List of Talks

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Full list of External talks

2021

Ahmed, W. (2021). COVID-19 Misinformation and Technological Challenges. Conference on the Technological challenges arising from COVID-19. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH), Pachuca, Mexico. 7^th October 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Analysing COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media. Cycle of Disciplinary Conferences on Computing and Information Technologies. Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH). Pachuca, Mexico. 17^th September 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Marketing tactics employed by COVID-19 disinformation. Webinar Series: The Marketing and Retail Landscape since the emergence of COVID-19. Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa. 26^th August 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Using Social Network Analysis for Social Listening. 4th WHO Infodemic Management Conference. World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland. 11^th May 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Social Media and Misinformation. The Science Communication Space Live YouTube Webinar, Salford University, United Kingdom. 31^th March 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Social Media Research Workshop. Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, California, United States. 29^th March 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). COVID-19 Disinformation and Social Media. 1st International Online conference, Language and the Pandemic. Department of English, Faculty of Education, University of Kufa, Iraq, 22nd March 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Overview of Social Network Analysis for Academic Research Using PowerBI. Institute of Development Studies: African Digital Rights Network. 4^th March 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2021). Social Media Misinformation and the 5G Conspiracy. The Office of Communications (Ofcom). 25^th January 2021.

Ahmed, W. (2020) Digital Methods: An introduction to social network analysis and NodeXL (Postgraduate Training). Newcastle University Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences PG Training. 22nd January 2021.

2020

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Media and Misinformation during the COVID-19 Pandemic: a social network analysis. Nottingham University Business School Webinar Series. 14^th October 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Media and Misinformation During COVID-19. Health Design Journal Podcast. 28^th September 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Panel session: How Data Analytics Will Transform Business. UK Education Advisory Service. 24^th September 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Media and Misinformation During COVID-19. Newcastle University Business School Response to COVID-19. 14^th September 2020.

Ahmed, W., Bath, P.A., Sbaffi, L., & Demartini. G. (2020). Understanding reactions to swine flu, Ebola, and the Zika virus using Twitter data: an outlook for future infectious disease outbreaks.  18th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR). 18^th August 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Overview of Social Network Analysis for Academic Research. Institute of Development Studies: African Digital Rights Network. 5^th August 2020.

Ahmed, W., Bath, P.A., Sbaffi, L., & Demartini. G. (2020). Zika Outbreak of 2016: Insights from Twitter. Human Computer Interaction Conference. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 23^rd July 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Media and Social Network Analysis. Department of Management Studies Webinar: SNS College of Technology, India. 20^th July 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Media and Misinformation During COVID-19. Virtual Media Psychology Symposium: At Home with Entertainment and Information Media. 17^th July 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Overview of Social Media Research Tools for Academic Research. Institute of Development Studies: African Digital Rights Network. 15th July 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Using Social Media Data for Research and a Case Study of Analysing the 5G and COVID-19 Conspiracy Theory. University of Mass Communication, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. 03 June 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Keynote Talk: Using Social Media Data for Research. E-Learning Symposium. University of Kufa, Iraq. 18th May 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Social Network Analysis of Social Media Data. UP:LOAD – Digital Futures: University College Birmingham Business School Virtual Conference. 14 May 2020.

Aiyenitaju, O., Ahmed, W; Fenton, A., Chadwick, S (2020). Webinar: Public Health and Social Media: How Influencers are Shaping a Country’s Habits. 12 May 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). PowerBI for Business Analytics. Newcastle University Business School, Digital Skills Session, 11 March 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Using Social Media Data for Research and Ethical Issues. University of Roehampton Business School, 09 March 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). PowerBI for Business Analytics. Newcastle University Business School, Digital Skills Session, 04 March 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Using Social Media Data for Consumer Insight. Newcastle University Business School, Guest Lecture for MKT2012 Consumer Behaviour, 03 March 2020.

Ahmed, W. (2020). Panel session for Strategic Digital Transformation book launch. Salford University Business School, 04 February 2020.

2019

Ahmed, W (2019). Introduction to Social Media Methods and Tools. Virtual Lecture,  University College London Qatar, 11th November 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Research. Nottingham Graduate School. 08 November, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Research. BBC, Birmingham. 07 November, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Research. Salford Business School. 06 November, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Research. Sheffield Hallam Univeristy. 05 November, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Research. Newcastle Univeristy. 04 November, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. Sheffield Hallam Univeristy. 16 August, 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Powerful Stories or Privacy Breaches: the case of #ShareAStoryInOneTweet. Social media and the practitioner-patient relationship: A seminar on Trust in a networked society. University of Bristol’s Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research, Bristol.  16 July 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. 13th AAAI Conference On Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2019). Munich, Germany. 11th June 2019.

Ahmed, W. (2019). Social Media for Social Scientists. Social Media & Digital Humanities: Methods/Approaches For Social Scientists. London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London. 17th May 2019.

Ahmed, W (2019). Benefits and Limitations of Social Media. Edinburgh Science Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland. 10th April 2019.

Ahmed, W (2019). Background to Big Data, Social Media, and Predictive Analytics. Edinburgh Science Festival. Edinburgh, Scotland. 10th April 2019.

Ahmed, W (2019). Value of Social Media for Professional Development. Northumbria University, Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, United Kingdom, 18th March 2019.

2018

Ahmed, W. (2018). Potential of Digital Methods for Conducting Qualitative Critical Textual Analysis, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 5th December 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Social Media Maps and Measures with NodeXL, London School of Economics and Political Sciences, United Kingdom, 2nd of December 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Maximising Social Media for Scientific Communication and Strategies For Increasing Visibility, Tracking, and Increasing Citations Using Specialist Tools, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 21st November 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Rise of Social Media As a Research Method, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 7th November 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using NodeXL for Social Network Analysis, Department For Work and Pensions, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 21 September 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Gaining Powerful Insights Into Social Media Listening and Image Analytics, Social Media Workshop, Roskilde University, Denmark, 28 August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Social Media Maps and Measures with NodeXL, Social Media Workshop, Roskilde University, Denmark, 28 August 2018,

Ahmed, W. (2018).  Big Data Analytics Workshop: Introduction to NodeXL and Social Network Analysis. International Conference on Advances in Big Data, Computing and Data Communication Systems (icABCD 2018). Durban, South Africa, 6-7th August.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Use of social media by Journalists and Newsrooms: Introduction to NodeXL and Social Network Analysis, South African Broadcasting Corporation, Durban, South Africa. 6th August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using Social Media Data For Research, Masters Student Support Session, Durban University of Technology. Durban, South Africa. 4th August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using Twitter Data to Provide Insights into Infectious Disease, Public Lecture, Outbreaks. Durban University of Technology. Durban, South Africa. 3rd August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Social Media Maps and Measures with NodeXL, Big Data Workshop. Durban University of Technology. Durban, South Africa. 2nd August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Powerful Insights into Social Media. Big Data workshop Durban University of Technology. Durban, South Africa. 1st August 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society. Copenhagen, Denmark. 18 July 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Moral Panic through the Lens of Twitter: An Analysis of Infectious Disease Outbreaks. 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society. Copenhagen, Denmark. 18 July 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Introduction to Social Media Network Analysis with NodeXL. 9th International Conference on Social Media & Society. Copenhagen, Denmark. 18 July 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Social Media Research Through NodeXL. XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands. 26th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using Twitter data to provide qualitative insights into pandemics and epidemics. NORTHLab Seminar Series. Northumbria University, Newcastle, United Kingdom. 10th July 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Social Media Research Through NodeXL. XXXVIII Sunbelt Conference. Utrecht, Netherlands. 26th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Social Media and Crisis situations. European Training Event. Brussels, Belgium. 25th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018).Theoretical Foundations of Social Media Marketing. European Training Event. Brussels, Belgium. 25th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Overview of Tools for Social Media. European Training Event. Brussels, Belgium. 25th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Communicating Science Through Social Media. Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening: A Summer School. Vodice, Croatia. 10th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Gaining insight into Blockchain technology using Twitter data. Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening: A Summer School. Vodice, Croatia. 10th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Overview of Social Media Research Tools and Methods. Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening: A Summer School. Vodice, Croatia. 9th June 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using Twitter data to provide qualitative insights into pandemics and epidemics. Universität Düsseldorf: Department of Information Science. Düsseldorf, 25^th May, 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018) Social Media Use in UK Government Departments: Benefits, challenges and risks. Department  for Work and Pensions (DWP), Lunch Time Research Seminars. Sheffield, 17^th May 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Using Twitter as a data source: an overview of ethical challenges. Kings College London. Ethical issues in social media research: current thinking. 15^th May, 2018.

Ahmed, W., Bath, P.A., Sbaffi, L., & Demartini. G.  (2018) Using Twitter for Insights into the 2009 Swine Flu and 2014 Ebola outbreaks.. iConference, Sheffield, 25-28 March, 2018.

Ahmed, W., Bath, P.A., Sbaffi, L., & Demartini. G.  (2018) Measuring the Effect of Public Health Campaigns on Twitter: The Case of World Autism Awareness Day. iConference, Sheffield, 25-28 March, 2018.

Ahmed, W. (2018). Qualitative Methods to Analyse Social Media Data . Guest Lecture, Researching Social Media, University of Sheffield. 6th March, 2018.

2017

Ahmed, W. (2017). Experience gained during PhD. Doctoral Development Programme. Graduate Research Centre, University of Sheffield. 15th Nov, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Rise of Social Media Research Methods and Tools. Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media. Sheffield Hallam University. 6th Nov, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017).  Social Media: A Force For Good or Evil? 24 Hours of Debate. Sheffield Hallam University. 1st Nov, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Keynote Talk – Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening. Boston University College of Communication. Making Social Media Data Matter. 20th Oct, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Internship Experiences with Manchester United. Northeastern University College of Computer and Information Science. 19th Oct, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening. University of Sheffield, Information School, Research Seminar, 9^th Oct, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Using social media data for insights into infectious diseases. PubhD, Sheffield, 4^th Oct, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Life After High Storrs School and an Insight into Social Media. High Storrs School, Sheffield. 2nd Oct, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017) Using Twitter data to provide qualitative insights into infectious disease outbreaks. University of Sheffield, Sociology Department, Science and Technology Studies Pathway. 21^st Sep, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Using Twitter data to provide qualitative insights into infectious disease outbreaks. University of Sheffield, Information School, Health Informatics Research Group. 13^th Sep, 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Divising Successful Social Media Research. Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening: A Summer School. Vodice, Croatia. 29th June 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017).  Theoretical and Practical Foundations of Social Media Research (Keynote Talk). Gaining Powerful Insights into Social Media Listening: A Summer School. Vodice, Croatia. 28th June 2017.

Ahmed, W., Bath, PA., Demartini, G. Social Media: A Source of Research Data and a Scholarly Communication Tool. (Poster Presentation). OAI10 – CERN – UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ahmed, W., Bath, PA. (2017). Ethical Challenges of Social Media Data: Insights from Academia and Industry.OAI10 – CERN – UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ahmed, W. (2017). One Minute Madness Poster Session. OAI10 – CERN – UNIGE Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Assessing the Value of Blogs and Social Media to Research Communication and Impact (Panel Contribution).London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London.  16th June 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Social Media: A Practical Approach. Researching Social Media: A Theoretical and Practical Approach. Sheffield. 30th May 2017. 

Ahmed, W. (2017). Communicating Science Through Social Media: Tools and Techniques. Society of Spanish Researchers in the UK. Sheffield, 13th May 2017. 

Ahmed, W. (2017). Social Media Analytics Practical Tools. Guest Lecture. E-business and E-Commerce. Sheffield, 28 April 2017. 

Ahmed, W. (2017). Social Media Analytics. Guest Lecture MSc Data Science: Big Data Analytics. Sheffield, 24 April 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Topics Discussed on Twitter at the Beginning of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic in United States. Information School Seminar Series. Sheffield, 07 March 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Informatics for Disease Surveillance – New Technologies. Guest lecture School of Health and Related Research. Sheffield, 28th Feb 2017. 

Ahmed, W. (2017). Using Social Media data to provide insights into Infectious Disease outbreaks (Swine Flu and Ebola) and better understanding health via social media more generally. Coffee and Sociology. Sheffield, 23rd Feb 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Social Networks and Infectious Disease Outbreaks: The Case of Swine Flu and Ebola. PubhD, Sheffield, 1st Feb 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017). Ethical Challenges of Using Social Media Data In Research. Bite Size Guide to Research in the 21st Century. ScHARR, Sheffield, 24th Jan 2017. 

Ahmed, W. (2017).Interview with Rony Robinson on the baring all feature.  BBC Radio Sheffield, Sheffield, 19th Jan 2017.

Ahmed, W. (2017) . An Introduction to Social Network Analysis (Methodology) with NodeXL. Leeds Becket University, Leeds, 9th Jan 2017 . (In association with the British Sociological Association).

2016

Ahmed, W. (2016). Insights from Social Media. Creative Entrepreneur, Media City (ITV, BBC HQs), Salford. 23 November 2016. 

Ahmed, W. (2016). Introduction to NodeXL. An Introduction to Tools for Social Media Research. London, 11th October 2016. 

Ahmed, W. (2016). Life After High Storrs School and an Insight into Social Media. High Storrs School, Sheffield. 10th October, 2016. 

Ahmed, W. (2016). False Information on Social Media Platforms.Researchers Discussion Group, Information School, University of Sheffield. 15th September 2016.

Ahmed, W. (2016) Social Media Analytics. Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Social Media Research Seminars. London, 4th August 2016.  

Ahmed, W. (2016) workshop on Twitter Analytics at the  Contemporary Issues In Economy & Technology (CIET). Split, 16-18th June 2016. 

Ahmed, W. (2015) Social Media for Marketing An Overview of Specialist Software. University of Sheffield module E-business and E-commerce, Information School. 11th June, 2016. 

Ahmed, W., Demartini, G., & Bath, PA. (2016) Using Twitter as a data source: An overview of ethical challenges. Ethics and Social Media Conference. London, 21st Match 2016. 

Ahmed, W., & Bath, PA. (2016) The Role of Social Media for Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Management.Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) 7th Annual Postgraduate Conference. Sheffield. 7th-8th April 2016. 

2015

Ahmed, W (2015). Introduction to software that can be used to capture and analyse Twitter data. Audio lecture on Master of Social Science,  Western Sydney University,27th August 2015. 

Woodfield,K., Jessop, C., Ahmed, W.(2015). In it for long term – evolving your community of practice over time: lessons from #NSMNSS. Social Media for Learning in Higher Education Conference. Sheffield Hallam University. 15th December 2015. 

Ahmed, W. (2015). The Ebola epidemic on Twitter: challenges for health informatics. Information School, Alumni Reunion Event. 25 November 2015.

Ahmed, W. (2015). Using Twitter Data to Provide Insights into Health Conditions and Health-Related Events. Researchers Discussion Group, Information School, University of Sheffield. 15th October 2015.