External Examining

Celebration for Evronia Azer PhD viva, September 2019

External Examiner, MA International Political Communication, Bournemouth University, September 2024- present).

External Examiner, Communication & Society and Media, Nottingham Trent University (September 2020 – April 2022).

External Programme Validator, MA Data, Culture and Society, Liverpool University (October 2020- January 2021).

I have also examined the following doctoral theses:

Jess Wileman, ‘Migration Activism and Social Media Clusters in the UK: Collective Identity in a Neoliberal Landscape’ (External Examiner, Nottingham Trent University, 29 September 2025).

Kurt Seher, ‘Digital Governance of Social Media Platforms: A Comparative Study of India and the United Kingdom’ (Internal Examiner, University of Glasgow, 3 April 2025).

Houda Abdallah Al Balushi, ‘Exploring Public Engagement in the Comment Sections of Al Jazeera Arabic on Twitter: A case study of News Race Programme’ (External Examiner, University of Liverpool, 20 June 2024).

Phoenix Andrews, ‘’Faffing about’: Open Access, technology and researcher engagement in the United Kingdom’, (Internal Examiner, University of Sheffield, 2 July 2021).

Julie Osakwe, ‘Directing Our Noble Cause: A Study of Online Protest Campaign in Nigeria’ (External Examiner, University of West of Scotland, 23 June 2021).

Jun Zhang, ‘A study based on the analysis of deploying an integrated smart transportation system within the context of China’ (Coordinator, University of Sheffield, 15 May 2020).

Evronia Azer, ‘ICTs and humanitarian groups during the Egyptian revolution’ (External Examiner, Royal Holloway University of London, September 2019).

Skina Musbah T Ehdeed, ‘The Emergence of Libyan Networked Publics: Social Media Use Before, During and After the Libyan Uprising’ (Internal Examiner, University of Sheffield, March 2019).

Maria Gallego Reguera, ‘The return of face to face in Spain: the professional organisation of televised election debates between Presidential candidates in 2008 (external reviewer of thesis for examination, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, November 2015).