Alice Fleerackers (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Scholarly Communications Lab, Simon Fraser University (SFU). She is the Vice President of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST), the co-founder and co-chair of PCST’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee, and a co-founder of the International Communication Association Journalism Studies Division’s Mentorship Program. Her research explores the intersections of health and science communication, journalism, digital media, equity, and open science and is funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Alice has a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (with a focus on science journalism) and a Master’s in Publishing from SFU. She has over 10 years of experience as a freelance writer and editor, with bylines in the Globe and Mail, National Post, and Nautilus, among other outlets. 

She is grateful to live and work in Vancouver, BC, on the unceded, ancestral, and traditional territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. 

Fleerackers, A., Shores, K.A., Chtena, N., & Alperin, J.P. (2024). Unreviewed science in the news: The evolution of preprint media coverage from 2014-2021, Quantitative Science Studies, 1–40.
doi: 10.1162/qss_a_00282

Fleerackers, A., Chtena, N., Pinfield, S., Alperin, J.P., Barata, G., Oliveira, M., & Peters, I. (2023). Making science public: A review of journalists’ use of Open Access research, F1000 (12)512.
doi: 10.12688/f1000research.133710.1

Moorhead, L. L., Fleerackers, A., & Maggio, L. A. (2023). “It’s my job”: A qualitative study of the mediatization of science within the scientist-journalist relationship, Journal of Science Communication, 22(04), A05. doi: 10.22323/2.22040205

Ratcliff, C. L., Fleerackers, A., Wicke, R., Harvill, B., King, A. J., & Jensen, J. D. (2023). Framing COVID-19 preprint research as uncertain: A mixed-method study of public reactions. Health
Communication. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2023.2164954

Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M., Bruns, A., & Burgess, J. (2022). Academic explanatory journalism and emerging COVID-19 science: How social media accounts amplify The Conversation’s preprint coverage. Media International Australia, Article 1329878X221145022. doi: 10.1177/1329878X221145022

Fleerackers, A., Moorhead, L. L., Maggio, L. A., Fagan, K., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Science in motion: A qualitative analysis of journalists’ use and perception of preprints. PLOS ONE, 17(11), e0277769. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0277769

Fleerackers, A., Brown Jarreau, P., & Krolik, J. (2022). Why create SciArt? An investigation into science artists’ goals and professional journeys. Journal of Science Communication, 21(6), A05. doi: 10.22323/2.21060205

Fleerackers, A., Nehring, L., Maggio, L. A., Enkhbayar, A., Moorhead, L., & Alperin, J. P. (2022). Identifying science in the news: An assessment of the precision and recall of Altmetric.com news mention data, Scientometrics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1007/s11192-022-04510-7

Fleerackers, A., Riedlinger, M., Moorhead, L., Ahmed, R., & Alperin, J. P.  (2022). Communicating scientific uncertainty in an age of COVID-19: An investigation into the use of preprints by digital media outlets, Health Communication, 37(6), 726–738. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2020.1864892