Angie Nikoleychuk

Education

M.Sc./PhD Student, McMaster University (2025 – Present)

B.Sc. in Psychology, University of Lethbridge (2015 – 2024)
Honours Thesis: “Music, contextual cues and sequences”

Research Interests

• Music Cognition and Psychoacoustics/Psychophysics
• Humans and Technology
• Decision-Making and Judgement
• Data Analysis and Statistics

Skills

Honors & Awards

• University of Lethbridge Faculty Association Letter of Recognition (2024)
• Best Undergraduate Poster Award (I-CYS 2017)
• Philip North Scholarships (2016, 2017)
• Bill Chapman Certificate of Distinction (2017)
• 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 – Music Performance Awards & Recognition
  • First Place – Concerto/Concerted Work for Woodwind.
  • First Place – National Senior Woodwind – Open.
  • First Place – National Woodwind Senior & Intermediate.
  • Outstanding Music Camper Award for Achievement & Leadership.

Publications

Building Relationships, Forming Collaborations: Lessons Learned From an Unconference Seeking to Cultivate Solutions in Healthcare

Industry Reports

• CHRISA Unconference (2023)
• State of SEO 2022, 2023, 2024 (Search Engine Journal)
• How Do Ads Affect Website Visitor Behavior? (Search Engine Journal)

Conferences & Events

• Behavioural Science for Smarter SEO, SEOCharity, June 4, 2025 (Presenter)
• 20th Annual NeuroMusic Conference: Thinking About the Future of Music Neuroscience, Hamilton, Ontario, October 1-2, 2024 (Attendee)
• Society for Music Perception 2024 Conference, Banff, Alberta, July 25-27, 2024 (Attendee)
• 19th Annual Hybrid NeuroMusic Conference: Rhythm, Expectation and Emotion, Hamilton, Ontario, October 28, 2023 (Attendee).
• The 26th ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing (CSCW’23), Minneapolis, MN, October 14-18, 2023 (Attendee).
• Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science (CSBBCS) 2024, Guelph, Ontario, July 17-19, 2023 (Attendee).
• Collaborative Health Research Institute of Southern Alberta (CHRISA) Unconference, Lethbridge, AB, May 2023 (Attendee).
• Live SEO Audits: Quick Wins and Opportunities, Wix.com, Inc., October 17, 2023 (Virtual, Speaker).
• How to Run Website Experiments, Search Engine Journal, October 11, 2023 (Virtual, Presenter).
• How to Become an Accidental Activist, WGST 2600 – Activism and Advocacy, University of Lethbridge, October 2022 (Guest Lecturer)
• Data Visualization with Kevin Hartman, Chief Analytics at Google, September – October 2022 (Course).
• The 37th Meeting of the Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS), Banff, Alberta, May 4-5, 2018 (Attendee).
• The 36th Meeting of the Banff Annual Seminar in Cognitive Science (BASICS), Banff, Alberta, May 6-7, 2017 (Attendee).
• Introductory Managerial Case Competition, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, March 5-6, 2016 (Participant).

Professional Experience

• Search Engine Journal: Behavioural Data Analyst and Content Marketing Manager (2021–2025)
• Angie’s Copywriting: Owner and Senior Consultant (2004–2021)

Memberships

• MIMMersion – McMaster Institute of Music and the Mind (Grad Committee Member/Organizer)
• CSBBCS – Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour, and Cognitive Science (Member).
• APA – American Psychological Association (Member)
• CPA – Canadian Psychological Association (Member)
• ACM – Association for Computing Machinery (Member).
• SIGCHI – ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (Member).
• SMPC – Society for Music Perception and Cognition (Member).

Interests

Music, Composition, Home Automation DIY, Geocaching, Camping, Fishing, Hiking