Ahmer Safwan
Lecturer
Department of Mass Communication
Faculty of Arts
M.Phil (Mass Communication)
Advertising, Political Communication, Social Media, Journalism and Communication
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Mr. Ahmer Safwan is currently working as a Lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication at the Virtual University of Pakistan. Before Joining VU, he served as a Visiting Lecturer of Journalism and Media Studies for a few years at Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan. He also served as a part-time tutor in the Department of Mass Communication at Allama Iqbal Open University for the subject of ‘Reporting.’ Besides this, he is doing Ph.D. in Mass Communication with a research focus on Social Media Influencers. Mr. Safwan has been engaged in academic research activities since 2018. His research interests include advertising, new media, health communication, journalism and democracy, peace and conflict journalism, political communication, war and media reporting, and Mass Communication in general. He got an opportunity to be a reviewer of various HEC-recognized national and international journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science. He has published research studies of journalism and communication in HEC-recognized journals. In 2022, he contributed a chapter in the book of renowned publisher Routledge, named The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, related to the area of war reporting. He has also been a part of a funded research project by UNICEF related to health communication.
He worked as Communication Officer in the private healthcare organization, utilizing his skills and expertise in all areas of organizational communication, including announcements, memos, and effective communication activities for customers and stakeholders. Additionally, he also performed various tasks related to centralized call center operations. |
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