Professional Associations
Organization/Coordination of Events
Type of Organization/Coordination Event Type Event Title Organizer Period
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Methodology Course in Social Sciences: Oral History and Archives - 6 hours (in collaboration with the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Faculty of Letters and Social Sciences, Eduardo University Mondlane, Maputo) Departamento de Arqueologia e Antropologia, Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Methodology Course in Social Sciences: Oral History and Archives - 6 hours (in collaboration with FCSH/UniLúrio, Mozambique Island) Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Implementation of the Peer Review at national level, near CEFOSAP ( Centro de Formação Sindical e Aperfeiçoamento Profissional), as a Peer within a team of 4 Peers, evaluating quality areas from the revised European Peer Review methodology adapted for VET (Vocational Education and Training) CECOA 2025
Member of scientific event committee Conference Portuguese and National Languages in African Countries and Portugal (1975-2025): A Period of Half a Century since the 25th of April in Portugal and the Independence of the Former African Colonies CEsA (ISEG-ULisboa), CEAUP (U.Porto), CEL (UTAD/UÉ) 2024 - 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Seminar or Seminar Cycle TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR CAREGIVERS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES CECOA and CICS.NOVA 2024
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Congress African responses to the decolonial dilemma Rede de Estudos Africanos 2024 - 2025
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference CECOA Invites-@_RETRAIL: trade in the 21st century - technology and new trends (project co-funded by Erasmus+) CECOA 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Course in Scientific Research Methodology - 12 hours (in collaboration with CEA/UEM, Maputo) CEA/UEM 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Laboratory of Storytellers - 6 hours (in collaboration with the Camões Portuguese Language Center of the Pedagogical University of Maputo, Teacher's House of Mozambique and NGO Helpo in Maputo) Centro de Língua Portuguesa Camões da Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, Casa do Professor de Moçambique e ONG Helpo/Maputo 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop Course on Methodology in Scientific Research - 12 hours (in collaboration with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Lurio, Ilha de Moçambique, Mozambique) FCSH/UniLúrio, Ilha de Moçambique 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference CECOA Invites - DIGIGO: digital skills for the labour market (project co-funded by Erasmus+) CECOA 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Conference CECOA Invites: Qualifica em Rede (project co-funded by Erasmus+) CECOA 2023
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Congress APA VII Congress, Évora, 6-9 September 2022, Panel 091: Resilience and methodological resistances: ethnographies of Mozambique during pandemic times ( Co-coordinator Carmeliza Rosário, Chr. Michelsen Institute, CMI) Associação Portuguese de Antropologia (APA) 2022
Coordination of scientific event (with scientific committee) outside of ISCTE-IUL Workshop RESEARCH SEMINAR - Research and academic wrriting in Social Siences (for junior researcher of the Bloco 4 Foundation- Research in Activism, Citizenship and Social Policies, Mozambique) Bloco 4 Foundation- Research in Activism, Citizenship and Social Policies (Moçambique) 2021
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Other Type of Event Organização, apoio e moderação do debate 'Novas Estratégias de Intervenção para os Evacuados de Cabo Verde', seguido pela estreia e apresentação pública do documentário ""Evacuados - Girassol Solidário, um Projecto em Movimento" sobre a actividade da ONG Girassol Solidário, Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Evacuados de Cabo Verde em Portugal, em parceria com o Museu do Aljube, Lisboa. (info em https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3S-frfUD74 e https://www.esquerda.net/sites/default/files/2017_06_17_girassol_solidario_email_0.pdf) ONG Girassol Solidário, Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Evacuados de Cabo Verde em Portuga 2017
Member of non-scientific event's organizing committee Workshop Desenvolvimento de um curriculum de educação informal pela arte, baseado em modelos de aprendizagem colaborativa com recurso a metodologias participativas, tendo sido desenvolvido um “dominó crioulo”, em que os formandos (i.e. doentes evacuados de Cabo Verde em Lisboa, Portugal) utilizaram materiais recicláveis (e.g. caixas de fruta oriundas do Banco Alimentar), elaborando uma narrativa gráfica sobre as ilhas de Cabo Verde (info em https://www.facebook.com/girassol.solidario/posts/1470873809698983 ), com o objectivo de integrar/cidadania. ONG Girassol Solidário, Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Evacuados de Cabo Verde em Portuga 2017
External Professional Activities
Employer Country Description Period
CECOA (Studies and Projects (UIN)) Portugal (Lisbon) Anthropologist and Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL - Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) (Senior Researcher and MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) of National and International Projects with a focus on VET (Vocational Education and Training): being part of a team working on development of national and international Research and Development, Innovation, Cooperation and Partnership projects, in areas such as Business Solutions, Initial Training for Young People, Adult Education, Accreditation of Prior Learning, looking at new knowledge and opportunities of skills and competences improvement, new models and methodologies, new tools and contents) Since 2021
Faculty of Social and Human Sciences/ New University of Lisbon (Department of Anthroplogy) Portugal (Lisbon) Invited Assistant Professor (Teaching Methodology of Scientific Work, 1st year, 1st term, BA in Anthropology. Revision of the syllabus and introduction of participatory exercises (in and out of the classroom). 4 hours week/total of 168 hours.) 2020 - 2021
Escrever Escrever (Professional Training) Portugal (Lisboa) Trainer (Trainer of research and academic wrriting) 2019 - 2021
COWI/USAID (Social and Economic Studies Department) Mozambique (Maputo) Quality Project Manager/Social Health Consultant (Social Health Consultant, project "Evaluating the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) in Mozambique: Endline Survey" in Nampula and Sofala Provinces) 2018 - 2019
e-Global News in Portuguese (daily newspaper) (Portuguese Speaking Countries - political and cultural issues) Portugal (Lisboa) Journalist (Doing research and writing articles and interviews with a focus on Mozambique, Cape Verde, Angola and East Timor; research and writing the daily newsletter on Portuguese Speaking countries media;) 2018
NGO Girassol Solidario (Emergency/Evacuated health patients from Cape Verde) in Portugal (Education and development/projects) Portugal (Lisbob) Anthropologist & Consultant/Community Facilitator (developing the cultural section and informal education programs in areas such as: arts and music, urban gardens, personal development and inclusion/integration; developing and doing training sessions of young health patients to work as volunteers for the NGO, with a gender-focus as well (i.e. training young girls and boys to work side by side); conception and development of cultural projects; organization of public events; creating partnerships with several stakeholders to be able to develop more inclusive programs within local society) 2017
Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) (Strategic Communication and Development projects) Mozambique (Maputo) Anthropologist and Consultant freelancer (Conception and development of projects, participatory methodologies, literature reviews, technical writing) 2015 - 2021
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (Language Center) United Kingdom (London) Teaching Fellow in Portuguese Language (Conception and development of the the curriculum and materials for teaching and learning Portuguese language based on a communicative approach;) 2015 - 2016
ART:sync, Brighton (NGO) (Cultural heritage/social memory) United Kingdom (Brighton) Memory Collector & Community Heritage Facilitator (Community facilitator in cultural events, advocacy, project promotion, academic seminars, educational website/online resources of the project “Crossing the Teas”; working with the Women and Children Sudanese group of Brighton and Hove, helping to develop workshops, collecting oral histories and presenting the outcomes with a gender perspective) 2014 - 2016
NGO Target Tuberculosis, Brighton (Research/international development) United Kingdom (Brighton) Analyst –Operational research (Development of country profiles and local stakeholders, government and civil society partners to prevent and eradicate TB in developing countries) 2013
University of Brighton (UoB) (Education Research Center (ERC)) United Kingdom (Brighton) Research Project Assistant (Education Research Center (ERC), University of Brighton (UoB), UK and Bernard van Leer Foundation - researcher in the area of participatory methodologies, working with young children in developing countries; developing work materials for the expertise meeting in the Hague with academic and civil society partners of national and international contexts; collaboration in the conception and writing of two books of participatory methodologies to develop work with young children using participatory methodologies) 2013
University of Brighton (UoB) (College of social sciences/ERC) United Kingdom (Brighton) Doctoral Researcher Studentship (UoB grant) (doing research about construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies over three generations of students in Mozambique, with a gender-focus approach (e.g. how women and men construct their identity, personal and social memory and their impact in development and social practices); presenting papers and writing articles; co-teaching at the MA Education, Theory, Practice and Policy In international and comparative education; between February and March 2016, teaching A-Level Anthropology (AS unit 2 and A2 unit 4) at Sussex Coast College Hastings, and after doing my PHD, I was invited and was a lecturer of social sciences at the College of Social Sciences School of Applied Social Sciences (University of Brighton) of Level 5 research methods (qualitative) module - SS530 researching social and cultural life - teaching 4 sessions on seminar 1 ethnography, seminar 2 focus groups, seminar 3 interviews, and seminar 4 data analysis: thematic analysis) 2012 - 2016
Austral-Cowi, Mozambique (Social research) Mozambique (Maputo) Senior Consultant Specialist in Social Research (gender area) (Literature review and writing reports, focus on the “Action plan for women’s rights and gender equality in development cooperation for the Norwegian Embassy “, looking at political, economic, sexual health and reproductive rights, violence against women, within a national and international framework, including Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)) 2012
National weekly newspaper Domingo (Political and cultural issues) Mozambique (Maputo) Freelance Journalist (writing about political issues, writers and books to engage students and teachers in debate;) 2011 - 2012
University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) (Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (DAA)) Mozambique (Maputo) Lecturer (Teaching BA Anthropology (4 years degree), developing the analytical programs and materials for: Research Seminar (4th and 3rd years ); Anthropology and Psychology (2nd year); Introduction to Research I (1st year); Anthropology of Symbolic (3rd year); giving pedagogical and social advice to regular and mature students; support in the elaboration of research plans, literature review and field work to obtain the BA degree; having around 350 students, with a high number of teachers of primary education; developing pedagogical tools for students and teachers such as autobiographical writing and memory diaries; collecting data on gender issues such as women rights and cultural barriers to women empowerment) 2011 - 2012
Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) (Research/writing reports) Portugal (Lisbon) Senior Social and Political Adviser (Developing research and writing reports about migration movements, ethnic conflicts and minorities in Europe; social and political issues in North and Sub-Saharan Africa) 2005 - 2010
ACIME (High Commissionaire for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (National Centre for Immigrant Support (CNAI)) Portugal (Lisbon) Social Mediator (Employment section (NGO Morabeza)) 2004
NGO Morabeza (Development/projects) Portugal (Lisbon) Anthropologist (Working in the project “Training and Voter Registration of the Foreign Community in Portugal”;) 2003
Intergenerational Senior’s University (Social Sciences) Portugal (Amadora) Lecturer of Anthropolgy (Docente da disciplina anual de Antropologia (1º e 2º ano) - concepção do programa e desenvolvimento de materiais) 2000 - 2002
Centre for Timorese Citizenship /Office of the Commissioner for the Transition Support in East Timor (Research) Portugal (Portugal) Anthropologist (- Doing surveys and ethnographic fieldwork with a gender-focus approach) 1999
College of Social Sciences and Humanities (FCSH), New University of Lisbon (Group Study of Social and Identity Representations and Ethnic Minorities) Portugal (Lisbon) Anthropologist (Working in the Group Study of Social and Identity Representations and Ethnic Minorities; co-author of the first book about non-official data/ethnic minorities in Portugal) 1997
Fernave (HR) Portugal (Lisbon) Human Resources Assistant, 1997 - 1998
National daily newspaper "Europeu" (Secondary education section, general wrtiting and reportages) Portugal (Lisbon) Journalist (internship) 1988 - 1989
Diffusion Activities
Activity Type Event Title Activity Description Year
Participation in general diffusion news tv show Paulo Freire's adult literacy method in Africa Talk moderated by Ângela Coutinho 2024