Chevening Carrer Plan
What would be a successful career for me? Apply my knowledge provoking a socio-economic development for my country. This is what I want to achieve when I return to Brazil, study the bioactive properties of plants in the northeastern semi-arid region, with the purpose of producing cosmetics and pharmaceuticals, fostering Brazil's entrepreneurship and being part of the country's scientific development.
Brazil has one of the largest biodiversity in the world, with an impressive number of species of fauna and flora, so there are a multitude of plant species that we still do not know their bioactive properties. My initial plan will be to return to the research laboratory of natural products of UFBA beginning the tests to identify the pharmacological properties of this vegetation for the purpose of incorporation in the techniques of pharmaceutical formulation learned during the Masters in the United Kingdom. Through my network of contacts, I will introduce the discipline of commercial strategy in a graduate of Cosmetology and disseminate my experience with Chevening by the Universities of Northeast Brazil.
I met the coordinator of the chamber of the entrepreneurial woman and I will join the program Women entrepreneur and strengthen that the woman needs a social role. I want the community to realize that the black woman has strength, she has a race and a focus to be able to excel in the scientific career and that we can bring about change in the world.
Having people engaged in their life purpose transforms work into something pleasurable and substantial, so within 3 years, I will start a biocosmetic laboratory in association with two pharmacists I have known since graduation who are directly involved in bioactive substance research. To acquire the raw material, I will stimulate the opening of cooperatives in the Sertão by forming partnerships, favoring entrepreneurship and stimulating the local economy, improving socioeconomic conditions and giving a better quality of life for our employees. In this context, I intend to promote a partnership between the Newton Fund Institutional Skills project, which aims to support projects related to training, capacity building and community engagement of employees and employees, and SEBRAE, a Brazilian social service, which aims to assist the development of micro and small businesses, stimulating entrepreneurship in the country, this partnership aims to empower small businesses, which are 98.5% of formal enterprises, increasing the work and income capacity of northeastern backwoods population.
The United Kingdom has a scientific cooperation with Brazil through the Newton Fund for Innovation project and having as one of its directions the Brazilian Biodiversity, I will establish a partnership between my Center of Studies in the United Kingdom and my research project here in Brazil, strengthen the basis of our scientific cooperation, with the goal of receiving assistance and partnership for the implementation of an industrial pole of cosmetics here in Bahia. It is an ambitious plan, but I know it is possible and this motivates me to write a new trajectory in order to set goals for this challenge.