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Opening of 3 calls for 12 research fellowships

5 September 2023

The Polytechnic of Leiria is now opening applications for (twelve) scientific research fellowship (BI) within the project “MorphoPlay – Playful strategies for assessing morphological knowledge (2022.02585.PTDC)”, financed by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT). MorphoPlay will be a morphological knowledge assessment test for children from the 2ndto the 4th grade of the 1st cycle, with the aim of being applied in the clinical practice of Speech Therapists andeventually in the classroom, by Teachers of the 1st cycle. Candidates will contribute to: collectinglinguistic data in schools, with children in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year of the 1st cycle

Interview with Helena Reis, coordinator and author of the book “Understanding Autism – from family thinking to technical thinking”

28 August 2023

With many years of experience as a researcher and lecturer in Occupational Therapy, Helena Reis, gave her first step as coordinator and author of the book that intends to inform and help those who live side by side with the autism spectrum disorder. After “a very hard and very challenging diagnosis”, comes the assistance of a multidisciplinary team work that brings together health professionals, educators and the family of these children who are in the beginning of this path and need information for a greater knowledge of the challenges of this condition – it is this collective participation that marks

Research in perception of aging published in the Spanish Journal of Geriatrics and Gerontology

20 August 2023

A recent study entitled Physiotherapy Students’ Perceptions of Ageing – Playing narratives as a Pedagogical Innovation” intended to explore the adoption of new perspectives on ageing after the implementation of dynamic narratives in the first graduate year for physiotherapy students. Written by Marlene Rosa, Roberta Frontini (ciTechCare researchers) and Natália Martins, the exploratory qualitative study included 44 physiotherapy students from the School of Health Sciences, Polytechnic of Leiria. Two gaming sessions were performed to help students, as narrators, express their visions and ways to deal with the geriatrics field. Also, the main question asked those students were “What is your

FCT funds 3 out of 7 applications for PhD studentships submitted by ciTechCare

16 August 2023

ciTechCare received funding for 3 PhD research grants, out of the 7 applications submitted between 1 and 31 March, while the call for Research Grants for PhD 2023, promoted by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) was ongoing. The doctoral projects submitted by researchers Maria João Batalha, Sónia Santos and Susana Lopes, were analyzed, selected and are among the projects that will be funded, all in collaboration with non-academic institutions. Over the next 4 years, these future PhD students will be able to carry out their research activities leading to the achievement of the academic degree of a doctor,

Marlene Rosa is co-author of the book “Human Aging and Contemporaneity”

12 August 2023

Two chapters of the book “Human Aging and Contemporaneity” were written with the collaboration of Marlene Rosa, integrated member and researcher of ciTechCare in rehabilitation and dementia in the elderly, and founder of the Agilidades project, company Spin-off of the Polytechnic of Leiria. The study that gave rise to the chapter ‘Anxiety and the performance of executive functions by the institutionalized elderly population – a pilot study using the MATRIX instrument’, aimed to identify the relationship between anxiety and the performance of the ability of Inhibitory Control by the elderly population institutionalized, through the application of the analog game of

Raising awareness about the importance of scientific research: a great good – an opinion article

9 August 2023

The scientific findings are associated with long processes, although not easy ones. But “will society realize the importance of scientific research to improve the conditions of life?”, asks Marisa Gaspar, PhD researcher in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Marisa admits that the most recent pandemic might have caused “an alert, not only national, mas also worldwide, that the research work is important”, since “the researchers joined forces and had been working, (…) in a fight against time”. Although the scientific research takes time, it is necessary for the treatment, as well as “for the prevention of diseases like cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular problems and