Tasks performed in the Faculty of Humanities - Studies section
- Internationalization:
- incoming student mobility,
- incoming Erasmus+ traineeship students,
- Erasmus+ incoming administrative staff mobility,
- exchange agreements.
- Learning Assistant Scheme
- Language Foreign Day, event aimed at secondary schools to promote language studies
Teaching and academic tasks
University of Oslo
Lecturer in Portuguese
20% position (80% adviser in the HF Studies section), 2011–present. Course POR1001
100% position 2004–2010.
Courses at all levels of the bachelor’s programme, development of IT-based learning resources within the flexible learning programme at the University of Oslo. Position partly funded by Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language (the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs), organisation of cultural activities to promote the Portuguese language and cultures in Portuguese-speaking countries, in line with the objectives of Camões.
2003 - 2004 assistant lecturer.
Norwegian Directorate for Education and Training
- Examiner for Portuguese language examinations in upper secondary education, 2008–present.
- Member of the Examination and Assessment Committee for Portuguese language, upper secondary education, 2010–present.
OsloMet - Oslo Metropolitan University
- Examiner for the Bilingual Test ("Tospråktesten"), oral examination for prospective interpreters, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2006–present.
- Examiner for the State Authorization Certificate in Interpreting, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2006 - present.
- Examiner for the admission exam for the Bachelor’s Program in Public Sector Interpreting, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2008–present.
- Examiner for exams in the Bachelor's Program in Public Sector Interpreting, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2008–present.
- Language supervisor for the Bachelor's Program in Public Sector Interpreting, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2018–present.
NHH Norwegian School of Economics
Examiner for the State Authorization Certificate in Translation, Norwegian–Portuguese, 2008–present.
Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Language and Cultural Competence consultant, 2002–2012.
Teaching Portuguese and developing teaching materials tailored to the MFA’s areas of work in development cooperation, humanitarian work, public international law, climate and environment, energy, trade policy, the oil/petroleum sector, the UN, diplomacy and cultures in Portuguese-speaking countries.
Translator (freelance)
1995–2003
- Translation in the fields of technology, finance and banking, articles, film and marketing materials, English–Portuguese, French–Portuguese and Norwegian–Portuguese.
- Some clients: Reticências Ltd (Lisbon), Kaizen Institute (London), Yara (Oslo).
Academic interests
- Portuguese language didactics.
- Foreign language studies.
- Interpreting and translation.
- Cognitive linguistics.
Education
2006 - University of Oslo. Master's thesis, "Path and Manner of Motion in Norwegian and Portuguese: a cognitive contrastive study"
1996 - ISLA Instituto Superior de Línguas e Administração, "Licenciatura" in Translation Portuguese, English and French, equivalent to a Master’s degree prior to the Bologna Process.
Academic Interests
- Portuguese language didactics.
- Foreign language studies.
- Interpreting and translation.
- Cognitive linguistics.