PolCommTech | Lab Members
Elizabeth Dubois
Director
Dr. Elizabeth Dubois writes, speaks and teaches at the intersection of technology and politics. Technology critic meets advocate meets academic, she is an Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa and member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, and a Public Policy Forum Fellow. Her work examines digital media, influence and political engagement.
Postdoctoral Fellows
Isabel Macdonald
Postdoctoral fellow; Research Coordinator - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
Graduate Students
Hannah Anstey
Masters Student
Trevor
Deley
E-Business PhD Candidate;
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
Louise
Stahl
PhD Candidate; Research Assistant - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
Michelle Bartleman
PhD Student
Justine Jacques
​Dual Master of Arts degree in Multilingual Communication, UCLouvain - uOttawa
Undergraduate and Law Students
Ryley Alp
Research Assistant - Wonks and War Rooms Podcast
Anthony Bejjani
Research Assistant - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
Michelle Hennessey
Research Assistant - Wonks and War Rooms Podcast
Iulia
Mihailescu
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
Isabelle
Santerre
Research Assistant - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
Michelle Wronski
Directed Study Student, Positive Tweets to Journalists
Sophie Ashworth
Research Assistant - Pol Comm Tech Lab
Daniele Dempsey-Doiron
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
Faaris Hussain
Research Assistant - Political Uses of AI
Désirée Estephan-Saliba
Research Assistant - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
Humna Shaikh
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
Former Lab Members
Megan Beretta
Directed Study Student
Connecting Youth, Communication, and Citizens
2016
Jennifer Constant
UROP Student
Personal and Algorithmic Influence Meet Public Opinion
2021
Roman Ebadi
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
2019-2021
Dustin Garron​
Directed Study Student
Social Media and The Community Policing Model
2018
Elisabeth Hadjis
Research Assistant - Communications
2020-2021
Sara Minaeian
Directed Study Student
Opinion Leaders, Opinion Leader-Followers and Echo Chambers
2017
Ariane Paquet-Labelle
Directed Study Student
Fact-Checking Practices in Opinion Leaders and Followers
2017
Manjulika E. Robertson
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
2018-2019
Sabrina Wilkinson
Postdoctoral Fellow - Global Journalism Innovation Lab
2020-2021
Chris Casimiro
Technoships Student
Connected Canada Initiative
2018-2019
Alicia Cooke
UROP Student
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
2019-2021
Rotem Fellus
UROP Student
Political Bots
2018-2019
Ève Grebert
Research Assistant and UROP
Connected Canada Initiative
2018-2019
Sunita Joshua
Masters Student
MITACS Funding Recipient
2016
David Moscrop
SSHRC Postdoctoral fellow
2018-2020
Anna Reepschlager
UROP Student
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
2016-2020
Sophie Shavrnoch
Research Assistant - Mean Tweets
2020-2021
Liwei Yang
Masters Student
2017-2018
April Cho
UROP Student
Political Bots
2018-2019
Inessa De Angelis
Research Assistant - Pol Comm Tech Lab
2021-2022
Debra Gassewitz
Masters Student
2017
Susha Guan
Research Assistant - Communications and Masters Student
2020-2021
Kirsten McCann
Technoships Student
Mean Tweets
2021
Catherine Ouellet
Technoships Student
Connected Canada Initiative
2018-2019
Guillermo Renna
Research Coordinator
Digital Ecosystem research Challenge
2019-2020
Candide Uyanze
UROP Student
Political Bots
2016-2017