Ayesha Jehangir

Ayesha Jehangir is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow with the Centre for Media Transition at the University of Technology Sydney. She completed her PhD in war, conflict, and peace journalism in September 2021 from the School of the Arts, English and Media at the University of Wollongong, where she was awarded Examiners' Commendation for Outstanding Thesis. Ayesha’s research explores the mediation of human suffering and social justice from war and conflict zones, particularly focusing on peace journalism, the refugee voice, digital self-representation, and digital borders. Ayesha is the author of Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace (Routledge, 2024). She is the inaugural Peace Fellow of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (2024-2026); a Fredrich-Ebert-Stiftung Fellow of War and Peace Journalism (Afghanistan); and an FES-Deutsche Welle Fellow of Online Journalism (Germany). She also serves as an elected co-secretary of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. Before joining academia, Ayesha worked as a journalist in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Germany, and Australia.