About Me

Ivan Nathanael Lukanda is a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication at Makerere University. He is a media and communications consultant, with a PhD in journalism obtained from Stellenbosch University (South Africa) in 2018. He holds a Master of Arts in Journalism and Communication from a sandwich programme between Makerere University and Orebro University in Sweden. He is a fellow of the African Humanities Programme supported by the American Academy of Learned Societies (2022-2023). He is an early career researcher on the Africa Urbanities Project supported by the Andrew Mellon Foundation (2019-2024). Ivan has worked as a freelance journalist with Uganda’s Sunday Vision newspaper and the Uganda Radio Network. He was a Unesco visiting fellow at Daystar University in Nairobi-Kenya in 2013. His broad research area is science and technology communication focusing on genetically modified food, food as a form of communication, environment and climate change. He has researched the relationship between scientists and the media, women in science, trauma among journalists, journalists' safety, freedom of expression, and media and cultural identity. He supervises research at graduate and undergraduate levels. Dr. Lukanda teaches research methods, writing for communication, communication for development, media and culture, and media ethics. Some of his work has been published by Springer, Australian National Press, the Journal of Science Communication, and the Journal of African Cultural Studies. He has given keynote presentations at events organised by the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology, and the Eastern and Southern Africa Small-scale Farmers’ Forum.