Hayes Mabweazara

Hayes Mabweazara has experience in both academic and professional media contexts. He joined the School of Social and Political Sciences from Falmouth University where he taught Journalism Studies for several years. Prior to coming to the UK, he taught journalism and cognate subject areas in his native country, Zimbabwe at the National University of Science and Technology. Hayes is also a Research Associate in the Department of Journalism, Film & Television at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa and a Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (FHEA), UK. The principal focus of his research interests and expertise lies in the field of ‘new’ media and journalism practice. He explores how immediate conditions of practice and broader social circumstances set conditions for distinctive forms of new technology use as well as how new technologies are impacting on traditional journalistic standards, values, and practices. He has published widely in this research area and his most recent publications include the co-authored book, Participatory Journalism in Africa (Routledge, 2021) and the edited volume, Newsmaking Cultures in Africa (Palgrave, 2018). He is also Associate Editor of two leading journals in this field, Journalism Studies and African Journalism Studies, and serves on a number of leading journals’ editorial boards, including Digital Journalism, Journalism Practice, Convergence, and the Journal of Alternative & Community Media, among others.