Just like most social organizations, higher education institutions are undergoing fundamental structural changes which are deeply affecting scholars' identity, working life and working conditions.  At the moment, one of these transformations is closely related to the construction of the European Space for Higher Education. The new situations confronted by academics have inspired a good number of studies. However, most studies have been carried out from a structural perspective in which scholars' views about their working conditions, their expectations and concerns are collected through statistic-based questionnaires, or not taken into account at all.  This fact underpins the research project this paper builds on: The Impact of Social Change in Higher Education Staff, Professional Life and Work. (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. SEJ2006-01876. 2006-2009), whose main aim is to explore and understand how scholars establish a dialog with, resist, adapt themselves to or adopt changes and how they construct their professional identities, throughout the development of 24 professional life histories.   In this paper we discuss how part of these 24 faculties are dealing with the new situations brought about construction of the European Space for Higher Education.