PhD Researcher at the University of Nottingham, UK
Nottingham, United Kingdom
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- Reviewer at Academic Journals
- Postgraduate Researcher at University of Nottingham
- Weekly Writer, Opinions Column at AL-Watan Newspaper, Saudi Arabia
- Past
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- IT Lab Assisstant at The Graduate School, University of Nottingham
- Intern Researcher at National College of Ireland
- Intern journalist & Page Layout Designer at Arab News Newspaper
- Education
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- University of Nottingham
- University of Hertfordshire
- Jamiat Al-Malik Abdulaziz
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Maram Meccawy’s Summary
I am A PhD student at the University of Nottingham, working in the area of e-Learning. My research interest is in Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Systems (AEHS), where the users are modelled to capture their interests, background knowledge, learning styles or previous experiences. Hence, provide them with the learning content or navigational paths that reflect those unique traits and characteristics.
However, the PhD experience to me is not only about studying. Extra activities take an important place in my plans. I have worked within my university’s student union and was elected as a: vice-president of the Islamic Society, Postgraduate Association (PGSA) committee member, and Postgraduate Research student representative at the Union’s Council and won the union’s prize in 2007.
In addition, being bi-lingual allowed me to volunteer within a local school in the "Language Buddies" project to support some foreign Arabic-speaking students.
A part from those activities, I am a weekly writer in Saudi Arabia's leading newspaper AL-WATAN since 2003.
In summer 2004, I worked as an intern Journalist at Arab News newspaper and I still work with it occasionally as a free-lancer.
My first book: “By the Hyde Park's Lake” (Arabic) was published in 2007, and it has been nominated for the “Sheik Zayed’s Book Award 2008”.
Maram Meccawy’s Specialties:
e-Learning Platforms architectures, Adaptive web-based Learning, user modelling, social & Web2.0 Learning, Distributed Systems and Web Services Technologies.
Maram Meccawy’s Experience
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Reviewer
Academic Journals
(Research industry)
2006 — Present (2 years)
Scientific Reviewer for academic journals: IEEE Internet Computing, Advanced Technology for Learning (ATL), International Journal of Learning Technology (IJLT).
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Postgraduate Researcher
University of Nottingham
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2004 — Present (3 years 8 months)
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Weekly Writer, Opinions Column
AL-Watan Newspaper, Saudi Arabia
(Newspapers industry)
October 2003 — Present (4 years 8 months)
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IT Lab Assisstant
The Graduate School, University of Nottingham
(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)
October 2005 — December 2007 (2 years 3 months)
A Lab Demonstrator for the Graduate School’s IT Courses
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Intern Researcher
National College of Ireland
(Research industry)
July 2006 — September 2006 (3 months)
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Intern journalist & Page Layout Designer
Arab News Newspaper
(Newspapers industry)
June 2004 — August 2004 (3 months)
Maram Meccawy’s Education
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University of Nottingham
PhD, Computer Science, 2004 — 2008 (expected)
Thesis title: WHURLE2.0: an Adaptive Web-Based Learning Environment for the New Generation Web, An Integrated Web Service Approach
- Activities and Societies:
- Vice President - Islamic Society
Elected Member of the Postgraduate Student Association (PGSA)
Elected member of the Union's Council
Student delegate to the Embassy meeting with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia
2 month Exchange-Student at the University of Virginia, USA (2006)
Attended three PhD summer Schools in Slovenia, France and Finland.
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University of Hertfordshire
MSc (with Commendation), Computer Science (Distributed Systems and Networks), 2002 — 2003
Thesis title: Steganography: A Case Study
- Activities and Societies:
- Awarded “National Student Learning Programme” Skills Certificate (NSLP) in the following Areas: Meeting Skills, Presentation Skills, Negotiation Skills, Communication Skills and Time Management, 2003, University of Hertfordshire Student’s Union
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Jamiat Al-Malik Abdulaziz
BSc, Computer Science, 1997 — 2002
First year was spent in Medical School
- Activities and Societies:
- Group Leader of Final year's project
Additional Information
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Maram Meccawy’s Interests:
Reading, writing, traveling, going to the cinema and the theater and Digital photography. Topics that interests me includes but not limited to: Politics, International Relations, Technology, Literature, Creative Writing, Social Relationships, History, Science, Renewable Energies and Healthy Diets.
Maram Meccawy’s Groups:
• Member of the British Computer Society (BSC)
• Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• IEEE Women in Engineering WIE and IEEE Computer Society
• Member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Student-Volunteer at the 16th WWW Conf, May 8-12, 07 Banff, Canada.
• Vice President of the Islamic Society (05/06).
• A PGSA (Postgraduate Students Association) Jubilee Campus Rep.
• Participating in the University of Nottingham's student union: One World.
• Student-volunteer at the 10th User-Modeling conf. in Edinburgh (2005).
• Volunteer Work as a class assistant in a local secondary school in Nottingham in a project called (Language Buddies), 2005., Hiwar Discussion Group
Maram Meccawy’s Honors:
• Awarded the Golden Award in recognition of the skills gained on the STAR programme operated by the University of Nottingham Student’s Union (2006)
• Awarded the Union Prize recognizing the contribution to the Student Union during my time as a PhD student at the university of Nottingham (July 2007).
• Awarded the Pro-learn scholarship for the PhD Summer School on Educational Technologies, (3-10) June, 2007 (Fréjus- France).
• Attended the University of Virginia (USA) as an exchange student, after being awarded the Universitas21 mobility programme scholarship (Nov – Dec 06), under the supervision of Dr. James French at the Computer Science Department.
• Awarded the Pro-learn scholarship for the PhD Summer School on Educational Technologies, (3-10) June, 2006 (Bled - Slovenia).
• Awarded the Mekrijarvi scholarship to attend the PhD Summer School on Educational Technologies, (25-30) September, 2005 (Jeonsuu- Finland).
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