1. Communication for Development and Social Change 2. New Media and Social Change 3. Communication and Collective Action

Current PhD students supervised by Professor Tufte are focused upon communication for development in Brazil and alternative media in India. Professor Tufte is currently interested in supervising research students on topics relevant to his expertise and interests. Professor Tufte has supervised PhD students in topics such as media and conflict, media anthropology, communication for development and social change, alternative media and internet governance.

Over the years, Professor Tufte has been on review panels and vivas of about 25 doctoral dissertations in UK, Australia, USA, South Africa, Brazil, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Norway , Finland and Belgium.

In addition to comprehensive teaching at his fixed and full positions in Denmark and the UK throughout his career, Tufte has taught Communication for Development-related topics (edutainment, research methodologies, audience studies, health communication, new media and glocal change, etc,) at many universities in numerous countries including in:

Africa: Tanzania, Kenya, Mozambique and South Africa
Europe: Albania, Italy, Spain, UK, Sweden, Denmark
Latin America: Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Paraguay and Brazil + online to Bolivia and Guatemala.
USA: Emory University; UC Berkeley; University of Texas, Austin; Ohio University;

Finally, Tufte has for the past 18 years taught regularly on the MA in C4D at Malmø University. It is an online masters with approximately 60 yearly MA-student coming from countries all over the world. Many follow the course online from their home countries.

An element of Tufte’s career has been capacity building in Communication for Development - this amongst both practitioners and researchers in Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe, seen in the research project he directed (MEDIeA, 2009-2015) and in curricular development and skills training of practitioners that take MA-degrees in South Africa, Albania, Paraguay, Italy, Sweden and Spain. There have been numerous opportunities to work with stakeholders from both public and private organisations.

Tufte has contributed in the development of syllabi for MA-courses in South Africa, Paraguay, Brazil and Albania, in addition to a BA in Mozambique. Examples include:

• Witswatersrand University/C-Change (2009-2012). Developing a course syllabus in SBCC and 3x teaching of module at Wits University.
• Ohio University/C-Change/AED (Jan-Feb 2011). Developing a course syllabus in SBCC and TOT (university lecturers) at University of Tirana
• Ohio University/External Reviewer on UNICEF training modules in C4D (Communication for Development). Dec 2010-Jan 2011.
• Adviser, speaker and teacher in Paraguay (2009-2013). They developed an MA in C4D and 4 BAs over a 3-year period. Conducted TOT, gave keynote speeches and taught on the MA and one of the Bas.

Tufte has served as the UNESCO Chair of Communication at Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain (2003) and currently serves on the editorial boards, advisory boards or as associate editor to 8 journals and book series. Their foci range from communication and culture, health communication and communication for development and social change to audience studies, global media studies, diaspora and media use (Including Journal of Communication; Palgrave Book Series on Communication for Social Change; Disertaciones (Spain); Intercom (Brazil). He is also often reviewer for international journals in these fields.

Tufte has worked full time for UNDP as a JPO in 1994-1996, undertaken a long range of consultancies for UN-agencies (UNESCO, UNICEF, UNDP and also the World Bank). Connected to his work in communication for development and social change, Tufte was Scientific Committee member and co-author to the background document for the 1st World Congress on Communication for Development, held in Rome in October 2006 (hosted by World Bank and FAO).

Via the US firm POPTECH Tufte has in 2001 been a team member on the global evaluation of Johhs Hopkins CCP/PCS program 1995-2002, including a field trip to Nicaragua and Nigeria. Also team member on the Synergy Project, Ukraine (October-November 2002). It was a fact-finding mission for the development of 5-year HIV/AIDS Country Strategy for USAID.

Tufte has furthermore served on the advisory board of South Africa NGO Soul City (1999-2002), is the founding Chairman of the Board (2007-) of the HIP Edutainment Foundation in Sweden (supports HIV/AIDS prevention in Eastern Africa) and has served on Danida’s International Think Tank on HIV/AIDS in support of policy-making (2000-2001), among other commitments and experiences.

Tufte has collaborated as C4D/SBCC programme designer, evaluator and undertaken substantial capacity building worldwide for many international organisations

Countries of particular expertise and knowledge

Africa: 29 years engagement with Eastern and Southern Africa. Particular knowledge on Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique. Has worked in 14 African countries.

Latin America generally through a 34 year engagement with the continent. Tufte has lived 2 years in Paraguay and 2 years in Brazil, his number one country of expertise (deep involvement in Brazil over many years). Has also worked a lot with Colombia, Chile and Mexico, in addition to more sporadically with other countries in the region.

Middle East: Undertaken work visits to Lebanon, Israel, Palestine and Egypt in 1993.

Eastern Europe: Albania, having undertaken curricular development and teaching in communication for development over 6 visits to University of Tirana between 2010-2016.

Experience with program design, inception-, mid-term and final evaluations/review:

Tufte has served many international organisations, including DANIDA, USAID, SIDA, FAO, UNESCO, UNICEF, World Bank and The Panos Institute both in Africa, Central America and Eastern Europe. This has been mostly on communication for development issues, media development, health communication and HIV/AIDS (both fact-finding, strategy development, programming, review and evaluation). Recent work includes:

• Ghana Friendship (2017). Final Evaluation of 2 year project on Youth, Mobile Phones and Empowerment.
• UNICEF (via Orecomm), (2016). Development of C4D strategy in Education Sector, Mozambique.
• ADRA Malawi (2012) Team leader, mid-term review of ACT for Social Change, 6 mio USD C4D project running 2011-2013
• ADRA Rwanda (2011) Team leader, mid-term review of ACT for Social Change, 6 mio USD C4D project running 2010-2013
• ADRA Malawi (2009) Mid-term Review of their Communication for Social Change-centered Malawi project ‘Lights Fight HIV/AIDS in Malawi’ (LEFAM)
• World Bank (2008-9). Developing a Participatory Communication’s User Guide.
• UNICEF. Development of proposal for Angola’s national HIV/AIDS communication strategy (2007, for UNICEF/National AIDS Council of Angola)
• Danida. Communications input for development of National HIV/AIDS Research Policy in Mozambique (2007, Danida/Mozambique Ministry of Science and Technology).
• ADRA Denmark/Malawi (Adventist Development and Relief Association), ( 2005/6). Inception Review of Fase V of their HIV/AIDS prevention project in Malawi and mid-term review of 'Lets Talk' 'innovation pool' project, also in Malawi.
• Rockefeller Foundation and the Communication for Social Change Consortium, New Jersey (2003-2006). In cooperation with Alfonso Gumucio Dagron developing a database and editing an anthology. Providing advice on curricular development and CFSC policy development.
• PANOS (2004). Developed a Communications Audit used by PANOS in partnership with the Health Communication Partnership/Johns Hopkins University. It was used in 5 African Countries in 2004 and an additional 5 African countries
• Danida (feb 2003). Wrote the Issue Paper: Communication and AIDS Prevention. Used in e-learning for employees at Nordic embassies worldwide.
• DANIDA, Mozambique (nov-dec 2002). Inception Review Mission on HIV/AIDS component of Health Sector Programme and Education Sector Programme in Mozambique.
• USAID/Synergy Project, Ukraine: October-December 2002. Fact-finding mission for the development of 5-year HIV/AIDS Country Strategy for USAID.
• UNESCO, Mozambique: Feb-April 2002. Consultant on Community Radios. Conducted baseline study (Survey with 200 people + 15 focus group interviews) + mini-KAP study on HIV/AIDS. Developed indicators and methodologies to monitor and evaluate community radio projects. Mozambique.
• SIDA, Dec.2001-Feb.2002. Evaluation of FEMINA Health Information Project, Tanzania Evaluation on the use of a youth magazine for health information purposes.
• Danida: October-December 2001. Programme Identification Mission to Nicaragua and Honduras. Danish Support to HIV/AIDS in Central America.
• Danida: June-July 2001. HIV/AIDS Component Description for Sector Programme Support Document in both Health Sector and Education Sector, Mozambique. I was part of the 5-person team, representing the communication expertise on the team.
• Danida: April-June 2001. Conceptual Development about, Planning of and Reporting from Euro-American Donor Seminar on Communication for Development. This seminar, an idea I presented to Danida early 2001, was further developed in partnership with Danida’s technical adviser on communication, and took place in Copenhagen in June 2001. It gathered 15 key international experts to discuss how to use communication for development in donor assistance.
• USAID on Health Communication (Jan-Abril 2001). Global evaluation of the JHU/PCS Program. As part of a global team of 5 – employed by POPTECH, for USAID - I participated in the evaluation of the Johns Hopkins University’s program: Population Communication Services. We evaluated their work within the cooperative agreement with USAID of 1995-2002. We undertook field visits to two countries JHU/PCS work in: Nigeria and Nicaragua.
• DANIDA on Communication and HIV/AIDS (2000). HIV/AIDS Fact-finding and Programming Mission to Zambia. It was a fact-finding mission in three sectors (Media, Education and Transport) and a programming mission in Vocational Training, where the next 5 year sector-cyclus, as an outcome of the mission, now will incorporate HIV/AIDS.