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Dalmer Nicole, Assistant Professor

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Nicole Dalmer

Assistant Professor

Faculty
Department of Health Aging & Society

Area(s) of Interest:

Biography

With a background in Library and Information Science, Nicole’s SSHRC and AGE-WELL funded-work resides at the intersection of information and care, studying how aging in place contexts, assumptions surrounding digital literacies, and evolving family responsibilities shape who is able and who is expected to be informed in care relationships. Other ongoing projects include an international collaboration examining the impact of digital infrastructures on feelings of connectedness in later life as well as an investigation into the role of community infrastructures (including public libraries) in mitigating older adults’ experiences of social isolation.

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow – McMaster University (2020)

  • Project: Imagining University-Community Research Platforms

Postdoctoral Fellow – Trent University (2018-2019)

PhD (Library and Information Science) - The University of Western Ontario (2018)

MLIS - University of Alberta (2012)

BSc - University of Alberta (2007)

Research

Grants

  • Dalmer, N. K. (P.I.), McKenzie, P. (Co-Applicant), Rothbauer, P. (Co-Applicant), Johnston, J. (Collaborator), MacLeod, L. (Collaborator), Oliphant, T. (Collaborator), Birdi, B. (Collaborator), & Goulding, A. (Collaborator). (2022-2023). "Palaces for the People": Mapping Public Libraries' Capacity for Social Connection and Inclusion. SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant. $29,984.
  • Sawchuk, K. (PI) and Co-Applicants: Hebblethwaite, S., Grenier, L., Fernández-Ardèvol, M., Nimrod, G., Taipale, S., Khalili-Mahani, B., Marier, P., Middleton, C., Crow, B., Peine, A., Chivers, S., Dalmer, N. K. (McMaster Lead), de Schutter, B., Biruk, C., Katz, S., Redden, J., Lagacé, M., Kreibernegg, U., Marshall, B., Lopez Gomez, D., Lafontaine, C., Chazan, M., Karadkar, U., McKelvey, F., Jiwani, Y., Loos, E., Hjorth, L., Jennings, R., Ivan, L., Maierhofer, R., Ratzenböck, B., Martin, W., & Phillips, N. (2021-2028). Aging in Data. SSHRC Partnership Grant. $2,500,000.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (PI). (2020-2021). Mapping Older Adults’ Dataspheres. SSHRC Explore –Standard Research and Research Creation Grant. $6,902.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (PI), Griffin, M., (Co-Investigator), & Gillett, J. (Collaborator). (2020-2022). Aging in Place with Public Libraries: Mobilizing Social Infrastructures for Social Inclusion. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $60,449.
  • Gillett, J. (Applicant), Dalmer, N. K. (Co-Applicant), Griffin, M. (Co-Applicant), & Detlor, B. (Co-Applicant). (2020-2021). Public Library Participation in Academic Research. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant. $24,055.
  • Sawchuk, D. (PI), & Dalmer, N. K. (Co-I). (2018-2022). With Their Own Eyes, in Their Own Words: Exploring Older Women’s Use and Understanding of Women’s Magazines. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. $47,630.
  • Marshall, B. L. (PI), Katz, S., (Co-I) & Dalmer, N. K. (Co-I). (2018-2022). Being Connected @ Home: Making Use of Digital Devices in Later Life. CIHR Team Grant (More Years/Better Lives). $220,249. Project website: More Years/Better Lives - Digital Aging
  • Dalmer, N. K. (Co-PI) & Cedeira Serantes, L. (Co-PI). (2018-2020). SEEniors: Visual Representations of Older Age in Illustrated Materials. American Library Association (ALA) Carnegie-Whitney Grant. $5,000 USD. Project website: Comics & Aging
  • Dalmer, N. K. (Co-PI) & Cedeira Serantes, L. (Co-PI). (2019-2020). Learning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A Hands-On Workshop Series for Older Adults in Peterborough. ageing + communication + technologies (ACT) Project Funding. $2,000. Project website: Learning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A Hands-On Workshop Series for Older Adults in Peterborough

Recent Publications

  • Dalmer, N. K. & Griffin, M. (2022). “’Still open and here for you’: News media’s framing of Canadian public libraries during COVID-19”. Library Quarterly, 92(2). doi.org/10.1086/718599
  • Marshall, B. L., Dalmer, N. K., Katz, S., Loos, E., Lopez-Gomez, D., & Peine, A. (2022). Digitization of aging in place: An international policy comparison of the value-framing of new technologies. Societies, 12(2).
  • Wynia Baluka, K., Dalmer, N. K., Sas van der Linden, L., Gillett, J., Radha Weaver, L. (2022). Towards a research platform: Partnering for sustainable and impactful research in public libraries. Public Library Quarterly. DOI: 10.1080/01616846.2022.2059315
  • Dalmer, N. K. & Barriage, S. (2021). Mapping information phenomena within the context of the family. Library Trends, 70(2), 73-77.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2021). Mapping ruling relations: Advancing the use of visual methods in institutional ethnography. In P. Luken & S. Vaughan (Eds.), Palgrave handbook of institutional ethnography (pp. 81-97). London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Fischer, B., Östlund, B., Dalmer, N. K., Rosales, A., Peine, A., Loos, E., Neven, L., & Marshall, B. (2021). Co-design as learning: The differences of learning when involving older people in digitalization in four countries. Societies, 11(2), 66. doi.org/10.3390/soc11020066
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2020). Unsettling knowledge synthesis methods using institutional ethnography: Reflections on the scoping review as a critical knowledge synthesis tool. Qualitative Health Research, 30(14), 2361-2373.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2020). ‘Add info and stir’: An institutional ethnographic scoping review of family care-givers’ information work. Ageing & Society, 40(3), 663-689.
  • Dalmer, N. K., Griffin, M., Wynia Baluk, K., & Gillett, J. (2020). Aging in (third) place with public libraries. Public Libraries, 59(4), 22 – 30.
  • Dalmer, N. K., & Campbell, D. G. (2020). Communicating with library patrons and people with dementia: Tracing an ethic of care in professional communication guidelines. Dementia, 19(3), 899-914.
  • McKenzie, P., & Dalmer, N. K. (2020). “This is really interesting. I never even thought about this.” Methodological strategies for studying invisible information work. Nordic Journal of Library and Information Studies, 1(2), 1-17.
  • Hussein, T., Chauhan, P., Dalmer, N. K., Rudzicz, F., & Boger, J. (2020). Exploring interface design to support caregivers’ needs and feelings of trust in online content. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering (JRATE). org/10.1177/2055668320968482
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2019). A logic of choice: Problematizing the documentary reality of Canadian aging in place policies. Journal of Aging Studies, 48, 40-49.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2019). Considering the local and the translocal: Reframing health information practice research using institutional ethnography. Aslib Journal of Information Management, 71(6), 703-719. Special Issue: Innovative Methods in Health Information Behaviour Research
  • Dalmer, N. K., & Huvila, I. (2019). Conceptualizing information work for health contexts in Library and Information Science. Journal of Documentation, 76(1), 96-108.
  • Rothbauer, P., & Dalmer, N. K. (2018). Reading as a lifeline among aging readers: Findings from a qualitative interview study with older adults for library and information science research. Library and Information Science Research, 40(3-4), 165-172.
  • Dalmer, N. K., Stooke, R., & McKenzie, P. (2018). Institutional ethnography: A sociology for librarianship. Library and Information Research, 41(125), 45-60.
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2017). Mind the gap: Towards the integration of critical gerontology in public library praxis. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies, 1(1).
  • Dalmer, N. K. (2017). Questioning reliability assessments of health information on social media. Journal of the Medical Library Association, 105(1), 61-68.
  • McKechnie, L., Chabot, R., Dalmer, N. K, Julien, H., & Mabbott, C. (2016). Writing and reading the results: The reporting of rigour strategies in information behaviour research as evident in the published proceedings of the biennial ISIC conferences, 1996-2014. Information Research, 21(4).
  • Dalmer, N. (2013). Health literacy promotion: Contemporary conceptualizations and current implementations in Canadian health librarianship. Journal of the Canadian Health Library Association, 34(1), 12-16.
  • Dalmer, N. (2012). Women in archives: Present contexts and future implications. Feliciter, 58(4), 26-28.