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Postdoctoral Research

September 2017 to August 2018

Supervisor: Dr. Valerie Steeves, Department of Criminology, University of Ottawa, Canada

Research: Investigate online experiences of Canadian Children (9 – 17 years old) to take part in a global comparative analysis of children’s online experiences. I am designing computer mediated surveys to investigate a child’s identity and resources, access to the Internet, and online opportunities and practices. I am conducting my research in eight phases: 1. Conduct literature review, 2. Establish the methodology to be used in Canadian context, 3. Develop necessary forms for ethics approval, 4. Apply for ethics approval and develop forms for recording data, 5. Pilot test the methodology on 9 to 17 year-old children, 6. Recruit 9 to 17 year-old children and conduct the study, 7. Analyze data, 8. Publish reports.

PhD Dissertation

September 2013 to August 2017

Why privacy matters: Online privacy and cognitive rules.

Supervisors: Dr. Robert Biddle and Dr. Warren Thorngate

Abstract: We often take privacy for granted, and don’t realize its importance until someone violates our own privacy. My doctoral research will investigate three research questions. 1) What cognitive rules do people use to judge the kinds of online information they would make public or keep private? 2) What cognitive rules do people use to judge the kinds of online information others should make public or keep private? and 3) What impressions do people form of others who hide different kinds and amounts of personal information? 

Masters Thesis 

September 2011 to August 2013

Co-Supervisor: Robert Biddle

Co-Supervisor: Warren Thorngate

My Master’s thesis was entitled “Do malware warnings reduce the likelihood of users to install bad software: The case of the Trojan Horse?” It used ideas from social cognition and social influence to investigate how variations in a small number of online users’ warnings about malicious computer games might influence intentions of prospective game users to download the games.

Research experience

  • Internship – Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat                 Fall 2016 – Winter 2017

Supervisor: Christopher Allison, Senior Advisor

Responsibilities: conducting research on past user experience (UX) testing as well as developing, and conducting the 2016 GCtools User Study.

  • Research – Department of National Defence                                               Winter 2016

Supervisor: Dr. Nancy Otis, Defence Scientist

Responsibilities: Conducting factor analyses on a large sample using SPSS and EQS, and authoring a research report.

  • Research – University of Ottawa                                                                         Fall 2014

Supervisor: Dr. Sylvain Chartier, Neuroscientist

Responsibilities: Simulating multiple cue probability learning, and authoring a research report.

  • Research – Carleton University                                                                     Winter 2014

Supervisor: Dr. Jim Davis, Cognitive Scientist

Responsibilities: Creating and conducting an online survey for testing the usability of a game, and authoring a research report.

  • Research  – Carleton University                                                                        Fall 2013

Supervisor: Dr. Andrew Patrick

Responsibilities: Creating and conducting an online survey of Americans and Canadians on privacy issues, and authoring a research report.

  • Research – Human Resources and Skills Development Canada Summer 2010 – 2011

Supervisor: Dr. Warren Thorngate, Social Psychologist

Responsibilities:  Interviewed career counsellors, immigrants, persons with disabilities and seniors about the usability of job websites, and analyzed responses for a report to Human Resources and Skills Development Canada.

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