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08/17/2018 | Campus-Meldung

Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow for three years at INCHER-Kassel

The University of Kassel welcomes an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation scholar from Mozambique. Dr. Nelson Casimiro Zavale is a professor of the sociology of education and will be researching the relationships between universities and external stakeholders in Kassel. He is supervised by Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken, the director of the International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel (INCHER-Kassel). The results of this research will help to better understand and classify the influence of external stakeholders on universities in Mozambique and their further development.

Image: Nelson Casimiro Zavale
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow Prof. Dr. Nelson Casimiro Zavale.

Since August 1, 2018, Mr. Nelson Casimiro Zavale has been conducting research at INCHER-Kassel as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Kassel. He will stay there for three years until the beginning of 2021.

Nelson Casimiro Zavale was born in 1982 and is currently Associate Professor of Sociology of Education and Higher Education at Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique. He is the Associate Dean for Research and Extension there. Since July 2017, Prof. Zavale has also been the Director of the Central Office of Quality Assurance at Eduardo Mondlane University. He completed his master's degree in social sciences in 2008. He completed his master's degree and PhD at the University of Aix-Marseille in France.

His research focuses on understanding the relationship between education and development with a focus on higher education.

 

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Georg Krücken
University of Kassel
Executive Director International Centre for Higher Education Research Kassel
Tel: +49 561 804-7246
E-mail: kruecken[at]incher.uni-kassel[dot]de

Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communication, Press and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 5061 804-1961
E-mail: presse@uni-kassel.de
Internet: www.uni-kassel.de