Curriculum Vitae (English Short Version)
1. Personal Information
Full name Sílvia Costa Agostinho da Silva
National identity card 9553541
Birth place and date Nazaré 19-12-1970
Nationality PORTUGAL
Institutional address
ISCTE-IUL
Avenida das Forças Armadas
1649-026 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
Telephone: + 351 217903427
Email: [email protected]
2. Highest Academic degree
2004 PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology by the Instituto Superior de Ciências do
Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE)
3. Previous and current scientific and/or professional positions
Period/ Position or category/ Institution
Since February Associate Professor in the Human Resources and Organizational Behavior
2011
Department, ISCTE-IUL Business School, Lisbon, Portugal
2004–2011
Assistant Professor in the Social and Organizational Psychology Department
in ISCTE
Other Professional Activities
Since May 2011 Member of the Executive Committee of the European Association of
Work and Organizational Psychology
Since May 2010 Vice-director of the Department of Human Resources and
Organizational Behavior
2007-2010
President of the Pedagogical Council of ISCTE-IUL
2003 – 2006
Vice-President of CIS (Psychology Research Center in ISCTE)
4. Participation in research projects
Participation in several Research projects. For instance:
2011 Head of the Project Proposal “Learning with surprises at work and promoting safety”,
grant application (PTDC/PSI-APL/120973/2010)
2009 - 2013 Member of the team of the European Project "Improving quality and safety in the
hospital: The link between organisational culture, burnout, and quality of care", Coord.
Projecto EFHARIS PANAGOPOULOU. FP7-HEALTH-2009- Specific
Programme “Cooperation” – Theme "Health" (Project no. 242084).
2007 –2010 Head of the Project “Coding, analysis and prevention of occupational accidents“, grant
from the Portuguese Science Foundation (Project reference:
PTDC/SDE/71193/2006)
2007
Head of the Project “Research and diagnosis of NAV (Portuguese company of air
traffic control) safety culture”. (Ref: 2006/12/SERV/DSEGOP). Private Funding
2006
Head of the Project “Impacts of work accidents: valences at social, organizational and
individual level”, grant from (Portuguese Science Foundation (Project reference:
PIQS/PSI/50070/2003).
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5. Teaching Experience
Since 2004 Teaching in several Undergraduate Degrees and also in Master and PhD
Programs in ISCTE-IUL and in other Universities. Mainly in Psychology;
Sociology and Management Degrees and courses related with Work
Psychology, Organizational Behavior, and Research Methods.
6. Selected Publications
Several National and International Publications in Books, Journals and Conference Proceedings.
Examples:
Books and Chapters in books
Caetano, A., Silva, S.A. & Chambel, M.J. (eds),(2011). New challenges for a healthy workplace in
human services. (series: Organizational Psychology and Health Care, vol. 6, edited by, W.
Schaufeli & J. M. Peiro). Munich: Rainer Hampp Verlag
Caetano, A. & Silva, S. A. (2011). Bem-estar e saúde no trabalho [Well-being and Health at
Work]. In Lopes, M. P. Ribeiro, R. B., Palma, P. J. e Cunha, M. P. (eds), Psicologia Aplicada,
Lisboa: Recursos Humanos Editora.
Roberto, M.S., Mearns, K. & Silva, S.A. (in press, 2011). Work Experience and Physician’s
Intention to Comply with Hand Hygiene: An Extended Application of the Theory of
Planned Behavior. In A. Caetano, S. A. Silva & M.J. Chambel (Eds) New challenges for a healthy
workplace in human services. (series: Organizational Psychology and Health Care, vol. 6, edited
by, W. Schaufeli & J. M. Peiro). Munich: Rainer Hampp Verlag.
Fugas, C., Silva, A., S., & Meliá, J.L. (2011). “Do as I do, do not as I say”: how do coworkers
influence proactive safety behaviors at work?”. In M. Roberto, M.T. Batista, M.H. Santos, R.
Morais, R.S. Costas and M.L. Lima (orgs.). Percursos de Investigação em Psicologia Social e
Organizacional. Lisboa: edições colibri. ISBN: 978-989-689-079-7.
Melia, J.L., Becerril, M., Silva, S.A., & Mearns, K. (2009). Leadership and safety climate in the
construction industry. In S. Martorell, C.G. Soares & J. Barnett (Eds) Safety, Reliability and
Risk Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications (vol. 2, pp. 1415-1421). London: Taylor &
Francis.
Silva, S. (2008). Culturas de Segurança e Prevenção de Acidentes de Trabalho numa Abordagem
Psicossocial: Valores Organizacionais Declarados e em Uso”[Book Title: Safety Cultures and
Work Accidents Prevention in a Psychosocial Approach: Organizational Values Espoused
and in Practice].Lisboa: Funcação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Silva, S.A., Lima, M.L., Castro, P., Pinto, A.M., Melia, J.M., Correia, R., Gonçalves, S., Niza, C.
(2006). Prevenir é melhor que remediar: um olhar sobre os impactos dos acidentes de
trabalho [To prevent is better than to remedy: a look into work accidents impacts]. Lisboa:
CIS. ISBN: 989-95211-0-8.
Barão, S., Silva, S.A., & Lima, M.L. (2006). The role of safety culture in explaining work accidents.
In Guedes Soares, C & Zio (Eds). Safety and Reliability for Managing Risk (vol.1, pp. 751-757).
London: Taylor & Francis Group. ISBN: 0-415-41620-5
Silva, S., & Lima, M.L. (2005). Safety as an organizational value: improving safety practices and
learning from accident. In K. Kolowrocki (Ed.). Advances in Safety and Reliability (vol.2,
1817-1824). London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN: 0-415-38340-4
Silva, S., & Lima, l. (2005). Workers Commitment to Safety and Work Accidents: The
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contribution of safety as a value-in-use. In J. Houdmont, & S. McIntyre (Eds.), Occupational
Health Psychology: Key Papers of the European Academy of Occupational Health
Psychology (Vol.6, 378-383). Maia: ISMAI Publishers. ISBN: 972-9048-15-0
Papers in Journals with peer review system
Jacinto, C., Guedes Soares, C., Fialho, T. & Silva, S.A. (in press). The Recording, Investigation
and Analysis of Accidents at Work (RIAAT) process. Policy and Practice in Health and Safety.
Vitoria, P., Salgueiro, M.F., Silva, S.A., & De Vries, H. (in press). The longitudinal impact of
parents and peers influence on adolescents smoking intention and behavior. British Journal
of Health Psychology, DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-8287.2010.02014.x
Vitória, P., Silva, S., & De Vries, H. (in press). Longitudinal evaluation of a smoking prevention
program for adolescents). Revista de saúde pública, 45(2).
Jacinto, C.; Guedes Soares, C.; Fialho, T.; Antão, P. and Silva, S.A. (2011, in press). An overview
of accidents notification systems within the enlarged EU-27. WORK: A Journal of
Prevention, Assessment & Rehabilitation, Special Issue on Safer and Healthier Workplaces.
IOS Press, ISSN: 1051-9815; 39(3).
Fugas, C., Melia, J.L., Silva, S.A. (2011).The “is” and “the ought”: How perceived social norms
influence safety behaviors at work? Journal of Occupational Health Psychology .Vol 16(1), 67-79.
doi: 10.1037/a0021731
Wegge, J., Jeppeseen, H., Pearce, C., Weber, W., Silva, S., Pundt, A., Jonsson, T., Wolf, S.,
Wassenaar, C., Unterrainer, C., & Piecha, A. (2010). Promoting work motivation in
organizations: Should employee involvement in organizational leadership become a new
tool in the organizational psychologists’ armoury? Journal of Personnel Psychology, vol.9(4),
154-171.
Vitória, P.D., Salgueiro, M.F., Silva, S.A., & De Vries, H. (2009). The impact of social influence
on adolescent intention to smoke: Combining types and referents of influence. British
Journal of Health Psychology, 14 (4), 661-669.
Melià, J., Mearns, K., Silva, S.A., & Lima, M.L., (2008). Safety climate responses and the
perceived risk of accidents in the construction industry. Safety Science, 46, 949-958.
Gonçalves, S.P.M., Silva, S.A., Lima, L.M. & Meliá, J.L. (2008). The impact of work accidents
experience on causal attributions and worker behaviour. Safety Science,46, 992-1001.
Niza, C., Silva, S., & Lima, L. (2008). Occupational accident experience: association with
workers’ accident explanation and definition. Safety Science, 46, 959-971.
Tavares, S., Caetano, A., & Silva, S. (2007). Não há bela sem senão. A identificação
organizacional, os comportamentos de dedicação ao trabalho e o conflito trabalhofamília. Revista Psicologia, XXI(1), 133-149.
Silva, S., Baptista, C., & Lima, L. (2004). OSCI: an Organisational and Safety Climate
Inventory. Safety Science, 42, 205-220.
Papers under Review
Approximately 7 papers currently being Reviewed in International Peer Review Journals.
Examples:
Silva, S.A., Oliveira, M.J., Carvalho, H., Jacinto, C., Fialho, T., Guedes Soares, C.
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Organizational formal practices used by organizations for learning with work accidents.
Silva, S.A., & Salgueiro, M.F. The power of peers influence on promoting safety participation.
Fugas, C. S., Silva,S.A., Meliá, J. Another look on safety climate and safety
behavior: Deepening the cognitive and social mediator mechanisms
Roberto, M., Silva,S.A., Mearns, K. A Multi-level Mediation Model of Safety Climate and the
Theory of Planned Behavior: Exploring Hand Hygiene Intention to Comply among
Health Care Professionals
Papers in conference proceedings
Silva , S. (2010). Organizational values associated to safety climate: between flexibility and
control . In Sanjay Menon (Ed) Competing Values in an Uncertain Environment:
Managing the Paradox. Pág. 479 – 485. ISBN: 978-0-9817997-1-1.
Silva, S., Melià, J.L., Gonçalves, S. & Lima, M. L. (2006). Workers experience of workplace
accidents: Consequences for Safety Behaviour. In Ruud N. Pikaar, Ernst A. P.
Koningsveld, and Paul J. M. Settels (Eds.) Proceedings IEA2006 Congress: Meeting
Diversity in Ergonomics. Elsevier Ltd. - ISSN: 0003 – 6870.
7. Selected Communications
Several Oral communications in International and National Conferences. Examples:
Silva, S. (2010). The role of workers participation and involvement for promoting
organizational learning with accidents. 4th Internacional Workshop of the Organisational
Participation in Europe Network (OPEN), October, Rostock, Germany.
Silva, S., & Ramos, S. (2010). Quality in Qualitative Research: The role of the software’s in
Quality Assurance. 3rd European workshop on Computer-aided Qualitative Research 2010
October, Lisbon, Portugal.
Silva. S. (2009). Safety shared responsibilities and promoting safety participation”. Oral paper in the
Small Group Meeting "Distributed Leadership and Participation in Organisations” , 2009
February, Dresden, Germany.
Silva, S. (2008). “Assessing Safety Culture and Safety Climate: shared values”.
Communication presented at the symposium “New Developments in the
conceptualization of safety climate” in the congress “Work, Stress, and Health 2008:
Healthy and Safe Work Through Research, Practice, and Partnerships ”, March 2008,
Washington DC, United States.
Silva, S. & Tavares, S. ( 2007). Safety climate and workers’ behaviours: exploring the
contributions of group climate and identification. 13th European Congress of Work and
Organizational Psychology, Stockholm, 9-12 de May, Sweden.
Silva, S., Melia, J.L., Gonçalves, S. & Lima, M. L. (2006). Workers experience of workplace
accidents: Consequences for Safety Behaviour. 16th World Congress on Ergonomics,
Maastricht, Holland, 10-14 July.
8. Supervising experience
During the last 7 years I supervised several Master Thesis and the following Phd Thesis:
Pintor, S. (since September 2010). The role of shared leadership in teams working in
international nonprofit organizations. PhD Program in Human Resources
Management in ISCTE-IUL Business School.
Duarte,L. (since April 2007).“La formacion como vector del cambio de la cultura de la
seguridad” [Changing Safety Culture through Training] as a co-supervisor with Prof.
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Serafin de Abajo Olea, Doctorado em Hygiene, Salud y Seguridad en el Trabajo,
Universidad de León.
Fugas, C. (2006-2010). Influência grupal e organizacional no modelo da acção planeada: um
contributo para a explicação de comportamentos de segurança. PhD in Social and
Organizational Psychology by the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da
Empresa (ISCTE). Co-supervisor: Professor Josep Melia (Univ. Valência). Jury in June
2011.
Roberto, M. (2006-2010). The role of individual and group level variables in healthcare
professionals hand hygiene compliance: a multi-level perspective. PhD in Social and
Organizational Psychology by the Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da
Empresa (ISCTE). Co-supervisor: Prof. Kathryn Mearns (Unv. Abeerdeen). Jury in
April 2011.
Vitória, P. (2005-2009). Compreender e mudar comportamentos relevantes para a saúde em
contexto psico-social, PhD in Social and Organizational Psychology by the Instituto
Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE). Co-supervisor: Prof. Hein
De Vries (Univ. Maastrich). Jury in April 2010.
9. Other professional information
- Referee in several Journals and in PhD Projects.
- Member of several Scientific Associations (Europe: EAWOP, EAHOP; USA: AOM,
SHOP) and member of 3 Scientific International Networks (e.g., OPEN) and 2 National
Networks.
- Organization of several Scientific Meetings/Congresses and member of scientific
committees.
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