PROF. VASUKI BELAVADI
Vasuki Belavadi currently serves as Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Hyderabad. He is also the Director, Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre, University of Hyderabad.
He obtained his Ph.D from University of Hyderabad. He worked in print, television, and the third sector in various capacities for over 12 years before joining academics.
He joined academics at the Manipal Institute of Communication in 2002. He served as the Head of the Department of Mass Communication and Journalism at Tezpur University. He joined University of Hyderabad in 2004 and went on to become the Dean of Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication. He travels frequently both in India and abroad conducting workshops on video and audio production in various universities. He has trained community media workers in Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Kenya and Uganda. Prof. Vasuki Belavadi is on the Board of Studies of many Mass Communication and Journalism departments across the country.
He is also the author of Video Production, a textbook that is prescribed for media students in over 600 universities across the world.
Vasuki Belavadi is interested in knowing how people learn and tries to devise different methods of teaching to make learning easier.