Teacher
Filomena Parada

Resume

Filomena Parada is a doctor in Psychology (2008) with a degree awarded by the University of Porto. Since February 2023, she has been an Auxiliary Researcher at Lusófona University, CeiED. Also, she is (1) a research collaborator at Minds Hub Research Group (University of Helsinki), and the Research Group Relationships, Change Processes and Wellbeing (Centre for Psychology at the University of Porto); (2) a member of the Associates' Network at the International Centre for Guidance Studies (University of Derby). Previously, she worked in (1) Finland at the University of Helsinki (2019-2022; postdoctoral fellow and research collaborator) and the University of Jyväskylä (2017-2019, researcher/ MSCA Standard Individual Fellow); and (2) Portugal at the University of Coimbra (2009-2015) as a postdoctoral fellow at IPCHSDUH, and at the University of Porto (1997-2009) as a researcher/doctoral fellow. At IPCHSDUH, she was a Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. Since 2017, is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Vocational Behavior. In June 2024, she was elected to the Executive Council of the EARA, the European Association for Research on Adolescence. She coordinates a WP in the EDU-LAB Horizon Europe project. She participated in 13 research projects and was awarded 4 individual fellowships for which she was the project leader/PI – 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships (2019-2020, 2009-2015); 1 MSCA Standard Individual Fellowship (2017-2019); 1 Doctoral Fellowship (1999-2003). Her role in the research projects was mostly as a team member and research coordinator. She was the PI for the Portuguese study of the international consortium Work and Learning Pathways: Stories of Transition and Adaptability. She is the PI and Work Package coordinator in the HORIZON-RIA EDU-LAB project (ref.: 101177428), and Management Committee member of the COST Action CA23112 "Critical perspectives on career and career guidance”. Filomena’s scholarship bridges research, practice, and policy, and relies on an integrative, dynamic, and process-oriented approach focusing on the understanding of the self-organizing, self-construing processes through which individuals-in-context learn, think, feel, act, and interact in everyday life and across time. Her research interests include (1) youth transitions to work and adulthood, positive youth development, and the development of sustainable careers, (2) goal processes at the heart of intentional development, self-regulation, and decision-making processes, (3) career counselling and development, (4) lifelong learning, (5) research careers, and (6)Contextual Action Theory (CAT) and its associated research method, the action-project method (APM). She is a mixed-methods researcher, which allows her to experiment with (1) the usage of procedures typical of the conceptual frameworks and methodological approaches she has been applying to her research; (2) other research approaches and methodologies (e.g., designing and using digital tools for research and career intervention, and participatory research approaches). She has 619 citations and an h-index of 12 (Google citations index), with a total of 55 publications: 1 forthcoming research article to be submitted to a WoS/JCR and/or Scopus/SJR indexed journal, 1 forthcoming research report that is oriented toward the development of policy recommendations concerning early career researchers careers and wellbeing, 1 Working Paper addressing gender equity in academia, 17 published peer-reviewed scientific publications (6 journal articles in publications indexed in WoS/JCR and/or Scopus/SJR; 7 book chapters in prestigious publishers; 4 non-indexed journal articles), 24 non-refereed scientific publications (literature reviews, proceedings), 1 monograph, 6 publications intended for professional communities, 1 thesis, and 3 publications intended for diverse audiences.

Graus

• Licenciatura
  Licentiateship in Psychology / Licenciatura em Psicologia
• Doutoramento
  Doctorate in Psychology/Doctoral Degree Programme in Psychology
• Pós-Graduação
  Postgraduate Certificate/Psychological Intervention: Psychotherapy and Career Guidance / Consulta Psicológica: Psicoterapia e Orientação Vocacional

Publicações

Journal article

• 2022-01-02, Real-Time Processes of Career Goal Construction: A Case Study Approach with Implications for the Development of Adolescents’ Identity, Identity
• 2020-11-17, Putting the Goal Back into Grit: Academic Goal Commitment, Grit, and Academic Achievement, Journal of Youth and Adolescence
• 2018-08-23, The transition to adulthood of young adults with IDD: Parents' joint projects, Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities
• 2018-08-01, Transition to Adulthood as a Joint Parent-Youth Project for Young Persons With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
• 2016-10-14, Understanding Goal-Directed Action in Emerging Adulthood: Conceptualization and Method, Emerging Adulthood
• 2015, Transition to adulthood as a peer project, Emerging Adulthood
• 2013, Youth work transitions: A review with implications for counselling and career practice, Canadian journal of counselling and psychotherapy
• 2009, Psychology publishing in Portugal: Hardships and disappointment follows expectations, Psychology Science Quarterly
• 2000, Sentidos e significados do trabalho no contexto de uma realidade em transformação: O desemprego e as dificuldades de inserção profissional dos jovens / Work meanings and directions in a changing reality: Unemployment and youth labour market integration difficulties, Cadernos de Consulta Psicológica
• 1999, O trabalho como dimensão de construção da cidadania: Reflexões sobre o papel da escola no processo de formação do indivíduo cidadão/trabalhador Work as a dimension for citizenship development: Reflecting on the role of school in the development of the citizen/worker, Inovação
• 1998, A orientação vocacional como objectivo transdisciplinar: análise do currículo enunciado do terceiro ciclo do ensino básico / Career counselling as a transdisciplinary educational goal: Analysis of the formal curriculum for the third cycle of Portuguese basic education, Cadernos de Consulta Psicológica

Thesis / Dissertation

• 2008-05-12, PhD, Significados e transições para o trabalho em jovens adultos / Young adults’ meanings and transitions to work

Book

• 2011, EURODOC survey I: The first Eurodoc survey on doctoral candidates in twelve European countries – Descriptive report., G. Ates; K. Höllander; N. Koltcheva; Filomena Parada; S. Kirstic, Eurodoc, the European Council of Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers
• 2010, Formação para profissionais EFA: balanço de uma experiência de intervenção (e) pedagógica, Filomena Parada; Isabel Gomes; Joaquim Luís Coimbra; Isabel Menezes
• 2001, Formação ao longo da vida e gestão da carreira / Lifelong Training and Career Management, Joaquim Luís Coimbra; Filomena Parada; Luís Imagnário, Direcção-Geral do Emprego e Formação Profissional do Ministério do Trabalho e da Solidariedade

Book chapter

• 2023, Upper secondary academic education and vocational education and training in comparative perspective, The Sage handbook of sociology of education , Sage
• 2021, Youth Work Transitions in the South of Europe: Pathways, Priorities, and Expectations
• 2021, Youth Work Transitions in the South of Europe, Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition, Oxford University Press
• 2021, The Transition to Adulthood for Individuals With Intellectual Disability: A Joint Project
• 2021, The Transition to Adulthood for Individuals With Intellectual Disability, Young Adult Development at the School-to-Work Transition, Oxford University Press
• 2019, Using Contextual Action Theory for conceptualization and research on adolescent development, Reframing adolescent research , Routledge
• 2018, Using contextual action theory for conceptualization and research on adolescent development
• 2016, Employment challenges faced by postdoctoral researchers: A review, Postdoctoral Funding Schemes in Europe , European Science Foundation
• 2015, Voices of Older Women from Portugal, Women’s career development throughout the lifespan: An international exploration , Routledge
• 2015, Quality of doctoral training and employability of doctorate holders: The views of doctoral candidates and junior researchers, The European Higher Education Area: Between Critical Reflections and Future Policies, Springer Open
• 2011, Tree of goals, Experiential activities for teaching career counselling classes and for facilitating career groups, III, National Career Development Association
• 2010, Giovani adulti in transizione verso il lavoro: Cosa intendono per lavoro, professione e carriera? / Young Adults in transition to employment: What do they mean by work, jobs and careers?, Sfide e nuovi orizzonti per l'orientamento 2: Diversità, sviluppo professionale, lavoro e servizi territoriali, Giunti O.S. – Organizzazioni Speciali

Encyclopedia entry

• Individuals’ careers: Career goals and planning., Elgar Encyclopedia of Career Development

Report

• 2025-05, Report Eurodoc Postdoc Survey, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15756207

Working paper

• 2024-11, Gender inequality and precarity in neoliberal academia. Working Paper on University Reform. Centre for Higher Education Studies, Aarhus University

Manual

• 2014, Students' Manual: Youth better prepared for the challenges of the labour market - Career counselling and internships for the students, Ministry of Youth and Sports
• 2014, Counsellor's Manual: Youth better prepared for the challenges of the labour market - Career counselling and internships for the students, Ministry of Youth and Sports
• 1997, WINDROSE: Steering towards the future
• 1997, WINDROSE: Career guidance counsellors' guide

Online resource

• 2021-11, #106: Precariously employed: The daily hassles of early career researchers, https://tressacademic.com/precariously-employed/
• 2018-02, What is there to learn about youth's career paths and transitions?, https://mindwise-groningen.nl/what-is-there-to-learn-about-youths-career-paths-and-transitions/

Conference paper

• Ser profissional de orientação num contexto de Novas Oportunidades / Being a career practitioner within the framework of the New Opportunities program
• O papel da escola na construção do significado do trabalho / School's role in the meaning of work construction process
• O ovo de colombo nas práticas de orientação / Columbus egg in career counselling practice
• Importância do trabalho e satisfação com a vida em jovens adultos: estudo exploratório / Work importance and life satisfaction in young adults: Exploratory study
• 2012, Reformas de longa duração e orientação: Relato de uma experiência Long-term retirement experiences and career counselling: Report of an educational intervention
• 2012, Orientação vocacional no sistema dual de formação: O porquê da sua inseparabilidade / Vocational guidance in the dual training system: Why they are inextricably linked
• 2012, Orientação vocacional no sistema dual de formação: O porquê da sua inseparabilidade
• 2012, Agentes de educação e formação de adultos em balanço: Que potencial? / Adult education and training agents weighing their options: What is the potential?
• 2010, Um olhar sobre a orientação vocacional ao longo da vida... / Looking into lifelong career counselling...
• 2010, Repensar a escola - orientação vocacional, organização pessoal, configuração de projectos: um olhar pessoal sobre a intervenção vocacional em contexto escolar / Rethinking School - Career counselling, personal organization and project design: A personal intake on career counselling at school
• 2009, Serviços de psicologia e orientação: como reestruturar as práticas interventivas?: considerações pragmáticas face aos pressupostos conceptuais / Career Guidance Services: How to restructure intervention practices? Pragmatic considerations derived from theoretical assumptions
• 2009, Qual a adequabilidade das intervenções tradicionais de orientação face aos desafios da actualidade? Reflexões a partir da prática / How suitable are traditional career guidance intervention practices considering contemporary challenges? Some thoughts from the field
• 2009, Orientação vocacional com adultos: Desafios e contributos de um processo RVCC na perspectiva do profissional / Career guidance with adults: Challenges and contributions of a recognition and validation of prior experiential learning process from the counsellor’s perspective
• 2009, Novas práticas de orientação vocacional em contexto escolar: Para quê e porquê? Um olhar de quem está no terreno / New career guidance practices in schools: For what and why? A point of view from the field
• 2009, Cidade das Profissões: (Re)pensar as práticas de orientação vocacional à luz de uma experiência formativa / Cidade das Profissões: To (re)think career guidance practices from the perspective of a training experience
• 2008, Quais as preocupações de carreira de formandos da aprendizagem? / What are apprenticeship trainees’ career concerns?
• 2005, Transição escola-mundo do trabalho: Exploração de algumas das suas dimensões psicológicas / School-to-work transition: Exploring some of its psychological dimensions
• 2005, How do portuguese youth feel during the school to work transition process?
• 2004, Os jovens e a transição para a vida profissionalmente activa / Young people and the school-to-work transition
• 2003, Trabalho, significados e definições: Qual(is) a(s) relação(ões) / Work, meanings and definitions: What relationship(s)?
• 2003, The role of family and work in a population of Portuguese young adults
• 2003, Intenções e práticas educativas de professores do 9.º ano, no âmbito da orientação e do desenvolvimento vocacional dos alunos
• 2002, O papel da escola no processo de construção de significado do trabalho