Patience Mukwambo holds an MSc in Population Studies from the University of Zimbabwe, where she was a lecturer until 2012. She received a full-time Doctoral Scholarship at the Centre for Research on Higher Education and Development (CRHED) in 2014 and completed her Ph.D. in Development Studies in 2016. She is currently a lecturer at the University of Pretoria in the Education, Management and Policy Studies department. Patience’s research interests include human development, higher education quality, access, participation, policy, and teaching and learning.