Shashwati Goswami

Shashwati Goswami
   (Associate Professor, Radio Journalism)

Specialties : Development Communication, Health Communication, Conflict Reporting Email : shashwati.goswami@gmail.com Phone : 91 011  On IIMC faculty since 2008 Shashwati Goswami has a wide array of professional experience ranging from the industry to the education sector. She served in the All India Radio as a producer for almost 15 years. She also was a Programme Officer (Media and Community Participation) with the District Primary Education Programme of Assam for around one and a half year. Ms. Goswami started her career as a Staff Reporter in The Assam Tribune, premier English Daily of the North-East India . Her research interest includes Health Communication, Environment and Conflict, and Development-induced Displacement. She is also associated with issues of the urban poor like women vendors, sex-workers, street children, daily wage labourers, etc. She regularly contributes to newspapers and journals on these issues. She also has a number of publications on these issues in reputed academic volumes besides those presented in professional conferences. Shahswati Goswami got her Masters in English Literature from University of Delhi in 1992. She has a Masters in Communication and Journalism from Madurai Kamaraj University . Earlier she was awarded the PGDM in Journalism and Mass Communication from IGNOU and PGDM in English Language Teaching from University of Gauhati . She was awarded the Media Fellowship on Conflict Reporting by Panos Institute South Asia for Radio Journalism for 2007-08. Ms. Goswami has translated short stories from Assamese to English for Sahitya Academy , New Delhi and SPARROW, Mumbai. She joined IIMC in July 2008 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Broadcast Journalism.