Patrick has been at LSE since 2018. He is currently a Research Officer at the European Institute working of the project The Colour of Borders: how race shapes mobility (in)to Europe. He also teaches on the Module European Integration from a Global Governance Perspective. 

He has taught in areas of international political economy, international security, European integration and Europe’s relations with the global south. This includes International Political Economy and Development at the LSE’s School of Public Policy and LSE100. He was a lecturer at the European and EU Centre, Monash University, Australia, where he taught modules on the EU and the World as well as the Jean Monnet module EU and the Developing World, International Peace and Security Studies, International Trade and Diplomacy and Statecraft. He also taught Global Politics at the University of Melbourne. 

His research strengths are in international security, international development and International Humanitarian Law. Patrick was a researcher on the Australian Research Council Linkage project on Radicalisation and de-radicalisation in the Australian Context at the Global Terrorism Research Centre, Monash University. He also worked as a researcher on the European Commission funded transnational research project Perceptions and Visibility of the EU in East and South Africa and Asia-Pacific regions at the NCRE, University of Canterbury, New Zealand. 

He has experience in higher education administration. He was a Research Grant Administrator at the former Noble Foundation’s Programme on Modern Poland in the UK. Earlier, he worked as a Project Officer at the Office of the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Global Engagement, Monash University, Australia. 

Patrick has a PhD in Political Science and MA in International Relations from the University of Warsaw, Poland. He also holds a PGCE in Education from La Trobe University, Australia, LLM in International Law from Oxford Brookes University and MSc in Higher Education, University of Oxford.