Doctor Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Azeres, Professor and Rector of Universidade do Minho, in the use of his own competence, in accordance with the terms of subsection d) of section 1 of article 92 of Law no. 62/2007, from September 10th and subsection d) of section 1 of article 37 of the Statutes of Universidade do Minho, approved by Normative Order no. 15/2021, published in Diário da República, 2nd series, no. 115, of June 16th, makes it known that, for a period of 30 counting from the business day immediately after the date on which this notice is published, an international selection tender is open for recruitment, in the form of an uncertain term contract celebrated under the Labour Code, of 1 (one) postdoctoral researcher position as Researcher of initial level under private law, for the exercise of scientific research activities in the scientific area of Languages and Literatures, scientific subarea Literature, as it fits the scope of the project GESPEDU - Gender Equality, the Short Story Genre and Postcolonial Approaches to Literary Education for an Inclusive Society, COMPETE2030-FEDER-00736500, funded by The European Fund for Regional Development (FEDER) and the Operational Program for Competitiveness and Internationalisation (POCI) – Compete 2030, of Portugal 2030, with a view to the development of R&D activities, namely: to participate in the development and execution of R&D projects and in related scientific and technical activities; monitor the work carried out within the scope of the projects under his/her responsibility; collaborate in the development of training actions within the scope of the R&D methodology; monitor the research work carried out by the scholarship holders, research interns and research assistants and participate in their training; collaborate in teaching and participate in the institution's training programs; guide higher education students, namely undergraduate, master's and doctoral students; perform the functions for which they have been elected or appointed in the bodies of the institution to which they belong.
 

1. Applicable Legislation: This tender, open by Decree of 27/01/2026, by the Rector of Universidade do Minho, is governed by the provisions of Decree Law No. 57/2016, of August 29th, amended by Law No. 57/2017 of July 19th, which approved a hiring regime of doctorates aimed at stimulating scientific and technological employment in all areas of knowledge, by the Regulation of Scientific Employment (RSE), by the Regulamento da Carreira, Recrutamento, Contratação e Avaliação do Desempenho do Pessoal Investigador em Regime de Direito Privado da UMinho (RPI-UM), amended and republished by the Rectoral Order RT-10353/2022, published in the Diário da República, Series II, No. 163, of the 24th of August 2022, and other applicable laws and regulations.
 

2. Place of Work: The work placement is located at the University of Minho facilities.
 

3. Monthly salary: The salary to be attributed is 2408,11€ corresponding to the remuneration level _i10_included in the annex 1 of the RPI-UM.
 

4. Eligibility Criteria: Any national, foreign and stateless candidates who hold a doctoral degree in in the field of knowledge / specialty that shows an appropriate profile for the activities to be developed.
Opponents of this tender with qualifications obtained abroad must prove the recognition, equivalence or registration of the doctoral degree, under the terms of the applicable legislation. This formality must be completed by the signing date of the contract.
4.1. General admission requirements are those defined in point 4. For the purpose of determining the appropriate profile for the activity to be developed, the following are special requirements:
a) Proven experience in the scientific field of the competition for at least 3 years.
b) PhD in Postcolonial Studies and Feminist Studies as the scientific framework from which literary studies are approached.
c) Extensive experience in teaching and learning activities in secondary education, with knowledge of the reality of Portuguese schools.
d) Experience as a member of several research projects, demonstrating the ability to integrate into the management and development dynamics of a research project.
e) Curriculum with a significant degree of internationalization, including a substantial number of publications in English, with a primary focus on African and Asian literatures in the Portuguese language. 

f) Experience participating in research teams at Brazilian universities, as connections with Brazil represent another important dimension of a project on the various Portuguese-language literatures.
g) Experience in organizing book editions and coordinating scientific events.
 

5. Formalization of the applications: Applications are formalized through a request addressed to the Rector of Universidade do Minho, under the terms defined in the attached template.
5.1. The application must include the following documents:
a) Copy of certificate or diploma degree.
b) Detailed curriculum vitae structured in accordance with point 9.
c) Copy of the [6] most relevant publications.
d) Summary of the research project (maximum 2 A4 pages).
e) Other relevant documents for the evaluation of qualification in the related scientific area.
f) Any other documents that the applicant considers relevant, namely for the assessment of the information referred to in paragraph 2 of article 5 of the RSE.
5.2. Candidates must submit the request and supporting documents, using digital tools, in PDF format, mandatorily, by electronic means, to the address margarete@elach.uminho.pt, until the deadline for submission of applications established in this notice, indicating in subject “CTTI-PI-9/26-CEHUM(1)”.
5.3. Failure to comply with the deadline for submitting the application, such as failure to submit or late submission of the application referred to in point 5 and the documents referred to in points a) to c) of point 5.1, determines the exclusion of the application. The exclusion decision is notified to the candidates, by email, for the purpose of holding the hearing of interested parties.
5.4. The jury may, whenever it finds necessary, request candidates to provide documents complementary to the facts referred to in the submitted curriculum, determining a deadline for this purpose.
5.5. False statements provided by the candidates will be punished by law.
 

6. Members of the Jury: The selection jury has the following composition, according to article no. 13 of the RSE and article no. 35 of the do RPI-UM:
President of the jury: Doctor Vítor Manuel Ferreira Ribeiro Moura, Director of the Centre for Humanistic Studies of the University of Minho.
Other members:
Doctor Ana Gabriela Vilela Pereira Macedo, Retired Full Professor, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho.
Doctor Carlos Mendes de Sousa, Associate Professor, Department of Portuguese and Lusophone Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of Minho.
 

7. Rules of operation of the Jury: The jury shall deliberate by means of a nominal vote in accordance with the adopted and published selection criteria, and abstentions will not be allowed.
7.1. The jury meetings will be documented in written minutes, containing a summary of what has taken place, as well as the votes cast by each of the members and the respective grounds, being provided to the candidates whenever requested.
 

8. Approval on absolute merit:
8.1. The jury must decide on the absolute merit of the candidates, based on the merit of the global curriculum of the candidates in the scientific area for which the tender is open [and also considering the fulfilment, cumulatively, of at least one of the following requirements:
a) PhD in Postcolonial and Feminist Studies
b) Teaching experience in Secondary Education in Portugal
c) Publications in the areas of Literatures in Portuguese and/or Postcolonial Studies and/or Feminist Studies
d) At least ten articles/chapters indexed in Scopus
e) Publication of at least one single-authored book and five edited or co-edited books
f) Research in African and Asian literatures and cultures
g) Membership of the research team in at least three research projects
h) Supervision of at least one completed doctoral project

8.2. The decision of exclusion on absolute merit is notified to the candidates, by email, for the purpose of holding the hearing of interested parties.
8.3. Once the deadline for the exercise of the right of hearing the interested parties has expired, the jury analyses the allegations presented and, if it keeps the exclusion decision, notifies the excluded candidates by email with delivery receipt, subsequently beginning the application of the selection methods to the admitted candidates.
 

9. Method(s) and evaluation criteria: The selection method consists of a Scientific and Curricular Path Assessment (SCPA). [The jury may choose to include an Interview (I), or Public Presentation Session (PPS), or Public Demonstration Session (PDS), weighing no more than 10%].
All candidates, approved on absolute merit, are subjected to the evaluation of the scientific and curricular path to be carried out according to the criteria and weights defined in point [9.3. and 9.4, if applicable]. However, only the 4 candidates approved and best positioned in the ranking resulting from the evaluation of the scientific and curricular path will be admitted to the Interview (or to the PPS or the PDS).
9.1. The evaluation of the Scientific and Curricular Path Assessment (SCPA) focuses on the relevance, quality and timeliness:
a) of the scientific, technological, cultural or artistic production of the last five years considered most relevant by the candidate for the area of recruitment and applied research activities, or based on practice, considered to have the greatest impact by the candidate for the area of recruitment, with a minimum weight of 80%.
b) of the activities of extension and dissemination of knowledge, namely in the context of the promotion of the cultural and scientific practices considered most relevant by the candidate, and activities for the management of science, technology and innovation programs, or experience in observation and monitoring of the scientific and technological system, with a maximum weight of 20%.
9.2. The five-year period mentioned in the preceding paragraph may be increased by the jury, if requested by the candidate, and when justified on grounds of suspension of scientific activity for socially protected reasons such as parental leave, prolonged serious illness, and other situations of unavailability for work that are legally protected.
9.3. In the evaluation of the Scientific and Curricular Path Assessment (SCPA) the following parameters and evaluation criteria are considered with the respective weights:
STP – Scientific and Technological Production. 90%
EMA – Extension and Management Activities. 10%
The final classification of the SCPA is obtained by the following formula: SCPA = 0,9STP + 0,1EMA.
9.4. The Interview (INT), with the duration of 10 minutes, will be classified on a numerical scale from 0 to 100 points, applying the following parameters and criteria evaluation: attitude and critical awareness (ACA), the candidate’s motivation (CM), and global appreciation (GA), represented in the formula: INT=0,3ACA+0,5CM+0,2GA.
9.5. Candidates with an absolute merit score lower than 75 points in one of the methods, will not be the object of the next evaluation method, as well as candidates who have not attended, have given up on the application or, although approved, have not been included in the tranches used.
9.6. The valuation of the evaluation parameters is expressed on the numerical scale from 0 to 100 points.
9.7. The classification of each candidate is obtained by the average of the classifications of each one of the members of the jury. In case of a draw, the Chairman of the jury will make a final decision to untie the applicants.
 

10. Order of candidates: The order of the candidates must be based on the evaluation made according to the evaluation criteria described in this notice.
10.1. After completion of the application of the evaluation criteria, the jury will draw up an orderly list of successful candidates with their respective classification.
10.2. The final classification of the candidates is expressed in the numerical scale of 0 to 100 points; the classification being obtained through a weighted average.

11. Participation of interested parties and decision: The final ordering is notified to the candidates, by email with receipt of delivery of the notification, allowing them to pronounce for the purpose of preliminary hearing of the interested parties, pursuant to article 121 and following of the Code of Administrative Procedure, applying, with the necessary adaptations, the provisions of article 31 of the Regulation.
11.1. After the hearing of the interested parties, the jury analyses the allegations presented and approves the final ordering list of the successful candidates. Within 90 days, from the deadline for submission of the applications, the final decisions of the jury are given.
11.2. The period referred to in the previous number may be extended when the high number of candidates and or the special complexity of the competition justifies it.
11.3. The final decision of the jury is approved by the Rector of Universidade do Minho, who also decides on the hiring.
 

12. Publication of results: The list of admitted and excluded candidates, as well as the final ranking list of the successful candidates, are published on Universidade do Minho's website, and the candidates are notified by email with receipt of delivery of the notification.
 

13. The present tender is exclusively designated to fill the indicated vacancies and may be terminated up to the homologation of the final ranking list of candidates, expiring with the respective occupation of the jobs on offer.
 

14. The present announcement was approved by the jury of the tender at its meeting on 02/02/2026, according to the approved minutes of the said meeting.
 

15. Non-discrimination and equal access policy: Universidade do Minho actively promotes a policy of non-discrimination and equal access, so that no candidate may be privileged, benefited, harmed or deprived of any right or exempt from any duty due, namely, to ancestry, age, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, economic situation, education, social origin or condition, genetic heritage, reduced working capacity, disability, chronic illness, nationality, ethnic origin or race, territory of origin, language, religion, political or ideological convictions and trade union membership.
15.1. Pursuant to section h) of article 9 of the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic, the Public Administration, as an employer, actively promotes a policy of equal opportunities for men and women in accessing employment and professional advancement, scrupulously any form of discrimination.
 

The Rector, Professor Pedro Miguel Ferreira Martins Arezes

ANNEX
REQUEST
 

To the Rector of Universidade do Minho
Name (…), birthdate (…), VAT no. (…), identification card no. (…), address (…), Postal code (…), Mobile Phone no. (…), email address (…), holder of a degree in (…), hereby requests that you kindly accept my application for the international competition for recruitment in the form of an uncertain term contract under the Labour Code and Decree-Law no. 57/2016 of August 29th, as amended by Law no. 57/2017, of July 19th and the “Regulamento da Carreira, Recrutamento, Contratação e Avaliação do Desempenho do Pessoal Investigador em Regime de Direito Privado da UMinho”, amended and republished by the Normative Order no. 10353/2022, published in Diário da República, 2nd Series, no. 163, of August 24th, of __ doctoral positions ______________(category) in the scientific area of __________________, according to a notice published in the Diário da República no. __, 2nd series, of __/__/__, with ref._______.
It declares that the elements or facts contained in this application are true. I also declare that I agree to receive by email the communications and notifications resulting from the present selection tender procedure.
I consent that the personal data described above are collected by the University of Minho for the purpose of managing the administrative procedures necessary for the analysis and publication of the application results, processing of requests submitted by the candidate to UMinho, internal administrative processes of a financial nature, creation of electronics personal identity and statistical reporting.
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