Since 2018 Dali Osepashvili is professor of journalism and mass communication at International Black Sea University. Since 2021 she is Head of the Master Program “Digital Media & Communication”, after having participated programs in Chicago, funded by the United States government in the States “Media Education Program” (DePaul and Loyola Universities). She prepared this IBSU master program based on the US experience, similar to the Digital Media MA program at Loyola University.

Topic of Dali Osepashvilis’ PhD thesis (2004) was genre transformation of news, interviews and reportages in Georgian print media. 1993-2005 she intensively worked at difference Georgian newspapers and magazines.

Before the International Black Sea University, she worked for the 18 years as a professor at the Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, where headed MA program „Media & New Technologies“ (2008-2018) and  Till 2015 she was head of quality assurance service at the faculty of social and political sciences.

She has published approximately 60 research papers, 2 books and is co-author 2 handbooks. Some her research papers are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. Dali Osepashvili has participated in the international conferences – Harvard, Detroit, Oxford, Brussels, Berlin, Bremen, Munich, Warsaw, Paris, Prague etc.

She completed a research internship in the USA – at the University of Michigan (Weiser Program, 2017); in the Germany (DAAD, at Ludwig Maximiliane University, 2015; at the Eichstadt-Ingolstadt University, 2024); in the Lietuva (Marie Curie  IRSES program, University of Vilnius, 2016); in the Poland (Tytus Filipowicz research stipend – at the University of Wroclaw and at the New Easter Europe College, 2021; Mieroszewski research foundation stipend – Warsaw and Krakow, 2024).

In the frameworks if teaching mobility, she conducted lectures in Finland (‘Basercan+’ program for the academic staff, University of Helsinki, 2015) and ‘Erasmus+’ short term teaching program for academic staff in Poland (at the University of Wroclaw, 2016; 2021) and in Chekh Republic (at the University of Masaryk, 2017).

Her research interests included: digital transformation of media; AI and media; journalism studies; transformation of news in the digital era; social media; magazine studies; digital communication etc.

Publications:

Participation as a presenter in the Research Conferences:

I.  She is a reviewer and member of international scientific journals:

• Athens Journal of Media and Communication, Greece (since 2015); https://www.athensjournals.gr/ajmmc/eb
• International Journal of Magazine Studies, Portugal (since 2024). https://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/ijms/index

II.  E-courses Certificates:

1. Harvard, Citizen Politics in America: Public Opinion, Elections, Interest Groups, and the Media ,2020 https://courses.edx.org/certificates/407a9cf1c9ea47ebb4f73efe986152a9

2.MIT/ Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Qualitative Research Methods, 2020 https://courses.edx.org/certificates/a39ea1bdd6424a569ab6de5bad921a30

3.Amnesty International, Digital Security and Human Rights, 2020 https://courses.edx.org/certificates/40628bae1a2c4b1b9fa4e19ec6f72d70

4.Berkeley, University of California, English for Journalists, Part 2, 2020 https://courses.edx.org/certificates/cab3310eb8924d868b460d6baa88bdb5

5.English for Teaching Purpose, University of Barcelona, 2020

III. She twice received IBSU awards as an „Most productive affiliated professor in scientific activity” 2022-2023 and 2023-2024.

IV. Dali is a member of professional international associations: ECREA, ICA and IAMCR.