Alice Fleerackers

Alice Fleerackers is a researcher at the ScholCommLab and a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University’s Interdisciplinary Studies program, where she works under the supervision of Dr. Juan Pablo Alperin to explore how health science is communicated online. Her doctoral research is supported by a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship from SSHRC and a Michael Stevenson Graduate Scholarship from SFU. In addition, Alice volunteers with a number of non-profit organizations in an effort to foster greater public understanding and engagement with science.

She is the New Science Communicators Program Coordinator of Science Borealis, a Director on the Board of the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada, and a member of the Scientific Committee for the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST). Alice is also a freelance health and science writer whose work has appeared in the Globe and Mail, National Post, and Nautilus, among other outlets.