Postgraduate Supervision
I have supervised over 20 MA students (5 since the last promotion) and 3 PhD students to completion (with one awaiting certificate of corrections and two graduated). I have also externally examined 6 PhD students from various universities in and out of Africa and over 20 MA thesis and dissertations from different universities across Africa.
PhD Students Supervised
Peter Mwangi Muchiri. 2020. An Aqua Crop Model based Climate Smart Agriculture Approach for Small holder farmers: The case of Wiyumiririe, Laikiapia County, Kenya (PhD in Climate Change and Adaptation, UON).
Zipporah Maluvu. 2025. Adaptation Strategies to Increase the Yield in Green Gram Production In Makueni County Under A Changing Climate (PhD in Climate Change and Adaptation, UON).
Cosmas Ongesa. 2026. Examining The Critical Thinking Gap in Kenyan Basic Education Through Using The Elder-Paul Model (PhD in Philosophy, awaiting certificate of corrections)
PhD Students Externally Examined
March 2024- April 2024. Joy Makandi Marjawar. Examining Kenyan Journalists’ Perceptions of Peace Frames: A Study of The Standard And Nation’s Coverage of Kenya’s 2013/2017 Elections And Implications For Democracy Consolidation. University of Cape town, South Africa
January 2024- March 2024: Diana Sebbie’s PhD Dissertation on The Role of Participatory Communication In Sustainable Natural Resource Development: A Case Study of the Ada Songhor Lagoon Project. University of Ghana, Ghana
November 2023- Feb 2024: Mthokozisi Phathisani Ndhlovu’s PhD Dissertation on Global Media and Geopolitical Processes: A Study of PANAPRESS and Reuters’ Framing of China’s Investment in African Telecommunications. University of Johannesburg, South Africa
November 2022- April 2023: Cecilia Arregui Olivera’s PhD dissertation on Peace journalism revisited: Tracing the multiple tensions around a dynamic concept in the Kenyan news landscape. Aarhus University, Denmark.
February 2021- May 2021: A A Oyekunle PhD dissertation on An exploration of an indigenous African epistemic order: In search of a contemporary African environmental philosophy. Department of Philosophy, Practical & Systematic Theology, UNISA, South Africa.
November 2021- February 2022: Imokola John Baptist thesis on Television Programming
Regulation: Exploring the Policy Implementation of Local Content Quotas In Uganda. Makerere University, Uganda