Montserrat Castelló
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2224068 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Montserrat Castelló |
| PRENOMES | Montserrat |
| SOBRENOME | Castelló |
| ASSINATURA | CASTELLÓ M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Universitat Ramon Llull |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1757-9795 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1969 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Doctoral writing as a promoter for researcher development and independence
The doctorate is a learning process that aims to develop new understanding, with the ultimate goal of acquiring research-related skills and competencies required to become an independent researcher capable of autonomous work within teams. However, doctoral candidates often face numerous challenges throughout this journey. Writing is frequently identified as one of the most salient challenges. We leverage a Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHA…
What is the point of the PhD in this age of uncertainty
In contemporary European societies, we are living through increasingly turbulent times characterised by rapid societal shifts driven by new technologies, communication methods, and work practices. Simultaneously, universities face mounting external pressures such as government policies, funding cuts, and reallocation. In this paper, we view these challenges as an opportunity to reconsider the fundamental nature of PhD education. If the PhD, as we…
The Role of Parenthood in Shaping PhD Holders' Careers Beyond Academia
The study investigates the impact of parenthood on the careers of PhD holders who work outside academia, with a focus on gender differences. It analyses the dialogues between professional and parental roles of 38 Spanish PhD holders from various disciplines, their interaction with social discourses about parenthood and the outcomes of these dialogues to identify the impact of parenthood on participants' careers. Dialogues and discourses about par…
A dialogical approach to unveil hybrid researcher identities of educational PhD holders
PhD careers are becoming increasingly diverse, giving rise to hybrid career trajectories. PhD holders holding multiple concurrent academic and non-academic jobs navigate varied institutional contexts and cultures, often encountering contradictions. However, they can also foster distinct career opportunities and develop unique research identities. This study explored the identity development of educational hybrid researchers. We drew on Dialogical…
The association between PhD holders’ experiences of professional support and work engagement and burnout
Most new PhD graduates are going to have non-academic careers, but research on their work experience has so far been limited, particularly regarding the quality of professional interactions and how they contribute to their occupational wellbeing. This paper reports on experiences of professional support among PhD holders working outside academia. The dynamics between professional support from colleagues, burnout symptoms and work engagement were …
Collaborative writing among PhD holders in non-academic careers
This study explores the collaborative writing practices of PhD holders working in non-academic environments, investigating disciplinary variations and their effects on work engagement and burnout. Using survey about professional experiences and competences responded by over 500 PhD holders in Spain, we identified that collaborative writing practices in non-academic settings involve frequently co-authoring, editing, and providing feedback on colle…
Considering‐Mobility
Globally more than half of PhD graduates work beyond academia and they change jobs with greater frequency than in academia. We have been researching this post‐PhD mobility for some time, and recently, in beginning a study, we became intrigued by transcript excerpts that were not actual mobility but still referenced mobility. On examining these more closely, we realised they represented assessing options/possibilities without actual moving . This …
Prominence, Promotion and Positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’ in Six Countries
The international nature of doctoral education creates interesting tensions where national systems, institutional policies, disciplinary customs, individual supervisor preferences, and doctoral researcher needs meet. The Thesis by Publication (TBP), a model where published works are included within the thesis, is available to doctoral researchers in many disciplines and institutions, but it is not a universally accepted format or approached in a …
PhD holders at the boundaries and knowledge brokering
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of PhDs pursuing careers at the boundaries between academic and non-academic sectors, particularly with multiple transitions and dual appointments. However, the professional links that PhD holders pursuing non-academic careers maintain with academia and how these relate to different knowledge brokering activities across sectors remain unexplored. To fill this gap, 39 PhD holders worki…
Transitioning beyond Academia
PhD holders are increasingly exploring careers beyond academia, yet, little is understood about their transition experiences, particularly in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) disciplines. While research suggests that these transitions are both challenging and satisfactory, there is limited knowledge about the specific engagement (e.g. feeling absorbed) and disengagement (e.g. experiencing detachment) experiences during these trans…
Researchers’ strategies to cope with the covid-19 impact on their activity
This study aims to characterize the strategies researchers used to cope with Covid-19 impact and to explore the relationship between those strategies, researchers’ characteristics and the pandemic impact in their lives. 721 researchers, proportionally distributed among three Spanish regions, answered an online survey on the pandemic impact on their activity. Scales referred to social support, productivity, research tasks, working conditions, and …
PhD holders’ working conditions and job satisfaction in Spain
The present study aimed to compare PhD holders’ current working conditions, satisfaction, and changes in their job four years after graduation across three job sectors, namely universities, research institutes and industry. We analysed the responses to the survey on PhD graduates’ employability of the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya. Participants were 1,798 PhD holders from all disciplines who graduated between 2014 and…
Teacher identity as inquirer
This qualitative study uses the dialogical self theory to explore teacher educators’ voices as they speak on the issue of teacher identity positioning, specifically when it comes to the position of teachers as inquirers. A content analysis of self-reports from 18 teacher educators yielded 3 primary teacher core I-positions. The results showed that the teacher educators viewed teachers more as mediators than as instructors or inquirers. Although a…
From teacher to school principal. Analysis of an identity transition process / De profesor a director de escuela. Análisis de un proceso de transición identitaria
The transition from teacher to school principal has been shown to be a professional challenge, and even though the research has identified the challenges involved, little is known about how the way it is approached determines the identity change it entails. We used a longitudinal design with a single case and multimodal data to describe the identity transition of a novice principal in his first year in this role. Based on the dialogic perspective…
What do PhD graduates in non-academic careers actually do
A growing literature examines PhD graduates working beyond academia. These studies are critiqued for rarely addressing the sectoral and organisational structural factors that influence actual work. So, we examined how the non-academic, contextually situated, organisational job specifications of fifteen PhD graduates interacted with their daily work experiences – looking particularly at the role of (a) communication since effective communication i…
What makes a Thesis by Publication? An international study of policy requirements and restrictions
The thesis by publication is expanding across countries, institutions and disciplines, and so a more in-depth understanding of the format across contexts is warranted, to ensure that all stakeholders understand the implications of this format and implement it in a fair and transparent manner. This paper provides a cross-sectional analysis of policies related to the Thesis by Publication in six countries, investigating requirements and restriction…
Exploring writing processes in authentic writing tasks
Characterisation of the professional identity of school principals ( Caracterización de la identidad profesional de los directores de escuela )
Despite the growth in research on the impact of school administration on educational improvement in the past 10 years, the characterization of the identity of school principals is a controversial, pending issue. In this study, we set out to undertake this characterization from a dialogic perspective by tracking four expert principals over the course of one academic year. Via a longitudinal design with multiple case studies, we analysed their repe…
Post-PhD Researchers’ Trajectories and Networking
The present study used a longitudinal mixed-method design to investigate the relationship between post-PhD researchers’ writing conceptions and their experiences, scholarly trajectory, and networking capabilities. A total of 134 Spanish post-PhD researchers answered the Post-PhD Experience—Survey scales on Academic Writing and Social Support. One year later, a subsample of 21 participated in retrospective multimodal interviews, in which visual me…
I research, you research
This interpretative, cross-sectional study analysed the perceptions of students in their last year of their bachelor’s in primary school education with regard to educational inquiry. It explored their understanding of what this concept means and its benefits, as well as the procedures, stakeholders and competences involved in research. The data were collected using the TePi (Teacher Professional Identity) questionnaire and a focus group. The resu…
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies
Over the past two decades, identity has emerged as a concept framing studies of early career researcher experience. Yet, identity is an amorphous concept, understood and used in a range of ways. This systematic review aimed to unpack the underpinnings of the notion of researcher identity. The final sample consisted of 38 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals in the last 20 years. Analyses focused on (a) identifying the dimensions…
What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree
During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, universities have also invested in policies to monitor satisfaction, retention, and timely completion—and researchers have expanded the study of PhD experience. We, as such researchers, have increasingly received invitations from university d…
What sustains doctoral students’ interest? Comparison of Finnish, UK and Spanish doctoral students’ perceptions
Interest plays a major role in the doctoral experience. However, previous research has not considered how the national context might influence interest. This study focused on exploring cross-national variation in doctoral students’ experiences by comparing Finnish, UK and Spanish doctoral students’ research interests. Participants (n = 2.426) responded to the Doctoral Experience survey. Spanish students sustained higher levels of researcher and i…
Why do students consider dropping out of doctoral degrees? Institutional and personal factors
The “why” and “what for” of research in Social Sciences
Faculty and student representations of academic writing at Spanish universities / Las representaciones de profesores y estudiantes sobre la escritura académica en las universidades españolas
Research on academic writing has been the focus of several international publications, seminars and conferences during the last decades. However, knowledge of the practices and conceptions, along with the status of writing in higher education, is quite disparate depending on the contexts and traditions. In this paper, we survey the research on representations of academic writing internationally as well as the background of the European Writing Su…
Writing at university
This study seeks to analyse the characteristics and functions that students and faculty attribute to written genres in Spanish universities, to what extent these representations are shared by both groups, and how they contribute to the construction of disciplinary knowledge in Spanish higher education. Accordingly, we classified students’ and teachers’ responses into 12 genre families grouped into five functions: Disciplinary Knowledge (DK), Crit…
Transitioning beyond Academia
PhD holders are increasingly exploring careers beyond academia, yet, little is understood about their transition experiences, particularly in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (HASS) disciplines. While research suggests that these transitions are both challenging and satisfactory, there is limited knowledge about the specific engagement (e.g. feeling absorbed) and disengagement (e.g. experiencing detachment) experiences during these trans…
Estrategias de lectura y producción de textos académicos. Leer para evaluar un texto científico
El presente estudio tuvo la finalidad de identificar, describir y analizar las estrategias de lectura y escritura que aplicaron cinco lectores y escritores expertos, integrantes de un comité o tribunal, para evaluar la idoneidad de un trabajo de investigación. Los lectores utilizaron la técnica de protocolo verbal en la revisión del documento y los datos arrojados se analizaron con Atlas/ti. La unidad de análisis correspondió a las secuencias est…
Convocatoria Abierta Para la Presentación de Originales
Introducción
Este artículo introduce el monográfico y presenta el resto de artículos que lo integran. Con esta finalidad, se realiza un breve análisis de las características asociadas a las redes electrónicas basadas en la comunicación asincrona escrita —RCAE—y del protagonismo que éstas han ido adquiriendo en el transcurso de los últimos años en el desarrollo de las propuestas de e-learning, tanto en el marco de modalidades de educación a distancia como semi…
Leer múltiples documentos para escribir textos académicos en la universidad
En las últimas tres décadas, la investigación en el campo de la composición y de la comprensión del texto se ha ocupado de dilucidar los procesos cognitivos y los condicionantes sociales y culturales que caracterizan a las tareas híbridas que requieren comprender y sintetizar múltiples fuentes para escribir textos académicos. El presente artículo tiene por objetivo presentar una revisión de los principales resultados de esta investigación. Para e…
Learning to Write a Research Article
This paper presents a study designed from a socially situated and activity theory perspective aimed at gaining a deeper understanding of how Ph.D. students regulate their academic writing activity. Writing regulation is a complex activity of a highly situated and social nature, involving cyclical thought-action-emotion dynamics and the individual’s capacity to monitor his/her activity. The central purpose was to analyze how writing regulation tak…
Research on academic writing in the teaching-learning processes in the Spanish university context / La investigación sobre escritura académica en los procesos de enseñanza-aprendizaje en la universida…
This introductory article of the special issue has a threefold aim. First, it presents the objectives and background of the Research Network on Academic Writing in Teaching and Learning Processes (Red para la Investigación de la Escritura Académica en los procesos de Enseñanza y Aprendizaje; RIEA-EA); secondly, it points out the more urgent challenges that research on academic writing is currently facing at Spanish universities. These challenges …
Faculty and student representations of academic writing at Spanish universities / Las representaciones de profesores y estudiantes sobre la escritura académica en las universidades españolas
Research on academic writing has been the focus of several international publications, seminars and conferences during the last decades. However, knowledge of the practices and conceptions, along with the status of writing in higher education, is quite disparate depending on the contexts and traditions. In this paper, we survey the research on representations of academic writing internationally as well as the background of the European Writing Su…
Writing at university
This study seeks to analyse the characteristics and functions that students and faculty attribute to written genres in Spanish universities, to what extent these representations are shared by both groups, and how they contribute to the construction of disciplinary knowledge in Spanish higher education. Accordingly, we classified students’ and teachers’ responses into 12 genre families grouped into five functions: Disciplinary Knowledge (DK), Crit…
Why do students consider dropping out of doctoral degrees? Institutional and personal factors
The “why” and “what for” of research in Social Sciences
What sustains doctoral students’ interest? Comparison of Finnish, UK and Spanish doctoral students’ perceptions
Interest plays a major role in the doctoral experience. However, previous research has not considered how the national context might influence interest. This study focused on exploring cross-national variation in doctoral students’ experiences by comparing Finnish, UK and Spanish doctoral students’ research interests. Participants (n = 2.426) responded to the Doctoral Experience survey. Spanish students sustained higher levels of researcher and i…
What influences PhD graduate trajectories during the degree
During the past two decades, PhD graduate numbers have increased dramatically with graduates viewed by governments as a means to advance the knowledge economy and international competitiveness. Concurrently, universities have also invested in policies to monitor satisfaction, retention, and timely completion—and researchers have expanded the study of PhD experience. We, as such researchers, have increasingly received invitations from university d…
Post-PhD Researchers’ Trajectories and Networking
The present study used a longitudinal mixed-method design to investigate the relationship between post-PhD researchers’ writing conceptions and their experiences, scholarly trajectory, and networking capabilities. A total of 134 Spanish post-PhD researchers answered the Post-PhD Experience—Survey scales on Academic Writing and Social Support. One year later, a subsample of 21 participated in retrospective multimodal interviews, in which visual me…
I research, you research
This interpretative, cross-sectional study analysed the perceptions of students in their last year of their bachelor’s in primary school education with regard to educational inquiry. It explored their understanding of what this concept means and its benefits, as well as the procedures, stakeholders and competences involved in research. The data were collected using the TePi (Teacher Professional Identity) questionnaire and a focus group. The resu…
What perspectives underlie ‘researcher identity’? A review of two decades of empirical studies
Over the past two decades, identity has emerged as a concept framing studies of early career researcher experience. Yet, identity is an amorphous concept, understood and used in a range of ways. This systematic review aimed to unpack the underpinnings of the notion of researcher identity. The final sample consisted of 38 empirical articles published in peer-reviewed journals in the last 20 years. Analyses focused on (a) identifying the dimensions…
Characterisation of the professional identity of school principals ( Caracterización de la identidad profesional de los directores de escuela )
Despite the growth in research on the impact of school administration on educational improvement in the past 10 years, the characterization of the identity of school principals is a controversial, pending issue. In this study, we set out to undertake this characterization from a dialogic perspective by tracking four expert principals over the course of one academic year. Via a longitudinal design with multiple case studies, we analysed their repe…
Exploring writing processes in authentic writing tasks
Researchers’ strategies to cope with the covid-19 impact on their activity
This study aims to characterize the strategies researchers used to cope with Covid-19 impact and to explore the relationship between those strategies, researchers’ characteristics and the pandemic impact in their lives. 721 researchers, proportionally distributed among three Spanish regions, answered an online survey on the pandemic impact on their activity. Scales referred to social support, productivity, research tasks, working conditions, and …
PhD holders’ working conditions and job satisfaction in Spain
The present study aimed to compare PhD holders’ current working conditions, satisfaction, and changes in their job four years after graduation across three job sectors, namely universities, research institutes and industry. We analysed the responses to the survey on PhD graduates’ employability of the Catalan University Quality Assurance Agency, AQU Catalunya. Participants were 1,798 PhD holders from all disciplines who graduated between 2014 and…
Teacher identity as inquirer
This qualitative study uses the dialogical self theory to explore teacher educators’ voices as they speak on the issue of teacher identity positioning, specifically when it comes to the position of teachers as inquirers. A content analysis of self-reports from 18 teacher educators yielded 3 primary teacher core I-positions. The results showed that the teacher educators viewed teachers more as mediators than as instructors or inquirers. Although a…
From teacher to school principal. Analysis of an identity transition process / De profesor a director de escuela. Análisis de un proceso de transición identitaria
The transition from teacher to school principal has been shown to be a professional challenge, and even though the research has identified the challenges involved, little is known about how the way it is approached determines the identity change it entails. We used a longitudinal design with a single case and multimodal data to describe the identity transition of a novice principal in his first year in this role. Based on the dialogic perspective…
What do PhD graduates in non-academic careers actually do
A growing literature examines PhD graduates working beyond academia. These studies are critiqued for rarely addressing the sectoral and organisational structural factors that influence actual work. So, we examined how the non-academic, contextually situated, organisational job specifications of fifteen PhD graduates interacted with their daily work experiences – looking particularly at the role of (a) communication since effective communication i…
What makes a Thesis by Publication? An international study of policy requirements and restrictions
The thesis by publication is expanding across countries, institutions and disciplines, and so a more in-depth understanding of the format across contexts is warranted, to ensure that all stakeholders understand the implications of this format and implement it in a fair and transparent manner. This paper provides a cross-sectional analysis of policies related to the Thesis by Publication in six countries, investigating requirements and restriction…
Prominence, Promotion and Positioning of the ‘Thesis by Publication’ in Six Countries
The international nature of doctoral education creates interesting tensions where national systems, institutional policies, disciplinary customs, individual supervisor preferences, and doctoral researcher needs meet. The Thesis by Publication (TBP), a model where published works are included within the thesis, is available to doctoral researchers in many disciplines and institutions, but it is not a universally accepted format or approached in a …
PhD holders at the boundaries and knowledge brokering
Over the past decade, there has been an increase in the number of PhDs pursuing careers at the boundaries between academic and non-academic sectors, particularly with multiple transitions and dual appointments. However, the professional links that PhD holders pursuing non-academic careers maintain with academia and how these relate to different knowledge brokering activities across sectors remain unexplored. To fill this gap, 39 PhD holders worki…
Psychology (20 obras) · Sociology (17 obras) · Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions (15 obras) · Pedagogy (15 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Higher education (8 obras) · Higher Education and Employability (8 obras) · Mathematics education (7 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras) · Art (6 obras)