PhD candidate wins 2015 Student-to-CAIS Award Winning Paper

Congratulations to PhD candidate Devon Greyson has won the Student-to-CAIS Award Winning Paper 2015, from the Canadian Association for Information Science conference, for her paper titled “Information Practices Evolving Over Time: Cases from the Young Parent Study.”

This award is given annually to the best scholarly paper submitted by a student and accepted for presentation at the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) conference, which this year is being held in Ottawa on June 3-5.

The paper uses data from Dr. Jean Shoveller’s CIHR-funded longitudinal Young Parent Study to theorize the effect of time on changes in participants’ health information seeking, use, and sharing. Participant characteristics and social location, geopolitical setting, and expected and unexpected life events interacted over time to produce change in health information practices.

This paper is related to Devon’s dissertation research, which focuses on the health information practices of young (15-24 year old) parents, and the population health information interventions that target them. Her general area of research is the ways youth and families use health information, and when this matters to population health and social equity.

Devon is supervised by Dr. Jean Shoveller.