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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 Nov 14, 2022
Monday Nov 14, 2022
This week, hosts Carly Charron and Laura Muñoz Baena interview Facundo Lodol, one of the newest members of the Editorial Board, about his MSc research in the Neuroscience department. Facundo talks about his project on misophonia, a disorder characterized by heightened sensitivity to trigger sounds such as chewing. He is interested in the relationship between misophonia and the brain’s ability to filter out irrelevant stimuli.
To find out more about Facundo, find him on Instagram @foku_
Recorded on November 8, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
Tuesday Nov 08, 2022
This week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Brittany Melton sit down with PhD candidate Audra Quinn. Audra is studying entrepreneurship at Ivey Business School. We talk about one branch of her work: the interactions between co-founders. So, before you choose your business parter, give this episode a listen!
To find out more about Audra and her work, go check out her Twitter (@AudraQuinn) and website (https://audraquinn.com).
Recorded on November 1, 2022.
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
Tuesday Nov 01, 2022
This week, our newest member of the Editorial Board, Scott Walters, joins host Ana Moyer and Charan Mandur to talk about his PhD research in the biology department. Scott talks about his work looking at how nutrition on mudflats and rivers affects the water-associated birds living there and their migrations. We learn about mist nets, biofilm, and more.
To get into contact with Scott for more questions, email him at swalte42@uwo.ca
Recorded on October 25, 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Monday Oct 24, 2022
Recorded on October 18, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
Tuesday Oct 18, 2022
This week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Ariel Frame speak with FIMS PhD candidate Meghan Voll about her research on the economics of dating apps. Meghan is interested in how these companies use value conflation to influence their business platforms and is aiming to map out the data flows of how these companies use, exchange, and monetize user data.
To find out more about Meghan's research, go check out her Twitter at @meghan_voll9
Recorded on October 11, 2022.
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
Tuesday Oct 11, 2022
This week, hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Charan Mandur interview our very own SOGS VP Academic, Kevin Moore. In addition to his role on the Society of Graduate Students advocating for and making grad student's voices heard, Kevin is a PhD Candidate in the department of Medical Biophysics where he studies blood flow. We chat about what his lab days look like, learn a bit more about how blood flows through our veins, hear about the best part about Kevin's grad experience: friendships made along the way. How very heart (..and the blood flowing through it..) warming.
Recorded on October 4, 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Tuesday Oct 04, 2022
Charan Mandur and Ariel Frame speak with Zsofia Agoston about her ongoing institutional ethnography research with Ontario teachers. Zsofia explains how she plans to use an anthropological lens to investigate the methods being used to teach difficult knowledge at the K-8 level.
To find out more from Zsofia check out her Twitter @zsofimedovarski
Recorded on September 28, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
Tuesday Sep 27, 2022
In today’s episode, Benjamin Souriol speaks with Laura Muñoz and Claire Bottini about his Master studies on nitrogen cycling and soil ecology. Benjamin explains how nitrogen molecules go in and out of the environment and how nitrogen spreads in a system according to different treatments. He aims to better understand how agricultural intensification and global warming can affect this molecule in our environment on the short and long term.
Recorded on September 20, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
This episode welcomes Javier Alvarez, a PhD student in anthropology, studying Mapudungun — the language of the Mapuches. Mapuches are an indigenous community that inhabited South America way before colonization, and is currently established in central Chile and southwest Argentina. Javier shares with hosts Charan and Laura his intentions to cooperate with the Mapuches in order to develop and promote strategies to revitalize Mapudungun.
Recorded on September 17, 2022.
Produced by Laura Muñoz Baena.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Tuesday Sep 20, 2022
Peter Baker speaks with Ariel Frame and Charan Mandur about his ongoing Biology MSc research on lake trout from Lake Ontario. Peter explains how he studies lake trout to determine how a thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency, caused by the consumption of invasive prey fishes, impacts fish health and behavior. Moreover, Peter discusses aspects of fishing which influence ecosystem conservation.
Recorded on September 13, 2022.
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot.