“…The changes brought about by COVID-19 (Ferreira & Serpa, 2021) have been, and still are, remarkable in most people's lives, and also in the context of education (Sá & Serpa, 2020a) and higher education (Sá & Serpa, 2020b, 2020c, 2020dAyman, Kaya, & Kuruç, 2020;Rasiah, Kaur, & Guptan, 2020;Croucher & Lacy, 2020), in addition to the challenges for academics, including their (un)professionalization or (re)professionalization (Ferreira & Serpa, 2018a;José Sá, Ferreira, & Serpa, 2019). This change occurs in a context of social re-legitimation of higher education (Roos, 2019;Adhikariparajuli, Hassan, & Siboni, 2021;Prieto-Jiménez, López-Catalán, López-Catalán, & Domínguez-Fernández, 2021), characterised by increasing complexity.…”