“…The existence of advanced academic qualifications and a professional network, even if informally organised and with voluntary membership (Lewis, 2014), the systematic performance of certain tasks as 'constant and relentless achievement' of self-hood (Fragkiadaki et al, 2013) and the delivery of specialised training actions (Eason et al, 2018), make the case for the existence of an actual RMA profession in Portugal. Moreover, the Portuguese RMA community has been contributing to the international recognition of the profession, from both empirical evidence (e.g., Vidal et al, 2015), and conceptual perspectives (e.g., Agostinho et al, 2018;Santos et al, 2021a), namely in the pre-award (e.g., Vidal et al, 2015), and post-award areas (e.g., Santos, 2021).…”