Rui Alexandre Alves Short Curriculum Vitae, October 2013
1. ID Rui Alexandre Teixeira Alves born October 1, 1972 in Mirandela, Portugal Id card: 09848351 0ZY4 Work address: Universidade do Porto, UP Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação Rua de Alfredo Allen, s/n 4200-‐135 Porto e-‐mail:
[email protected] labpage: http://www.fpce.up.pt/labfala/ruialves.htm Telephone: +351 226 061 895 Fax: +351 226 079 727
2. Education Jan.2009, PhD in Psychology at the University of Porto, Advisor Prof. São Luís Castro, UP. Approved with distinction (5 years program) Jul.2002, Master in Psychology by the University of Porto, Advisor Prof. São Luís Castro, UP. Completed with Excellent. (2 years program) 1993/98, Graduation in Psychology (specialization in Clinical Psychology) by the University of Porto. Finished with the average classification of 17 out of 20. (5 years program) 3. Professional Experience Since Jan.2009, Assistant Professor of the Psychology Department at the University of Porto. • Professor of several courses in the Psychology master (e.g., Neuropsychology, Dyslexia and Dyscalculia, Psychology of Language, Writing and Science) and in the doctoral program in Psychology (Seminar of Scientific Writing). Advisor of five completed master thesis. Currently advisor of one master thesis and two doctoral thesis. • Member of the Language Group of the Center for Psychology at University of Porto (research unit funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation) • Coordinator of the Continuing Education Service of the Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Porto. • Member of the several academic boards and engaged in academic management. 4. Honors Oct.2001, Prize of the Fundação Eng. António de Almeida. Attributed to the students of the University of Porto that end graduation with exceptional achievement. 5. Research interests Cognitive processes in writing. Automaticity and implicit processes in writing. Development and learning disorders. 6. Membership to Scientific Societies Since 2010, Member of the Association for Psychological Science. Since 2005, Member of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology. • Currently member of the Direction and treasurer (2011-‐2014) Since 2005, Associate member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology. Since 2004, Member of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Since 2002, Member of the Special Interest Group on Writing of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction (SIG-‐Writing, EARLI). • Currently coordinator (2011-‐2015) Rui A. Alves
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7. Collaboration in the organization of scientific meetings Jul. 2012, Manager of the 13th International Conference of the EARLI, SIG Writing. Mar. 2007, 2nd National Meeting of the Portuguese Association for Experimental Psychology. 2005/2007, Manager of three meetings of the Young Scientists Forum at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto. 8. Collaboration in funded research projects and actions 2011-‐2014, Principal investigator of the project “Development, automatization and self-‐ regulation of cognitive processes in writing”, funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation (FCT PTDC/PSI-‐PCO/110708/2009; budget 132.118,00 €). 2008-‐2012, Member of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS0703 “The European Research Network on Learning to Write effectively”, lead by Dennis Alamargot. • Member of the Working Group 1, Early acquisition of writing skills, lead by Liliana Tolchinsky and Michel Fayol. 2007-‐2009, Team member of “Assessment and characterization of reading disorders and dyslexia in Portuguese children and adults”, funded by the Portuguese National Science Foundation. Principal investigator was Alexandra Reis, Universidade do Algarve (PTDC/PSI/64920/2006). 2007-‐2008, Team member of “Characterizing the writing strategies of beginning and advanced writers: From low-‐level transcription processes to high-‐level writing processes”, funded by the Agreement GRICES/CNRS. Principal investigators were São Luís Castro, Universidade do Porto and Thierry Olive, CNRS, Université de Poitiers. 9. Publications (last 5 years, selected) Alves, R. A. (2013). A mente enquanto escreve: A automatização da execução motora na composição escrita [The mind while writing: The automatization of motor execution in written composition]. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. Limpo, T., & Alves, R. A. (2013). Teaching planning or sentence-‐combining strategies: Effective SRSD interventions at different levels of written composition. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 38, 328-‐341. Limpo, T., Alves, R. A., & Fidalgo, R. (2013, May 16). Children’s high-‐level writing skills: Development of planning and revising and their contribution to writing quality. British Journal of Educational Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1111/bjep.12020 Limpo, T., & Alves, R. A. (2013). Modeling writing development: The contribution of transcription and self-‐regulation to Portuguese students’ text generation. Journal of Educational Psychology, 105, 401-‐413. doi: 10.1037/a0031391 Limpo, T. & Alves, R. A. (2013). Eu sou escritor: Um programa para promover a
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autorregulação da escrita [I am a writer: An instructional program to promote self-‐ regulation in writing]. In L. A. Pereira & I. Cardoso, Reflexão sobre a escrita. O ensino de diferentes géneros de textos. Aveiro: Universidade de Aveiro. Alves, R. A., & Haas, C. (Eds). (2012). Writing and Cognition: A special issue of Written Communication in honor of John R. Hayes. Written Communication, 29(3), 239-‐243. Alves, R. A. (2012). The future is bright for writing research. In V. W. Berninger (Ed.), Past, present, and future contributions of cognitive writing research to Cognitive Psychology. New York: Psychology Press. Alves, R. A., Branco, M., Castro, & Olive, T. (2012). Effects of handwriting skill, output modes and gender of fourth graders on pauses, written language bursts, fluency and quality. In V. W. Berninger (Ed.), Past, present, and future contributions of cognitive writing research to Cognitive Psychology. New York: Psychology Press. Limpo, T., Alves, R. A., & Castro, S. L. (2010). Medir a empatia: Adaptação portuguesa do Índice de Reactividade Interpessoal [Measuring empathy: Portuguese adaptation of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index]. Laboratório de Psicologia, 8(2), 171-‐184. Olive, T., Alves, R. A., & Castro, S. L. (2009). Cognitive processes in writing during pauses and execution periods. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 21, 758-‐785. Alves, R. A., Castro, S. L., & Olive, T. (2008). Execution and pauses in writing narratives: Processing time, cognitive effort and typing skill. International Journal of Psychology, 43, 969-‐979. Alves, R. A., Castro, S. L., Sousa, L., & Strömqvist, S. (2007). Influence of typing skill on pause-‐ execution cycles in written composition. In G. Rijlaarsdam (Series Ed.); M. Torrance, L. van Waes, & D. Galbraith (Vol. Eds.), Writing and cognition: Research and applications (pp. 55-‐65). Amsterdam: Elsevier. Alves, R. A., Branco, M., Pontes, A., & Castro, S. L. (2007). Avaliação das dificuldades de leitura e escrita: Desenvolvimento da Bateria Fonológica da Universidade do Porto [Assessment of reading and writing difficulties: Development of the Phonological Battery from the University of Porto]. Educação: Temas e Problemas, 4, 203-‐222. 10. Papers presented at international scientific meetings (5 selected) Alves, R. A. & Limpo, T. (2013, July). Bursts of written language production across schooling. Paper presented at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, Hong Kong. Alves, R. A. & Jesus, I (2011, August). Bursts of written language production increase across the initial years of schooling. Paper presented at the 13th International Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Exeter. Alves, R. A., (2010, September). From pauses to execution periods: What bursts might teach us about writing. In G. Nottbusch, A. Wengelin, and M. Leijten (Chairs), Pauses and transitions in handwriting and typing Symposium conducted at the SIG Writing10 -‐ 12th International Conference of the Special Interest Group on Writing of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Heidelberg. Alves, R. A. (2009, August). The affective component of writing. In D. Galbraith (Chair), Writing Research 30 years on. Symposium to honor John Hayes conducted at the 12th International Conference of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Amsterdam. Alves, R. A., Branco, M., Limpo, T. & Castro, S. L. (2008, June). Priming effects on writing
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fluency. Paper presented at the Writing 08 -‐ 11th International Conference of the Special Interest Group on Writing of the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction, Lund. 11. Editorial activity and peer-‐reviewing Associate Editor of the journal Reading & Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal (since 2013) Reviewer to the journals: Reading & Writing, Journal of Writing Research, Written Communication, Learning & Instruction, Learning and Individual Differences, Current Psychology Letters: Behaviour, Brain & Cognition, Journal of Psychodidactics, Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, Psicologia, Educação, Sociedade e Cultura, and Análise Psicológica. Member of the Scientific Committee of the 12th International Conference of the EARLI, SIG Writing.
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