About Sameera Tahira Ahmed

MICRO-BIO

  • Current research: digital literacy and media representations. Teaching: journalism and media courses.

EXPERIENCE

  • United Arab Emirates University
    • Associate Professor
    • Media and Creative Industries
    • PO Box 15551
    • August 2016 to Present
  • UAEU
    • Assistant Professor
    • Mass Communication
    • August 2016 to Present
  • Sohar University (Oman)
    • Assistant Professor
    • Dept of Journalism and Media
    • August 2008 to July 2016
  • Manchester Metropolitan University
    • Lecturer
    • Politics
    • September 2002 to July 2008
  • Manchester University
    • Researcher
    • Humanities
    • May 1997 to September 1998

EDUCATION

  • Leicester University
    • PhD Mass Communication
    • September 1998 to June 2003

    Thesis title: Young British Muslims: Social Space and Active Identity

  • Nottingham Trent University
    • MSc
    • January 1996 to January 1997

    Social Science Research Methods

  • Nottingham Trent University
    • BA
    • September 1991 to July 1994

    Humanities (Geography and Sociology)

DISCIPLINES

  • Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia

  • Communication And Media Studies

Interests

  • Information & News Overload

  • Media Representations

  • Digital Literacy

Languages

  • English

Links

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