Graphic's Becky Kwei gets Chevening scholarship for Cardiff's MSc. programme
An award-winning journalist of the Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Miss Rebecca Kwei has been awarded a Chevening scholarship to pursue a Master of Science degree in Science, Media and Communication at the Cardiff University in the United Kingdom.
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Ms Kwei, who has worked with the GCGL for the past 15 years, is passionate about issues concerning health, women and children’s rights and thus have chosen to further her education in that area for the 2016/17 academic year at Cardiff in Wales..
In 2014, she was awarded the Best Journalist in Development Journalism in furtherance of the Millennium Development Goals. She also won the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) Best in Health Reporting Award in 2013.
Ms Kwei, aside her work as a journalist, has also collaborated with INDEPTH Network, a network of health and demographic surveillance systems in 20 countries in Africa, Asia and Oceania by supporting with the provision of needed information which enables policy-makers to make decisions as well as adapt their programmes to changing conditions.
She is also a member of the African Media and Malaria Research Network (AMMREN), a group of Journalists and Scientists from 10 African countries working together to reduce the burden of malaria through effective communication.
She has also contributed to “Africa Woman”, a magazine produced by selected female journalists from 10 African countries as well as eyesonmalaria (www.eyesonmalaria.org); an online magazine.
After her MSc in Science, Media and Communication, Ms Kwei seeks to set the developmental agenda and empower communities through education and awareness-raising reportage.
She told Graphic Online that it was a dream come true to become a Chevening scholar and believes that it was important for media organisations to focus more on development journalism and not solely on politics.
According to her, although there are health communicators in Ghana, there was not much focus on science communication in general.
