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The official podcast of the Society of Graduate Students at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. We aim to showcase the innovative research that graduate students are conducting at Western University and appeal to various audiences including those within and beyond the academic community.
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Monday Jun 20, 2022
Monday Jun 20, 2022
In this episode, Elizabeth, Laura, and Rose talk with Eric Zwicker, a PhD candidate in Musicology. As part of his research project, Eric is working on creating an album of original music. Eric discusses how he uses Indigenous Research Methodologies throughout his process of music creation, and how that music can be used as a form of reconciliation.
To hear more about Eric's creations follow him on Spotify as Eric Zwicker
Recorded on June 14, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
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Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
Tuesday Jun 14, 2022
If you have ever wondered what happens with insects during the winter, this episode will provide some answers. Hosts Ariel Frame and Laura Muñoz Baena chat with Alyssa Stephens, a student of the Biology department who just defended her Masters thesis on freezing tolerance in spring field crickets. More specifically, Alyssa studied how crickets modify their metabolism to accumulate trehalose, a sugar that crickets use as source of energy in the summer and protection for cell freezing during the winter.
Follow Alyssa on Twitter @lyssastephens and for more interesting facts about crickets and other insects, follow the Entomological Society of Ontario on Twitter @EntSocOnt
Recorded on June 7 2022
Produced by Ariel Frame
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Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Tuesday Jun 07, 2022
Garth Casbourn speaks with Ariel Frame and Claire Bottini about his research on song sparrows he is doing for his PhD in Biology. Garth explains how his experiments will tell us how testosterone functions in male birds and what relevance this hormone might have for bird migration.
Recorded on May 31st 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
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Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Thursday Jun 02, 2022
Recorded live at Radio Western 94.9 FM studio, hosts Ariel Frame, Elizabeth Mohler, and Brittany Melton discuss their grad life experience at different stages in their PhD programs.
Recorded May 18 2022
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Sunday May 29, 2022
Sunday May 29, 2022
This week, Carolynn Hare joins hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Ana Moyer. Carolynn is a PhD student in the department of psychology studying ADHD and multisensory integration. A person with ADHD herself, Carolynn has a unique perspective, and plans to use her position to study how kids with ADHD use sensory input to process their world, how that may differ from neurotypical kids. If you find yourself wishing podcasts had subtitles, this one is for you!
To watch a cool video about ADHD and grad school made by Carolynn, follow this link
Recorded on May 24th 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday May 24, 2022
Tuesday May 24, 2022
On this episode of the GradCast hosts Laura Muñoz Baena and Brittany Melton chat with Charan Mandur, a first-year PhD student in the Department of History. They discuss the Halifax Explosion, environmental history, and Charan’s aspiration to blend the two.
Recorded on May 17th 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Monday May 09, 2022
Monday May 09, 2022
Join hosts Elizabeth Mohler and Amalie Hutchinson in their chat with Brigette Farrell, PhD student in history. Brigette shares about her interesting research into the history of science, medicine, and culture. We discuss shell shock in World War I soldiers, the impacts of eugenics on Canadian and French history, and how politics snuggles closer to science than we sometimes like to admit.
Recorded on May 3 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Wednesday May 04, 2022
Wednesday May 04, 2022
In this episode, Erin Isaac explains to hosts Brittany and Laura how race and climate were linked by 18th-century beliefs about the body. They also discuss how migrants who came to Nova Scotia in the 1780s (along with the colony’s existing populations!) contended with an unusually hostile climate following a volcanic eruption in 1783, and how this environmental history impacted different communities’ lived experiences.
To learn more about history, check out Erin's YouTube channel Historia Nostra
Recorded on April 26 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
Tuesday Apr 26, 2022
This week we met with Justin Robar, a PhD student in Sport Management Graduate Program. In this episode, Justin tells Elizabeth Mohler and Claire Bottini about his research on how sport can positively impact player’s life and community. He describes his MA experience on how sport development programs impact rural African communities. Justin also elaborates about his PhD working on improving knowledge translation between published research and practitioners of Sport for Development as well as how sport clubs newcomer programs can help with immigration to Canada. 
Recorded on Apr 19, 2022
Produced by Ariel Frame
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Monday Apr 18, 2022
Monday Apr 18, 2022
To get in contact with Tedi, you can email him at tramaj@uwo.ca
Recorded on April 12th, 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.