I am an academic librarian and I research Wikipedia and consumer health information behaviour.
Current work
- I am a PhD student in Canada. Currently working on a dissertation proposal. My research interest is consumer health information behaviour and user engagement with Wikipedia's health information.
Past work
- Wikipedia and consumer health: A research project that explores how Wikipedia users engage with its health and medical content. This project received a rapid grant from WMF in June 2021 to fund participant stipends and the purchase of qualitative analysis software.
- I taught a course in the Bachelor of Health Sciences program at McMaster University that requires students to edit Wikipedia. Dashboards for each iteration of the course are below:
- Collaboration with McMaster University's Institute for Pain Research & Care:
- Binge eating disorder
- Purging disorder
- Indigenous health project with Jwabba (BHSc, 2021)
- Women's health project with Sahrishmasood (BHSc, 2022)
- In Summer 2021 I began updating articles on Wikipedia about Canadian cities by adding an indigenous land acknowledgment or improving the indigenous history content already present. This work is presently on hold.
- Supervision of two undergraduate honours students in the Bachelor of Health Sciences who requested to edit Wikipedia
