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I am a doctoral candidate at the McGill School of Information Studies in Montréal, Québec, Canada. My Ph.D research explores personal information management (PIM) and personal archiving. I am interested in the relationship between records management and financial behaviours among young adults. My current research aims to improve the recordkeeping capacities of financial tools and services. My doctoral research is supervised by Prof. Karyn Moffatt Ph.D at the McGill School of Information Studies. This projec
I hold Masters and Bachelors of Arts degrees in Social Anthropology from York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada . My MA research explored member attitudes towards online research ethics and the data-mining of personal health information on the patient social networking website PatientsLikeMe.com. My masters research was supervised by Prof. Naomi Adelson Ph.D (York University). As an anthropologist by training, I am interested in individual and group identity construction through documentation and info
I am part of the Accessible Computing Technologies Research Group (ACT) at McGill University. Our current project explores information behaviours and needs of family, friends, and caregivers of loved-ones in hospice and palliative care. Our aim is to develop technologies enhance telepresence, communication, and social support at the end-of-life