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I am an Anthropologist, consultant and teacher/trainer with expertise on research methodologies, participatory methodologies, international development, social and human sciences. I am a Doctor of Philosophy, PhD in Education and International Development with regional expertise on sub-Saharan Africa (2016, College of Social Sciences, University of Brighton, UK), with a Master in Social Sciences/Anthropology (2004, ICS/UL) and a BA in Anthropology (4 years degres, 1996, FCSH/UNL). As an anthropologist, I develop research about identity and memory transmission over three generations in Europe and Africa. As a consultant, I work with international and national organizations in the social health, gender, politics, human rights, communication and education areas. As a teacher/trainer, I have been teaching in Mozambique, UK and Portugal. In Mozambique, I was a Lecturer at the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (DAA), University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), teaching in the area of qualitative methodologies and ethnography, as well as anthropology of symbolic and anthropology and psychology. In the UK, I was teaching at the University of Brighton and London in the area of research methodologies, education and ethics, as well as Portuguese as a foreigner language. In Portugal, I develop professional training in research for academic, technical and fiction purposes and academic writing; I have been an Invited Assistant Professor at FCSH/UNL ; I am a Research Associate at CRIA/ISCTE; and informal education programmes, team management, negotiation, conflict management, MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) of projects at CECOA. Since I graduate in Anthropology, I have been working in several academic and non-academic projects.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Xénia Venusta Braz Alves Ferreira de Carvalho

Citation names

  • Carvalho, Xénia de
  • Carvalho, Xénia Venusta de

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
E417-ED88-1C1F
ORCID iD
0000-0001-5416-8480

Email addresses

  • xeniacarvalho@gmail.com (Professional)
  • Xenia.Carvalho@iscte-iul.pt (Professional)
  • xenia.carvalho@cecoa.pt (Professional)

Websites

  • https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/xenia-carvalho/cv (Professional)
  • https://iscte-iul.academia.edu/X%C3%A9niadeCarvalho (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
French Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Elementary (A2) Proficiency (C2) Beginner (A1) Advanced (C1) Elementary (A2)
Italian Elementary (A2) Advanced (C1) Beginner (A1) Intermediate (B1) Elementary (A2)
Education
Degree Classification
2012/10 - 2016/03
Concluded
Education and International Development with regional expertise on sub-Saharan Africa (Doctor of Philosophy)
Major in Sub-Saharan Africa - Mozambique, ethnography and narrative, three generations
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
"The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: identity and education over three generations in Mozambique" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Doctor of Philosophy
2001 - 2004
Concluded
Mestrado em Ciências Sociais (Mestrado)
Major in Antropologia
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Portugal
"Identidade e memória na Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa: contributo para um estudo da construção identitária e da transmissão da memória na Comunidade Judaica Portuguesa contemporânea" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito bom por unanimidade, recomendação para publicação
1992 - 1996
Concluded
Antropologia (Licenciatura)
Major in Antropologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
"A Época de Nian: um estudo antropológico das festividades do Ano Novo Lunar Chinês" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
Muito bom por unanimidade
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution
Employer
2016/06/21 - Current Researcher (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
(...)
2012/10 - 2016/03 Researcher (Research) University of Brighton, United Kingdom
University of Brighton, United Kingdom
2013/03 - 2013/06 Research Assistant (Research) Education Research Center (ERC), University of Brighton (UoB), United Kingdom
Education Research Center (ERC), University of Brighton (UoB), United Kingdom
(...)

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2020/09 - 2021/02 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
(...)
2015/02 - 2016/02 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, United Kingdom
2011/02 - 2012/08 Assistant (University Teacher) Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (DAA), University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique
Department of Archaeology and Anthropology (DAA), University Eduardo Mondlane (UEM), Mozambique

Other Careers

Category
Host institution
Employer
2021/06 - Current Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) CECOA, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution
Employer
2019/10 - 2021/06 Teacher/Trainer freelancer Escrever Escrever, Portugal
2015/09 - 2021/06 Anthropologist & Consultant freelancer Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique
Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique
2018/11 - 2019/09 Anthropologist & Consultant Freelancer - Quality Project Manager/Social Health Consultant COWI, Mozambique
COWI, Mozambique
(...)
2018/05 - 2018/09 Journalist e-Global Notícias em Português, Portugal
e-Global Notícias em Português, Portugal
2017/04 - 2017/12 Anthropologist & Consultant/Community Facilitator NGO Girassol Solidario (Emergency/Evacuated health patients from Cape Verde) , Portugal
2014/12 - 2015/06 Memory Collector & Community Heritage Facilitator NGO ART:sync, Brighton, United Kingdom
2013/09 - 2013/11 Analyst –Operational research NGO Target Tuberculosis, United Kingdom
2011/02 - 2012/08 Freelance Journalist National weekly newspaper Domingo, Mozambique
National weekly newspaper Domingo, Mozambique
2012/03 - 2012/05 Senior Consultant Specialist in Social Research (gender area) COWI, Mozambique
COWI, Mozambique
2005/01 - 2010/12 Senior Social and Political Adviser Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Portugal
Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM), Portugal
2004/01 - 2004/12 Social Mediator National Centre for Immigrant Support (CNAI), ACIME (High Commissionaire for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities), Portugal
National Centre for Immigrant Support (CNAI), ACIME (High Commissionaire for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities), Portugal
2003/01 - 2003/12 Anthropologist NGO Morabeza, Portugal
2000/09 - 2002/07 Lecturer of Anthropology Intergenerational Senior’s University, Portugal
Intergenerational Senior’s University, Portugal
1999/01 - 1999/12 Anthropologist Centre for Timorese Citizenship /Office of the Commissioner for the Transition Support in East Timor, Portugal
Centre for Timorese Citizenship /Office of the Commissioner for the Transition Support in East Timor, Portugal
1999 - 1999 Anthropologist Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal
Instituto Nacional de Estatistica, Portugal
1997 - 1998 Human Resources Assistant Fernave, Portugal
Fernave, Portugal
1997 - 1997 Anthropologist Group Study of Social and Identity Representations and Ethnic Minorities, Portugal
Group Study of Social and Identity Representations and Ethnic Minorities, Portugal
1988 - 1989 Journalist National daily newspaper Europeu, Portugal
National daily newspaper Europeu, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2012/10 - 2016/03 The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: identity and education over three generations in Mozambique
PhD Student Fellow
University of Brighton - Falmer Campus, United Kingdom
University of Brighton
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2023/12/01 - 2025/11/30 VET CARE - Building Capacity and VET for Migrants Care Workers in Europe
Anthropologist & Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL) (R&D/Innovative Projects in VET)
CECOA, Portugal
Erasmus+
Ongoing
2023/09 - 2025/08 DIGITAL PR - Digital Peer Review for green and digital VET
Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)
CECOA, Portugal

KPMPC - Qualifications and Vocational Education and Training Development Centre, Lithuania

LESTU - LIETUVOS SVIETIMO IR MOKSLO PROFESINE SAJUNGA, Lithuania

FORMA.Azione, Italy

EfVET - European Forum of Technical and Vocational Education and Training, Belgium
Erasmus Plus
Ongoing
2021/05 - 2024/04 IgualPro - As profissões não têm género
Anthropologist & Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL) (R&D/Innovative Projects in VET)
CECOA, Portugal

CITE (Comissão para a Igualdade no trabalho e emprego), Portugal
EEA Grants
Concluded
2022/01 - 2024/01 RetRail - New Trends in Retail Commerce
Anthropologist & Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL) (R&D/Innovative Projects in VET)
CECOA, Portugal

CAMARA OFICIAL DE COMERCIO INDUSTRIA, SERVICIOS Y NAVEGACION DE VALENCIA, Spain
ES01 - Servicio Español para la Internacionalización de la Educación (SEPIE) / ERASMUS +
Concluded
2021/06 - 2023/05 DiGiGo - Apprenticeships in the digital era
Anthropologist & Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL) (R&D/Innovative Projects in VET)
CECOA, Portugal

CDE Petra Patrimonia (França), France
ERASME
Concluded
2021/06 - 2023/05 QUANTUM -QUAlity Networks: fine-TUning Monitoring systems for better performances in VET
Anthropologist & Consultant (Senior Researcher and MEL) (R&D/Innovative Projects in VET)
CECOA, Portugal

SIOV - State Vocational Education Institute, Slovakia
Erasmus Plus
Concluded
2018/11 - 2019/09 Evaluating the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) in Mozambique: Endline Survey
COWI, Mozambique
USAID
Concluded
2014/12 - 2015/06 Crossing the Teas
Other
ART:sync, United Kingdom
Heritage Lottery Fund
Concluded
2013 - 2014 Engaging young children in research
Researcher
University of Brighton - Falmer Campus, United Kingdom
Bernard Van Leer Foundation

University of Brighton - Falmer Campus
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Carvalho, X.. Identidade e Memória na Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa. Lisboa, Portugal: ICS. 2014.
    Published
  2. Carvalho, Xénia de; Pereira Bastos, Gabriel; Trovão, Susana; Madeira, Carlos; Brinca, Ana; Mourão, Fátima. Portugal Multicultural - Situação e Estratégias Identitárias das Minorias Étnicas (Bastos, José Gabriel Pereira e Bastos, Susana Pereira - autores; Madeira, Carlos; Carvalho, Xénia; Brinca, Ana e Mourão, Fátima - co-autores. Lisboa, Portugal: Fim de Século Edições. 1999.
    Published
Book chapter
  1. Carvalho, Xénia. "Academic background and guidance on steps to engaging young children in research (in Steps to Engaging Young Children in Research, Vol. I)". United Kingdom, 2014.
Conference paper
  1. Carvalho, X.. "Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (Un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique". Paper presented in VIII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA), painel 091 (Resilience and methodological resistances: ethnographies of Mozambique during pandemic times.), Évora, 2022.
    Published
  2. Carvalho, Xénia. "Gender, health and field encounters in Southern Africa: methodological innovation on data collection methods for evaluating international development programmes". Paper presented in 1st Societal Health Conference – “Societal health in the Post-covid-19 future”, Lisbon, 2022.
    Published
  3. Carvalho, Xénia. "Do comunismo ao neoliberalismo em Moçambique: a escola como instrumento de (i)mobilidade identitária e (re)criadora de fronteiras sociais e políticas". Paper presented in (I)mobilidades e a multiplicação de fronteiras, Lisboa, 2016.
    Published
  4. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Academic contributor’s perspective: working with the Sudanese Women & Children’s group". Paper presented in Seminar on Crossing the Teas project, Center for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2015.
    Published
  5. Carvalho, Xénia. "Witnessing stories in the Grey Zone: complicity and anthropological research in Mozambique". 2015.
    Published
  6. Carvalho, Xénia. "The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: Listening to the life histories of three generations in Mozambique (Peer review - individual paper presentation with University of Brighton Research Student Conference Support Fund - RSCSF - Award)". Paper presented in Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) Newer Researchers Conference, Wales, 2014.
    Published
  7. Carvalho, Xénia de. "The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: a case study of personal and social identity over three generations in Mozambique". Paper presented in Education Research Lunchtime Conversation, School of Education, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2014.
    Published
  8. Carvalho, Xénia de. "The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: Listening to the life histories of three generations in Southern Africa". Paper presented in Annual Conference for MPhil/PhD, Professional Doctorate and MRes Clinical Research Students, Brighton Doctoral College, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2014.
    Published
  9. Stephens, David. "Into the field with the ¿other¿: reflections upon pedagogy and culture in African contexts (with David Stephens, UoB)". Paper presented in Education Research Centre Research Seminar, University of Brighton, Brighton, 2013.
    Published
  10. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Identidade e memória na Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa (CIL)". Paper presented in VIII Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais, CES, Coimbra, 16 a 18/09/2004, inserida no painel 43 “Construções de identidade em contextos regionais, étnicos, nacionais e transnacionais no espaço lusófono”, 2004.
    Published
Journal article
  1. Carvalho, Xénia. "Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique". Anthropology Southern Africa 46 2 (2023): 90-102. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2023.2247439.
    Published
  2. Adalima, José; Carvalho, Xénia; Florêncio, Fernando José Pereira ; Jossias, Elísio; Meneses, Maria Paula. "Introduction (to the SPECIAL ISSUE: Resilience and methodological resistance: ethnographies of Mozambique during pandemic times)". Anthropology Southern Africa 46 2 (2023): 77-89. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23323256.2023.2247442.
    Published
  3. Carvalho, X.. "Memories of (Un)Freire literacy policies in Southern Africa from the 1970s on: telling the (hi)story through life histories and photography of (dis)empowerment in Mozambique". Lusotopie XXII 1 (2023): 1-28. https://journals.openedition.org/lusotopie/6818.
    Open access • Published
  4. Carvalho, X.. "The use of languages as tool to (re)create social and national identities over three generations in Mozambique from 1975 to modern times". Portuguese Studies Review 28 2 (2021): 149-188. https://www.academia.edu/49235741/The_Use_of_Languages_as_Tool_to_re_Create_Social_and_National_Identities_over_Three_Generations_in_Mozambique_from_1975_to_Modern_Times.
    Published
  5. Carvalho, X.. "“Em Moçambique... Epa, porra! Os filhos dos dirigentes tinham uma escola!” – Memórias de três gerações e suas narrativas escolares em África subsariana". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos 39 (2020): 161-185. https://journals.openedition.org/cea/4997.
    Published • 10.4000/cea.4997
  6. Carvalho, X.. "The Waithood Generation: an African perspective about youth’s strategies in the contemporary world". Research in Education 6 1 (2014): 5-6. https://www.brighton.ac.uk/_pdf/research/education/red%20publications/red_vol6_no_1-5.pdf.
    Published
Journal issue
  1. Adalima, José; Carvalho, Xénia; Florêncio, Fernando José Pereira ; Jossias, Elísio; Meneses, Maria Paula. "SPECIAL ISSUE: Resilience and methodological resistance: ethnographies of Mozambique during pandemic times". Anthropology Southern Africa 46 2 (2023): https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rasa20/46/2.
    Published • Coeditor
Magazine article
  1. Carvalho, X.. "O futuro de tod@s: o novo modelo de Ensino e Formação Profissional em Portugal", CECOA e-Newsletter, 2022, https://cecoa.pt/news/show/786#.
  2. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Somos tod@s iguais, somos tod@s digitais", Business, 2022, https://issuu.com/revistabusinessportugal/docs/rbp_setembro_high_quality_compressed.
  3. Carvalho, Xénia de. "O impacto da pandemia no Ensino e Formação Profissional: Desafios e obstáculos em Portugal", CECOA e-newsletter, 2021, https://www.cecoa.pt/news/show/759.html.
Manual
  1. Carvalho, Xénia de. Pesquisar para Escrever. Lisboa, Portugal: Escrever Escrever. 2019.
    Published
  2. Carvalho, Xénia de. Escrita Académica. Lisboa, Portugal: Escrever Escrever. 2019.
    Published
Newspaper article
  1. Carvalho, X.. "Carta a um assassino", Observatório da Imprensa, 2024, Liberdade, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/carta-a-um-assassino/.
  2. Carvalho, X.. "A Virgem negra que enterra os mortos (d)existentes", Observatório da Imprensa, 2023, Liberdade, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/a-virgem-negra-que-enterra-os-mortos-dexistentes/.
  3. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Da história apenas resta uma versão: a capacidade de (des)pertença", Observatório da Imprensa, 2023, Especiais, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/da-historia-apenas-resta-uma-versao-a-capacidade-de-despertenca/.
    10.5281/zenodo.7775999
  4. Carvalho, Xénia. "'Pensar sem corrimão': Fórmula para te (des)banalizares", Observatório da Imprensa, 2022, Liberdade Científica e Conexas, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/pensar-sem-corrimao-formula-para-te-desbanalizares/.
    10.5281/zenodo.7396830
  5. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Anatomia da normalidade em tempos incertos: (des)costurando a mulher e a loucura", Observatório da Imprensa, 2022, Artigo, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/anatomia-da-normalidade-em-tempos-incertos-descosturando-a-mulher-e-a-loucura/.
    10.5281/zenodo.6732338
  6. Carvalho, X.. "A (in)capacidade de manter um homem na sepultura: a matemática como acto de (re)insistência", Observatório da Imprensa, 2021, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/a-incapacidade-de-manter-um-homem-na-sepultura-a-matematica-como-acto-de-reinsistencia/.
    10.5281/zenodo.5771860
  7. Carvalho, X.. "Uma voz feminina na pandemia: “Cidadã de segunda classe”", Observatório da Imprensa, 2021, https://www.academia.edu/44925980/Uma_voz_feminina_na_pandemia_Cidad%C3%A3_de_segunda_classe_.
    10.5281/zenodo.4446715
  8. Carvalho, Xénia de. "A raça, o novo amanhecer e a autenticação do ser", Observatório da Imprensa, 2020, https://www.academia.edu/43506892/A_ra%C3%A7a_o_novo_amanhecer_e_a_autentica%C3%A7%C3%A3o_do_ser.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4422607
  9. Carvalho, Xénia de. "E-CARTA AO MANO MAIS VELHO", Observatório da Imprensa, 2020, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/pt/e-carta-ao-mano-mais-velho/.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4422531
  10. Carvalho, Xénia de. "“O país que ainda não existia” e a morte da máquina de costura", Observatório da Imprensa, 2020, https://www.academia.edu/42679394/_O_pa%C3%ADs_que_ainda_n%C3%A3o_existia_e_a_morte_da_m%C3%A1quina_de_costura.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4422518
  11. Carvalho, Xénia de. "Quanto pesam as palavras? Da liberdade sonhada à liberdade driblada", Observatório da Imprensa, 2020, https://observatoriodaimprensa.net/pt/quanto-pesam-as-palavras-da-liberdade-sonhada-a-liberdade-driblada/.
    https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4422458
  12. Carvalho, Xénia; Carvalho, Xénia de. "O encontro com a Justiça entre caixões e piolhos sob vigia – Do julgamento à execução de Sócrates", 2019
  13. Carvalho, Xénia; Carvalho, Xénia de. "A resistência ao totalitarismo por um italiano em segunda mão achado em África - “O homem que se perdeu a si mesmo”", 2019
  14. Carvalho, Xénia. "Entrevista: A Renamo “parece ter-se reinventado nos últimos anos, com um apoio popular cada vez mais crescente e até em zonas historicamente hostis”", 2018
  15. Carvalho, Xénia. "Entrevista: As autarquias em Angola – "da paz militar instituída" à "paz civil desejada"", 2018
  16. Carvalho, Xénia. "Entrevista: Ataques a civis no norte de Moçambique - Do "Boko Haram" moçambicano à " fragilidade institucional" no país", 2018
  17. Carvalho, Xénia. "Eurico Monteiro, Embaixador de Cabo Verde em Portugal: "Temos a vantagem estratégica de estarmos onde estamos, mas essa posição também constitui uma fragilidade”", 2018
  18. Carvalho, Xénia. "Entrevista: "Para Angola o problema não são os recursos. O problema são os políticos, a corrupção e o que constitui prioridade para a nomenclatura"", 2018, http://e-global.pt/noticias/lusofonia/angola/entrevista-para-angola-o-problema-nao-sao-os-recursos-o-problema-sao-os-politicos-a-corrupcao-e-o-que-constitui-prioridade-para-a-nomenclatura/.
  19. Carvalho, X.. "Da Banalidade do Mal – Hannah Arendt e o julgamento de Eichmann em Jerusalém", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/37498250/Da_Banalidade_do_Mal_Hannah_Arendt_e_o_julgamento_de_Eichmann_em_Jerusalem.
  20. Carvalho, X.. "Do direito do Estado a decidir a nossa morte – Apontamentos sobre “A Morte” de Filomena Mónica", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/38512118/Do_direito_do_Estado_a_decidir_a_nossa_morte_Apontamentos_sobre_A_Morte_de_Filomena_M%C3%B3nica.
  21. Carvalho, X.. "Histórias de desencanto e reencontro em África", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/38512138/Hist%C3%B3rias_de_desencanto_e_reencontro_em_%C3%81frica.
  22. Carvalho, X.. "Somos todos estrangeiros – Sobre um livro que fala do absurdo", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/38512098/Somos_todos_estrangeiros_Sobre_um_livro_que_fala_do_absurdo.
  23. Carvalho, X.. "A loucura é normal – Sobre “O Alienista” de Machado de Assis", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/38512056/A_loucura_%C3%A9_normal_Sobre_O_Alienista_de_Machado_de_Assis.
  24. Carvalho, X.. "A sexualidade, a morte e o destino – Da tragédia grega à actualidade", Domingo, 2012, https://www.academia.edu/38511910/A_sexualidade_a_morte_e_o_destino_Da_trag%C3%A9dia_grega_%C3%A0_actualidade.
  25. Carvalho, X.. "Novas formas de contestação social – A queda de Mubarak", Domingo, 2011
Online resource
  1. Carvalho, Xénia. Crossing The Teas - A Community Arts & Heritage Project. 2015.
Report
  1. Carvalho, X.. 2023. Project ONE - External Evaluation FINAL REPORT (on behalf of CECOA). https://www.adult-learning.eu/en/project-one/.
  2. Carvalho, Xénia. 2023. Project ONE - External Evaluation 1ST REPORT 31 May 2023 (on behalf of CECOA). https://www.adult-learning.eu/en/project-one/.
  3. COWI; USAID/MCSP; MISAU. 2019. Male Engagement and Couples Communication in Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in Nampula and Sofala Provinces of Mozambique - Findings from the Knowledge, Attitudes and Coverage Endline Qualitative Assessment. https://www.mcsprogram.org/resource/male-engagement-and-couples-communication-in-reproductive-maternal-and-child-health-in-nampula-and-sofala-provinces-of-mozambique/.
  4. COWI; USAID/MCSP; MISAU. 2019. Narratives of Referral Experiences for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health Complications in Mozambique, Nampula Province: Findings from a Qualitative Study. https://www.mcsprogram.org/resource/narratives-of-referral-experiences-for-maternal-newborn-and-child-health-complications-in-mozambique-nampula-province/.
  5. 2012. Gender-related baseline assessment - "Action plan for women’s rights and gender equality in development cooperation for the Norwegian Embassy in Maputo.
  6. Carvalho, Xénia de; Pereira Bastos, Gabriel; Trovão, Susana; Madeira, Carlos; Brinca, Ana; Mourão, Fátima. 1997. As Minorias Étnicas em Portugal: dos dados oficiais às pesquisas e estimativas não oficiais - relatório preliminar (autores: José Gabriel Pereira Bastos e Susana Pereira Bastos; co-autores: Carlos Madeira, Xénia de Carvalho e Ana Brinca).
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Carvalho, X.. "The construction of knowledge in post-colonial societies: identity and education over three generations in Mozambique". PhD, 2016. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/the-construction-of-knowledge-in-postcolonialsocieties-identity-a.
  2. Carvalho, X.. "Identidade e memória na Comunidade Israelita de Lisboa: contributo para um estudo da construção identitária e da transmissão da memória na Comunidade Judaica Portuguesa contemporânea". Master, 2004.
  3. "A Época de Nian, um estudo antropológico das festividades do Ano Novo Lunar Chinês". Degree, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, 1996.

Other

Other output
  1. The oral history of the Portuguese Jewish Community in the XXI century: family histories and life stories of three generations in Portugal. Paper presented at the SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies Evening Lectures Series, 4th February London, UK. 2015. Carvalho, Xénia.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/04/17 Programas de formação para Cuidadores - boas práticas e realidades europeias PROGRAMAS DE FORMAÇÃO PARA CUIDADORES: PERSPECTIVAS COMPARATIVAS
CICS.NOVA (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/11/29 A Gender Approach to Vocational Training and Aging Population in Europe: Developing Pilot Training Programs and Pools for Long Term Care Workers Second mutual learning session of the IgualPro project
CIG -Comissão para a Cidadania e a Igualdade de Género (Oslo, Norway)
2023/10/25 RETRAIL: 10 tendências digitais no comércio a retalho e desenvolvimento de competências tecnológicas para PMEs e formadores RETRAIL: o comércio do séc. XXI – tecnologia e novas tendências
CECOA (projecto RETRAIL - evento multiplicador) (Portugal) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2023/10/25 Memories of (Un)Freire literacy policies in Southern Africa from the 1970s on: telling the (hi)story through life histories and photography of (dis)empowerment in Mozambique Paulo Freire em diálogo: circulações, ressignificações e a atualidade de uma teoria da praxis
CHAM Açores / Núcleo do CHAM - Centro de Humanidades (Açores/Online, Portugal)
2023/05/23 DIGIGO: das boas práticas à testagem de novos modelos de aprendizagem digital em contexto de trabalho DIGIGO: competências digitais para o mercado de trabalho
CECOA (projecto DIGIGO - evento multiplicador) (Portugal)
2023/03/29 Abordagem QUANTUM: A implementação e sustentabilidade da Rede de Qualidade - Qualifica em Rede Implementação e Sustentabilidade de Redes de Qualidade: Qualifica em Rede
CECOA (evento multiplicador do projecto QUANTUM) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/09/08 Portrait of an ethnography during pandemic times: Bagamoyo remote reconstruction and the (Un)Freire of literacy policies in Mozambique VIII Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), University of Évora, Portugal
Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA) (Évora, Portugal)
2022/06/28 Gender, health and field encounters in Southern Africa: methodological innovation on data collection methods for evaluating international development programmes 1st Societal Health Conference – “Societal health in the Post-covid-19 future” in collaboration with the Thematic Line “Societal health” of the Associate Socio DigitalLab for Public policies
ISCTE Saúde (Lisboa, Portugal)
2022/03/10 Metodologia aplicada a projectos de desenvolvimento: recolha e análise de dados sobre saúde e género em Moçambique Seminários de Estudos e Desenvolvimento 2022
Centro de Estudos sobre África e Desenvolvimento (CEsA/CSG/ISEG/ULisboa) (Lisboa, Portugal)
2021/05/12 The Use of Languages as Tool to (re)Create Social and National Identities over Three Generations in Mozambique from 1975 to Modern Times Panel Historical and Contemporary Identities in the Lusophone World
Portuguese Studies Review (Online, Canada)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role)
Institution / Organization
2024/04/17 - 2024/04/17 Organização do seminário "PROGRAMAS DE FORMAÇÃO PARA CUIDADORES: PERSPECTIVAS COMPARATIVAS" em nome do CECOA em colaboração com o CICS.NOVA no âmbito do projecto VET CARE co-financiado pelo Erasmus+/UE (2024/04/17 - 2024/04/17)
Seminar (Co-organisor)
CECOA, Portugal
2023/10/25 - 2023/10/25 CECOA Convida-@ | Evento "RETRAIL: o comércio do séc. XXI - tecnologia e novas tendências" (projecto co-financiado pelo Erasmus+) (2023/10/25 - 2023/10/25)
Conference (Co-organisor)
CECOA, Portugal
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23 Curso de Metodologia em Pesquisa Científica - 12 horas (em colaboração com o CEA/UEM, Maputo) (2023/06/19 - 2023/06/23)
Workshop (Other)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Centro de Estudos Africanos, Mozambique
2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21 Laboratório de Contadores de Histórias - 6 horas (em colaboração com o Centro de Língua Portuguesa Camões da Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, Casa do Professor de Moçambique e a ONG Helpo em Maputo) (2023/06/19 - 2023/06/21)
Workshop (Other)
Universidade Pedagogica, Mozambique

Centro de Língua Portuguesa, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo, Mozambique

Casa do Professor - Moçambique, Mozambique
2023/06/13 - 2023/06/16 Curso de metodologia em Pesquisa Científica - 12 horas (em colaboração com a FCSH/UniLúrio, Ilha de Moçambique) (2023/06/13 - 2023/06/16)
Workshop (Other)
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Lúrio, Mozambique
2023/05/24 - 2023/05/24 CECOA Convida-@ - DIGIGO: competências digitais para o mercado de trabalho (projecto co-financiado pelo Erasmus+) (2023/05/24 - 2023/05/24)
Conference (Co-organisor)
CECOA, Portugal
2023/03/29 - 2023/03/29 CECOA Convida-@: Qualifica em Rede (projecto co-financiado pelo Erasmus+) (2023/03/29 - 2023/03/29)
Conference (Co-organisor)
CECOA, Portugal
2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09 VIII Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (APA), University of Évora, Portugal, from 6 to 9 of September 2022, Panel 091: Resiliência e resistências metodológicas: etnografias de Moçambique em tempos de pandemia (PT) / Resilience and methodological resistances: ethnographies of Mozambique during pandemic times (EN) (2022/09/06 - 2022/09/09)
Congress (Other)
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia, Portugal
2021/02/27 - 2021/02/27 Research Seminar - Research and scientific writing in Social Sciences (developed for junior researchers of the Bloco 4 Foundation- Research in Activism, Citizenship and Social Policies, Moçambique) (2021/02/27 - 2021/02/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
Bloco 4 Foundation- Research in Activism, Citizenship and Social Policies, Mozambique
2017/05/10 - 2017/12/08 Development of an art-based informal education curriculum, using participatory methodologies, having develop with the trainees a “creole domino”, using recycled material, creating a graphic narrative of the islands of Cape Verde. The aim was to integrate and contribute for the development of linguistic competences and raise citizenship awareness. The trainees were emergency health patients from Cape Verde in Portugal (info in https://www.facebook.com/girassol.solidario/posts/1470873809698983) (2017/05/10 - 2017/12/08)
Workshop (Other)
Girassol Solidário – Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Evacuados de Cabo Verde, Portugal
2017/06/17 - 2017/06/17 Organization, support and moderator of the debate about new strategies for emergency health patients from Cape Verde in Portugal, followed by the public presentation and documentary premiere of the NGO Girassol Solidário, working to support emergency health patient from Cape Verde in Portugal in partnership with a local museum, Museu do Aljube, in Lisbon (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) (2017/06/17 - 2017/06/17)
Meeting (Other)
Girassol Solidário – Associação de Apoio aos Doentes Evacuados de Cabo Verde, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event
Event name
Institution / Organization
2024/03/25 - 2025/01/31 12º CONGRESO IBÉRICO DE ESTUDIOS AFRICANOS Respuestas africanas al dilema decolonial - La duodécima edición del Congreso Ibérico de Estudios Africanos (CIEA) se celebrará el 29, 30 y 31 de enero de 2025 en la Universidad de Barcelona. Painel: 18. La educación en un mundo interconectado: experiencias de liberación en el Sur global por María Paula Meneses (Centro de Estudios Sociales, U. Coimbra) e Xénia Venusta de Carvalho (CRIA, ISCTE, Lisboa)
Congress
Respuestas africanas al dilema decolonial
Rede de Estudos Africanos, Spain

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role
Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2012 Momentos Liminares: Um estudo sobre a (re)construção das identidades dos imigrantes oriundos dos Grandes Lagos no bairro Zona Verde (tese de licenciatura)
Supervisor
Ernesto Manuel Saete Mulungo (Other)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique
2011 Possessão espiritual na cidade de Maputo (tese de licenciatura)
(Thesis) Main arguer
Miguel Joaquim Muhal Justin (Other)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique
2011 “Ser Bem-educada”: Os Ritos de Iniciação da Rapariga (Ing’oma) entre os Macondes na Zona Militar. (tese de liceniatura)
(Thesis) Main arguer
Daniel Benigna Lopes (Other)
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique

Association member

Society Organization name Role
2021/01 - Current National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) International Associate (Reino Unido) NFER International Associate
2017/06 - Current Bloco 4 Foundation- Research in Activism, Citizenship and Social Policies, Moçambique Comissão de Honra
2012 - 2016 Understanding Conflict: Forms and Legacies of Violence (based jointly in the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and the Centre for Research in Memory, Narrative and Histories, University of Brighton, UK) Cluster researcher
2014 - 2015 Sussex Africa Center (University of Sussex) Post-grad committee Rep University of Brighton at SAC

Committee member

Activity description
Role
Institution / Organization
2024/12/29 - 2025/07/04 Colóquio Internacional "O Português e as Línguas Nacionais nos Países Africanos e em Portugal (1975-2025). Meio século do 25 de Abril em Portugal e da Independência das ex-Colónias Africanas", julho de 2025, Universidade de Évora, organizado pelo CEsA (ISEG-ULisboa), o CEAUP (U.Porto) e o CEL (UTAD/UÉ), onde integro a comissão científica. Chamadas abertas até dezembro de 2024.
Member
ISEG Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Portugal

Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal

Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/10 - 2023/12 Concept note (conception and development) for the impact assesseemnt as external evaluator for the project "ONE: Opening Adult education Networks to European Cooperation" on behalf of CECOA (external evaluation began in October 2022) - info in: https://www.adult-learning.eu/en/project-one/ CECOA, Portugal

Rete Italiana Istruzione degli Adulti - RIDAP, Italy

FORMA.Azione, Italy

GLOBEDU, Finland

KERIGMA - - Instituto de Inovação e Desenvolvimento Social de Barcelos, Portugal

APEFA - Associação Portuguesa para a Educação e Formação de Adultos, Portugal

State Vocational Education Institute (ŠIOV), Slovakia

Association of Adult Education Institutions in the Slovak Republic (AIVD), Slovakia
2018/11 - 2019/09 Evaluating the Maternal and Child Survival Program (MCSP) in Mozambique ¿ Endline Survey Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices, and Coverage (KAPC) survey and its complementary qualitative assessment on the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of male engagement interventions on RMNCH for USAID (External consultant - Quality Project Manager/Social Health Consultant at COWI Mozambique) COWI, Mozambique

USAID, United States
2019 - 2019 Social Dialogue Evaluation and Social Concertation and edition of the respective brochure for the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Security (MITESS) of Mozambique, funded by the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Mozambique Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique

Organização Internacional do Trabalho (OIT) Moçambique, Mozambique
2019 - 2019 Production of Materials for the HIV and TB Literacy Package for the Ministry of Health of Mozambique (MISAU) / WHO (World Health Organization) - methodological design and literature review Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique

Organização Mundial da Saúde (WHO), Mozambique
2018 - 2018 Communication Strategy of the Network of Sexual and Reproductive Rights (RDSR), funded by the Associação das Mulheres Moçambicanas de Carreira Jurídica, Mozambique; Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique

Associação das Mulheres Moçambicanas de Carreira Jurídica, Mozambique
2016 - 2016 Edition of the handbook “Women are capable” for Norwegian People's Aid (NPA) in Mozambique Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique

Ajuda Popular da Noruega - Moçambique, Mozambique
2015 - 2015 Revision of the "Strategic Plan of MISA (Media Institute of Southern Africa) - Mozambique (2010 - 2014)" Inkwazi (Strategic Communication and Development projects in Southern Africa) Mozambique, Mozambique

MISA Moçambique, Mozambique
2012 - 2012 Action plan for women’s rights and gender equality in development cooperation for the Norwegian Embassy in Maputo, Mozambique COWI, Mozambique

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/09 - 2021/02 Metodologia do trabalho científico Antropologia (Licenciatura) Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Portugal
2015/10 - 2016/04 Portuguese Beginners LANGUAGE ENTITLEMENT PROGRAMME (LEP) SOAS University of London Language Centre, United Kingdom
2012/01 - 2012/06 Iniciação ao trabalho Científico I Antropologia (Bachelor) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique
2011/07 - 2011/12 Antropologia e Psicologia Antropologia (Bachelor) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique
2011/02 - 2011/12 Seminário de Investigação Antropologia (Bachelor) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique
2011/01 - 2011/06 Antropologia do Simbólico Antropologia (Bachelor) Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Faculdade de Letras e Ciências Sociais, Mozambique

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2024/02/20 - 2024/02/20 RDP ÁFRICA: Dossier África O método de alfabetização de adultos de Paulo Freire em África

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2022/09 - 2022/10/31 Sinergias - diálogos educativos para a transformação social (2183-4687) Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto (CEAUP) e Fundação Gonçalo da Silveira
2022/06 - 2022/07 Ethnography and Education (1745-7823) Taylor & Francis
2021/10/18 - 2021/10/27 Sinergias - diálogos educativos para a transformação social, (2183-4687) Centro de Estudos Africanos da Universidade do Porto (CEAUP) e Fundação Gonçalo da Silveira (FGS), no âmbito do projeto Sinergias ED: consolidar o diálogo entre investigação e ação na Educação para o Desenvolvimento em Portugal
2021/03/30 - 2021/04/30 Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (1645-3794) Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-IUL) do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL)
Distinctions

Award

2014 Research Student Conference Support Fund (RSCSF) Award
University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Other distinction

2012 Doctoral Research Studentship, University Studentship (University of Brighton, UK)
University of Brighton, United Kingdom