Dalhousie School of Information Management Welcomes Dr. Lori McCay-Peet

August 14, 2015

The School of Information Management is pleased to welcome Dr. Lori McCay-Peet, who is joining us in a limited term position as of August 1st, 2015.

Dr. Lori McCay-Peet has an interdisciplinary PhD (Management and Computer Science), MLIS, BA (History), and Diploma in Costume Studies from Dalhousie University. Dr. McCay-Peet has been postdoctoral fellow at the University of Western Ontario in the SocioDigital Lab, interned at Yahoo! Research in Barcelona, and earned a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship and the Thomson Reuters Information Science Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship for her PhD work. Her research focuses on new and emerging media such as social media and examines topics such as the information-rich phenomenon of serendipity, user engagement, and scholarly communication. Dr. McCay-Peet’s research interests lie in a) understanding how and why people use new and emerging media and to what effect, and b) applying this knowledge to improve these technologies. She has published and presented her research in several information science and computer science publications and venues including the Journal of the Association of Information Science and Technology, Information Research, Information Processing and Management, and the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

When she’s not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and daughter in Dartmouth, paddling (sprint kayak and war canoe), and walking her chocolate labradoodle.