PhD Seminar: New Media and Social Change

As part of the research project Critical Perspectives on New Media and Processes of Social Change in the Global South, a Nordic-Kenyan PhD seminar is taking place 3-9 May 2014, in Eldoret, Kenya. The seminar will gather 23 PhD students from Kenya and the Nordic countries, and academics from MOI University, Roskilde University and University of Aarhus.

The focus of the seminar is to enable Nordic as well as Kenyan PhD students, researching on issues concerning media and social change, to learn about the research project, present their own PhD work and to get feedback from senior lecturers involved in the research project. Furthermore the seminar will involve some fieldwork in the vicinity of Eldoret. This seminar is the first out of two intended PhD-seminars.

The seminar conveners are Dr. Abraham Mulwo, senior lecturer at Moi University and Poul Erik Nielsen, associate professor at University of Aarhus, and Ørecomm members Jessica Gustaffson (post-doc in this research project from 1 July 2014), Martin Nkosi Ndlela, associate professor at Hedmark University College, Norway, and professor Thomas Tufte, RUC, are among the lecturers.

For more information about the project, contact Marie Brobeck.