IAMCR Vice Chair - Media Education Research Stream [2023 - Present]

SACOMM Vice President [2023 - Present]

African Journalism Educators Network Secretary General [2023 - Present]

South African Communication Association - Convenor of the Education and Curriculum Development Stream (2021 - 2023)

I am a member of several media and communications associations and active in a few local and international associations for media and communications scholars. These are as follows:

1. theSouth African Communications Association (SACOMM) is the official South African based academic organisation representing members mostly affiliated with departments and schools of communication, journalism, media studies and marketing communication. [August 2018 - Present]

2. the South African National Editors Forum (SANEF), a non-profit organisation whose members are editors, senior journalists and journalism trainers from all areas of the South African media. [February 2019 - Present] 

3. the African Journlism Educators Network (AJEN) is a network founded to create a community of journalism educators and practitioners across Africa.

4. the Indigenous Languages Action Forum (ILAF), a bottom-up civil society network consisting of language practitioners, artists, writers, academics and activists, working hard to promote indigenous languages over a broad spectrum of linguistic sectors. [October 2020 - Present]

5. the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) is a global professional association of media and communication researchers. It promotes media and communication research throughout the world, addressing socio-political, technological, policy and cultural processes. [October 2020 - Present]

6. the South African Freelancers' Association (SAFREA), which is a professional association dedicated to supporting and promoting the interests of freelancers in the communications industry in Southern Africa. [February 2019 - April 2021], and practitioners in the discipline of communications [August 2020 - 2021]

I serve on various committees within CPUT. I am involved at an institutional level, faculty level and departmental level as follows:

• I am part of the Fundani Language Working Group. As part of the Fundani Language Working Group I was involved in a policy review of the institution's language policy

• I am part of the institutional Curriculum Officers' Forum

• At a faculty level I am involved as part of the FID Transformation Forum 

• I am also involved as a member of the FID Teaching and Learning Committee 

• I serve on the Media Department's Research Committee 

• I was also invited to represent early career researchers, as part of CARG, to a meeting convened by the Research Directorate to plan the 2021 research activities.

• I have served on selection committees within my department.

• I have been involved in recruiting staff to act as part-time lecturers and moderators.

• Development of a virtual journalism mentorship programme for exit level undergraduate students: In 2020 the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic meant that some of our third-year students could not be placed in industry for their internships due to newsrooms closing down. The internship programme is an essential means through which our students hone their practical skills. It is also an opportunity for them to be mentored by practising journalists. As a means of ensuring that they didn't miss out on these critical learnings, together with the Media Department's Work Integrated Learning Co-ordinator, I developed a mentorship programme that connected our final year students with practising journalists. The students were given projects to undertake, and the mentoring journalists mentored them through these in a similar way to what would have happened in a newsroom.