DR JOYCE NYALANGA OMWOHA :: :: STAFF EPORTAL - THE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF KENYA

Faculty:	Social Sciences and Technology
School:	CREATIVE ARTS AND MEDIA
Department:	Journalism and Media Studies
Current Designation:	Lecturer, JOURNALISM AND MEDIA STUDIES (DJMS)
Office Telephone:	+254(020) 2219929, 3341639, 3343672
Official Email:	joyce.omwoha@tukenya.ac.ke
Consultation Hours:	8AM-5PM MON - FRI

Level	Qualification Name	Institution	Year
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	Media Studies	University of Witwatersrand, South Africa(South Africa)	2013
Master of Philosophy	Communication Studies	Moi University(Kenya)	2007
Bachelor of Arts (BA)	Communication Arts	Daystar University(Kenya)	2003
O level/Equivalent	KCSE	Bunyore Girls High School(Kenya)	1998

Period	Institution	Position
October 2014 - to date	Technical University of Kenya	Lecturer
January 2007 - September 2014	Masinde Muliro University	Assistant Lecturer
July 2003 - March 2004	Karen Information Resource and Education Centre	Administrative Assistant
April 2004 - December 2004	Euronip Freighters	Administrator

Gender and representation; media and democracy; gender, communication and development; and media's role in identity creation and formation.

Talk Radio and The Public Sphere: Jambo Kenya's Role in Democratization	Journalism and Media
From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments	Media Studies
Radio listenership survey	Audience Analysis
The Intricacy of Adolescents’ Sexuality as Depicted in the Kenyan Media: A Discourse Analysis of the Nation and Standard Newspapers	Media, Sexual and Reproductive Health and Research

Title	Link to pulication
Book chapter titled "The Woman's Palace..." Media and (Mis) Representation of women in Political Leadership Positions in Kenya for Beyond Tradition: African WOmen in Cultural and Political Spaces
Journal article titled "Talk Radio Jambo Kenya as a Public Sphere for Deliberative Democracy".	.
Journal article titled :Scholarly Publishing in the 21st Century and its Role in National Development:A Focus on Kenya	www.panafricanbooksellerassociation.org
Paper titled "Gender Contribution and Constraints to Rural Agriculture and Household Food Security in Kenya: A Case of Western Province".	www.aaae-africa.org
Book chapter titled “The Political Significance and Influence of Talk Radio Debates in Kenya” for Political Influence of the Media in Developing Countries. Published by IGI Global: Edited by Lynete Lusike Mukhongo and Juliet Wambui Macharia	http://bit.ly/1sYTQ0o
‘Open the Servers’: The Implications of Electoral Technology for Kenya’s Democratisation Process Africa Development, Volume XLVII, No. 2, 2022, pp. 169-182 © Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, 2022	https://journals.codesria.org/index.php/ad/issue/view/355
“The Use of Memes and Hash tags on Twitter towards Government Response during the COVID Curfew Announcement from 1 June -14 June 2020”	https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-79279-4
A comparative human rights analysis of laws and policies for adolescent contraception in Uganda and Kenya.	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01303-8
Institutional repositories in Kenya: The case of the Kenya Library and Information Services Consortium member Libraries	http://journals.spu.ac.ke.
Formation of citizenship through radio talk participation in Kenya	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317028990_Formation_of_citizenship_through_radio_talk_participation_in_Kenya
Potential challenges of developing a national digital research repository: A study of selected research stakeholders in Kenya.”	http://www.asianacademicresearch.org/may2017.html
The Political Significance And Influence Of Talk Radio Debates In Kenya	https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306228043_The_Political_Significance_and_Influence_of_Talk_Radio_Debates_in_Kenya

Name	Project Title	Period
Peter Mwangi Gichiri	A Proposed Implementation Framework For A National Digital Research Repository System In Kenya.	2017-2020
Wambui Ndonye	News Consumption Habits On Social Media: A Study Of Kenyan Millennials Visiting National Employment Authority in Kasarani Sub-County	2019-2021

Title	Institution
Member	International Communications Association
Member	Media Educators and Trainers Association, Kenya
Member	Young Women in Leadership Institute
Member	Gender Round Table Service
Member	The Media Council of Kenya
Member	African Association of Agricultural Economists
Member	Pan Africa Booksellers Association

Description

1. Research fellowship at Ghent University, Project Titled The Intricacy of Adolescent Contraception Policy As Depicted And Portrayed In The Kenyan Media (May – July 2022)

Research Supervisor. Implementation Research Project in Guinea, Somalia and Kenya by WHO: A Health Systems Approach to Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation Using Person-Centered Communication (Elgeyo Marakwet County) 5^th July -23^rd July 2021)

3. Research Supervisor. Research titled A Health Systems Approach to Prevention of Female Genital Mutilation Using Person-Centred Communication: Implementation Research Project in Guinea, Somalia and Kenya by WHO (24 August – 4 September 2020). Project funded by World Health Organization, Department of Reproductive Health and Research (RHR), UNDP/UNFPA/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction

4. Researcher. Project titled Emerging Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender-Based Violence in Africa for Sonke Gender Justice; a South African-based non-profit organisation working throughout Africa with the aim of resisting patriarchy, advocating for gender justice and achieving gender transformation. (July 2020)

Researcher. Project titled Emerging Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender-Based Violence in Africa for Sonke Gender Justice; a South African-based non-profit organisation working throughout Africa with the aim of resisting patriarchy, advocating for gender justice and achieving gender transformation. (July 2020)

6. Research co-trainer and interviewer. Research titled Journalists and hate speech: The context of local radio stations in Kenya funded by Deutsche Welle Academy (12th to 16th January 2020)

7. Tracking Journalists in Kenya’s Fluid Media Environment For Kenya Editors’ Guild (July-August 2019)

8. Fellow at the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) Democratic Governance Institute 2019. Project titled: “Open The Servers”: The Implications of Electoral Technology to Kenya’s Democratization Process (August-September 2019)

9. Research Grant: African Peacebuilding Network (APN) Research Grant fellow (May – December 2016). Project titled: From Street Sentiments to Online Sentiments: Negotiating Peace through Social Media Activism in Kenya

ReResearch coordinator: Radio Listenership survey funded by Deutsche Welle Academy (August-September 2014)

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