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Dr Ayesha Jehangir

Dr Ayesha Jehangir

Lecturer

PhD (University of Wollongong), Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of the Arts and Media

Dr. Ayesha Jehangir is a Lecturer in Journalism and Communication in the School of the Arts and Media. Her research focuses on the mediation of human suffering in war and conflict zones and sits at the intersection of media, politics, and society. In particular, she studies peace journalism, decolonising war and conflict reporting, symbolic borders in news media and the ways resistance and solidarity manifest in journalistic practice. Ayesha also has an emerging interest in journalism innovations, including cross-border collaborations, journalism in exile and displacement, and new technologies in reporting war and conflict.Ìý

She is part of theÌý, Associate of the , and has also previously served as Co-Secretary of the Ìý(2024 and 2025).Ìý

Ayesha is the author of (Routledge, 2024), the inaugural Peace Fellow of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (2024–2026), and a 2024 Weizenbaum Institute (Berlin). She is alsoÌýAssociate Fellow of Advance HE (formally known as the Higher Education Academy), whichÌýchampions excellence in teaching and learning within the tertiary education sector globally.

Ayesha completed her PhD in media studies (war and peace reporting) from the School of the Arts, English and Media at the University of Wollongong (conferred in September 2021). Her PhD was awarded 'Examiners' Commendation for Outstanding Thesis'.Ìý

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[pronounce last name as: Ja-han-geeer]Ìý
Phone
+61-2-9385 4856
E-mail
ayesha.jehangir@unsw.edu.au
  • Books | 2023
    Jehangir A, 2023, Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State The Missing Peace, Taylor & Francis
  • Book Chapters | 2025
    Jehangir A, 2025, 'Frame building', in Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Communication Volume 1 3, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 56 - 60,
    Book Chapters | 2024
    Jehangir A, 2024, 'Peace journalism: a cosmopolitan approach to conflict prevention', in Research Handbook on Conflict Prevention, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 236 - 261,
    Book Chapters | 2020
    Jehangir A, 2020, 'The cost of doing their job online: Harassment of women journalists', in Abbas Q; Sulehria F (ed.), From Terrorism to Television, Routledge India, London, pp. 117 - 134,
  • Journal articles | 2025
    Jehangir A, 2025, 'Book Review: Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication: New Approaches', Media International Australia, 195, pp. 169 - 170,
    Journal articles | 2025
    Jehangir A, 2025, 'Book Review: Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Landscape OliveraCecilia ArreguiRevisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News LandscapeRoutledge, 2025. 129 pp. ISBN 9781032867052', Media War & Conflict,
    Journal articles | 2024
    Hussain S; Jehangir A, 2024, 'Coverage of Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in the international press: A perspective on indexing theory', Journalism, 25, pp. 692 - 709,
    Journal articles | 2023
    Jehangir A, 2023, 'Finding peace journalism: An analysis of Pakistani media discourse on Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan', Media War and Conflict, 16, pp. 582 - 598,
  • Other | 2026
    Freeman-Greene S; Ley J; Case J; Mirzaie M (eds.), 2026, The Taliban wages war on women, but their voices roar on the page. Here are 5 essential books by Afghan women writers,
  • Media | 2026
    Jehangir A, 2026, The Taliban wages war on women, but their voices roar on the page. Here are 5 essential books by Afghan women writers,

  • 2024 91É«ÇéƬ ADA Seed Funding ($7500)
  • 2024 Weizenbaum Institute Open Fellowship ($10,000)
  • 2024 International Association for Media and Communication Research Grant (US $1,500)
  • 2024 UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Conference Funding ($600)
  • 2024 QUT-APSA Workshop Award ($1,200)
  • 2023 CMT/UTS Research Presentation Award ($3000)
  • 2023 UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Travel/Conference Funding ($1000)
  • 2022 UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences: Travel/Conference Funding ($1000)
  • 2022ÌýNSW Office of Premier and Cabinet – Media and Violent Extremism ($20,000)
  • 2021 University of Wollongong, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Small Research Grant ($1000)

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  • Weizenbaum Institute Open FellowÌý(2024)
  • Peace Fellow of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (2024-2026)

My Research Supervision

Current:

Ayesha Akbar (PhD) 'How generative AI could influence journalistic practices: A case study of Pakistan' (Secondary Supervisor)

Completed:

Herdanang Ahmad Fauzan (Master's) 'Condemning without confronting: Indexing within Australian news media framing of former IndonesianÌýpresident Joko Widodo amid his endorsement of Prabowo Subianto for the 2024 election' (2025)Ìý

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My Teaching

Ungergrad:

MDIA1002 - Journalistic Voices and Values

MDIA3013 - War and Peace Journalism

Postgrad:

MDIA5006 - News and Feature WritingÌý