Dr. Patrick Swanzy of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) has been appointed as a Guest Lecturer to the Higher Education Program, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at the New York University, United States this Spring 2022.
Dr. Swanzy, a Lecturer and the Coordinator of the Department of Teacher Education, is an Education Quality Specialist. He earned his PhD in Education from the University of Adelaide, Australia with a major in quality assurance in higher education and a Master of Education (Administration) from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. He also has a certificate in Disability Studies from Barkuma Inc, Adelaide in Australia.
In 2017, Dr Swanzy was a Carnegie Corporation of New York postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for Post School Studies, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.
He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Education, Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo, Mozambique and the Institute for Post School Studies, the University of the Western Cape in South Africa
He has taught at every level from primary to tertiary and has also been involved in education administration. At the University of the Western Cape, in South Africa, Patrick facilitated the Doctoral Program in Higher Education Studies (DPHES) funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and the Comparative Higher Education Policy and Innovation Studies (CHEPIS) jointly offered by the University of the Western Cape- South Africa; Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique; and KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and sponsored by Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA).
He is experienced in supervising doctoral students from diverse backgrounds such as Ethiopia, Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, and Sweden. Dr. Swanzy is also a Key Researcher for West Africa in a research project dubbed “Mapping Higher Education policies in Africa (MHEPA)" funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and hosted at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. He is also a Co-investigator of a research project titled “The Evaluation of Inclusive Education Programs for Transition-Age Students with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Botswana and Ghana '' hosted at Michigan State University in USA. In 2019, he won US$30000 from the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, a Pan-African organisation headquartered in Dakar, Senegal to "Re-conceptualize quality assurance for African higher education." Dr. Swanzy is also an Editorial Board Member for the Voices Against Torture (VAT) journal based in Vancouver, Canada. He has published in reputable journals in higher education studies.
Management congratulates Dr. Patrick Swanzy on his appointment.