Awards

Teaching Team Award, School of Social Sciences Learning & Teaching Awards (October 2025).

Outstanding Mentor, awarded by the University of Glasgow Research Culture and Researcher Development Team (March 2025).

Rewarding Contribution award, University of Glasgow (December 2024).

Honourable Mention, Best Reviewer, ECREA Communication and Democracy Section, (September 2024).

Top Faculty Paper, International Communication Association (ICA) Activism, Communication and Social Justice Interest Group (with Suay Özkula, awarded June 2024).

Rewarding Contribution award, University of Glasgow (November 2023).

Institutional nominee, National Teaching Fellowship (January 2021).

Finalist, European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities, Central European University (May 2018)

Dedicated Outstanding Mentor, awarded by University of Sheffield Researcher Development Team, (awarded September 2017)

JISC 50 most influential UK Higher Education professionals using social media (awarded October 2015)

Leicester Students’ Union Superstar Award (awarded May 2015)

University of Leicester Teaching Fellowship (awarded January 2014)

Qualifications & Accreditations

Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy (July 2015)

Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (Distinction, awarded March 2013)

Fellow, Higher Education Academy (November 2012)