Announcing Josepha Wessels: Adjunct Associate Professor at ETLab
Congratulation Associate Professor Josepha (Joshka) Wessels , the ETLab's newest Adjunct !
Joshka Wessels is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University. Joshka has a background in Visual Anthropology and Human Geography.
Her interests are in film, emerging technology and immersive storytelling, communication and media for social and revolutionary change, citizen media and social movements and Participatory Action Research (PAR). She has specific expertise in the Arab world, environmental peacebuilding, human ecology, forced migration and postmigration. Next to award-winning social and environmental TV documentaries for BBC World and Al Jazeera English, she also produced animated documentaries and 360video interactive immersive experiences and installations. She is keen on exploring the use of immersive media and storytelling, participative arts-based methods and re-enactment in ethnography and combining her scholarly and media production skills for qualitative research.
She is currently the PI of several research projects on Sudan on Climate Change Resilience and the role of graffiti and environmentalism in social change. Furthermore, she is involved in research environment on Syrians in Jordan, Turkey and Sweden in collaboration with Gothenburg University and a project on the post-migrant condition in Sweden led by Professor Maja Povrzanovic Frykman at the Malmö Institute for studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare.
Joshka visited Monash Australia in 2024 and will return in November 2025.