Susana Schmitz (051A-DCDB-A5F6)

Curriculum Vitae

Susana Schmitz

Susana Schmitz is a PhD candidate at ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute, with a Master's degree in Work, Organizational, and Personnel Psychology from the University of Coimbra and the University of Valencia (double-degree) being granted a 2-year full scholarship by the European Commission. She holds an FCT PhD studentship and has been a Research Fellow at Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics for four years, in the project "Bidirectional ageism and fairness perceptions in the workplace: How to realize the potential of age diversity in organizations", funded by Fundação Francisco Manual dos Santos. She has authored/co-authored 3 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 1 article in the Academy of Management Proceedings, 2 books, 2 book chapters, and 1 encyclopedia entry. She is a former deputy coordinator of the Psychange research group of CIS-IUL- ISCTE. She has also presented her work to the general audience, in APPDI - Associação Portuguesa para a Diversidade e Inclusão and worked as an HR practitioner and an independent consultant on age diversity and retirement planning issues. She is a lecturer at Católica-Lisbon and a member of the COST Action LeverAge.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Susana Schmitz

Citation names

Schmitz, Susana

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 051A-DCDB-A5F6
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1548-4197

Email addresses

susana_schmitz@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Psychology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Advanced (C1)	Upper intermediate (B2)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2020/10/01 - 2024/10/01 Ongoing	PhD in Psychology (Doutoramento) Major in PhD in Psychology ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal "What do we expect from younger workers? Workplace youngism and its consequences across two cultures" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2007/09/15 - 2009/07/15 Concluded	Master in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology (double degree) (Mestrado) Major in Master in Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal Universitat de València, Spain "Organizational learning culture and Knowledge Management: to what extent are they effectively related? Final grade: 18 " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	16
1998/02/15 - 2004/03/15 Concluded	Psychology (Graduado) Major in Psychology Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil	18 (Portuguese scale, conferred by ISCTE)

Affiliation

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2009/10/01 - 2014/10/01	Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior)	EDP, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2020/02/01 - 2023/01/31	Assistente de Investigação	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2020/02/01	Consultora independente	Projeto R - Planear a transição para a reforma, Portugal

2017/12/01 - 2018/10/01	Assistente de Investigação	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
	Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Ciências Económicas e Empresariais, Portugal
2007/09/15 - 2009/07/15	Bolseira de Mestrado (Programa Erasmus Mundus)	European Comission, Belgium
	Universitat de València, Spain (...)

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/01 - Current	What do we expect from younger workers? Workplace youngism and its consequences across two cultures 2022.10653.BD	Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
2023/08 - 2023/08	Assessing Younger Worker Prescriptive Stereotypes: The Workplace Ambivalent Youngism Scale (WAYS) 2023/0214	Luso American Development Foundation

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2020/02/01 - 2023/01/31	Bidirectional ageism and fairness perceptions in the workplace: Helping to realize the potential of age diversity in organizations . Research Fellow Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal	Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos Ongoing
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31	Católica Lisbon Unidade de Investigação em Gestão e Economia UID/GES/00407/2019 Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal Universidade Católica Portuguesa Unidade de Investigação em Gestão e Economia, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Concluded

Other

	Designation	Funders
2022/02/01 - 2022/07/01	Sustainable Human Resource Management: Cross-Cultural Empirical Study . Investigador colaborador SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland	Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Patient, D. L.; Esteves, C. S.; Vauclair, C-M.; Schmitz, Susana; Rosa, M.. Understanding ageism toward younger and older workers. Lisboa, Portugal: Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. 2024. Published Patient, D. L.; Schmitz, Susana; Esteves, C. S.; Vauclair, C-M.; Rosa, M. H.. Ageism toward younger and older workers in Portugal. Fundação Francisco Manuel dos Santos. 2024. Published
Book chapter	Schmitz, Susana. "O idadismo no trabalho: como superar desafios e capitalizar a diversidade de idades nas organizações". In Ética e diversidade geracional (Des)Encontros?. Porto, Portugal: UCP Editora, 2024. Published Schmitz, Susana. "Trabalho e envelhecimento". In Cuidar com Qual’Idade. Portugal: Fundação Aga Khan Portugal, 2022. Published
Conference abstract	Schmitz, Susana; Vauclair, C.-M.; Rosa, Miriam; Patient, David. "The other side of the coin: When younger workers are discriminated against". Paper presented in International Society for Justice Research 18th biennial conference (ISJR 2021), 2021.
Conference paper	Schmitz, Susana; Vauclair, C.-M.; Esteves, C. S.; Patient, D. L.; Rosa, M.. "Assessing Younger Worker Prescriptive Stereotypes: The Workplace Ambivalent Youngism Scale (WAYS)". Paper presented in 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, 2023. Accepted
Conference poster	Schmitz, Susana; Vauclair, C.-M.; Patient, D. L.; Rosa, M. H.; Esteves, C. S.. "Workplace Ambivalent Youngism Scale (WAYS): Younger worker prescriptive stereotypes". Paper presented in Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference, 2023. Schmitz, Susana. "Projeto R-Planning Retirement Transition". Paper presented in Ministerial Conference on Ageing: A Sustainable Society for All Ages/UNECE-United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, 2017. Schmitz, Susana; Rebelo, Maria Teresa; Gracia, Francisco J.. "Learning culture and knowledge management process: To what extent are they effectively related?". Paper presented in European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology, 2009.
Encyclopedia entry	Dello Russo, S. ; Schmitz, Susana. "Age discrimination". In Encyclopedia of Diversity and Management. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. Published
Journal article	Wojtczuk-Turek, Agnieszka; Turek, Dariusz; Edgar, Fiona; Klein, Howard J.; Bosak, Janine; Okay-Somerville, Belgin; Fu, Na; et al. "Sustainable human resource management and job satisfaction—Unlocking the power of organizational identification: A cross-cultural perspective from 54 countries". Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management (2024): http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/csr.2815. Published • 10.1002/csr.2815 Schmitz, Susana; Rebelo, Maria Teresa; Gracia, Francisco J.; Tomás, Inés. "Learning culture and knowledge management processes: To what extent are they effectively related?". Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology 30 3 (2014): 113-121. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rpto.2014.11.003. Published • 10.1016/j.rpto.2014.11.003 Tolfo, Suzana; Schmitz, Susana. "A formação de consultores em uma empresa júnior". Revista ANGRAD 6 2 (2005): 25-40. Published
Online resource	Schmitz, Susana; David Patient; Miriam Rosa; Christin-Melanie Vauclair; Carla Sofia Esteves. Ageism towards younger workers: a scoping review. 2021. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/YTSA5.

Other

Other output

Younger worker prescriptive stereotypes. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology Annual Conference. 2023. Schmitz, S.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Patient, D.; Rosa, M.; Esteves, C..
Workplace youngism: A scoping review.. European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology. 2023. Schmitz, S.; Rosa, M.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Patient, D.; Mariano, J..
Ageism Towards Younger Workers: Prescriptive Stereotypes Among American and Portuguese Workers. 15th Congress of European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology. 2022. Schmitz, S.; Patient, D.; Rosa, M.; Vauclair, C.-M.; Esteves, C.. https://www.efpa.eu/event/15th-congress-european-academy-occupational-health-psychology.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/05/25	Workplace youngism: A scoping review.	21st European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology (Katowice, Poland)
2023/05/18	A scoping review on ageism towards younger workers.	XVIII PhD Meeting in Psychology ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/07/06	Ageism towards younger workers: prescriptive stereotypes among American and Portuguese workers	15th European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology Conference EAOHP - European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (Bordeaux, France)
2021/07/08	O outro lado da moeda: Quando trabalhadores mais jovens se sentem prejudicados pela sua idade	Tertúlia Divers_Idades: perspetivas sobre a diversidade etária nas organizações APPDI - Associação Portuguesa para a Diversidade e Inclusão (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/07/07	The other side of the coin: When younger workers are discriminated against	International Society for Justice Research 18th biennial conference ISJR- International Society for Justice Research (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/01/12	Too young to be good? Prescriptive stereotypes against American and Portuguese younger workers (accepted for oral presentation/conference cancelled)	14th European Congress of Work and Organizational Psychology EAWOP - European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2020/05/21	Bidirectional ageism and fairness perceptions in the workplace	XVI PhD Meeting in Psychology ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2010/02/04	Organizational learning culture and Knowledge Management: to what extent are they effectively related	VII Simpósio Nacional de Investigação em Psicologia Associação Portuguesa de Psicologia (Braga, Portugal)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2021/07/07 - 2021/07/10	During the ISJR 18th biennial conference, 2021, July 7-10, I organized the Symposium: "Research Advances in Age and Ageism in the Workplace". (2021/07/07 - 2021/07/10) Conference (Other)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2021/02/01 - 2021/05/31	XVI PhD Meeting in Psychology (http://phdmeeting.dpso.iscte.pt/edition/XVI/). Member of the organizing committee. (2021/05/20 - 2021/05/21) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2020/09/01 - Current	APPDI - Associação Portuguesa para a Diversidade e Inclusão (https://www.appdi.pt/)	Member of the Cientific commitee - Grupo de Trabalho Conhecimento
2023/08/01 - 2024/08/01	AoM - Academy of Management	Association member
2023/02/01 - 2024/02/01	EAWOP - European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology	Association member
2023/01/01 - 2024/01/01	SIOP - Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology	Association member
2021/07/01 - 2022/07/01	ISJR - International Society for Justice Research (https://www.isjr.org/)	Member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2023/10/18 - 2027/10/17	Member of the Cost Action LeverAge (https://www.cost.eu/actions/CA22120/) Member	European Cooperation in Science and Technology, Belgium
2021/10/01 - 2022/10/01	My activities as deputy coordinator of the CIS-IUL Psychange research group(https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/centres/cis-iul/groups/psychange), involve managing the weekly sessions planning, supporting the new members enrolment, and contributing to the annual reports of the group's scientific production. Member	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa Centro de Investigação e Intervenção Social, Portugal

Consulting

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2021/11/01 - 2023/06/01	Member of the consultancy team from ISCTE-IUL responsible for the evaluation of the project DIVERS@S E ACTIV@S: Promoção da Diversidade e Não Discriminação no Âmbito Profissional (https://www.appdi.pt/diversas-e-ativas/).	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2018/11/01 - 2020/05/01	Consultant for the Project "Qual'Idade - Fortalecimento das Competências dos Cuidadores", working as a content specialist for the subject "Ageing, Work and Retirement".	Aga Khan Foundation Portugal, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2018/03/01 - Current	Stress Management	6-hour course ministered to Católica-Lisbon international Master students, in the Career Accelerator Lab. (Mestrado)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2018/03/01 - Current	Managing Difficult Conversations	6-hour course ministered to Católica-Lisbon international Master students, in the Career Accelerator Lab. (Mestrado)	Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
2022/05/26 - 2022/05/26	Estereótipos dos Trabalhadores Mais Jovens no Local de Trabalho	Ciclo de aulas abertas de Recrutamento e Seleção (Licenciatura)	Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
2021/04/13 - 2021/04/13	Emotions in the workplace	Emotions in Social and Cultural Relations (4-hour class ministered to Master in Sciences on Emotions students) (Mestrado integrado)	ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal
2016/05/07 - 2016/05/07	Age Management and Human Resources practices	Recent Developments in Organizational Psychology (3-hour class ministered to Master WOP-P -Work, Organizational and Personnel Psychology students) (Mestrado)	Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação, Portugal

Distinctions

Award

2023	Paper@USA Grant (2023/0214) by the Luso American Development Foundation (FLAD) for paper presentation in the 83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, in Boston, MA, USA.

Other distinction

2023	Nomination to the Dorothy Harlow/McGraw Hill Best Paper Award -83rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management