Rate My Professor Thomas Yesudhasan

Dr. Thomas Yesudhasan serves as a Lecturer in the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University, Perth, Australia. His academic background includes a Master's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Madras and a PhD in Media Studies from Edith Cowan University, awarded in 2002. The title of his doctoral thesis is "Remote audiences beyond 2000: radio, everyday life and development in South India." Prior to his current appointment, he held the position of Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Mass Communication at Curtin University Sarawak.

In his teaching role, Dr. Yesudhasan delivers courses such as Media Ethics, Media Law and Ethics to undergraduate and postgraduate students, Intercultural Communication, and Culture to Cultures. His research focuses on media ethics, journalism, community media, and qualitative audience ethnography, particularly exploring radio and television's role in indigenous communities, cultural industries, and globalization versus localization dynamics in South India, Malaysia, and Bhutan. Key publications include "Community Radio and Development: Tribal Audiences in South India" (2007), "PSB in Bhutan: Countering Foreign Invasion with Local Contents" (Global Media Journal, 2019), "Media and Public Sphere" (Media Asia, 2010), "Environment news broadcast in Malaysia: analysis of prime time news coverage in local television channels" (Mass Communicator, 2010), and a review of Andy Ruddock's "Investigating Audiences" (2008). He received the Best Paper Award at an international academic conference in 2012 for his work on community radio. Dr. Yesudhasan has examined PhD and Master of Arts theses for various international universities, chaired PhD committees at Curtin University, and presented on "Journalism Education in the Post-Pandemic World: Teaching Media Law and Ethics" at the JERAA conference.