CURRICULUM VITAE 2011
PERSONAL DETAILS:
Name: Patrício Vitorino Langa
Address (Work):
Faculty of Education
Eduardo Mondlane University
Main University Campus
Julius Nyerere Avenue
P.O.Box. 257
Maputo
Tel: + 258 21 – 493313
Fax: + 258 21 – 493313
Fax2email: -21 021233
Email: [email protected]
Address (Home):
Vladimir Lenine, Ave
6th Flour, Right
Maputo
P.O.Box 1037
Tel.: + 258 21 326466
Cell: +258 82 4974210
RSA: +27 763451133
Date of Birth:
20th August 1976
Nationality:
Mozambican
Residency:
Mozambique and South Africa
EDUCATION:
July 2011
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Higher Education Studies and
Development at Faculty of Education, (The University of the Western
Cape, South Africa).
2010:
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Sociology and Education major in Higher
Education Studies (University of Cape Town, South-Africa)
2006:
Master of Education (MEd) in Higher Education Studies (University of
Cape Town, South-Africa)
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2002:
BA Honours Degree in Sociology (Arts), First Class (Eduardo Mondane
University,
Mozambique)
2000:
Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences (Eduardo Mondlane University,
Mozambique)
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Present:
Adviser for Strategic Planning – Rector of the |Eduardo Mondlane University
Present:
Director – National Accreditation and Quality Assurance Council for Higher
Education in Mozambique (CNAQ)
Present:
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Higher Education Studies, Faculty of
Education, Eduardo Mondlane University
Present:
Coordinator at the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) of the collaborative
Master Programme in Higher Education Studies between the Faculties of
Education of UEM (Mozambique), University of Oslo (Norway) and
University of the Western Cape (UWC, South Africa)
Present:
Visiting Professor and Research Fellow at the Centre for Educational
Management and Higher Education Development at Danube University
Krems in Austria and of the Erasmus Mundus Master Programme
“Research and Innovation in Higher Education”
2009 – Present:
Visiting Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Higher Education Studies
Programme, Centre for Studies of Higher Education, University of the
Western Cape, South-Africa
2008:
Guest Lecturer and Research Fellow, Higher Education Erasmus Mundus
Programme, Oslo University Norway
2007 - 2009:
Part-time lecturer, University of Cape Town (School of Education)
2002 - 2007:
Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Eduardo Mondlane University
2002 - 2004:
Research assistant at WLSA- Woman and Law in Southern Africa
2000 - 2003:
Research assistant, Centre for African Studies, Eduardo Mondlane
University
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MEMBERSHIPS:
2009 – Present
Mozambican Sociological Association (A.M.S) (Founding member and
current president)
2006 – Present
International Sociological Association (ISA)
2007 – Present
African Sociological Association (AFSA)
2003 – Present
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
(CODESRIA).
LANGUAGE:
Language
Speaking
Portuguese
Understanding
Writing
Mother Tongue
English
fluent
fluent
fluent
Spanish
good
good
good
French
fair
good
fair
Changane/Chope
fair
fair
fair
RESEARCH GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS:
2012:
Fund for Institutional Development (FDI) - competitive funding from the Ministry of
Education in Mozambique sponsored by World Bank to support the Master
Programme in Higher Education Studies and development at the Faculty of
Education, Eduardo Mondlane University.
2011:
APPEAR Preparatory Research Fund for a Project on Strengthening Higher and research
Capacity for Development in Africa.
2011:
African Development Bank: Project Mapping Higher Education Landscape in
Lusophone Africa: A Baseline Study.
2010:
A. W. Mellon Grant for research fellowship: a study on higher education and
development in Africa,
2007:
A.W. Mellon Scholarship for a study on scientific capital and forms of engagement in
three African Universities (PhD studies).
2005:
NUFFIC/NPT Scholarship for a study on the constitution of the field of higher
education institutions in Mozambique (Med in Higher Education Studies).
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PUBLICATIONS (Selected)
Journal Articles
I.
Langa, P (2012) É possível ver de lugar nenhum?: Sobre o ponto de vista sociológico.
Botelin Científico Sapiens Research, 2(1).
II.
Langa, P. V (2011). The Significance of Bourdieu’s Concept of Cultural Capital to
Analysing the Field of Higher Education in Mozambique. International Journal of
Contemporary Sociology. Vol. 48 (1).
III.
Langa, P and Fasselt, R. (Forthcoming). Fear of Inexplicability Understanding the alleged
‘Xenophobic’ Attacks of May 2008 in Post-Apartheid South Africa. African Sociological
Review.
IV.
Wangenge-Ouma, G. & Langa, P.V. (2010) ‘Universities and the Mobilization of Claims of
Excellence for Competitive Advantage.’ Higher Education. Vol. 59 (6), 749-764.
V.
Langa, P. V. (2011). Scientific Capital and Engagement in African Universities: The Case
of the Social Sciences at Makerere University. African Minds. Cape Town: CHET.
Book chapters
I.
Langa, P. V. and Wangenge-Ouma, G. (2012). The State of Sociology of Education in
Africa: A Critical Overview. SAGE Publications (Russian Edition).
II.
Wangenge-Ouma, G. & Langa, P.V. (2010) ‘Accountability as a disciplinary power in
African higher education systems’, In Bjorn, S. & Harvey Lee. Accountability in Higher
Education. Routledge: New York. (49 – 69).
III.
Langa, P. (2010). “Poverty Fighters in Academia: The Subversion of the Notion of
Socially Engaged Science in Mozambican Higher Education.” Institute of Sociology
Academia Sinica and the National Associations Liaison Committee of the ISA.
IV.
Macia, M. and Langa, P. (2008). Masculinidade, Sexualidade e HIV/Sida em Moçambique.
Revista de Ciências Sociais e Humanas. CES: Coimbra.
V.
Langa, P. (2007). Mozambique. In: ICTs and Higher Education in Africa. Centre for
Educational Technology (CET). University of Cape Town
VI.
Langa, P. & Macamo, E. (2006). A Dupla Maldição que é a Democracia. In: Macamo, E.
Um País cheio de Soluções. Produções Lua: Colecção meianoite: Maputo.
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VII.
Langa, P. (2004). Biodiversidade, Natureza e Conhecimento Local: Qual o papel dos
Cientistas sociais? In: Macamo (org) A Leitura Sociológica – Um Manual Introdutório.
Maputo: Imprensa Universitária.
Thesis and Dissertations:
I.
Langa, P. (2010). Disciplines and Engagement in African Universities: A
study of the distribution of scientific capital and academic networking in
the social sciences. (Unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Cape Town)
II.
Langa, P. (2006). The Constitution of the Field of Higher Education
Institutions in Mozambique. (Unpublished Master’s dissertation, University of
Cape Town).
III.
Langa, P. (2002). A Consciência do Risco Ambiental: Entre a Racionalidade
Científica e a Racionalidade Social. O caso da Livaningo em Maputo.
(Unpublished Bachelor Honours Dissertation, Eduardo Mondlane University)
POST-GRADUATE SUPERVISION
Márcia Américo (PhD Candidate), Universidade Metodista de Piracicaba Quilombo Ivaporunduva:
O saber escolar em nível superior como mediador na formação do jovem quilombola e seu
compromisso com a atividade social (2012-Present).
Nilza Tarciso César (PhD candidate) University of Leiden, Centre for African Studies, Holland –
(2012- present).
Acuceca Sevene (Master student) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Education, Adult
Education (2011-Presente)
Lina Dlate (Master Student) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Education, Adult Education
(2011- Presente)
Tánia Karina dos Santos Ferreira (Master student) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of
Education, Higher Education Studies and Development (2012-Presente).
Haid Mondlane (Master student) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of Education, Higher
Education Studies (2012-Presente).
Sansão Xerinda (Master student) Eduardo Mondlane University, Faculty of education, Higher
Education Studies (2012-Presente).
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EXTERNAL EXAMINER
University of Pretoria, South Africa.
University of Western Cape, South Africa
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS (Recent):
Langa, P (2012). O espectro de Tahrir Square: como a possibilidade de protesto social está a
influenciar o modo de fazer política em moçambique? III Conferência do Instituto de Estudos
Sociais e Económicos (IESE), Moçambique: Acumulação e Transformação num Contexto de Crise
Internacional, 04 e 05 de Setembro de 2012, no Indy Village em Maputo.
Langa, P (2012) Africanização e Brasilização do Ensino, Pesquisa e Crítica: Desafios Epistémicos
e Metodológicos. Paper presented at the 1st National Congress “Africanicades e Brasilidades’:
Ensino, Pesquisa e Crítica. Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo (Ufes),Brasil, 26-29 Junho.
Langa, P (2012). Global Scripts and Local Dynamics - How the Prospect of an Uprising Social Protest is
Changing Politics in Mozambique. Paper presented at the Conference of the African Studies Association
in German (VAD). ‘Embattled Spaces, Contested Orders’. University of Cologne, 30/05 to 02/06/2012.
Langa, P (2012). Measuring impact of higher education for development. Birkbeck College, Malet Street,
WC1E 7HX Patrício Langa, Centre for Higher Education Transformation, South Africa; and Eduardo
Mondlane University, Mozambique, View from an African institution. London, 19-20 March 2012.
Langa, P (2011). Congresso Afro-Luso-Brasileiro de Ciências Sociais. Agosto, 7-10, Salvador da Bahia,
Brasil.
Langa, P. (2011, with Wangenge-Ouma). Expansion, Differentiation and fragmentation in African Higher
Education: A Comparative analysis. June 2011 in Iceland, CHER.
Langa, P. (2011, with Wangenge Ouma). Forms of Governance in African Higher Education: From
Collegiality to Autocratic Managerialism. November, 2011 University of Fort Hare, South-Africa.
Langa, P. (2010, with Wangenge-Ouma). When elites become cash crops: from global policies to local
politics of access in African higher education’. Paper presented at the 23rd CHER Annual Conference,
“Effects of Higher Education Reforms”. Oslo University, Norway.
Ouma, G. W. and Langa, P. (2008). Mobilizing claims of excellence to achieve competitive advantage in
African higher education: the case of Mozambique and Kenya. (Paper presented at the CHER 21st
Annual Conference in Italy 11th -13th September 2008).
Langa, P. (2006). “The Sociological thought in Mozambique”. XVI World Congress of the International
Sociological Association, Durban, 23-29 July.
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Langa, P. e Macia, M. (2004). Masculinity, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Mozambique: Deconstructing the
Idea on Men. (Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress of Social Science, Portugal, Coimbra, 18-21, September.
PORTUGAL.
Langa, P. (2004). Masculinity, Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in Mozambique: Deconstructing the Idea on Men.
Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) Centre of African and Oriental Studies (CEAO), BRAZIL.
Langa, P. (2003). NEPAD and the Emancipation of Africa: from the illusion of renascence to the
renascence of an illusion. Sub-regional conference in celebration of 30 years of CODERSIA, Botswana,
Gaberone, 18- 19 October.
SERVICE AND CONSULTANCY

2011 – Mapping Higher Education Landscape in Lusophone Africa: A Baseline Study. (In
progress)

2008 –Temporary Research – Centre for Research in Science and Technology (CREST),
University of Stellenbosch; South Africa

2007 – Present: Research fellow: Centre for Higher Education and Transformation (NGO);
South Africa
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2006/7 – Senior research consultant: CBE - Consultores Southern Africa, Mozambique.
Ltd
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2004/5 – Independent consultant: UNICEF/ Programme evaluation and monitoring.
Langa, P. Macia, M. e Monteiro, P. (2004) Os Limites da Escolha: Avaliação do Programa
Meu Futuro. UNICEF. Maputo
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2004 – Research adviser: Mozambican League of Human Rights, (LDH). Human rights
annual reports in Mozambique

2002-2003 Independent Consultant, Foundation for Community Development – Graça
Machel’s Organization- (Maputo, Mozambique). Research on attitudes and behaviour
change in topics related to sexual and reproductive health (HIV/AIDS and related STDs)

2002 – Research assistant: United Nation Development Programme (UNDP) – Capacity
and training on Gender and disability for staff of the Ministry of Women and Social Action
(MMCS), Mozambique

2001 – Research assistant: Centre for Population Studies (CEP) University Eduardo
Mondlane. Public Opinion on Democracy, Elections and Development
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2000 – Team leader: Canadian Food Grains Bank is a Christian-based food aid and
development organization that collects donations of grain, cash and other agricultural
commodities for distribution to the world's hungry: Mozambique
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