Dr Levi Obijiofor is a senior lecturer in journalism at the University of Queensland and a cross-cultural research associate of the PMC and is on the editorial board of Pacific Journalism Review.
He has been at various times subeditor, production editor and night editor of The Guardian newspapers in Lagos, Nigeria. Between March 1995 and May 1996, he worked in the Division of Studies and Programming (BPE/BP) at the Paris headquarters of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) where he edited the bulletin FUTURESCO and also coordinated the future-oriented studies programme.
Dr Obijiofor has taught postgraduate and undergraduate classes across a range of journalism and communication courses and supervises PhD, Masters and Honours students.
His research activities focus on:
* impact of new technologies (on journalistic practices, human society, etc.);
* international news reporting across cultures;
* journalism education and training; and
* media representations of ethnic minorities.
Staff profile at the University of Queensland