Zein Almaha Rami Wahdan Oweis

Email: 2582881O@student.gla.ac.uk 

 

 

Research title: How are people with disabilities perceived in traditional mainstream Jordanian media vs. Facebook?

Research Summary

Zein AlMaha is a visually impaired researcher with a guide dog with the Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR).

Her PhD research focuses on disability representation in Jordanian media both in mainstream and digital media with a focus on Facebook.

She interested in discovering how persons with disabilities are represented, portrayed and presented in the media. 

Publications

Z. Oweis (2022), ‘Digital content in a divided society by Paul Reilly Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, 253 p., $97/£85 (hardback), $65/£57 (eBook), ISBN 978-0-7190-8707-3’ Information, Communications & Society.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2147401

 

Z. Oweis (2022), ‘CCPR-CREATe Lecture: ‘Media Freedom and the Regulation of Big Tech’, CREATe.

https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2022/06/14/ccpr-create-lecture-media-freedom-and-the-regulation-of-big-tech/

Supervisors

Conference

MeCCSA Annual Conference “Connected Futures”, Glasgow Caledonian Univerrsity (GCU), Glasgow, Scotland (2023) (Attendee)

 

Addressing Mental Health and Disability Equality in the Creative Industries (AMH23), Leicester, England (2023) (Attendee)

 

The Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary, Intersectional & International Disability Studies Conference, Liverpool Hope University, Liverpool, England (2023) (Attendee) 

 

The PhD Life Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (2023) (Presenter)

  • How to tackle your first academic conference?

 

The PhD Life Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (2022) (Presenter)

  • How to tackle your first academic conference?

 

MeCCSA Annual Conference “Silent Voices”, Robert Gordon University (RGU), Aberdeen, Scotland (2022) (Presenter)

  • How people see us: a study on ho wpeople with disabilities are represented in the media in Jordan 

 

The PIE Live Europe Conference, The Brewery, London, England (2022) (Participant)

  • Participated in the International Student Round Tabl

 

The PhD Life Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (2022) (Presenter)

  • How to balance a PhD with a visual impairment?

 

The PhD Life Conference, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland (2021) (Presenter)

  • How to balance a PhD with a visual impairment?

Teaching

Graduate Teaching Assistant:

  • Issues in Audience Management (PGT)
  • Research Methods (PGT)

Additional Information

Guest Speaker, Middlesex University, London, England (2022)

  • Presented on PhD research

 

Centre for Cultural Policy Research (CCPR) Class Representative (2023 -)

 

University of Glasgow Societies:

  • The Glasgow Guardian (Newspaper): Reporter/ Online Editor (2020-2022)
  • PhD Society: Disability Officer (2021-).
  • Glasgow University Magazine: Writer (2020 -)

 

Accessible Communitations Volunteer, Visibility Scotland, Glasgow, Scotland (2021 -)


Zein is wearing a red suite jacket and she is hugging her guide dog Mitch who is a fox colored Golden Retriever/