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. 

She is part of the Media Futures Hub, Associate of the Australian Human Rights Institute, and has also previously served as Co-Secretary of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (2024 and 2025). 

Ayesha is the author of Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (Routledge, 2024), the inaugural Peace Fellow of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (2024–2026), and a 2024 Weizenbaum Institute Open Fellow (Berlin). She is also Associate Fellow of Advance HE (formally known as the Higher Education Academy), which champions 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'. 

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