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Ann Mabel Sanyu
Ann Mabel Sanyu is a researcher with the School of International and Intercultural Communication (SIIC) at the Erich-Brost Institute University of Bochum in Germany. Prior to this, she completed her MA in the Erasmus Mundus programme in journalism and media in Aarhus University, Denmark, and University of Hamburg, Germany. She teaches ‘Audiences and Identities’ at the Erasmus Mundus MA programme in journalism across cultures at University of Hamburg. Ms Sanyu has extensive knowledge on the topics of Diaspora, gender, media and migration which she also pursued as a research topic for her Master’s thesis. As well as, analysis and interpretation of qualitative methods such as interviews and focus groups data. Previously she worked as a journalist with the national broadcaster in Kampala Uganda and has collaborated with the BBC Channel 4 to produce five films under the theme ‘sport for social change’ that were aired as a prelude to the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, as well as a three-minute wonder ‘Food for Thought’ as a special foreign correspondent’s series on Channel 4. Along with journalism, she has engaged in a media development project with Deutsche Welle to develop a set of media indicators for sustaining community media in Kenya and Colombia. Sanyu’s research interests include: migration, diaspora, identity, media, gender and race. She is currently working on completing her doctoral thesis on ‘New media use of Ghanaian migrants for identity and belonging in Hamburg and London’.