CV Summary

I am a member of the Centre for International Studies (Centro de Estudos Internacionais, ISCTE-CEI) Democracy, Activism and Citizenship Research Group. As of March 2023 I am Principal Investigator on my 6-year research project #WillPortugalFallBehind? Portuguese Public Universities' Responses to the Global Challenge of Decolonising the Curriculum, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, https://doi.org/10.54499/2022.04609.CEECIND/CP1750/CT0003). Prior to joining ISCTE-IUL I held research, teaching and visiting positions at universities in Austria, Germany, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the UK and Portugal. I approach the transdisciplinary field of Global Development & Education through theories and methodologies of Sociology/Political Sociology, Human Geography and International Relations, and such knowledge fields as global governance, national policy-making, global justice, South-South cooperation, and decolonisation.

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Academic Qualifications
University/Institution Type Degree Period
University of Bristol
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law - United Kingdom - Bristol
PhD PhD (Global Development and Education) (Unconditional Pass) 2004 - 2008
University of Bristol
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law - United Kingdom - Bristol
M.Sc. Research Methods (Award with Distinction) 2003 - 2004
University of Bristol
Faculty of Social Sciences and Law - United Kingdom - Bristol
M.Sc. Education and Development (Award with Distinction) 2000 - 2002
Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg
Germany
Bachelor of Science Teaching at Secondary Schools/Educational Sciences 1987 - 1995
Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg
Germany
Bachelor of Science Teaching of German as a Foreign Language 1991 - 1995
Research Interests
Development Theories
Education, Development, Globalisation
South-South Cooperation, International Education, Decolonisation