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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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Friday Sep 25, 2020
Friday Sep 25, 2020
As a graduate student, we face academic rejection in various forms. From a journal declining your manuscript, being told you were not good enough to join a research lab or postgraduate institution, to rejection from peers because of your choices in course work. In this #GradLife episode, hosts Viki Tellios, Gavin Tolometti, and Monica Molinaro open the floor to GradCast committee members Ariel Frame, Rhys Patterson, Laura Beana, Elizabeth Mohler, Danica Martina, and Liam Clifford to share their academic rejection experiences and how graduate students can learn from them and cope with rejection in their lives.
To hear previous #GradLife episodes, follow us at @GradCastRadio on Twitter and Instagram, and visit our website gradcast.ca
Full episode available on YouTube
Recorded on Sept. 16th, 2020
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Theme song Upbeat Party produced by Scott Holmes
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
Tuesday Sep 22, 2020
For university students, the question “what are you going to do after you graduate?” often proves to be the bane of their existence. This stems from not only its repetitiveness from friends and family members alike, but more so from the existential dread that it causes. They may have an idea of what they want to do, but nobody truly knows for certain what will transpire, especially in the era of COVID-19. However, fear not as PhD student Shannon McKechnie from the Faculty of Education reassures hosts Yousuf Hasan and Liam Clifford that there is in fact hope. Her focus with the Critical Policy, Equity, and Leadership research arc seeks to ask how student employability post-graduation is represented in policy, and what change might be possible to better support students. The conversation that ensues covers what students can do to help themselves succeed, how universities can complement that, and how we as a society can rethink the value of recent graduates.
To learn more about Shannon's research, follow her on Twitter @s_mckechnie
and visit her website www.shannonmckechnie.ca
Full video available on YouTube
Recorded on Sept 15th, 2020
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
Friday Sep 11, 2020
Friday Sep 11, 2020
The amazing varsity cross-country runner, Jenna Schulz, discusses medial knee osteoarthritis (OA) and the effect of high tibial osteotomy (HTO) surgical intervention on changes in loading and inflammation. "Exercise is medicine" is a common phrase used by our guest which quickly became a hot topic discussed between Jenna and hosts Viki and Nikol. This episode is packed with lots of tips and tricks that Jenna encountered during graduate school, in particular related to the MPT/PhD program, time management and how to protect your knees, all of which have overall made her experience as rewarding as possible.
To get in touch with Jenna and her research, you can find her @the.rungry.researcher on Instagram.
You can also learn more about Jenna's research by reading this article: https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/13/771
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Recorded on Sep. 08, 2020
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
When Italian leader Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler became cozier and more acquainted with one another, Europe found itself embroiled in a new wave of fascism that would spark a second World War. But in order to understand how a country revered for its art, culture, and gastronomy would be attracted to such a reprehensible ideology, the focus needs to shift to Italy’s position vis-à-vis the British Empire within the imperial system and interwar global order. As hosts Yousuf Hasan and Liam Clifford learn from recent History MA graduate Jessi Gilchrist, Anglo-Italian relations in the 1920s and 1930s must be scrutinized for their mutually shared imperial ambitions. The insightful conversation that ensues opens up discourse on how twentieth-century notions of empire world blurred the line between fascism and “democracy,” leading Italy to become an Axis power.
Full video available on YouTube
Recorded on Sep. 02, 2020
Produced by Yousuf Hasan
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io (Produced by White Hot)
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Wednesday Sep 09, 2020
Denny Chin (PhD Student in Microbiology and Immunology) joins us (Elizabeth Mohler and Yousuf Hasan) to chat about his research on combating bacterial infections. Denny is especially interested in a particular kind of pathogen known as Staphlococcus aureus (S. aureus) since it can cause many well-known infections including skin infections, pneumonia, and sepsis. Some strains of S. aureus have become resistant to the available antibiotics. For his research, Denny is finding ways to come up with new antibiotics that can fight against the more resilient strains of the bacteria.
Full video on YouTube
Recorded on September 1st, 2020
Produced by Laura Munoz Baena (video by Yousuf Hasan)
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Tuesday Sep 01, 2020
Hosts Elizabeth Mohler and Viki Tellios welcome back fellow Gradcast host Monica Molinaro, PhD candidate in the Health Promotion stream of the Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Graduate Program. Monica brings us up to date on the progress of her research regarding the caregiving stories of nurses in pediatric oncology, as well as her motivations in studying this field and how this passion developed. Also, Monica describes the importance of using narrative methodologies, and how narratives and storytelling unite all of us.
If you would like to learn more about Monica's research, you can visit her website https://monicalmolinaro.wixsite.com/home and find her on Twitter @MonicaLMolinaro
Full video available on YouTube
Recorded Aug 25, 2020
Produced by Ariel Frame
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Tuesday Aug 25, 2020
Indra Bishnoi (PhD Student in Neuroscience) chats about her research on Anticipatory Nausea in the context of chemotherapy. Despite chemotherapy saving millions of lives every year, Indra explains to hosts Yousuf Hasan and Liam Clifford why people sometimes discontinue the treatment and stay away from hospitals. This has to do with the nausea that is induced by chemotherapy. Patients sometimes avoid treatments since they are conditioned to feel nauseous by hospital environment due to their co-pairing of hospitals and side-effects of chemotherapy. Besides her research, Indra also talks about her role as the SOGS Sustainability Chair and what she thinks about London’s Climate Action Plan.
To learn more about Indra and her work, you can visit her website. 
Full Video available on YouTube
Recorded on August 18, 2020
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io (Produced by White Hot)
Episode produced by Yousuf Hasan
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
Saturday Aug 22, 2020
After having shoulder surgery, is seeing your surgeon an absolute necessity? And if it is, how can we make this process easier? Hosts Monica Molinaro and Ariel Frame are joined by Rochelle Furtado, an MPT/PhD student seeking to develop an app that makes the shoulder surgery process so much easier. Rochelle tells us what inspired the app, how the app can reduce travelling, waiting times and access to your surgeon, and how in a post-COVID world, an app like this will still be needed. Rochelle also explains how her previous expertise informed her decision to do a combined degree, and what she hopes to do with her two new degrees when she finishes.
To find out more from Rochelle and learn more about her research, follow her and her lab on social media.
Twitter: @ellefurtado13
Instagram: @hulc.crl | @hrsgss_uwo
Website: https://www.lawsonresearch.ca/hulc/clinical-research-HULC
Full episode available on YouTube
Recorded on August 17th, 2020
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
In this episode Tyler Dexter, PhD student in Neuroscience, speaks with Ariel Frame and Laura Baena about his research on goal directed cognition in mice. Tyler discusses how he uses touch screens and optogenetics to investigate the role of particular neurons in the brain.
To find out more from Tyler follow him on Twitter @TylerDexter13 or learn about rodent touch screens at touchscreencognition.org
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Recorded on Aug 11, 2020
Produced by Laura Baena and edited by Gavin Tolometti
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Tuesday Aug 11, 2020
Besides its obvious destructive properties, lava can tell us a lot about Earth and other planetary bodies in our solar system. Changing our relationship with molten rock could have implications far beyond the confines of our solitary planet. As hosts Yousuf Hassan and Liam Clifford learn from Earth Sciences PhD Gavin Tolometti, analyzing volcanic and impact melt flows increases our understanding of surface processes on the Moon and Mars by studying lava flows in Idaho and Iceland. In addition, as Gavin concludes his PhD, he speaks to his future aspirations and why this research is important for the wider public.
To find out more from Gavin, follow him on Twitter @GavinOnTheMoon, on Instagram @gavin4science_94 , on his website https://gavintolometti.wixsite.com/gavinonthemoon, or his lab's website https://www.spacerocks.ca/teams/
Full video on YouTube
Recorded on Aug 4, 2020
Produced by Ariel Frame
Theme Song provided by https://freebeats.io Produced by White Hot