Professor Poul Nielsen, from the Department of Information and Media Studies at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, visited the School recently.
Professor Nielsen has been appointed as Director of the newly established Centre for Glocal Media Studies. He met with JMS academics to discuss future collaborations between the Centre and the Research Unit for Media in the Global South – located in the School.
Professor Nielsen will also present a research seminar on Media in Post-Communist Mongolia – Challenges and Opportunities in the Democratisation Process and guest lecture to second-year JMS students.
For the past 11 years, Professor Nielsen has worked within the field of media and democratisation in post-communist countries, documenting the interrelation between media and political, social and cultural change.
Picture: (L) Professor Poul Nielsen and (R) Professor Herman Wasserman, Deputy Head: Rhodes University, School of Journalism and Media Studies.