Anyanwu, Chika

I would like the opportunity to serve for a second term on the International Council. In my first term I chaired the Committee for the Improvement of Academic Life. Through this committee, we worked with international colleagues to listen and gather data on academic precarity around the world. We hosted a forum on the project in Oregon. I am hoping that through your support, in my second term we will be able to complete the project, make some concrete advocacy recommendations that would assist Media and communication scholars around the world.

I see myself as a cultural fruit salad occupying a Third Space of mediation and understanding between colleagues from Northern and Southern hemisphere. From my Northern Hemisphere, I am the Representative of the Australia and New Zealand Communication Association to IAMCR. From my Southern Hemisphere, I Chair the Academic, Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee of the Pan African Australasian Diaspora Network. Through this space I am able to look at problems with a different lens, see multiple perspectives, ask poignant questions and understand complex systems so that together, we can harness our collective intelligence to build a just, sustainable and global IAMCR community. 

Contact Details: 
Chika Anyanwu PhD, FGLF, Hugo Centre for Migration and Population Research, University of Adelaide South Australia & Founding Partner, C3N2 Educational Empowerment
http//c3n2.org Email: chika.anyanwu [at] gmail.com

Nominated by Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore