12th PhD Colloquium – ICA 2026, Cape Town, South Africa

The Journalism Studies Division’s 12th Graduate Student Colloquium was successfully held in Cape Town on June 3rd 2026, as part of ICA 2026, bringing together an outstanding group of graduate students, early career scholars, and senior researchers from around the world.
The Journalism Studies Division’s 12th Graduate Student Colloquium was successfully held in Cape Town on June 3rd 2026, as part of ICA 2026, bringing together an outstanding group of graduate students, early career scholars, and senior researchers from around the world.

Participants

  • Abdul Wahid Koormath — English and Foreign Languages University
  • Yara Mijnhout — University of Amsterdam
  • Atri Mukherjee — Vrije Universiteit Brussel
  • George Sichinga — University of Leeds
  • Cato Depauw — University of Antwerp
  • Fadiyah Rabin — University of Cape Town
  • Lonnie Renne — Ghent University
  • Manasvi Maheshwari — University of Miami
  • Visa Noronen — University of Jyväskylä
  • Zhengyi Liang — University of California, Davis
  • Doris Bukman — University of Amsterdam
  • Lingyu Li — University of Amsterdam
  • Israel Campos — University of Leeds
  • Lea von den Driesch — University of Münster
  • Youri Coudron — University of Amsterdam
  • Mariana Gomes — Karlstad University
  • Hannah Ötting — University of Münster
  • Shitemi Khamadi — Indiana University
  • Parker Bach — University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

Mentors

  • Jonathan Hendrickx — University of Copenhagen
  • Sandra Vera Zambrano — Universidad Iberoamericana and former Sciences Po Toulouse
  • Sora Park — University of Canberra
  • Kenza Lamot — University of Ghent
  • Andrea Carson — University of Melbourne
  • Edward Hurcombe — RMIT University
  • Isabella Gonçalves — Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
  • Henrik Bødker — Aarhus University
  • Karoline Andrea Ihlebæk — Oslo Metropolitan University
  • Margareta Salonen — University of Jyväskylä
  • Eugenia Mitchelstein — Universidad de San Andrés
  • TJ Thomson — RMIT University
  • Ricardo Ribeiro Ferreira — University of Liverpool
  • Jun Liu — University of Copenhagen
  • Sherwin Chua — Hong Kong Baptist University
  • Logan Molyneux — Temple University
  • Renee Barnes — University of Sunshine Coast
  • Claudia Mellado — Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
  • Lea Cristina Hellmueller — City St George’s, University of London

Organisers

  • Joanne Kuai — RMIT University
  • Raul Ferrer-Conill — University of Stavanger
  • Edson Tandoc Jr. — Nanyang Technological University

Sponsors

We would like to thank the generous support and sponsorship of the following institutions in 2026: