Curriculum Vitae
Alyssa Janssens-Theunis
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Alyssa Janssens-Theunis
Citation names
- Janssens-Theunis, Alyssa
- Janssens-Theunis, A.
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 6A1A-3584-2E24
- ORCID iD
- 0009-0002-1725-5993
Email addresses
- a61593@ualg.pt (Professional)
Websites
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Sociology
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Social Topics
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Dutch | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | |
| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Advanced (C1) | Upper intermediate (B2) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2029
Ongoing
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Programa de Doutoramento Interuniversitário em Sociologia – Conhecimento para Sociedades
Abertas e Inclusivas (OpenSoc) (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
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2026/05/27 - 2026/05/28
Concluded
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Open Science in Practice (Outros)
Major in Open science
European University of the Seas, Spain
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2025/02/25 - 2025/03/03
Concluded
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Understanding Ageing - online course about the experience of ageing, and age friendly
communities and services (Outros)
Major in Sociologia da idade
Charles Sturt University, Australia
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2024/12/03 - 2024/12/07
Concluded
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A practical guide for scientific writing (Outros)
Major in Escrita científica
Udemy Inc, United States
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2024/11/13 - 2024/11/20
Concluded
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Public Speaking: Find Your Unique Voice (Outros)
Major in Comunicação
Domestika Inc., Berkeley, CA, United States
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2020 - 2023
Concluded
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Sociologia (Mestrado)
Universidade do Algarve Faculdade de Economia, Portugal
"A ANTECIPAÇÃO DA VELHICE NA MEIA-IDADE: UMA PERSPETIVA DE GÉNERO" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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18 |
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2017 - 2020
Concluded
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Turismo (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Algarve Escola Superior de Gestão Hotelaria e Turismo, Portugal
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16 |
Affiliation
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2025/03/01 - 2025/05/31 | Research Integration Internship, in the project ‘Trajectories and Professional Identities of Sociologists Trained In The Algarve Region’ | Centro de Investigação em Turismo, Sustentabilidade e Bem-Estar (CinTurs), Portugal |
| Centro de Investigação em Turismo, Sustentabilidade e Bem-Estar (CinTurs), Portugal |
Outputs
Publications
| Journal article |
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| Thesis / Dissertation |
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Other
| Other output |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2026/07/03 | Apresentação do relatório de progresso do projeto de investigação intitulada “A Integração dos Estudantes Maiores de 23 anos no Ensino Superior Público: O caso da Universidade do Algarve” | Jornadas Doutorais da Universidade de Évora
Instituto de Investigação e Formação Avançada, Universidade de Évora (Évora, Portugal)
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| 2025/02/21 | Presentation of my doctoral thesis project | 3º Encontro Anual de Doutorandos da Universidade do Algarve
(Faro, Portugal)
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Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2026/05/20 - 2026/05/20 | In this workshop we talked about the essential guidelines to make the conference presentations
more organized and visually effective, covering key aspects such as organizing titles
and text elements, use of colors, image and graphic sizing, and logo placement.
Workshop
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Tips and Tricks: Improve Your Conference Presentation!
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2026/05/06 - 2026/05/06 | This workshop covered key practical aspects such as setting up a customisable slide
size, organising text and images effectively, managing headers and footnotes, and
placing logos appropriately.
Workshop
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Tips and Tricks: How to Create Your Poster in PowerPoint
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2026/05/05 - 2026/05/05 | This workshop aimed to help develop science communication skills, essential for presenting
academic work in a clear and engaging way to different audiences
Workshop
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How to present your work without losing your audience
PhD Students Network of the University Research Center in Psychology (CUIP), Portugal
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| 2026/04/08 - 2026/04/08 | This webinar provided the necessary knowledge to navigate scholarly publishing and
avoid predatory journals. It showed the various types of open access publishing and
their characteristics, providing insight into contemporary research dissemination,
and the key criteria and tools for evaluating credible scientific publications.
Seminar
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How to Check for Predatory Journals and Publishers
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2026/03/19 - 2026/03/19 | Webinar about how artificial intelligence is reshaping the epistemological foundations
of qualitative research and what this means for critically engaged research
Seminar
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Critical Qualitative Inquiry in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2026/03/04 - 2026/03/04 | In this workshop I learned the key steps to consider when editing a manuscript, including
preparing your manuscript, creating sections with different page numbering, managing
footnotes and headers, defining paragraph styles, and generating an automatic table
of contents or summary.
Workshop
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Tips and Tricks: How to Format Your Manuscripts
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2025/11/20 - 2025/11/20 | Workshop focused on persistent author identifiers (IDs), profile creation and updating,
use of platforms for scientific information dissemination and interoperability, and
collection of bibliometric and statistical indicators, with practical examples from
ORCID, Ciência ID, Google Scholar, and others.
Workshop
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How to Build a Strong Academic and Scientific Profile
UAlg Library, Portugal
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| 2025/10/30 - 2025/10/30 | This webinar explores how to build an impactful academic career by balancing research,
teaching, service, and societal engagement, emphasising the value of ethics, humility,
gratitude, and positive relationships as key to lasting influence in academia and
beyond.
Seminar
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CinTurs Master Webinars: "How to Become an Impactful Academic"
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2025/06/30 - 2025/07/04 | Volunteer: Supporting the development/checking of the programme. Supporting the organizing
committee the week before the conference (e.g., preparing bags, rooms, attendance
lists, etc.). Supporting the secretariat/registration desk during the conference.
Supporting the physical rooms during the conference.
Conference
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12th Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Marketing and Management (AHTMM)
Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2025/06/04 - 2025/06/04 | Masterclass: 'Que Futuro para a Universidade? Produção de conhecimento e mudança social'
Seminar
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Que Futuro para a Universidade? Produção de conhecimento e mudança social
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Centro Interdisciplinar de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
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| 2025/05/12 - 2025/05/12 | Webinar 'As Mulheres Cuidam, os Homens Fazem Algoritmos: Segregação das trajetórias
educativas e profissionais' that touched on the segregation of educational and professional
trajectories
Seminar
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As Mulheres Cuidam, os Homens Fazem Algoritmos: Segregação das trajetórias educativas
e profissionais
Associação Portuguesa de Estudos sobre as Mulheres, Portugal
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| 2025/04/10 - 2025/04/10 | The seminar 'CinTurs PhD Students Funding: Questions & Answers Session' aimed to explain
and clarify the procedures and funding for PhD students who are members of CinTurs,
focusing on what types of expenses are eligible, the amount of funding available,
the criteria for applying for funding, and when and how to apply.
Seminar
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CinTurs PhD Students Funding: Questions & Answers Session
Centro de Investigação em Turismo, Sustentabilidade e Bem-Estar (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2025/03/17 - 2025/03/17 | 4th SEA-EU Society Hub Webinar entitled ‘Sustainability Journeys’, which explored
key aspects of sustainability in higher education and opportunities to foster a culture
of innovation and social integration.
Seminar
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4º Webinar do SEA-EU Society Hub intitulado "Sustainability Journeys"
Universidade Europeia dos Mares, (SEA-EU), Universidade do Nord e Universidade de
Zagreb, Spain
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| 2025/03/12 - 2025/03/12 | Seminar: "A (Des)construção de um percurso de vida, segundo a perspetiva dos teóricos
da Sociologia"
Seminar
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A (Des)construção de um percurso de vida, segundo a perspetiva dos teóricos da Sociologia
Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/12/19 - 2024/12/19 | An event entitled ‘Recommendations to Address Reviewer Comments,’ which taught me
the best practices for analysing reviewer comments and how to effectively integrate
them into our article that is under review. It also helped me structure a response
letter.
Workshop
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Recommendations to Address Reviewer Comments
Centro de Investigação em Turismo, Sustentabilidade e Bem-Estar (CinTurs), Portugal
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| 2024/12/11 - 2024/12/11 | Training course entitled ‘Zotero, gestor bibliográfico e de PDF’ on capturing, storing
and searching metadata for bibliographic references in the Zotero database. It taught
me how to manage PDFs and integrate the tool with Word (for citations).
Workshop
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Zotero, gestor bibliográfico e de PDF
Biblioteca da Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/11/29 - 2024/11/29 | Training course entitled ‘Como Avaliar a Fiabilidade das Publicações Científicas,’
which provided me with knowledge in the field of open access publishing, identification
of credible scientific publications, as well as criteria and tools available for this
assessment.
Workshop
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Como Avaliar a Fiabilidade das Publicações Científicas
Biblioteca da Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/11/14 - 2024/11/14 | Conference session: ‘Methodological and Ethical Approaches to Studying Vulnerability’,
where the issue of participant vulnerability was discussed and the importance of confidentiality
and anonymity in research was highlighted.
Conference
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LIFE Conference 'Researching Vulnerabilities from a Life Course Perspective'
Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, Portugal
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| 2024/11/11 - 2024/11/11 | Training course entitled "Pesquisar recursos bibliográficos: algumas estratégias",
on accessing electronic bibliographic resources at UAlg; I learnt some strategies
for searching and analysing results, as well as how to query existing resources more
efficiently.
Workshop
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Pesquisar recursos bibliográficos: algumas estratégias
Biblioteca da Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/04/05 - 2024/04/05 | Seminar: "A Sociologia do Turismo como Sociologia da Felicidade: Uma viagem exploratória"
Seminar
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ENES 2024 - Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Sociologia na UAlg
Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/04/03 - 2024/04/03 | Seminar: "A Sociologia em Portugal: Passado, Presente e Futuro"
Seminar
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ENES 2024 - Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Sociologia na UAlg
Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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| 2024/04/03 - 2024/04/03 | Seminar: "O Papel da Sociologia na Europa"
Seminar
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ENES 2024 - Encontro Nacional de Estudantes de Sociologia na UAlg
Faculdade de Economia, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2024/11/12 - Current | Centro de Investigação em Turismo, Sustentabilidade e Bem-Estar / Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs) | Membro doutorando / PhD student |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2026/01/27 - 2026/02/13 | Support to CinTurs Secretariat: assist with the organisation, review, and updating
information within the existing database and CinTurs' website regarding new entries
of PhD students
Member
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Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal |
| 2025/12/12 - 2025/12/18 | Support to CinTurs Secretariat: Indexing of the scientific journal of CinTurs (Journal
of Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being, Vol. 13 No. 4) on different indexing platforms.
Member
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Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal |
| 2025/11/20 - 2025/11/20 | Support to CinTurs Secretariat: Assist with secretariat and editorial tasks, by issuing
participation certificates for short courses and seminars.
Member
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Research Center for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-being (CinTurs), Portugal |