Maryam Khaleghipour is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Communication since March 2023. Prior to joining AdMe, Maryam studied Communication at the University of Tehran, where she earned both her bachelor's and master's degrees.

Maryam is currently involved in the project Digital Hate: Perpetrators, Audiences, and (Dis)Empowered Targets, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), where she particularly focuses on (dis)empowered targets. Her research interests include, among others, media psychology, intersectionality, coping with online hostilities, methodology, and theory.

Awards & Acknowledgements

• 2024, June
  Recognized as Top Four Student Paper: "Digital hate from targets' perception: A scoping review of recent research", Interpersonal Communication Division, ICA annual convention, Gold Coast, Australia (co-authors: Kevin Koban & Jörg Matthes).

• 2023, August
  Second Place Top Paper Award for the paper "The state of evidence in digital hate research: An umbrella review", Communication Theory and Methodology Division, Open Paper Competition, AEJMC annual convention, Washington, D.C., USA (as a co-author of Jörg Matthes, Kevin Koban, Stephanie Bührer, Thomas Kirchmair, Phelia Weiß, Melanie Saumer, & Rinat Meerson).