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  • It’s official! I finished grad school!

    Today I am officially done grad school. After my defense my thesis was accepted as is – a rare honour for my program – and all i have left to do is submit the paperwork and then graduate in November! It’s been a looooong process, but I am so proud of the work I did.…

    alainacyr

    July 9, 2018
    personal, research
  • Top 10 works that shaped my thesis research

    Doing a master’s degree involves a heck-load of reading. But there were 10 works in particular that really shaped my research and I wanted to publicly thank each of these authors for providing me with such thought-provoking pieces.

    alainacyr

    July 8, 2018
    research
  • Books I read in 2017, ranked from best to worst

    Last year I posted Books I read in 2016, ranked from best to worst, so here’s my list for this year. I realized that more than half of the books I read in 2016 were written by white men, and thus all the recommendations I got from Goodreads were for books also written by white men. My…

    alainacyr

    December 30, 2017
    books
  • making sense of writing books and agreeing to be studied

    I’ve got into the homestretch of my masters thesis research, studying Twitter use among people living with advanced, metastatic, chronic, terminal, or incurable cancer. There are still some analyses left to do, but I’ve started to write (and write, and write, and write some more) as a way to begin making sense of it all.…

    alainacyr

    June 3, 2017
    research
    healthcare, patients, research, school, thesis
  • New Publication! Ethics and Privacy Implications of Using the Internet and Social Media to Recruit Participants for Health Research: A Privacy-by-Design Framework for Online Recruitment

    I am so happy to announce I have a new paper published in JMIR, an open-access journal on medicine and the internet. Read the abstract below, and click the links to read the full article. Ethics and Privacy Implications of Using the Internet and Social Media to Recruit Participants for Health Research: A Privacy-by-Design Framework…

    alainacyr

    April 6, 2017
    research
    ethics, research, social media
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