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Summary

I joined the School of Social and Political Sciences as a Lecturer in Political Communications in August 2019. Prior to that, I was a Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Media and Communication at Bournemouth University. My research interests lie in the fields of media and politics with a particular focus on digital media, political participation and the Middle East. Having completed my PhD in Politics at Royal Holloway, University of London, I undertook research in a broad range of fields, such as the role of information communication technologies (ICTs) in periods of protest, comparative political analysis of digitally mediated movements, and social, political and cultural impact of ICTs. My first monograph, Leading protests in the digital age: Youth activism in Egypt and Syria, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.

Since 2012, I have had an established record of working as a researcher on multi-disciplinary research projects with Royal Holloway, Open University and Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. I have also experience working with industry, carried out social media research with the BBC World Service and British Council exploring how social media users around the world responded to their programmes (For further information please see: /research/Projects/Project?id=bd82a3fb-e8a0-41b1-b959-2d57067f44bc&language=en-GB). Presently, I work on the British Academy project on vaccine-hesitant minority communities and investigate social, cultural, and political factors underlying vaccine hesitant beliefs and ideas amongst minoritised communities in the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (US). For further information please see: 

Qualifications

PhD in Political Communications (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Responsibility

Convenor of the MSc in Political Communication

Dissertation Co-ordinator for Journalism