A Scoping Review of Doctoral Education in Cameroon and Comparable African Contexts

Join the Autumn 2026 Colloquium Seminar Series!

Hosted by the Comparative and International Education Research Group, Centre for Lifelong Learning and Education (CELE), Department of Education. 

CELE´s Comparative and International Education Research Group warmly welcomes you all to its autumn colloquium seminar series. The colloquia provide a forum for sharing ongoing research, engaging in scholarly dialogue, and exploring contemporary educational issues from comparative and international perspectives. Research within the group spans the full educational continuum, from early childhood education to higher education, and addresses a wide range of themes across different regions of the world.

The autumn colloquium seminar series begins with a presentation by a member of the Turku Intersectoral Excellence Scheme (TIES, University of Turku, Department of Education): Ransom Ngenge, PhD: A Scoping Review of Doctoral Education in Cameroon and Comparable African Contexts

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Dr Ransom Tanyu Ngenge is a higher education policy and internationalisation researcher specialising in governance, sustainability, doctoral education and global higher education systems. He completed his Ph.D. in Political Science and Public Administration at the University of the National Education Commission in Krakow, following earlier degrees from the Berlin School of Economics and Law, University of Bergen and University of Buea. Ransom is currently a TIES2 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions COFUND Fellow at the Department of Education/Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS), University of Turku, working on the research project “Doctoral education in Cameroon: Postcolonial legacies, governance cultures and the politics of knowledge production”. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Sustainability Studies (CASS), Jagiellonian University in Krakow Poland. His regional expertise spans Africa—particularly Cameroon and the Central African subregion—and Southeast Asia, with a strong interest in climate change education, inclusive education, educational leadership, quality assurance and epistemic justice.  He is also active in editorial and community roles, serving as Associate Editor for Cogent Social Sciences (African Studies Section), Cogent Education (Higher Education Section), Editor-in-Chief of the e_AOPL Journal of Social Sciences, and founder of the Africa Online & Publications Library (AOPL) and the President Association of African Researchers in Central & Eastern Europe (AARCEE). Ransom collaborates widely across Africa, Europe and Southeast Asia to advance more inclusive, sustainable and socially responsive higher education systems.