et institutionnelles,Atração e recrutamento de estudantes internacionais em portugal: Políticas nacionais e institucionais,Atraer y reclutar estudiantes internacionales en portugal: Políticas nacionales e institucional, Revista Lusofona de Educacao
• 2019-12-29, Integrating International Students: The Missing Link in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions, Journal of Comparative & International Higher Education
• 2019-12-01, Pozyskiwanie studentów zagranicznych do uczelni krajów pólperyferyjnych. Badanie porównawcze Norwegii, Polski i Portugalii, Nauka i Szkolnictwo Wyzsze
• 2019-11-15, Portuguese Institutions’ Strategies and Challenges to Attract International Students, Journal of International Students
• 2019-09-27, Inbreeding and Research Productivity Among Sociology PhD Holders in Portugal, Minerva
• 2019-02-26, Attracting International Students to Semi-peripheral Countries: A Comparative Study of Norway, Poland and Portugal, Higher Education Policy
• 2019, REINVENTING DOCTORAL EDUCATION THROUGH UNIVERSITY-INDUSTRY COLLABORATION: THE CASE OF INDUSTRIAL DOCTORATES IN PORTUGAL, INTED Proceedings
• 2019, Can you judge a book by its cover? Industrial doctorates in Portugal, Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning
• 2017, Taking stock of changes in quality assurance in Portuguese higher education between 2007 and 2015, Debats. Revista de Cultura, Poder I Societat
• 2017, Student Mobility in Portugal: Grappling with Adversity, Journal of Studies in International Education
• 2017, Balance de los cambios en la garantía de la calidad en la educación superior en Portugal entre 2007 y 2015, DEBATS
• 2017, Accepting employability as a purpose of higher education? Academics’ perceptions and practices, Studies in Higher Education
• 2017, Academics’ and employers’ perceptions about responsibilities for employability and their initiatives towards its development, Higher Education
• 2016, Who is responsible for employability? Student perceptions and practices, Tertiary Education and Management
• 2016, The impact of programme accreditation on Portuguese higher education provision, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• 2016, Student perceptions of the employability of the first degree in Portugal, Education + Training
• 2016, Shifting Institutional Boundaries Through Cross-Border Higher Education, Journal of Studies in International Education
• 2016, Internal quality assurance systems in Portugal: what their strengths and weaknesses reveal, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• 2016, Employability deconstructed: perceptions of Bologna stakeholders, Studies in Higher Education
• 2016, Comparative analysis of Physics master degree curricula across national and institutional settings: manifestations of student-centred learning and implications for degree comparability, The Curriculum Journal
• 2016, Academics’ perceptions of the impact of internal quality assurance on teaching and learning, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• 2015-07, Higher education reforms in Romania. Between the Bologna process and national challenges, European Journal of Higher Education
• 2015, The quality of teaching staff: higher education institutions’ compliance with the European Standards and Guidelines for Quality Assurance—the case of Portugal, Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability
• 2015, Student-centred learning and disciplinary enculturation: an exploration through physics, Educational Studies
• 2015, Middle managers’ experience of policy implementation and mediation in the context of the Scottish quality enhancement framework, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
• 2014, The policy object: a different perspective on policy enactment in higher education, Higher Education
• 2014, Student Assessment in Portugal: Academic Practice and Bologna Policy, Higher Education Policy
• 2014, Selective acquiescence, creative commitment and strategic conformity: situated national policy responses to Bologna, European Journal of Education
• 2014, Lost in translation: the meaning of learning outcomes across national and institutional policy contexts, Studies in Higher Education
• 2014, Epistemology, Sociology, and Learning and Teaching in Physics, Science Education
• 2013, The Devil in the Detail: Contradictory national requirements and Bologna master degrees, Tertiary Education and Management
• 2012, The Bologna Master Degree in Search of an Identity, European Journal of Higher Education
• 2012, Researching Research in Master's Degrees in Europe, European Educational Research Journal
• 2012, Programmes Outside Bologna Models: Integrated Masters in the Portuguese Context, Journal of the European Higher Education Area
• 2012, Implementation and Understandings of the Bologna Master: a Three-Country Comparison, Journal of the European Higher Education Area
• 2012, Academic Understandings of and Responses to Bologna: a three-country perspective, European Journal of Education

Livro

• 2022, Equity Policies in Global Higher Education, Orlanda Tavares; Carla Sá; Cristina Sin; Alberto Amaral, Springer International Publishing
• 2020, Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education, Sónia Cardoso; Orlanda Tavares; Cristina Sin; Teresa Carvalho, Springer International Publishing
• 2018, European Higher Education and the Internal Market, Cristina Sin; Orlanda Tavares; Sónia Cardoso; Maria J. Rosa, Springer International Publishing
• 2016, Que perceções têm os portugueses sobre o valor da educação?, Alberto Amaral; António M. Magalhães; Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação
• 2016, European Policy Implementation and Higher Education: Analysing the Bologna Process, 1, SIN, CRISTINA; Veiga, Amélia; Amaral, Alberto, Palgrave Macmillan UK

Capítulo de livro

• 2024, Sucesso académico no ensino superior: políticas e práticas, Sucesso Académico no Ensino Superior, ADIPSIEDUC – Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação em Psicologia da Educação
• 2023, The model of state control, Handbook on Higher Education Management and Governance, Edward Elgar
• 2022, Who Is Left Out? Inequalities in Higher Education Admissions and Placements in Portugal, Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
• 2022, Data and Reflections on Access-Transition to Higher Education in Portugal, Equity Policies in Global Higher Education , Springer International Publishing
• 2022, Conclusion: Learning from the Past to Shape Future Policies Towards Equity in Higher Education, Equity Policies in Global Higher Education
• 2021, Institutional Policies to Attract International Academics in Portugal in an Adverse Context, The Changing Academy – The Changing Academic Profession in International Comparative Perspective, Springer Singapore
• 2020, Introduction, Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Social, Political and Student Expectations, Palgrave/Springer Nature
• 2020, Building Bridges Between Industry and Academia: What Is the Profile of an Industrial Doctorate Student?, Structural and Institutional Transformations in Doctoral Education. Social, Political and Student Expectations, Palgrave/Springer Nature
• 2018, The Visible Hand of the Market in European Higher Education Policies, European Higher Education and the Internal Market, Palgrave/Springer Nature
• 2018, The Bologna Process and the Unachieved Potential for the Creation of a Common Higher Education Market, European Higher Education and the Internal Market, Palgrave/Springer Nature
• 2018, Introduction, European Higher Education and the Internal Market , Palgrave/Springer Nature
• 2015, Teaching and learning: a journey from the margins to the core in European higher education policy, Future of Higher Education in Europe, 1, Springer
• 2015, Les résultats d’apprentissage entre essor politique et pratiques disciplinaires, Transformations des disciplines académiques: entre innovation et résistance, Editions des archives contemporaines
• 2015, Evaluative Research in Higher Education Policy Analysis, Theory and Method in Higher Education Research, 1, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• 2014, Mapping Portuguese Institutional Policies on Access Against the European Standards and Guidelines, Global Challenges, Local Responses in Higher Education, SensePublishers

Relatório

• 2024-05, Internacionalização da Educação e Formação: desafios e oportunidades do programa Erasmus+ em Portugal, https://erasmusmais.pt/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=53&wpfd_file_id=5789&token=&preview=1
• 2021-09-01, Estudantes nacionais e internacionais no acesso ao ensino superior: Quem são, que escolhas fazem e como acedem ao mercado de trabalho, https://www.edulog.pt/storage/app/uploads/public/61a/52b/c82/61a52bc82dc22884838784.pdf
• 2012, Quality and Teaching Staff. National study – Portugal , http://www.ibar-llp.eu/assets/files/WP10/WP10_National_study_EN_PT.pdf
• 2012, Quality and Stakeholders. National study – Portugal , http://www.ibar-llp.eu/assets/files/WP09/WP9_National_study_EN_PT.pdf
• 2012, Quality and Management/Governance - The Portuguese Case, http://www.ibar-llp.eu/assets/files/WP08/WP8_National_study_EN_PT.pdf
• 2011, Quality and Students – the Portuguese Case, http://www.ibar-llp.eu/assets/files/portugal/PT_national_study_WP7_final.pdf
• 2011, Quality and Access - The Portuguese Case, http://www.ibar-llp.eu/assets/files/portugal/WP6_Portugal_national_study_final.pdf
• 2010, Second annual report of the evaluation of the Quality Enhancement Framework, http://www.sfc.ac.uk/web/FILES/Our_Priorities_Effective_Institutions/Second_annual_evaluation_of_the_SFC_quality_enhancement_strategy_in_the_university_sector_-_Full_report_%7B226877523%7D.pdf
• 2008, Ethnicity, Gender and Degree Attainment Project. Final Report, http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/assets/documents/resources/publications/exchange/Ethnicity_Gender_Degree_Attainment_Jan08.pdf

Artigo em conferência

• 2024-06-18, Strategies to reduce dropout in higher education
• 2021-06-22, Students from Portuguese Speaking African Countries in Portuguese Higher Education
• 2020-11, THE LAST DECADE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENT ENROLMENTS IN PORTUGAL: A MAPPING OF WHO, WHERE AND WHAT
• 2019, THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN PORTUGAL 1970-2016
• 2019, ARE INDUSTRIAL DOCTORATES CAPABLE OF OVERCOMING SKILLS MISMATCH?
• 2018-07, DROP-OUT AND COMPLETION AMONG PORTUGUESE STUDENTS
• 2017-11, BARRIERS TO ADULTS’ CONTINUING EDUCATION
• 2017-06, Reasons for the poor employability of the first degree in students’ perceptions
• 2017-03, ACTORS AND FACTORS BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERNAL QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEMS

Poster em conferência

• 2014, Employability and Higher Education: Academic and Employer Perceptions , 27th CHER Annual Conference “ Universities in transition:shifting institutional and organizational boundaries”

Outra produção

• 2022-07, INSTITUTIONAL ACCREDITATION ACROSS EUROPE: DO ASSESSMENT CRITERIA MIRROR HIGHER EDUCATION’S MISSIONS?
• 2018, The Bologna Process
• 2017-11, Intergovernmental Policies in Higher Education, Bologna
• 2017-09, Disciplinary Differences in University Teaching
• 2016, National Legislation and Conditions for Implementation
• 2016, Mobility
• 2016, Introduction
• 2016, General Issues of European Policy
• 2016, European Higher Education Policies
• 2016, Employability
• 2016, Bologna Process Implementation Problems
• 2016, Bologna Objectives and Their Fulfilment
• 2016, Bologna Implementation and Its Objectives: Final Analysis in a Comparative Perspective
• 2016, Attractiveness and Internationalisation
• 2015, Teaching and Learning: A Journey from the Margins to the Core in European Higher Education Policy