Affiliateship: 2020-2024
Cohort 5
Country (Nationality)
Mozambique
Discipline
Policy Sciences
Bio
Dr. Nelson Casimiro Zavale is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education of EduardoMondlane University (UEM), in Mozambique, where, since 2017, he has been serving as Director of the Quality Assurance Office. He is (2018–2021) Humboldt Research Fellow at the International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) of the University of Kassel, in Germany, and he was a Swiss government excellence post-doctoral fellow at University of Basel in Switzerland. He has previously held other management positions such as Head of Department of Quality Asurance (2013-2016) and Deputy-Dean for Research and Extension (2016-2017) at the Faculty of Education of the Eduardo Mondlane University. He has been involved in several research and consultancies projects funded by national agencies (e.g. Ministries of Education, Higher Education, Science and Technology) and international organizations (e.g. SIDA-SAREC, World Bank). His research interests focus on sociology of education, higher education studies, university-industry linkages, science policy and scientometrics. He has published several articles in reputable journals in his field, and he has also (co-) authored some book-chapters and books. He has also been serving as reviewer of several scientific journals.