Ms Fatima Cande

I graduated in Modern Languages and Literatures (Portuguese and French with teaching components), at the University of Aveiro. After my graduation, I worked as a teacher of Portuguese and French language and culture in Secondary Schools and Adult Education in Portugal as well as in Teacher Training programmes in Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau, through projects of cooperation in the education field between Portugal and those two countries.

I completed a MA programme in Portuguese Teaching as a Second and Foreign Languages at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.

I have been teaching languages and cultures in various contexts since September 1999 and have been working in the Higher Education in the UK since January 2010. I served as a language coordinator in the department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham for over five years before joining the department of Modern Languages and Linguistics at the University of Southampton as a Teaching Fellow of Portuguese in 2016.

Currently, I convene and teach Portuguese language modules at Intermediate (Year 2) and Advanced levels (Year 4). I also contribute to other modules and courses by moderating Portuguese language assessments at Beginners levels (Year 1); supervising and marking the Year Abroad dissertations LANG2010 (Year 2) and LANG3005 (Year 3) and MA ELT/TESOL dissertations.

In addition to my teaching, I hold the position of Programme Lead for the BA Language, Culture and Communication and the Year Abroad Country Coordinator for Portuguese Speaking countries.