Qualifications:

• Master of Sciences Media and Society Studies
• Bachelor of Sciences Media and Society Studies Honours
• Post Graduate Diploma in Tertiary Education

Research interests:

• Film,
• journalism,
• new media

Community service

• Patron of the Media Society club
• Member of departmental rural educational trips coordinating team
• Faculty of Social Science representative on the International Relations Committee
• Resident mentor for students practicing mobile phone media production in collaboration with Her Zimbabwe (2015)
• Departmental representative in the Social Science Faculty research and Ethics committee
• Participated in the formulation of MSU Community Engagement policy
• Member of MSU team consulted by Ministry of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services on the state of the media industry (2015)

Publications

• Ureke, O. (2016), ‘State interference, para-politics and editorial control: The political economy of ‘Mirrorgate in Zimbabwe’ Journal of African Media Studies, 8:1, pp17-34.
• Ureke, O. (in press) ‘Book Review: Katrina Daly Thompson (2013) Zimbabwe’s Cinematic Arts: Language, Power, Identity’ Journal of African Cinemas

• Mhiripiri, N.A and Ureke, O. (2016), ‘Mobile Journalism, Cellphilms and the Use of the StoryMaker Multimedia Software at a Zimbabwean Media Training University’ in L. Briz-Ponce (Ed.), Handbook of Research on
  Mobile Devices and Applications in Higher Education
  Settings (in press)