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Patrick is a Fellow in European and International Politics at the European Institute.
He teaches various courses on MSc European and International Politics and Policy Programme.
He is the Convenor of the module The EU and the Global South: Geopolitics, Security and Development. He also teaches European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective and European Policy-Making and International Cooperation. Patrick supervises MSc dissertations and applied policy projects. He was awarded an LSE Excellence in Education Award in 2025. He was also a Highly Commended Nominee in the LSE Student Led Teaching Excellence Award 2025.
He has previously been a lecturer at the European and EU Centre at Monash University in Australia, where he taught courses on the EU and the World, the Jean Monnet module EU and the Developing World, International Peace and Security Studies, International Trade and Diplomacy, and Statecraft. He also aught Global Politics at the University of Melbourne. Earlier, he worked as a Project Officer in the Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Global Engagement at Monash University, Australia.
Patrick holds a PhD in Political Science and MA in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also has a PGCE in Education from La Trobe University, Australia, LLM in International Law from Oxford Brookes University, and MSc in Higher Education from the University of Oxford.
Expertise
EU’s External relations including EU’s relations with the global South on topics such as:
- security
- trade
- development cooperation
- migration
- race
- decolonisation
- international migration and refugee law
- international Humanitarian law
Research
Patrick’s research focuses on various aspects of the EU’s external relations including external perceptions of the EU as well as the EU’s relations with the global South on topics like security, trade, development cooperation, migration, race, and decolonisation.
He has been examining the Europe’s borders from the perspective of its periphery. It re-contextualises and re-conceptualises the way we understand the EU by exposing the colonial logic that drives EU’s discourse, policy, and practice in the management of its borders. It also incorporates race into the theory of the EU. He is also working on the relations between Africa and European Union from a de-colonial perspective.
Patrick has previously contributed to other research projects, including the Australian Research Council Linkage project on Radicalisation and De-radicalisation in the Australian Context at Monash University’s Global Terrorism Research Centre. He also participated in the European Commission-funded transnational research project on the Perceptions and Visibility of the EU in East and South Africa, as well as the Asia-Pacific regions, based at the National Centre for Research on Europe (NCRE) at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.
Kimunguyi P., (2011), ‘Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in East Africa’ at the ARC Linkage Project Conference Understanding Terrorism from an Australian Perspective: radicalisation, de-radicalisation and counter-radicalisation, Monash University, 8 November, 2010
Kimunguyi P., (2007), ‘EU-Africa Relations: Between Development Cooperation and Conflict Prevention,’ refereed Paper presented at the Australasian Political Studies AssociationAnnual Conference, Monash University, Australia (24-26 September)
Kimunguyi P., (2006), ‘Regional Integration in Africa: Prospects and Challenges for the European Union,’ refereed paper to be presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Annual Conferenceat the University of Newcastle, (25 – 27 September
Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘The European Union and Developing Countries: The Challenges of Trade Liberalisation in the Cotonou Process’, refereed paper presented at
The 3rdConference of European Union and Asia Pacific Association of European Studies, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan (8-10 December)
Kimunguyi P. (2015) - Discussant, "Polish-African economic and political relations after 1989" Speaker: Dr Andrzej Polus (University of Wrocław). St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
Kimunguyi P. (2012), Al-Qaeda Networks in Africa, GTReC ARC Linkage Project on Radicalisation Conference 2012, Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in Australia and Indonesia: 10 years after Bali, Melbourne, Australia.
Kimunguyi P. (2012), "The European Union: An Actor in Peace and Security in Africa at the 1stAnnual International Interdisciplinary Conference, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA), Nairobi, Kenya 26th-30thJune 2012
Kimunguyi P. (2011), ‘The origins, evolution and challenge of Al Shabaab,’ at the ARC Linkage Project Conference, Lessons from 9/11 Reflections on the evolution of Counter Terrorism policy, practice and analysis in the decade since the attacks of September 11, 2001, Monash University Law Chambers, 1-2 September
Kimunguyi, P., (2010) ‘The European Union: An Actor in Peace and Security in Africa,’ Paper Presented at the Leadership Forum, Finding Peace in the Nuer region of South Sudan through Dialogue, Monash University, Friday 1 October
Kimunguyi P., (2008), ‘Development Co-operation, Crisis Management Vs EU Visibility in Africa,’ Paper presented at the Building a Common Future: Africa and Australia, the 31stAnnual Conference of the African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific(26-28 November 2008)
Kimunguyi P., (2008), ‘Images of the EU as a Developmental actor in Kenya,’ Paper presented at The Europe in the Changing World: Challenges, Priorities and Research Collaboration Conference, Christchurch, New Zealand, (25-27 September)
Kimunguyi P., (2007), ‘The Security-Development Nexus in EU-ACP Relations,’ paper presented at the Monash 'New Europe, New Governance, New Worlds?' conference organized by the Monash European and EU Centre Melbourne, Australia (12-14 April)
Kimunguyi P., (2006), ‘Changing Paradigms or Symbolic Rhetoric? Perspectives on the European Union’s Development policy,’ Conference Paper presented at 29thAnnual Conference of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific at Macquarie University, Sydney (20-22 September)
Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘Changing Interests in EU Development Co-operation: the Impact of EU Membership and Advancing Integration’, Paper presented at CERC International Conference,Melbourne University (1-2 December)
Kimunguyi P., (2005), ‘From Uniqueness to Uniformity: The ACP in the European Union’s Network of Regional Relationships’, paper presented at the 28thConference of African Studies Association of Australasia and the Pacific,University of New England, Australia (25-28 November).