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Kasun Ubayasiri
Dr Kasun Ubayasiri is a senior lecturer and director of journalism at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is also a former Sri Lankan journalist and Australian-based documentary-photographer. His research forces on the role of news media in armed conflict; media coverage of human rights issues; media censorship and its impact on democratic accountability. Ubayasiri has conducted extensive research on the civil war in Sri Lanka, and his research interests focus predominantly on the South and South East Asian countries. He is a member of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research (GCSCR) and the co-author of Journalism for Social Change in Asia: Reporting Human Rights (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Contact: Griffith University, 170 Kessels Road, Nathan, QLD 4111, Australia.