Dr Jenny Hayes

BSc (Liverpool), MSc (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)

Information School

University Teacher in Data Science / Analytics

Jenny Hayes
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j.hayes@sheffield.ac.uk

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Dr Jenny Hayes
Information School
Room C600
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Profile

I am a university teacher in Data Science at the Information School following the completion of my PhD at the University of Sheffield in 2022. My PhD, “Palestinian Solidarity on Social Media: The Distribution of Images of Occupation on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram by Advocacy Organisations” was an investigation into the ways in which activists shared images and how social media users responded. I currently teach on a range of modules on the Msc Data Science programme, as well as contributing to the undergraduate module Digital Media and Society.

Research interests

My research interests are around the use of digital media for activism and social movements. I am especially interested in the ways that social media can be used for visual communication as part of activist strategies. I use mixed-methods in my research, combining both quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis of digital media.

Publications

Journal articles

Teaching activities

Data Analysis (INF6029)

Data and Society (INF6033)

Researching Social Media (INF6024)

Digital Media and Society (INF109) 

Data Science Foundations and Contexts (INF110)

Statistics for Insight (INF115)