Prof Thomas Tufte

Senior Research Associate
Name: Thomas Tufte
CaM Senior Research Fellows  Staff Members

Contact Details:

Email: T.Tufte@lboro.ac.uk

About Prof Thomas Tufte

Thomas Tufte | Loughborough University London | Loughborough University London

Professor Tufte is Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and University of Loughborough London. Member of Academia Europaea (2019-) and Senior Research Associate, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (2013-). Tufte has since 1990 worked with research, teaching, curricular development, consultancy and NGO work in over 30 countries. Research interests include communication for social change, critical development studies, activism and social movement studies, health communication in the Global South, tv-fiction and qualitative audience studies.

Tufte has led 7 international research projects, been on numerous editorial boards, and has collaborated with a broad range of organisations in international development cooperation, such as World Bank, UNICEF, UNESCO, USAID, UNDP, FAO, SIDA, Panos, ADRA, Soul City, Femina, Ghana Friendship, and others. The majority of his consultancies for these organisations has been tied to the field of health communication. Together with Marjan de Bruin he co-founded the IAMCR working groups on HIV/AIDS Communication and on Health Communication and Social Change.

Professor Tufte’s publications include 20 books (3 monographs, 17 edited volumes), 41 peer reviewed journal articles and 60+ book chapters. Professor Tufte works in both English, Spanish, Portuguese and Danish and his work is published widely in these languages, in addition to in Italian and Greek. Recent publications include:

Work history:

Professor and Chair in Media and Communication, University of Leicester (Sept 2016-)

Professor of Communication for Development, Roskilde University (2004-2016)

Associate Professor at Department of International Health, Univ. of Copenhagen (2003-2004)

UNESCO Chair of Communication, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona (Jan-May 2003)

Visiting Scholar, Rhodes University, South Africa (Sept-Nov 2002)

Associate Professor (1999-2002) at Department of Film and Media Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen

Assistant Professor (1996-1999) at Department of Film and Media Studies, Univ. of Copenhagen

Junior Professional Officer at UNDP in Paraguay 1994-1996

Information and communication officer at Danchurchaid, 1990-1993

Recent Books

– Hemer, O & T. Tufte (eds). 2016. Voice & Matter. Communication, Development and The Cultural Return. Gothenburg: Nordicom

Tufte, T, (2015). Comunicación para el cambio social. La participación y el empoderamiento como base en el desarrollo mundial. Barcelona: Icária, Antrazyt Collections.

– A.H.Hansen, O. Hemer & T. Tufte (eds). 2015. Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice. Berlin and London: LIT Verlag.

– K.Wilkins, T.Tufte & R.Obregon (eds). 2014. Handbook in Development Communication and Social Change, USA: Blackwell Wiley.

– T.Tufte, N.Wildermuth, A. Hansen-Skovmoes & W.Mitullah (eds). 2012. People Speaking Back? Media, Empowerment and Civic Engagement of African Youth. Yearbook 2012 of The International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media. NORDICOM and UNESCO: Univ. of Gothenburg.

– C. M. Krohling Peruzzo, T. Tufte and J. Vega Casanova (eds). 2011. Trazos de una otra Comunicación en América Latina: practicas comunitárias, teorías y demandas sociales. ALAIC y Ediciones Uninorte, Barranquilla, Colombia.

For full list of publications, see http://ruc-dk.academia.edu/ThomasTufte