Curriculum Vitae
Rui Manuel Ferreira da Silva
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- Rui Manuel Ferreira da Silva
Citation names
- Silva, Rui da
- Silva, Rui
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- D812-4D7C-403A
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3369-1285
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Educational Sciences
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| Portuguese (Mother tongue) | |||||
| English | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) | Proficiency (C2) |
| French | Elementary (A2) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Elementary (A2) |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Upper intermediate (B2) | Elementary (A2) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017
Concluded
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Ciências da Educação (Doutoramento)
Major in Especialidade: Desenvolvimento Curricular
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Entre o internacional e o local - impacto e efeitos de programas de educação em cooperação para o desenvolvimento. Um estudo
de caso na Guiné-Bissau " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Muito Bom |
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2009 - 2011
Concluded
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Ciências da Educação (Mestrado)
Major in Desenvolvimento Curricular
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Educação, Portugal
"Globalização e currículo: atores e processos: um estudo exploratório na Guiné-Bissau" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2019/04/01 - 2024/08 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal |
| 2017/11 - 2018/01 | Visiting Researcher (Research) | Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) Centre, United Kingdom |
| University of Cambridge - Faculty of Education, United Kingdom | ||
| 2013/02 - 2017/01 | Research Trainee (Research) | Universidade do Minho Instituto de Educação, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2020/02 - 2021/02 | Visiting Professor (University Teacher) | Universidade Estadual de Campinas Faculdade de Educação, Brazil |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/09/02 - Current | Deputy Director | Sheikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi Foundation for Policy Research, United Arab Emirates |
| 2024/01 - Current | Visiting Research Fellow | School of Education and Social Work - University of Sussex, United Kingdom |
| 2023/07 - 2023/12 | Consultant | UNICEF, United States |
| 2023/02 - 2023/11 | Consultant/ Researcher | Education Sub-Saharan Africa , United Kingdom |
| 2023/03 - 2023/10 | Consultant | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2022/11 - 2023/03 | Consultant | UNICEF, United States |
| 2019/01 - 2019/07 | Consultant | UNICEF - Evaluation Office, United States |
| 2018/02 - 2018/09 | Consultant | Cambridge Education Ltd, United Kingdom |
| 2017/10 - 2017/10 | Consultant | National Network for Education for All – Cabo Verde , Cape Verde |
| 2015/08 - 2015/09 | Consultant | UNESCO Office in Dakar, Senegal |
| 2013/06 - 2014/12 | Consultant | National Campaign for the Right to Education (Brazilian Campaign) , Brazil |
| 2006 - 2012/05 | Portuguese Language Community Facilitator | Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, United States |
| 2006 - 2012 | Education Specialist | Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Educaçao, Portugal |
| 2005/09 - 2005/12 | Intern | Institut International de Planification de l'Education, France |
| 2004/03 - 2005/08 | Teacher Trainer | Fundação Fé e Cooperação , Portugal |
Projects
Grant
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2022 - Current | The Lusophone Africa student's profile in Portuguese Higher Education Institutions: characterization, expectations and constraints
no code
Researcher
ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Internacionais, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal Instituto Politécnico de Leiria Escola Superior de Educação de Leira, Portugal |
Ongoing
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| 2017 - Current | Characterization and analysis of government programs of public subsidy to the private sector for the provision of Basic Education:
studies on different contexts: Pernambuco / Dublin / Georgia / Portugal
2015/21107-3
Researcher
Universidade Estadual de Campinas Faculdade de Educação, Brazil
Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Política Educacional , Brazil |
Ongoing
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| 2019 - 2022 | Mapping the privatization strategies of basic education in different contexts: actors, programs and consequences for public
education
FAPESP 2019/12230-7
Researcher
Universidade Estadual de Campinas Faculdade de Educação, Brazil
Grupo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Política Educacional , Brazil |
Ongoing
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| 2013/02 - 2016/11 | Entre o internacional e o local – impacto e efeitos de programas de educação em cooperação para o desenvolvimento. Um estudo
de caso na Guiné-Bissau.
SFRH/BD/85561/2012
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho Centro de Investigação em Educação, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
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Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2019 - Current | Comparative study on the compulsory education privatization in small states: examining the role and impact in Cape Verde and
Guinea-Bissau
CEECIND- 01263/2017
Principal investigator
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Outputs
Publications
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Artistic / Performance
| Video recording |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2023/11 | Education Philanthropy Trends in the Gulf: A Case of Multilateralism, Policy Transfer, and South-South Flows | The 10th Biannual Gulf Comparative Education Society (GCES): Towards Sustainable Education: Global Goals and Local Contexts
(Ras Al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates)
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| 2023/10/02 | Políticas Educativas Globais: um diálogo entre o local e o Internacional com foco na África sub-sahariana | Seminário Internacional Os desafios das Políticas Educacionais no Sul Global
(Paraná, Brazil)
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| 2023/09/26 | Impacto das estruturas de governança, da privatização e da digitalização - Países de Língua oficial Portuguesa | International Seminar Trens in Global Education. September
(São Paulo, Brazil)
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| 2023/09 | Civil society strategies at regional and national levels - Lusophone countries | International Seminar - Trends in Global Education: the impact of governance structures, privatization and digitalization
University of São Paulo - Institute of International Relations (Brazil)
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| 2022/06/15 | Tweet, or not tweet, that is the question: education policy movement on Twitter in Brazil | The Instrumentation and Enactment of Public Education Reform
Universidade Autónoma de Barcelona
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| 2019/11/29 | Conhecimento aberto: reflexões sobre uma experiência em processo | VIII Congreso de Universidad y Cooperación - Conocimiento y compromiso social ante los retos globales
Santiago de Compostela University (Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
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| 2019/09 | Education coalitions and education inclusivity: crossed looks between national education coalitions in Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique | UKFIET: Inclusive Education Systems: futures, fallacies and finance
Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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| 2019/09 | Making the invisible visible: Factors constraining education inclusivity in Guinea-Bissau | UKFIET: Inclusive Education Systems: futures, fallacies and finance
Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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| 2018/11 | Mapeando a investigação na área da educação na Guiné-Bissau de 1975 a 2017: tendências, desafios e lacunas | Congresso Internacional Cooperação e Educação (IV COOPEDU) – Cooperação e Educação de Qualidade
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2018/10 | A Cooperação Portuguesa na Guiné-Bissau | 1ª Conferência CEAUP 2018-19: Sistemas Educativos na África Ocidental
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2018/02 | Subsídio público à oferta privada da educação obrigatória: olhares cruzados entre o Brasil e Portugal | XXV Colóquio da AFIRSE: A investigação, a formação, as políticas e as práticas em educação – 30 anos de AFIRSE em Portugal
Instituto de Educação da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2017/09 | Teachers´ support in challenging situations: reflections from a teacher professional development programme sustainability in Guinea-Bissau | UKFIET Conference - Learning and Teaching for Sustainable Development: Curriculum, Cognition and Contex
Oxford University (Oxford, United Kingdom)
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| 2017/08 | O papel da Parceria Global para a Educação na promoção dos referentes da globalização nos PALOP | V Seminário Internacional de Pesquisa do GREPPE - Dimensões da Privatização na Educação Básica
Universidade de São Paulo (Ribeirão Preto, Brazil)
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| 2017 | Sindicalismo, professores e Educação para Todos: o papel dos sindicatos de professores nos PALOP | Colóquio Internacional O Sindicalismo e o Trabalho em África
Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2017 | Ativismo pelo direito à educação em pequenos estados africanos: dissonâncias e desafios das Coligações pelo Direito à Educação em Cabo Verde, na Guiné-Bissau e em São Tomé e Príncipe | Conferência Internacional Ativismos em África
ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016/06 | Os desafios da qualidade da educação em contexto de fragilidade e crises prolongadas: um estudo de caso na Guiné-Bissau | Congresso Internacional Cooperação e Educação (III COOPEDU) – Cidadania Global
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016 | In-between global education policy, national and local politics: Portuguese aid to education in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2012 | A Educação para além dos números. Contextos locais, realidades nacionais e processos transnacionais
Universidade Lusófona (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2016 | Quality of learning in challenging situations: reflections from a Portuguese aid education program in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2012 | BAICE 2016 - "Achieving equity and quality in learning: Comparative perspectives
Nottingham University (Nottingham, United Kingdom)
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| 2016 | Nova agenda da educação 2030, currículo e desenvolvimento: desafios e implicações para o ensino superior | XII Colóquio sobre Questões Curriculares/VIII Colóquio Luso-Brasileiro de Currículo/II Colóquio Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Questões
Curriculares - Currículo: entre o comum e o singular
Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
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| 2016 | Cooperação para o Desenvolvimento como espaço de fronteira - um estudo de caso na Guiné-Bissau | XIII Congresso SPCE - Fronteiras, diálogos e transições na educação
na Escola Superior de Educação de Viseu (Viseu, Portugal)
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| 2015 | From focus group to djumbai, from researcher to messenger – reflections from cross-cultural curriculum studies research in Guinea-Bissau | II European Conference of Curriculum Studies - Curriculum studies: Policies, perspectives and practices
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2015 | From bilateral educational aid to civil society: recent trends of Portuguese Aid in Guinea-Bissau | Da descolonização ao pós-colonialismo: perspetivas pluridisciplinares
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2015 | Educação para a Cidadania Global na Cooperação Sul-Sul: a importância do caminho do Programa de Cooperação Sul-Sul pelo Direito à Educação entre países Lusófonos | Educação, Pós-Colonialismo e Globalização
University of Porto (Porto, Portugal)
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| 2014 | Construir diálogos e partilhar desafios na aprendizagem com o Sul: lições aprendidas do Programa de Cooperação Sul-Sul pelo Direito à Educação entre países Lusófonos - PCSS-Lusófonos | International Coloquium Epistemologies of the South: South-South, South-North and North-South global learning
Universidade de Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
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| 2014 | Portuguese education aid in Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2012 through the lens of internationalization of curriculum studies | BAICE 2014 Conference - Power, Politics and Priorities for Comparative and International Educatio
Bath University (Bath, United Kingdom)
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| 2014 | Os estudos curriculares na Guiné-Bissau: as principais tendências que caracterizam o campo neste país africano | XI Colóquio sobre Questões Curriculares/ VII Colóquio Luso-Brasileiro sobre Questões Currículares/ I Colóquio Luso-Afro-Brasileiro
sobre Questões Curriculares - Currículo na Contemporaneidade: Internacionalização e Contextos Locais
Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal)
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| 2013 | Theory and praxis: reflections and lessons from a bilateral educational aid program in Guinea-Bissau | The International Symposium on Education, Fragility and Conflict
Sciences Po and Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies (Paris, France)
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| 2013 | Between the global and the local – Discussing a methodological proposal to evaluate an educational aid program in Guinea-Bissau | 5th European Conference on African Studies - African dynamics in a multipolar world
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2012 | Olhares cruzados: percursos de um modelo de apoio a projetos de cooperação | II CoopEdu – Cooperação e educação: áfrica e o mundo
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2012 | Culturas de apoio a professores em contexto de fragilidade educativa: algumas reflexões e lições da Guiné-Bissau | II CoopEdu – Cooperação e educação: áfrica e o mundo
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2010 | Sociedade civil e educação: a experiência de trabalho com ONGs em Angola | 7º Congresso Ibérico de Estudos Africanos: 50 anos das independências africanas: desafios para a modernidade
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2010 | 10 Anos de Cooperação em Educação – Actores, contextos, agendas e diálogo | I CoopEdu – Portugal e os PALOP: cooperação na área da educação
ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
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| 2006 | Educação, reconstrução e desenvolvimento: o caso da Província de Malanje | Curso Livre Internacional Culturas do Desenvolvimento e Cidadania. Módulo 4 – A cooperação e a educação como resposta humanitária
Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo (Viana do Castelo, Portugal)
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2022 - 2023/11 | A Garantia do Direito à Educação em Situações de Emergência: O caso do Norte de Moçambique
Co-supervisor
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Estudos Africanos (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2021 - 2023 | Surf ao serviço do desenvolvimento e da paz: um estudo de caso em São Tomé e Príncipe
Co-supervisor
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Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer, Portugal
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| 2021 - 2022 | O cruzamento da financeirização do desenvolvimento com a política externa e de cooperação portuguesa: Uma análise da SOFID
(2007-2019)
Co-supervisor
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História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2020 - 2021 | Why do Organisations send volunteers into 'developing countries'? A case study of German organisations sending volunteers
as part of the 'Weltwärts' programme
Co-supervisor
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História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2019 - 2020 | O processo de avaliação dos projetos de cooperação para o desenvolvimento
Co-supervisor
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História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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| 2018 - 2019 | O Desporto tem o poder de mudar o mundo”. Sport for Development Center: Mapea-mento nacional das instituições de Desporto
ao Serviço do Desenvolvimento e da Paz
Co-supervisor
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História, Relações Internacionais e Cooperação (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
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Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2018 - Current | Sport for Development Centre - Escola Superior de Desporto e Lazer do IPVC | Co-coordinator |
| 2016 - Current | Lusophone Network for the Right to Education | Founding member |
| 2005 - Current | Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies | Member |
| 2019 - 2023 | Center for African Studies of the University of Porto | President |
| 2017 - 2019 | Center for African Studies of the University of Porto | Vice-president |
| 2014 - 2017 | Center for African Studies of the University of Porto | Secretary |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2018 - Current | Scientific Comittee
Member
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Universidade do Porto Centro de Estudos Africanos, Portugal |
| 2015 - 2017 | Education Policy Working Group
Other
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Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, United States |
Conference scientific committee
| Conference name | Conference host | |
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| 2020 - 2021 | VI Encontro Internacional Desporto e Lazer em África | Universidade do Porto |
| 2018 - 2018 | CROSSCUT 2018 International Congress of Cross-Curricular Teaching Curriculum Flexibility and innovation | Universidade do Minho |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/07 - 2023/12 | Develop the operational plan and a three-year budget for the Guinea-Bissau National Strategy on Out-of-School Children | UNICEF, United States |
| 2023/02 - 2023/11 | Independent researcher in a two-part desk-based study, in partnership with the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) from Cambridge University Use project protocols to undertake structured searches of African education research conducted in Portuguese and cataloguing these in the project database. | Education Sub-Saharan Africa , United Kingdom |
| 2023/03 - 2023/10 | Develop a synthesis report from the Project Pre-school Education in the Portuguese-speaking African countries | Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal |
| 2022/11 - 2023/03 | Develop a national strategy and a three-year budgeted action plan to address the challenges of out-of-school children in Guinea-Bissau. | UNICEF, United States |
| 2022/06 - 2022/07 | Design and implement a 5-day in person workshop for approximately 80 technical staff from the Ministry of Education (central-level staff, as well as technical staff from the 11 education regions) on education in emergencies (EiE), including risk informed programming as part of comprehensive disaster risk reduction (DRR) and preparedness strategies development for the education sector. | UNICEF, United States |
| 2021/11 - 2022/03 | Assessment of INEE Minimum Standards Usage and Uptake with a focus on the Portuguese language. Liaison with different stakeholders and team members Support the preparation of the final report. | Inter-Agency Network for Education in Emergencies, United States |
| 2019/01 - 2019/07 | External evaluator of the UNICEF education programme (2016 to 2018) in South Sudan. - Design and manage the evaluation of the South Sudan education programme (L3 response) (2016 to 2018); - Develop the data collection and treatment instruments; - Liaison with different stakeholder, the UNICEF evaluation office and the team members (team leader, Child Protection Consultant and M&E consultant); - Support the preparation of the final report. | UNICEF - Evaluation Office, United States |
| 2018/02 - 2018/09 | - Design and manage the qualitative research (qualitative researcher) from the Study on Out-of-School Children in Guinea-Bissau¿ promoted by UNICEF e for the Ministry of Education of Guinea-Bissau. - Develop the data collection and treatment instruments; - Prepare and facilitate the training and follow-up the 10 research assistants; - Transcribe and data entry of the interview and focus groups; - Produce a final report taking in consideration the formulation of national recommendations for policy and strategy. | Cambridge Education LLC, United States |
| 2017/11 - 2018/01 | - Independent researcher in the project “Mapping Education Research in sub-Saharan Africa” from the Research for Equitable Access and Learning (REAL) from Cambridge University in partnership with Education Sub-Saharan Africa (ESSA) https://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/real/researchthemes/highereducation/mappingeducation - Use project protocols to undertake structured searches of African education research conducted in Portuguese and cataloguing these in the project database. | University of Cambridge - Faculty of Education, United Kingdom |
| 2017/10 - 2017/10 | - Facilitate that national workshop about the motorization of the Sustainable Development Goal 4. | |
| 2015/08 - 2015/09 | - Conducted the final external evaluation of the extra budgetary project on “Improvement of teacher qualification and setting up of a system for the management of learning outcomes in Guinea-Bissau”. - Designed and implemented interviews of project participants and analyse project documents. - Synthesized data and completed the inception report and the final evaluation report. - Maintained relationship with all the stakeholders to ensure expectations were being met and evaluation tools were satisfactory. | UNESCO Office in Dakar, Senegal |
| 2013/06 - 2014/12 | - Produced research materials. - Monitored the research at the South-South Cooperation Program for the Right to Education between Lusophone Countries in regard to Guinea-Bissau. - Supported monitoring and analysis of data collected by the research team members. - Reviewed the Guinea-Bissau report. | |
| 2006/01 - 2012/12 | Consultancies: Angola for the NGO Save the Children, the NGO Christian Children’s Fund, the NGO ADRA-Angola and Portuguese Aid in teacher training assessments and teacher training; Cape Verde for the NGO CIC on teacher and principals training and assessment for teachers resource centre creation; Guinea-Bissau for Portuguese Aid in monitoring and evaluation, and final evaluation of an education programme with focus in teacher training and teachers resource centres; East-Timor for UNICEF on training Ministry of Education official in the INEE MSEE | |
| 2006 - 2012/05 | - Facilitated the Portuguese Language Community activities linking to the INEE communications, networking and advocacy work. - Edited and translated documents. - Promoted INEE and the Portuguese Language Community. - Collaborated different stakeholders, e.g. UN agencies and international and local NGOs. |
Interview (tv / radio show)
| Program | Topic | |
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| 2021 - Current | Eduquê Podcast | Co-host and producer of the podcast Eduquê, which showcases new Portuguese-language research on education, broadly defined |
| 2020/07 - Current | FreshEd is a weekly podcast that takes ideas in educational research, which may initially seem impenetrable, and seeks to make them more accessible, unraveling their complexity through conversations with expert academics in the field. | Educational Privatization in Brazil and Portugal |
| 2017/02 - Current | FreshEd is a weekly podcast that takes ideas in educational research, which may initially seem impenetrable, and seeks to make them more accessible, unraveling their complexity through conversations with expert academics in the field. | Portuguese Aid to Education in Guinea Bissau |
Journal scientific committee
| Journal title (ISSN) | Publisher | |
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| 2017 - Current | Africana Studia |
Distinctions
Award
| 2018 | Prémio Fernão Mendes Pinto
Associação das Universidades de Língua Portuguesa, Portugal
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| 2017 | UKFIET Bursary Award
UKFIET - The Education and Development Forum, United Kingdom
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