Researcher

Dr Ayesha Jehangir

Biography

Dr. Ayesha Jehangir is a Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the School of Arts and Media. Her research focuses on the mediation of human suffering from war and conflict zones. Particularly, she studies peace journalism, the refugee voice, digital political participation, and self-determination. Ayesha has an emerging interest in journalism innovations in the context of cross-border collaborations, exile/displacement, and resistance....view more

Dr. Ayesha Jehangir is a Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the School of Arts and Media. Her research focuses on the mediation of human suffering from war and conflict zones. Particularly, she studies peace journalism, the refugee voice, digital political participation, and self-determination. Ayesha has an emerging interest in journalism innovations in the context of cross-border collaborations, exile/displacement, and resistance. She is the author of Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (Routledge, 2024); inaugural Peace Fellow of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (2024-2026), and a 2024 Weizenbaum Institute Open Fellow (Berlin).


My Qualifications

PhD - War and Peace Journalism (Sept 2021)


My Research Supervision


Areas of supervision

Peace and Conflict Journalism; Journalists' Safety; Voice and Representation; Media, Power and Authoritarianism; Refugees and Digital Media.

 


My Teaching

MDIA1091 - Media, Society, Politics

MDIA1002 - Journalistic Voices and Values

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