Safary Wa-Mbaleka holds a PhD in qualitative research, another in online education, and another in curriculum and instruction. He has been teaching, publishing, giving training, and speaking at conferences about qualitative research since 2011. He was the lead editor of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in the Asian Context (2022). He has taught qualitative research and delivered hundreds of conference presentations, seminars, workshops, and training on qualitative research in various countries in North America, the Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.