Olufunmilayo ‘Funmi’ Jinadu

Olufunmilayo ‘Funmi’ Jinadu is a PhD Candidate at the School of English, Irish, & Communication with research interests in Media representation, Journalism, Postcolonial theory, Critical discourse analysis.

Project Title 

Journalistic and Representation of Africa in Domestic and International News Media: A Postcolonial Perspective

Project Description

The study builds on existing research by focusing specifically on the postcolonial context of the online news coverage of the abduction of the Chibok girls in Northeast Nigeria by both domestic and international news media.

Supervisors

Dr. Fergal Quinn & Dr. Elaine Vaughan

Presentations

Jinadu, Olufunmilayo (2022) Western Media Representations of Nigeria in the Context of Organized 'Terrorism'. 9th European Communication Conference ECREA 2022. Aarhus, Denmark. 19-22 October 2022.

Jinadu, Olufunmilayo (2022) Using Postcolonial Critical Discourse Analysis to Examine the Media Representation of Africa in Domestic and International Media. University of Limerick: AHSS Annual Postgraduate Conference 2022. Limerick, Ireland, 10 June 2022.

Jinadu, Olufunmilayo., Ogoro, Mamobo., & Ndahiro, Sandrine (2021) Black Lives Matter in Ireland: A corpus- based analysis of the media representation of BLM in Ireland, 2012–2021. Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) 2021. Online Conference, 11-13 July 2021.

Jinadu, Olufunmilayo (2021) Western Media Representations of Nigeria in the Context of Organized Terrorism. University of Limerick: AHSS Annual Postgraduate Conference 2021. Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021.

Jinadu, Olufunmilayo (2021) The Positive Contribution of Journalism in Unravelling the African Story Through Cultural Dialogue. Africa Day in Limerick 2021 Webinar Event. Online Webinar, 25 May 2021.

Awards & Honours 

GOI-IES 2020 - Irish International Education Scholarship, awarded to high calibre students from non-EU/EEA countries to study full-time in Ireland.