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Aisha is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department. She holds a doctorate (Communication) from Makerere University in collaboration with Örebro University, Sweden. She specialises in the area of strategic and social change communication and her teaching subjects are gender in the media, social and behaviour change communication, communication monitoring and evaluation, communication researh methods and development communication. Her research focuses on social and behaviour change in health contexts as well as communication, women and gender. She has undertaken a broad evaluation of Uganda’s Malaria public communication campaign and published about it in peer-reviewed journal articles, a book chapter and a peer-reviewed research report. She has also published about Covid-19 response in East Africa and the safety of women journalists. Her research has been funded by international agencies including the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation (2019-2020), (NORHED, 2020), Swedish International Development Agency (2011-2018) and Deutsche Well Akademie (2016).
Aisha is a fellow of the Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform (SSHAP, 2021). She was previously a fellow of the Salzburg (Austria) Academy on Global Media, Democracy and Social Change. She has also held visiting research fellowships at the Department of Communication, University of Connecticut, USA, and the Department of Media and Communication Studies, University of Örebro, Sweden. In addition, she has been a visiting lecturer to the University of Juba, South Sudan. She is a certified World Bank trainer in knowledge capturing and management and was the convenor of the East Afrrican Communication Association (EACA) Annual Conference, 2016.
Email: aisha.nakiwala@mak.ac.ug
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.
Dr. Marion Olga Alina is a Communications and Multimedia Professional with experience in both academia and industry in the field of Digital media, Journalism, Communications and Public Relations.
Alina holds a Philosophy Doctorate in Media, Culture and Society attained at the University of KwaZulu Natal (south Africa). She holds a Masters Degree in Journalism and Communication and a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication, both of Makerere University. She has also trained in Advancement and Resource Mobilisation at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Dr. Alina is an Assistant Lecturer at the Department of Journalism and Communication, Makerere University. She has previously worked with the Public Relations Office at Makerere University as an Assistant Communications Officer, the College of Computing and Information Science as an Assistant Communications Officer and with Wavah Broadcasting Services (WBS), a local TV station in Uganda, in various capacities as Editor, Senior News Reporter and Producer.
Dr. Alina is a Past President of the Rotary Club of Kampala Rainbow Makerere and currently serves as Director, Family of Rotary in this club.
Fred Kakooza is a Senior Lecturer of Journalism and Communication at Makerere University. His doctoral research in 2015 focused on social media and HIV/AIDS prevention among young people in Uganda funded by the Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development (NORHED). Out of this research, Dr. Kakooza has authored a book chapter on social media and HIV/AIDS prevention in Uganda in a book on HIV/AIDS in Uganda (in press), edited by Dr. James Kiwanuka-Tondo. Within the same research area, Dr. Kakooza has co-authored a paper titled “Social media for communicating health information: Constraints and practical suggestions for developing countries” in the Health & New Media Research Journal. Dr Kakooza has also co-authored a journal article titled: "Female Journalists: Negotiating safety and security risks in the Ugandan media environment" in the East African Journal of Communication. Dr. Kakooza has presented papers at a number of annual conferences including the East African Communication Association (EACA), the South African Communication Association (SACOMM) and the Norwegian annual Conference on the Safety of Journalists. He is a 2019 Norhed Post-Doc Fellow. Dr. Kakooza holds a doctorate in cultural and media studies from the University of KwaZulu - Natal, a Masters in Journalism and Communication and a Bachelors degree in Mass Communication (Hons) from Makerere University. His masters study investigated ‘the influence of business priorities on content in the broadcast media situated in the political economy of the media. Other certificates include Social & behavioral change communications, multimedia production and digital journalism. His audio-visual work can be accessed at: https://www.youtube.com/user/fkakooza
Dr. Tayeebwa is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Communication. He served as Head of the Department from March 2014 to August 2020. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication [Media, Peace and Conflict] from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (2012); an MPhil in Media Studies [Environmental Journalism] from University of Oslo, Norway (2003); and a Bachelor of Mass Communication from Makerere University, Uganda (1999). He holds advanced Diplomas in Philosophy and French from Tanzania and France respectively.
Dr. Tayeebwa has taught at Makerere University since September 2000 mainly in print journalism and development communication. He has also been a visiting/part-time lecturer at the University of Juba (South Sudan); Concordia University (Canada); St. Augustine University Graduate School (Tanzania); National University of Rwanda (Butare/Huye); Daystar University (Kenya); and Islamic University in Uganda (IUIU).
Prior to full-time academia, Dr. Tayeebwa practiced journalism at The Crusader (folded in 1998), The New Vision (1999), and The Monitor (2000-2004). He has provided commentary and analysis mainly in Swahili and French on key media issues within the African Great Lakes region for the British Broadcasting Service (BBC); the German Broadcasting Service (DeutcheWelle); Voice of America (VOA) French Service; as well as to several Radio and Television stations in Montreal, Canada.
He has consulted/researched for government ministries/departments on projects by the World Bank; the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP); the Global Environment Facility (GEF); the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) as well as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) among others.
His areas of research, consultancy and publishing include the nexus between journalism with peace and conflict. He has published in the areas of community radio, social media, as well as media and peacebuilding. He is a previous postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge in the UK (2014) and at the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change (ICGC) at the University of Minnesota, USA (2019). I am a co-author with Kristin Skare Orgeret of Journalism in Conflict and Post-Conflict Conditions: Worldwide Perspectives (Nordicom, 2016). Emails: wtayebwa@gmail.com and william.tayeebwa@mak.ac.ug
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