Global journey
A global journey through teaching, research, culture and academic collaboration
Travel has become an important thread running through both my personal life and professional development. My journeys across Africa, Europe, Asia and North America have taken me into classrooms, universities, conferences, doctoral schools, internationalisation programmes, consortium meetings, staff exchanges and consultancy assignments — as well as destinations visited simply for the experience of discovering another place and culture.
What began with international classroom teaching gradually developed into doctoral research exposure, conference participation, faculty development, internationalisation training, collaborative European projects, Erasmus+ mobility and institutional partnership building.
Travel therefore represents more than movement between countries for me. It has become part of how I learn, build relationships and understand the different contexts in which education, technology and research operate.
A professional progression, from international teaching to institutional partnership building.
A narrative arc rather than a strict chronology; only the journeys with dates below are documented by invitation or confirmation letters.
Six engagements supported by invitation or confirmation documents, 2017–2026. Select a numbered pin to jump to its details.
Teaching, research, conferences, capacity building, consortium work, mobility and consultancy. Cards marked “Documented engagement” or “Verified academic mobility” are backed by letters from the host or organiser; the others are my own account of the journey.
International Mathematics teacher
Estill High School
Where the journey began: teaching Mathematics inside another country’s education system gave first-hand exposure to a different classroom culture, learner expectations and institutional environment.
Education and positions →Documented engagement
IFITT Doctoral Summer School
With ISCONTOUR · Fachhochschule Salzburg
Presented ongoing PhD work, “Hotel Website Evaluation Model in the Context of Web 3.0 Paradigm” — a milestone where doctoral research entered an international scholarly community.
Research and supervision →Documented engagement
ENTER2018 eTourism Conference
Organised by IFITT · theme “Digital Tourism: Engagement, Content, and Networks”
Following Salzburg, the IFITT eTourism conference widened doctoral exposure into the wider international research network around digital tourism.
Publications →Documented engagement
International Faculty Development Programme
Chandigarh University · Resource Person
A shift from attending international research events to being invited abroad to contribute expertise to the development of other academics.
Institutions that have invited me →Documented engagement
DIES Management of Internationalisation — 10-Year Jubilee
Leibniz University Hannover · DAAD · German Rectors’ Conference (HRK)
Selected to take part in “Celebrating a Decade of Internationalisation Excellence”, the anniversary of the training course on managing internationalisation in higher education. It builds on completing the DIES programme in 2020–2021.
Internationalisation →Documented engagement
UNIHUBS consortium meeting and training
Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University · EC-funded project
Programme themes included innovative pedagogies and employability, experiential learning, review of study programmes, staff training needs, co-creation, scalability, AI for teaching and learning, flipped and challenge-based learning, gamification and XR.
Projects and grants →Verified academic mobility
Erasmus+ Partner Days
NLA University College
Invited under Erasmus+ to the Partner Days and General Meetings of NLA’s global partners: exchange activities, future research collaboration, partnership development, and observation of selected lectures. A step from individual mobility towards institution-to-institution partnership. It builds on the Erasmus+ Global Mobility partnership with NLA University College and Moi University.
Internationalisation →Regional conferences and professional engagements
Reported journeys
Repeated visits to Dar es Salaam for conferences and professional engagements, and an international conference in Zanzibar combined with a cultural experience.
Conferences and personal travel
Reported journeys
Several trips to Kampala, some for conferences and some personal. This card covers physical travel only; Uganda-related institutional work is listed separately under Trusted By.
Trusted By →ICT consultancy
Nazareth High School
Travelled to Addis Ababa as a consultant to develop a website for the school — an international technical engagement outside the university setting.
Expertise areas →Alongside professional mobility, there is the simple pleasure of travelling. These journeys are kept separate on purpose.
Culture and exploration
Not every journey has been organised around an academic programme. Personal travel provides an opportunity to experience cultures, communities and places outside formal institutional settings.
Culture and exploration
A visit to Kigali purely for the experience of an African city and its culture.
Culture and exploration
Some journeys to Kampala and Zanzibar were also about people, places and everyday culture, alongside the professional programme.
My international journey has evolved alongside my professional career. I first experienced international education from inside a classroom as a Mathematics teacher in the United States. During my doctoral studies, travel opened doors into international research communities. Later journeys took me into faculty development, higher-education internationalisation, international consortia, mobility programmes, and institutional partnership development.
Across Africa, conferences, consultancy and personal travel have kept me connected to the diversity of our own region.
Together, these experiences have taught me that internationalisation is ultimately about more than crossing borders. It is about encountering different ideas, building relationships, learning how institutions work in different contexts, and bringing useful lessons home.
I also travel because I enjoy it. Discovering new places, meeting people and experiencing different cultures keeps curiosity alive — and curiosity remains central to how I approach teaching, research and collaboration.
I welcome opportunities to collaborate with universities, researchers, development partners, and academic networks in areas related to digital learning, artificial intelligence, postgraduate research, faculty development, internationalisation, and institutional transformation.