Brazilian Association of Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the United Kingdom

Mission

The Brazilian Association of Postgraduate Students and Researchers in the UK is a civil nonprofit association based in London that brings together its members (Brazilian postgraduate students and researchers) residing in the UK).

To congregate Brazilian postgraduate students and researchers living in the Great Britain; To represent its members and their demands; To promote and foster cultural activities such as debates of scientific, political, social and economic; topics related to Brazil, and the intellectual work and social conditions of its members; To promote other activities of the interest to its members.

Our Agenda

The participation of our members is essential in defining ABEP's agenda. Currently, ABEP has been concerned, among other topics, in the following matters: Maintenance and living costs in the UK Personal development, adequacy and quality of programs and research in Great Britain, Networking, professional opportunities Equality of scholarships among Brazilian funding agencies; Visa fees, consular services Agreements between the UK and Brazil, treatment of Brazilian citizens in the UK, fees and taxes; Return to work in Brazil, scholarships for recent PhDs and young researchers Job opportunities in Brazil and in the UK Expansion and enhancement of research in public and private sectors in Brazil Expansion and enhancement of higher education in Brazil Academic and scientific exchange between Brazil and the world;

Board of directors (2011/2012 mandate)

Michael Freitas Mohallem President (presidente@abep.org.uk)

PhD in Law candidate at the University College London (UCL), Lecturer in Constitutional Law at the American College of Brazilian Studies (FL, US) and member of the Brazilian Bar Association. He holds a LLM in Public Law and Human Rights from UCL, a Postgraduate Degree in Political Science from UNB (Brasília, Brazil) and a LLB from PUC (São Paulo, Brazil). He has previously worked as legal advisor in the Brazilian Senate and in the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.

Luiz Marcelo Videro Vieira Santos Vice-President / Finance Diretor

Former president of ABEP during the term 2010-11. He is economist with Master's degree in both Public Administration and Development Studies. He is policy maker in the federal government of Brazil, currently in leave of absence for a PhD research about the impact of social policies on the development of Brazil.

Felipe Correa Executive Director

DPhil candidate in Medieval and Modern Languages, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, with Clarendon award. Mst and BA in Social Communication (Media Studies) at PUC-Rio (Brazil), with CAPES scholarship and exchange program with Brown University (Providence, EUA). In 2009, he published the book "Imaginário do medo: imprensa e violência urbana" (in Portuguese).

Else Vieira Director of Research

Professor of Brazilian and Comparative Latin American Studies at Queen Mary University of London where she introduced the new programme in Brazilian and Lusophone Studies. She co-ordinates Portuguese, upgraded as a degree-level language in 2009. She was previously the Chairwoman of Graduate Studies  in Comparative Literature at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, before her Visiting Professor ship at the Universities of  Oxford and Nottingham. She was appointed to Queen Mary in 2002. She has published extensively, taught BA and MA courses and supervised theses on Brazilian and Latin American Cinemas and, more recently, the Cinemas of the Portuguese-Speaking African countries at Queen Mary, with a particular focus on gender and sexuality. She has also assisted the introduction of Portuguese Cinema. In 2010, arising from her outreach activities for the preservation of Portuguese amongst Lusophone UK residents, she was invited by UNESCO to represent the world’s Portuguese speakers in the International Year of the Mother Tongue and the Rapprochement of Cultures. She was also elected interlocutor between Brazilians in Europe and the country’s Presidency and Ministries. She is currently Research Director of ABEP.

Andreia Santos Projects Director

Julian David Hunt Projects Director

DPhil candidate in Engineering Science, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, developing a decision support system to recommend the most suitable electricity generation technology for a location. He worked as an Intern in the Energy and Climate Change branch office for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in 2010 and holds a Beng degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Nottingham.

Romero da Fonte Director of Master Studies

Romero da Fonte is a Lawyer and currently doing a LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law with International Finance at Queen Mary, University of London. He is also interested in Corporate Finance. His experiences range from two law firms and a factory Raymundo da Fonte Group in the private sector. He has also had a year mandate as a planning coordinator at CBTU - Companhia Brasileira de Trens Urbanos, a massive Brazilian public company of trains. He is from Recife, PE - Brazil.

Iris Martins Griffiths Projects Director