Nicole Doria is a PhD in Health student and Killam Scholar. Her research looks at how online dating facilitates sexualized violence against women.
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As I have discussed in my blogs this year, dating app facilitated sexualized violence is a new area of interest without much research or literature. As we exist more and more in a technological world, we need to be critical of both our own behaviour and the behaviour of others in all of the online […]
It is commonly quoted that it takes 17 years to move research or evidence into practice (really helpful, right?). Knowledge translation and dissemination have become more popular in recent years to help close this gap and get knowledge to the public sooner, so maybe we are down to a 15-year lag now (just kidding, to […]
How safe are dating apps? The answer is that we don’t really know (sorry). We lack scientific data in this area – official statistics aren’t properly collected, reporting is low, and overall there are a lot of gaps. What we do know is that online dating does not come without risk, and sometimes the risk […]
If you are currently active on a dating app, you are well aware that “quarantine and chill” is trending. Lots of people have updated their bios to let you know exactly what it means to them: “let’s meet up in public – 6 feet apart,” “virtual meet ups only,” “willing to break social distancing guidelines for you” (eye roll), “will […]
Online dating apps. A special kind of hell for most of us. The modern-day place where so many of us look for love…or maybe just a quick hook-up. I know many people who have had successful dates, relationships and even marriages with people they have met online. Believe it or not, I actually don’t think […]
