Dr. Susan Koshy

Assistant Professor

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Interest Area(s)

Media and communication policy, Global media systems, history of media infrastructures, Internet governance

Susan Koshy (PhD., Hong Kong Baptist University) has studied the Indian communication policy environment through the lens of regulatory studies and science and technology studies. She is interested in studying the social aspects of regulatory and policy-making processes. She has published and presented her work in various national and international forums.

  • 2016- 2023: PhD in Media Policy, (PhD Fellow, 2016- 2019 RGC, Government of Hong Kong)
  • Dissertation: Public Consultation Practices of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
  • 2009-2011: M.A in Media Governance (First Class)
  • Centre for Culture, Media and Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India
  • 2006 to 2009 B.A. in Journalism, English and Psychology (First Class) Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru, India
  • Guest Lecturer, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University (2019-2020)
  • Graduate Research Assistant, Centre for Media and Communication Research, Hong Kong Baptist University (September 2016- September 2019)
  • Project Associate, Tracking Access under Digitalization, Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia (October 2013 – June 2016)
  • Research Consultant, Ideosync Media Combine, Schwab Radiophone Project (Sesame Workshop India Trust) (April 2012 to July 2013)
  • Gandhi Fellow, Kaivalya Education Foundation (June 2011 to March 2012)
  • Archival work to collate and analyze over 100 government commissioned reports on media from across four decades for the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi (2016)
  • Designed and implemented baseline and endline research of the Aajeevika (livelihood) radio series for Development Alternatives, New Delhi- based on livelihood options in five
  • Community Radio Stations in Bundelkhand region of Central India (2014-2015)
  • Evaluated the project ‘Enabling Media Access for Community’s Self Expression’ byCommonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (2013)
  • Research Design & Content Analysis of Messaging in TV Soaps on India’s Public Broadcaster http://www.thehoot.org/research/research-studies/gender-representation-and-empowerment-in-dd-serials-7787

Past Projects

  • Coordinator for the International Workshop, ‘Global South Perspectives’ jointly organized by The Joint Research Group on Migration, China and the Global Context, Max Weber Foundation and Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University (18-20 April 2018)
  • Coordinator for Regional Consultation on Science Granting Councils in Asia organized by the Centre for Culture, Media & Governance, Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi in collaboration with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (25-26 November 2013)

Awards

  • Received the Madam Hui Tang Shing Yan Fellowship for academic excellence (2017)
  • Received Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong to pursue PhD in Hong Kong Baptist University (2016)
  • Received scholarship by Commonwealth of Learning to learn e-facilitation (2014)
  • Received Gandhi Fellowship to be part of a youth team selected across India to work on the government primary education system in the state of Gujarat, India (2011)
  • Received Jamia Merit Scholarship for securing the second rank in M.A. Media Governance (2010-2011).
  • Member of the Journalism Association: Received Outstanding performance as part of the Journalism Association (2008-2009)
  • Pre-conference organized- Institutions, Interventions, Transgressions: Glocal Media Policies and Praxis from South Asia, IAMCR, Nairobi, 2021
  • Paper selected- Reimagining broadband access with local cable operators, ICA post-conference on Building Bridges Between the Academy and Advocacy, ICA, Washington,

USA, 2019

  • Presenter- Why Public Consultations? Exploring Legitimacy Frameworks in Regulatory Institutions, Annual Conference of National Communication Association, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2018
  • Presenter- Managing the Migration: Digital Switchover and Public Interest in Asia’s largest Cable TV Market, Hallym University, Chuncheon, South Korea, 2017
  • Presenter- Analogue Intermediaries in a Digital Age, Diginaka, School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2016
  • Panelist- Media and Innovation Days, Workshop organized by Lund University, The Sweden-South Asia Media Project hosted by Swedish South Asian Studies Network, New Delhi, 2015
  • Presenter- Tracing the Parliamentary Discourse around Digitization, International Association for Media and Communication Research, ‘Region as a Frame’, Hyderabad, 2014
  • Koshy, S. & Preeti Raghunath (2022) Media Policy in South Asia. Journal of Digital Media and Policy, Vol. 13(1)
  • Parthasarathi, V., Amanullah, A., & Koshy, S. (2016). Digitalization as formalization: A view from below. International Journal of Digital Television, Vol. 7(2).
  • Parthasarathi, V., Koshy, S & Amanullah, A. (2016) Digitalisation of TV Distribution:
  • Affordability and Availability. Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 51(34)
  • D. Bose & Koshy, S. (2015). Using Community Radio for establishing the last mile
  • connect: Exploring the role of Community Radio in Disaster. In Mudgal V., Participatory Democracy: Claiming India From Below (1st ed.). New Delhi: Routledge.
  • Chapter Deconstructing gender and developmental messaging in DD National in the research report ‘When The Dish Knocked Down the Antenna’, The Media Foundation http://www.thehoot.org/public/uploads/docs/download.pdf