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Gil Nata is an Assistant Professor at the University of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro since September 2023. He is also an integrated member of the Centre for Research and Intervention in Education of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto (CIIE/FPCEUP). He graduated in Psychology in 2000 and finished his PhD in (Political) Psychology in 2008. From 2008 until July 2015 he was a full-time faculty teacher at Universidade Portucalense. During this period, he was a member of the University's¿ Scientific Council for more than 5 years and served as chair of the Pedagogical Board. In 2010 he won the award for ¿Professor of the Year¿. Between January 2017 and December 2019, Gil Nata was a research fellow in the EU-funded H2020 ISOTIS: Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society (727069), where he co-coordinated a WP regarding to professional development of education professionals. In 2020, Gil Nata a position awarded by FCT for a (fixed-term) Research Fellow for next six years. His work (with colleagues) on grade inflation by private schools and school rankings has received large public attention and wide media coverage. As a result, Gil Nata and Tiago Neves were invited to present the study results to the Education Commission of the Portuguese Parliament. His work has also been selected for the Commission¿s annual report on the Education¿s state. He has several research interests, namely education and social inequalities, evaluation of schools and educational policies, psychological assessment, intercultural psychology, political psychology, social psychology, community psychology, development and moral psychology, and epistemology. He is also expert in: statistics/quantitative methods of data analysis (multivariate statistics, structural equation analysis, multilevel analysis); qualitative methods of data collection and analysis (interviews and focus groups; content analysis, thematic analysis and grounded theory); research methodology; systematic reviews. Gil Nata has published several articles in major peer review international journals, one book (selected for publication by a panel evaluation), and other publications.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Gil André da Silva Costa Nata

Citation names

  • Nata, Gil

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
FC18-0E08-F615
ORCID iD
0000-0002-4489-2384

Email addresses

  • gil.nata@gmail.com (Professional)
  • gilnata@utad.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Telephone
  • 226079700 (Professional)
  • 259350524 Ext.: 4524 (Professional)

Addresses

  • Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade do Porto, Rua Alfredo Allen, 4200-135, Porto, Porto, Portugal (Professional)
  • Quinta de Prados, 5000-801, Vila Real, Vila Real, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
  • Social Sciences - Psychology
  • Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
French Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Italian Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
Education
Degree Classification
2008
Concluded
 PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Cultural Difference and Democracy: the role of identity, citizenship, and tolerance in the minorities-majority relationship." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved by unanimity. The jury recommended the th
2000
Concluded
 Degree in Psychology (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
"Espelhos, estilos, e portas ou Rogers (1976) [Mirrors, styles, and doors or Rogers (1976)]" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/06/01 - 2023/08/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal
2017/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2018 - 2019 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
2007/09/03 - 2015/07/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Portucalense Infante Dom Henrique, Portugal

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2010 - Current Integrated Member of CIIE Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2017/01 - 2019/12 Inclusive Education and Social Support to Tackle Inequalities in Society
grant.727069
 European Commission
2012 - 2012 O Peso Escondido das Desigualdades Sociais nos Rankings Escolares [The hidden weight of social inequalities in school rankings]
...
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal
 Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas
Concluded
2011 - 2012 RankDes — Rankings Escolares e Desigualdades
...
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas
2003/01/01 - 2006/12/31 CIDADANIA ACTIVA E TOLERÂNCIA FACE A GRUPOS MINORITÁRIOS: O PAPEL DA PARTICIPAÇÃO EM ASSOCIAÇÕES, DA CONFIANÇA INTERPESSOAL E DA PERCEPÇÃO DE AMEAÇA NA CONSOLIDAÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA
SFRH/BD/11410/2002
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2020/06/15 - Current Equitable Schools: uncovering the distinctive features of schools that systematically diminish educational inequalities in the Portuguese Context
CEECIND/00646/2018
Investigador Auxiliar na FPCEUP (CEEC da FCT: CEECIND/00646/2018)
Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2024/06/30 Equity through PISA: results and discourses
PTDC/CED-EDG/2124/2020
10.54499/PTDC/CED-EDG/2124/2020
Principal investigator
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Educativas, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Centro de Psicologia, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2018/07/16 - 2022/07/15 Grow up in border regions in Portugal: young people, educational pathways and agendas / Crescer em Regiões de Fronteira em Portugal: jovens, percursos educativos e agendas
PTDC/CED-EDG/29943/2017
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Instituto Politécnico do Cávado e do Ave, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Nata, Gil. Diferença cultural e democracia: Identidade, cidadania e tolerância na relação entre maioria e minorias [Cultural difference and democracy: Identity, citizenship and tolerance in the relationship between social majority and minorities]. Portugal. 2011.
  2. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação. O suporte a direitos de minorias culturais e o desenvolvimento moral. Portugal. 2010.
  3. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação. Ciclos de vida e atitudes perante a vida: satisfação com a vida, religiosidades e redes de relações sociais. 2010.
Book chapter
  1. Nata, Gil. "IMIGRANTES E O SISTEMA DE JUSTIÇA EM PORTUGAL: FACTOS E PRECONCEITOS". Portugal: Universidade Fernando Pessoa,
  2. Nata, Gil. "Direitos e limites de minorias e maioria culturais: análise a partir dos casos levados ao Tribunal Europeu dos Direitos do Homem [Rights and limits of cultural majority and minorities: Analysis of the cases brought to the European Court of Human Rights]". 2020.
  3. Jesus, P. R.; Nata, Gil. "A Poética do Eu e a Vida Como Obra de Arte: análise da psicoterapia narrativa à luz de M. Foucault". 2015.
  4. Nata, Gil; Neves, T.. "Inflação de notas e o seu impacto no acesso ao Ensino Superior". 2015.
  5. Ferraz, H.; Enes, D.; Neves, T.; Nata, Gil. "O Impacto do Programa TEIP nos Resultados dos Exames Nacionais ao Longo de 12 Anos". 2014.
Conference paper
  1. Nata, Gil; Neves, Tiago; Pereira, Maria João; Teixeira, Pedro. "Rankings escolares e desigualdades". 2011.
Journal article
  1. Silva, Sofia Marques da; Nata, Gil; Silva, Ana Milheiro; Faria, Sara. "Development and validation of a Community Resilience Scale for Youth (CRS-Y)". PLOS ONE 17 8 (2022): e0269027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269027.
    Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0269027
  2. Nata, Gil; Enchikova, Ekaterina; Toledo, Cibelle; Neves, Tiago. "PISA and equity change: a scoping review". Revista Lusófona de Educação 56 (2022): 65-80. http://dx.doi.org/10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle56.05.
    Open access • Published • 10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle56.05
  3. Guichard, S.; Nata, G.; Cadima, J.. "Elementary school children's perspectives on distributive justice in trade". Journal of Educational Research 114 4 (2021): 418-430. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85112644666&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/00220671.2021.1962233
  4. Barreto, João F.; Nata, Gil; Matos, Paula Mena. "Elaboration of countertransference experience and the workings of the working alliance.". Psychotherapy 57 2 (2020): 141-150. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/pst0000250.
    Published • 10.1037/pst0000250
  5. Sepulveda, E.; Poinhos, R.; Nata, G.; Carvalho, D.; Neves, J.S.; Seixas, D.; Choudhary, P.; Vicente, S.G.; Amiel, S.A.. "Differentiating Hypoglycemia Awareness Status from Hypoglycemia Experience in Tools for Measuring Impaired Awareness of Hypoglycemia". Diabetes Technology and Therapeutics 22 7 (2020): 541-545. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85089522153&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1089/dia.2020.0034
  6. Nata, G.; Cadima, J.. "Parent- and Family-Focused Support in Portugal: Context and Analysis of Services/Programmes from an Equity Perspective". Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85062961014&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10560-019-00613-y
  7. Ferraz, H.; Neves, T.; Nata, G.. "Has the portuguese compensatory education program been successful in reducing disadvantaged schools’ performance gaps? A 15-year quantitative analysis of national exams". Education Sciences 9 4 (2019): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85074845748&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.3390/educsci9040270
  8. Ferraz, H.; Neves, T.; Nata, G.. "The effectiveness of compensatory education programs in school outcomes: Analysis of the Portuguese national compensatory education program over 13 years,A eficácia dos programas de educação compensatória nos resultados escolares: Análise do programa nacional português de educação compensatória ao longo de 13 anos". Ensaio 26 100 (2018): 1058-1083. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85072682850&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1590/S0104-40362018002601036
  9. Neves, T.; Ferraz, H.; Nata, G.. "Social inequality in access to higher education: grade inflation in private schools and the ineffectiveness of compensatory education". International Studies in Sociology of Education (2016): 1-21. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84996527515&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/09620214.2016.1191966
  10. Neves, T.; Pereira, M.J.; Nata, G.. "Head teachers' perceptions of secondary school rankings: Their nature, media coverage and impact on schools and the educational arena". Education as Change (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84903428631&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1080/16823206.2014.926829
  11. Nata, G.; Pereira, M.J.; Neves, T.. "Unfairness in access to higher education: a 11 year comparison of grade inflation by private and public secondary schools in Portugal". Higher Education (2014): http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84896406501&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s10734-014-9748-7
  12. Tiago Neves; Joao Pereira; Gil Nata. "One-dimensional school rankings: a non-neutral device that conceals and naturalises inequalities". International Journal on School Disaffection 9 1 (2012): 7-22. https://doi.org/10.18546%2Fijsd.09.1.02.
    10.18546/ijsd.09.1.02
  13. Cicognani, E.; Menezes, I.; Nata, G.. "University Students' Sense of Belonging to the Home Town: The Role of Residential Mobility". Social Indicators Research 104 1 (2011): 33-45. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-80052218167&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1007/s11205-010-9716-2
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Gonçalves, Mónica Emanuela Lobo. "A perceção dos professores sobre a Educação Sexual em contexto escolar: estudo qualitativo sobre a perceção de professores.". Master, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/1674.
  2. Nata, Gil. "Diferença cultural e democracia: identidade, cidadania e tolerância na relação entre maioria e minorias.". PhD, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/11328/602.

Other

Other output
  1. A eficácia dos programas de educação compensatória nos resultados escolares: análise do programa nacional português de educação compensatória ao longo de 13 anos. Resumo O presente artigo apresenta uma investigação sobre o impacto da política educativa portuguesa de discriminação positiva (Territórios Educativos de Intervenção Prioritária – TEIP) nas classificações escolares dos estudantes, acompanhando a evolução destas entre os anos letivos de 2001/2002 e 2014/2015. Analisamos cerca de 4 milhões de classificações escolares. Após uma breve contextual. 2018. Ferraz,Hélder; Neves,Tiago; Nata,Gil. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-40362018005003101.
  2. A emergência e evolução da educação compensatória na teoria e na prática: fragilidades e possibilidades. 2018. Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/115417.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2018 Invited speaker - Case study from Portugal: The (Class)rooms of glass from both sides
2018 Invited speaker - Parenting and family support services across seven countries: An overview.
2016 Invited speaker - Inflação e deflação de notas: questões metodológicas, dados e discussão sobre o seu significado.
2015 Invited speaker - Social inequality in access to higher education: a tale of two stories. Grade inflation in private schools and the ineffectiveness of compensatory education
2015 Invited speaker - Inflação de notas e o seu impacto no acesso ao Ensino Superior
2010 Invited speaker - Minorias culturais e o sistema de justiça: factos e preconceitos
2008 Invites speaker - Ciclo de vida e atitudes perante a vida
2006 Invited speaker - Diferentes Concepções de Justiça na Relação com a Diferença

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2019 - Current Bringing the world into the classroom: The development of global competence in elementary school
Co-supervisor
2017 - Current Rankings Educativos do Ensino Secundário e Desigualdade Social em Portugal e no Brasil
Co-supervisor
2015 - Current Sucessos e insucessos do Programa TEIP: uma análise com métodos mistos
Co-supervisor

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2016 - Current Consultant on methodology and treatment of quantitative and qualitative data

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2017 - Current Trainer in Continuing Education
Distinctions

Other distinction

2010 Professor of the Year - Portucalense University