Aniruddha Jena is an Assistant Professor in the Communications Area at the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. He previously worked at KIIT University (2021-23) and served as a Research Assistant to the UNESCO Chair on Community Media at the University of Hyderabad (2019-21). He holds a doctoral degree in Communication from the University of Hyderabad. Under the Shastri Indo-Canada Institute’s Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) program, he joined York University, Toronto as an International Visiting Research Trainee (IVRT) from December 2021 to May 2022. 

Communication for Development and Social Change, Alternative and Communication Media Studies, Political Economy of Communication and Media, and Media and Margin 

• Jena, A. (2023, September 29). Researching Community Radio: The Need for a Cultural Turn. CR News-UNESCO Chair on Community Media. https://uccommedia.uohyd.ac.in/news/researching-community-radio-the-need-for-a-cultural-turn/
• Jena, A., Roy, R. K., & Garai, S. (2023). Mapping the Meanings of Squid Game in South Asia. Economic & Political Weekly, 58(25 & 26), 92–93. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/25-26/postscript/mapping-meanings-squid-...
• Jena, A., Pavarala, V., & Belavadi, V. (2023). Constructing Community and Building Identity through Indigenous Community Media: The Case of Radio Swayamshakti in Odisha, India. In A. Salawu, T. B. Molale, E. Uribe-Jongbloed, & M. S. Ullah (Eds.), Indigenous Language for Social Change Communication in the Global South (pp. 179–198). Rowman & Littlefield. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666912050/Indigenous-Language-for-Social-Cha...
• Sahoo, D., & Jena, A. (2023, April 29). Panchayat: Casteism and Mockery in the Name of Humour. Economic and Political Weekly. 58 (17), 65-66. https://www.epw.in/journal/2023/17/postscript/panchayat-casteism-and-moc...
• Jena, A., Deka, C., Mohapatra, J. P., Sahu, A., & Panda, R. K. (2022). The politics of media coverage of natural disasters in Odisha and Assam. Media Asia, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1080/01296612.2022.2136869
• Yadav, R. A., & Jena, A. (2022, October 22). ‘Spiral of Silence’ in Indian Media? Economic & Political Weekly, 57(43), 64–65. https://www.epw.in/journal/2022/43/postscript/%E2%80%98spiral-silence%E2...
• Belavadi, V., Jena, A. (2022). Reinforcing Desia Culture Through Community Radio: A Cultural Analysis of Radio Dhimsa in Koraput, Odisha. In: Kaushik, A., Suchiang, A. (eds) Narratives and New Voices from India: Cases of Community Development for Social Change (1st ed., pp. 73-83), Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-2496-5_6
• Pavarala, V., Malik, K. K., & Jena, A. (2022). Community Radio as Development Radio: A Critical Analysis of Third-Sector Radio in South Asia. In M. Lindgren & J. Loviglio (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies (1st ed., pp. 287–297). Routledge.

2023: IAMCR Travel Grant to present two research papers at IAMCR 2023 Annual Conference in Lyon, France.
2021: Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) of Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute (SICI), New Delhi
2019: Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund (JNMF) Doctoral Scholarship
2018: NTA-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) in Mass Communication & Journalism
2017: Ambedkar-Bhagat Singh National Media Fellowship

Chairperson, Media & Public Relations Committee

1. Written & Oral Communication
2. Executive Communications
3. Strategic Communication
4. Critical Thinking & Interpersonal Skills
5. Leadership Communication
6. Movies for Management
7. Cross-Cultural Communication & Management