Prof. Bosch honoured for contribution to field of communication for social change
Last month Associate Professor Tanja Bosch presented a keynote at the Ohio University 35th anniversary of the Communication and Development Studies (CommDev) programme. Prof Bosch’s keynote talk titled “Decentering international communication studies” was well received; and she was honoured with an award for her contribution to the field of communication for social change.
Prof Bosch obtained her MA from Ohio University as a Fulbright scholar in 2001, when she was also awarded the Outstanding Master’s Student Award. She also completed her PhD in Telecommunications (2003) at Ohio University and won the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Outstanding Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. thesis on community radio in South Africa. Her research on radio in South Africa is published in her first monograph Broadcasting Democracy (HSRC Press).
