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Linje Manyozo Resume

Linje Patrick MANYOZO, PhD

Department of Media and Communication

London School of Economics and Political Science

Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Sex: Male. Age: 32

Career objectives

I would like to engage in research and teaching initiatives, which offer me an opportunity to develop capacities and skills of graduates and communities to rethink concepts of development, participation and empowerment.

Professional skills

· Communication for development and social change

· Participatory action research/Participatory rural communication appraisal

· Media development

· Social mobilization and community engagement

· Development journalism

· Documentary videography

Education

PhD, La Trobe, Australia, 2007, Communication for Development. Research examines the theory and practice of participatory and development broadcasting and its role in the empowerment of communities to achieve social change and sustainable livelihoods.

MA, Natal, South Africa, 2003, Media and Development. Research was an anthropological study of the participation of indigenous San Bushmen in the construction of their own representations.

BA, Malawi, 1998, Theatre for Development. Research project examined the role of developmental theatre in social change and community empowerment.

Experience in Communication for Development and Social Change

2008, Lecturer in Media, Communications and Development, Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science

2007-2008, Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Studies Coordinator in Communication for Development, School of Social Sciences, Fort Hare University

Work involves managing the graduate programme of communication and this includes teaching and supervising 15 Hons, Masters and PhD students in areas related to communication for development, health communication, ICT for development and agricultural communications.

1999-2005, Training and Teaching Media for Development, University of Malawi

Developing the Media for Development Program: Developed a proposal and syllabi for the establishment of a new undergraduate four-year Media for Development Program at the University of Malawi in 2004. The University began offering the programme in January 2005, thus becoming the first African university to offer undergraduate degree training in communication for development.

Teaching subjects: Media and Development, Community Engagement and Social Mobilization, Broadcasting for Development, Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal, Development Reporting, Radio and Video Production.

Research supervision: Work also involved working with students and rural communities in using participatory learning systems and study circles towards the development of educational communications about sustainable development.

2000-2002, Community Engagement towards Natural Resource Management

Capacity building and stakeholder management

As a strategy towards field-testing of a community engagement model, the Participatory Rural Communication Appraisal (PRCA), I was a research team member comprising the University of Malawi’s Biology Department, IUCN-Harare, SADC Centre of Communication for Development and local communities, in learning stakeholder concerns on management and conservation of inland lake resources. PRCA helped address the conflicts surrounding the poor networking between local village committees and fisheries department, and rebuilt confidence in community-based fish conservation

Conflict resolution and knowledge brokering in eco-tourism

Was a student research team member from Natal University on a PEACE Foundation-funded conflict resolution initiative surrounding the management of Masebe Nature Reserve in South Africa’s Limpopo Province. Conflicts surrounded community rejection of the Reserve Project. Extensive consultations and deliberative dialogues resulted in renewed commitment from communities and government departments to share responsibility for the conservation and management of the Reserve and its resources.

Development Journalist, UNICEF-funded Safe Motherhood Campaign

Planning and organising stakeholder consultation

Formed part of a four-man team conducting background research on challenges of child and maternal health in rural and regional communities in Malawi. Research involved stakeholder consultation at Ministry of Health, local health facilities, farmers’ clubs, focus groups with nurses and other service providers and communities of rural women.

Communication and social mobilization

Used part of the background research to develop entertainment-educational radio dramas known as Zimachitika (It Happens), which addressed challenges rural women were facing in practising safe motherhood strategies. Plays examined issues from the point of view of rural and regional communities.

Strengthening community capacity in safe motherhood

Led a two-man team mobilizing and training community groups in forming and conducting radio forums, where communities discussed radio dramas, results of which fed back into the playwriting process and enabled communities to implement actions agreed during community dialogues.

1997, Leadership in Participatory Action Research

Supervised research assistants during a study funded by the Technical Co-operation from the Government of Germany (GTZ) called Anthropological conditions for democracy conditions in Malawi. Work involved developing job description for researchers, managing finances and project equipment, training assistants in conducting quantitative and qualitative surveys and contributing towards final report writing.

1995-1996, Social Mobilisation

Was a community theatre troupe member in researching and acting plays in rural communities empowering rural families to enrol young girls in basic primary education, as part of a USAID-funded basic education project, Girls’ Attainment of Basic Literacy Education (GABLE).

Work involved living and engaging with communities and stakeholders as a pathway towards understanding cultural, historical, geographic, social and economic factors holding young girls back from pursuing primary education. Such information was employed in formulating entertainment-educational dramas performed in the communities towards motivating them to send young girls to school.

Radio and Video Production Skills

I am skilled in digital audio production tools, especially using Pro Tools LE, from importing files through non-destructive editing to analogue and digital masters.

I am skilled in both Final Cut Pro HD and Adobe Premiere formats. My documentaries comprise: Reading Photographs in the Kalahari, 33 minutes, (2002); Forgotten Cornerstones: Child Labour, 31 minutes, (2000), Sunglasses, 8 minutes, (2001).

Publications in Communication for Development

Manyozo, L. 2006. Manifesto for development communication: Nora Quebral and the Los Baños School of Development Communication. The Asian Journal of Communication.16 (1): 79-99.

Manyozo, L. 2007. Local rural radio as a development radio: Dzimwe community radio in Malawi. In the Global Journal of Communication for Development and Social Change. 2 (2): 167-192.

Manyozo, L. 2007. Method and practice in participatory radio: Rural radio forums and citizen participation in local development dialogues in Malawi. Ecquid Novi: African Journal of Journalism Research. 28 (1-2): 11-29.

Manyozo, L. 2002. Community theatre without community participation? Reflections on Development Support Communication Programs. Convergence, 35 (4): 55-69.

Manyozo, L. 2003. Depoliticising Paulo Freire’s liberatory education in Southern Africa’s participatory social development advocacy programs. Journal of Development Communications, 2 (14): 49-59.

Manyozo, L. 2005. The practice of participation in broadcasting for development, Journal of Social Development in Africa. 20 (1): 77 - 105.

Manyozo, L. 2005. Locating the praxis of development radio broadcasting within development communication. Journal of Global Communication Research Association. Vol 1 (December). Available at http://gcra.uaeu.ac.ae/journal/dec2004/3.pdf

Manyozo, L. 2004. Hegemony, ideology and political journalism broadcasting media, Africa Media Review, (12)2: 73-92.

Manyozo, L. 2003. Reality and representation in ethnographic photography. University of Malawi Journal of Humanities, 17: 1-25.

Manyozo, L. 2007. University training in communication for development: Trends and approaches. Media Asia: An Asian Communication Quarterly. 34 (1): 51-60.

Submitted for Publication Considerations

Manyozo, L. 2007. Citizen participation in making media policy: The role of the Malawi Chapter of the National Media Institute in formulating media policy in democratic Malawi. Contributed book chapter to a SADC media Policy Book.

Manyozo, L. 2007. Communication for Development in Africa. Chapter written for a UNESCO book celebrating 50 years of theories and practices.

Manyozo, L. 2007. Researching developmental uses and formats of rural radio: A theoretical framework for radio for development. The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media

Manyozo, L. 2007. Farm broadcasting as a strategy towards disseminating and exchanging agricultural knowledge. University of Swaziland Journal of Agriculture.

Article Reviews

Currently Guest Editor, Special Edition on Rural and Community Broadcasting for the Ecquid Novi: African Journal of Journalism Research.

Have reviewed articles for journals such as Global Journal of Communication for Development and Social Change, Ecquid Novi, Telematics and Informatics: An Interdisciplinary Journal on the Social Impacts of New Technologies.

Critical Analyses on Communication, Engagement and Development

Communication for Development. Paper presented at the International Communication and Media Research Association (IAMCR) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Conference, Paris, 22-25 July 2007

Cemeteries of development and the power of community consultation. Drum Beat, Number 265, http://www.comminit.com/drum_beat_265.html

Rural radio and the promotion of people-centred development in Africa: Radio Listening Clubs and community development in Malawi. Paper presented at the CODESRIA 11 General Assembly- Rethinking African Development: Beyond impasse, towards alternatives. Maputo, Mozambique, 6-10 December, 2005. Available: http://www.codesria.org/Links/conferences/general_assembly11/papers/manyozo.pdf

Community participation in Dzimwe Rural Radio. Paper presented at the Radio 2005 Transnational Conference and Forum, RMIT University, Melbourne, 11-14 July.

The status of rural radio broadcasting in Malawi. Paper presented at the CTA/SADC-CCD/ FAO Sensitization Workshop on Rural Radio for Policy and Decision Makers in Eastern and Southern Africa, Lilongwe, Malawi, 26-29 April, 2005

Depoliticising Paulo Freire’s liberatory education in Southern Africa’s participatory social development advocacy programs. Presented at the Development Communication in Africa Annual International Seminar, University of Potchefstroom, South Africa, 4-6 October 2002.

Developing a coherent media coverage strategy for the 2004 tripartite general elections. Paper presented at a Media Empowerment for Balanced Coverage of the 2004 General Elections International Conference, Le Meridien Mount Soche Hotel, Blantyre: 1-4 September, 2003.

Challenges of collaborative play production on social issues: an entertainment-education project report on Ximba primary school participatory play-making (2002). http://www.nu.ac.za/ccms/mediacommunication/pubhealthcommunication.asp?ID=25

CFSC Pioneer: Honouring Nora Quebral. In MAZI: A Communication for Social Change Consortium Newsletter. Number 5: August. Accessed from http://www.communicationforsocialchange.org/mazi-articles.php?id=272

Negotiating memory under hegemony in crisis: A gramscian reading of the third media in democratic Malawi. Presented at Convergence: Technology, Culture and Social Impacts International Conference: 6-10 May 2002, University of Natal, Durban.

Academic Awards

Postdoctoral Writing Up Fellowship, Michael Osborne Institute for Advanced Study, La Trobe University (2006)

International Postgraduate Research Study (IPRS) Award for PhD (2004-2007)

La Trobe University Postgraduate Research Study (LTUPRS) Award (for PhD)

National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa Grant (2002) - Toward MA research in visual anthropology at Kwa-Zulu Natal University, South Africa.

Consultancies

Principal Researcher: Developing Countries Farm Radio Network and the African Farm and Rural Radio Initiative. Study into the effectiveness of farm and rural radio in promoting food and nutrition security in Africa, Sept. 2007-Jan 2008

Principal Trainer: UNESCO Digital Videography Funds (Training Young Theatre Directors), 2005.

Researcher and Director: Assisting Communities Together (ACT) United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Grants-Producing a television documentary about child labour on tea and tobacco plantations in Malawi, 2000.

Lead Facilitator to a Workshop on Media Empowerment for Balanced Coverage of the 2004 General Elections International Conference, Le Meridien Mount Soche Hotel, Blantyre: 1-4 September, 2003.

Lead trainer in training trainers in health and agricultural communication: Team leader of a community engagement training initiative of the University of Malawi in building capacity of community development groups to improve their participatory action research and community engagement skills in sexual reproductive health and agricultural development, with funding from UNFPA, GTZ and UNICEF.

Referees

Provided upon request