Dr Patience Nyamunda
- Lecturer in Education (School of Education)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899Biography
Patience Nyamunda is a lecturer in the School of Education and a member of the People, Place, and Social Change (PPSC) Research and Teaching Group.
Patience completed her BA Honours in Economic History and an MSc in Population Studies at the University of Zimbabwe. She was a lecturer at the same university until she moved to South Africa where she studied for a PhD in Development Studies at the Higher Education and Human Development Research Centre.
Her Ph.D. thesis examined the conceptualisation and operationalisation of quality higher education teaching and learning from a human development perspective. Although using Zimbabwe as a case study, the research was contextualised within broader international higher education policies and practices which heavily influence developments in the global South. Upon completing her doctoral studies, Patience was first a post-doctoral fellow and then a Researcher on an ESRC/DFID-funded project examining the complex interaction of factors that enable or inhibit students from low-income backgrounds getting into and through higher education.
Prior to joining the University of Glasgow in September 2023, Patience worked as a lecturer at the University of Pretoria in South Africa.
Research interests
Informed by the capabilities approach (Amartya Sen & Martha Nussbaum), Patience is interested in how universities foster human development and create more just, inclusive, and sustainable societies. She focuses on the experiences of marginalised groups in different higher education contexts. Her areas of interest are conceptions and operationalisation of quality in higher education, with a specific focus on teaching and learning; and higher education access, participation, and employment/ employability.
Publications
2026
Mkwananzi, W. F. and Mukwambo, P. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2026)
Centring well-being as an indicator of quality in the internationalisation of higher education.
South African Journal of Higher Education, 40(5),
pp. 32-53.
(doi: 10.20853/40-5-8537)
2025
Akogun, Oladele, Njobdi, Sani, Adesina, Adedoyin, Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Watts, Michael and Chinda, Michael
(2025)
Community resilience in ensuring learning during the protracted crisis in Adamawa, Nigeria.
Journal of African Education and Traditional Learning Systems, 6(4),
pp. 149-170.
(doi: 10.31920/2633-2930/2025/v6n4a8)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Educational institutions and epistemic freedom: the experiences of second-generation Zimbabwean immigrants in England.
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities,
(doi: 10.1080/19452829.2025.2548817)
(Early Online Publication)
Mkwananzi, Faith, Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Seshoka, Matome Winter and Notenga, Nomzingisi
(2025)
Emotional scarcity and well-being among international students at times of crisis in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In: Montañés Jiménez, Antonio, Ferreira Marinelli, Camila and Pipyrou, Stavroula (eds.)
Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict.
Routledge: London, pp. 126-146.
ISBN 9781032661780
(doi: 10.4324/9781032661780-8)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Widening university access and participation in the Global South: using the Zambian context to inform other developing countries by Edward Mboyonga, Oxfordshire, Routledge, 2025, ix + 168 pp., ISBN 9781032693194.
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 26(3),
pp. 435-436.
(doi: 10.1080/19452829.2025.2507523)[Book Review]
Ngalomba, Simon, Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Internationalization at a distance via virtual mobility in the Global South: Advances and challenges.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 56(2),
pp. 927-946.
(doi: 10.1111/bjet.13557)
2024
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Mkwananzi, Faith and Seshoka, Winter
(2024)
The policy and practice of internationalization in the Global-South: African international students’ experiences in South Africa during COVID-19.
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 16(5),
pp. 45-59.
(doi: 10.32674/afwhbb79)
2023
Nyamunda, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2023)
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development by Mkwananzi, F and Cin, M.
Qualitative Research,
(doi: 10.1177/14687941231202368)[Book Review]
(Early Online Publication)
Oyinloye, Bukola, Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2023)
Schools Connect: Barriers to girls’ education – A synthesis of British Council research in Africa.
Project Report.
British Council.
(doi: 10.57884/19VC-0S60).
2022
Walker, Melanie, McLean, Monica, Mathebula, Mikateko and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899 (Eds.)
(2022)
Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes.
African Minds Publishers: Stellenbosch.
ISBN 9781928502395
2021
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2021)
Human development and perceptions of secondary education in rural Africa: a Zimbabwean case study.
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51(6),
pp. 806-823.
(doi: 10.1080/03057925.2019.1681936)
2020
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2020)
Policy and practice disjunctures: quality teaching and learning in Zimbabwean higher education.
Studies in Higher Education, 45(6),
pp. 1249-1260.
(doi: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1596075)
2019
Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2019)
Widening participation in higher education for marginalised migrant youth through flexible teaching and learning mechanisms.
Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21(2),
pp. 100-119.
(doi: 10.5456/WPLL.21.2.100)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2019)
Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Zimbabwe.
Series: Routledge studies in development and society.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781138590717
Articles
Mkwananzi, W. F. and Mukwambo, P. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2026)
Centring well-being as an indicator of quality in the internationalisation of higher education.
South African Journal of Higher Education, 40(5),
pp. 32-53.
(doi: 10.20853/40-5-8537)
Akogun, Oladele, Njobdi, Sani, Adesina, Adedoyin, Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Watts, Michael and Chinda, Michael
(2025)
Community resilience in ensuring learning during the protracted crisis in Adamawa, Nigeria.
Journal of African Education and Traditional Learning Systems, 6(4),
pp. 149-170.
(doi: 10.31920/2633-2930/2025/v6n4a8)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Educational institutions and epistemic freedom: the experiences of second-generation Zimbabwean immigrants in England.
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities,
(doi: 10.1080/19452829.2025.2548817)
(Early Online Publication)
Ngalomba, Simon, Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Internationalization at a distance via virtual mobility in the Global South: Advances and challenges.
British Journal of Educational Technology, 56(2),
pp. 927-946.
(doi: 10.1111/bjet.13557)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Mkwananzi, Faith and Seshoka, Winter
(2024)
The policy and practice of internationalization in the Global-South: African international students’ experiences in South Africa during COVID-19.
Journal of Comparative and International Higher Education, 16(5),
pp. 45-59.
(doi: 10.32674/afwhbb79)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2021)
Human development and perceptions of secondary education in rural Africa: a Zimbabwean case study.
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 51(6),
pp. 806-823.
(doi: 10.1080/03057925.2019.1681936)
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2020)
Policy and practice disjunctures: quality teaching and learning in Zimbabwean higher education.
Studies in Higher Education, 45(6),
pp. 1249-1260.
(doi: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1596075)
Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2019)
Widening participation in higher education for marginalised migrant youth through flexible teaching and learning mechanisms.
Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning, 21(2),
pp. 100-119.
(doi: 10.5456/WPLL.21.2.100)
Books
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2019)
Quality in Higher Education as a Tool for Human Development: Enhancing Teaching and Learning in Zimbabwe.
Series: Routledge studies in development and society.
Routledge.
ISBN 9781138590717
Book Sections
Mkwananzi, Faith, Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899, Seshoka, Matome Winter and Notenga, Nomzingisi
(2025)
Emotional scarcity and well-being among international students at times of crisis in South Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In: Montañés Jiménez, Antonio, Ferreira Marinelli, Camila and Pipyrou, Stavroula (eds.)
Minorities, Scarcity and Conflict.
Routledge: London, pp. 126-146.
ISBN 9781032661780
(doi: 10.4324/9781032661780-8)
Book Reviews
Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2025)
Widening university access and participation in the Global South: using the Zambian context to inform other developing countries by Edward Mboyonga, Oxfordshire, Routledge, 2025, ix + 168 pp., ISBN 9781032693194.
Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 26(3),
pp. 435-436.
(doi: 10.1080/19452829.2025.2507523)[Book Review]
Nyamunda, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2023)
Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged Development by Mkwananzi, F and Cin, M.
Qualitative Research,
(doi: 10.1177/14687941231202368)[Book Review]
(Early Online Publication)
Edited Books
Walker, Melanie, McLean, Monica, Mathebula, Mikateko and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899 (Eds.)
(2022)
Low-Income Students, Human Development and Higher Education in South Africa: Opportunities, obstacles and outcomes.
African Minds Publishers: Stellenbosch.
ISBN 9781928502395
Research Reports or Papers
Oyinloye, Bukola, Mkwananzi, Faith and Mukwambo, Patience ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6915-8899
(2023)
Schools Connect: Barriers to girls’ education – A synthesis of British Council research in Africa.
Project Report.
British Council.
(doi: 10.57884/19VC-0S60).
Supervision
- Aliyeva, Narmin
Breaking the glass ceiling: A study of the role of higher education in women’s empowerment in post-soviet AzerbaijanI used
Additional information
Human Development and Capabilities Association (HDCA) Education Thematic group coordinator (2020- to date).
Reviewer for Compare: A journal of international and comparative education.
