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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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Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
Tuesday Sep 03, 2019
On this episode, hosts Gavin and Greg discuss game theory with a PhD Candidate in Economics, Adam Rooney. From childhood, Adam has been an avid poker fanatic often hosting poker tournaments with his friends. When he came to university, he started with $50 in his bank account, which he used as a buy in for online poker tournaments. After winning many tournaments, he cashed out with an undergraduate degree education. Now he is in his PhD studying what he loves most, poker. And most importantly, he has many poker tips and tricks. Tune in to unlock the secrets of how you can become a poker pro too!
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Second year biology master's student Rosie Savage is passionate about plankton! From the Pacific coast of Western Canada to the genetics lab at the University of Western Ontario, hosts Yimin Chen and Ariel Frame hear all about Rosie's adventures collecting, sequencing, and studying tiny marine zooplankton and their even tinier parasites.
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Hosts Ariel Frame and Roger Hudson welcome our first Visual Arts Department student to the show, Ellen Moffat. After 20 years of working as a professional artist, Ellen tells us how she is now doing both theoretical and practical work towards getting a PhD in Studio. In this episode, find out how Ellen makes art from her creative research on acoustic properties of various materials. To hear a sample of the sound produced in a few of Ellen’s art pieces you can listen on SoundCloud.
To find out more about Ellen, check out her website www.ellenmoffat.ca
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
Thursday Aug 15, 2019
We’re bringing you another #Gradlife episode with a special guest - Demetri Pananos! Demetri is co-host of the podcast Two Broke Grads and is currently completing his PhD here at Western in Biostatistics. In this episode, Monica, Demetri and Viki talk about finances - conferences, grocery shopping, and stresses related to money. They also share some of their tips for saving money!
Like this episode? Let us know! We barely covered the tip of the iceberg for finances and are always willing to discuss what our listeners are interested in.
You can follow Demetri @PhDemetri and his podcast Two Broke Grads @2BrokeGradsPod on Twitter - find Two Broke Grads on Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you listen to podcasts!
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
In this episode, hosts Connor Chato and Monica Molinaro speak to Amy Lewis, a qualitative researcher completing her MScN! They discuss the development of competencies for health care providers to engage in teaching policy advocacy and engage in policy activities. The benefits of listening to stories and personal experience, as well as the importance of qualitative methods in health research are also discussed.
Produced by Gregory Robinson
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
Tuesday Jul 30, 2019
The world is a crappy place. That is, according to Arthur Schopenhauer. On this week’s Gradcast, hosts Nick Handfield-Jones and Connor Chato interview Ignacio Moya, who tells us about this famous German philosopher’s arguments for philosophical pessimism. We talk about why Schopenhauer thought the world is this way and what he proposed to do about that. Plus, we ask Ignacio what his own thoughts are about philosophical pessimism. To get in contact with Ignacio, message him on Twitter @ignaciomoyaa
Hosts: Nick Handfield-Jones & Connor Chato
Produced by Connor Chato
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
Sunday Jul 28, 2019
On tour in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, GradCast hosts Roger Hudson and Ariel Frame attended Canada's largest neuroscience conference and had an insightful chat with Bryan Jenkins, a PhD candidate in the Neurobiology of Dual Disorders Lab at the Ontario Veterinary College and the University of Guelph in Canada. Bryan tells us about his work in Dr. Jibran Khokhar's lab on the effects of cannabis in animal models that are paving the way for the rest of the world looking to Canada for answers about cannabis in light of recent legalization for both medicinal and recreational use. To find out more about Bryan you can follow him on Twitter @bjenkin27, follow Dr. Khokhar on Twitter @DrJKhokhar or check out Bryan's website bryanjenkins.ca.
Hosts: Ariel Frame & Roger Hudson
Produced by: Roger Hudson
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Tuesday Jul 23, 2019
Take a trip to the Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories with Anthropology PhD student Rebecca Goodwin as she works to document and share the cultural history of Inuit peoples of the Western Canadian arctic. Join hosts Yimin Chen and Nikol Posnov as we hear some of the stories told by Inuvialuit elders and knowledge holders about current and past life in the far north. Plus, tips on how to eat muktuk, a traditional meal of whale blubber!
For more information on the rich cultural and archaeological history of this region,
visit: InuvialuitLivingHistory.ca
or on facebook at: Facebook.com/InuvialuitLivingHistory
Hosts: Yimin Chen & Nikol Posnov
Produced by: Gregory Robinson
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Tuesday Jul 16, 2019
Hosts Nikol Posnov and Ariel Frame speak with Will Yingling, an MSc student in geology and planetary science, about his work on impact melt pools on Mars. Using various sources of data from Mars orbiters, Will explains what he is learning about mapping the topography of Mars (the landscape) and how meteorite impacts have shaped its surface. To find out more about Will you can contact him on twitter @mars_mapper or take a look at his website willyingling.com
Hosts: Ariel Frame & Nikol Posnov
Produced by Gavin Tolometti
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Tuesday Jul 09, 2019
Have you ever watched somebody look off in the distance at something behind you and then immediately turn to look at whatever it is their seeing? That exact response is what PhD Student Borna Mahmoudian studies. It's a fascinating little feature that helps gives social skills to us humans and some other animals (Including the Old-World Monkeys Borna Studies). Hosts Nikol Posnov and Connor Chato chat about the neurological mechanics of this response and what it's like studying this in a lab with our incredibly smart evolutionary cousins.
To find out more about Borna you can find him on twitter @borna__m or on Dr. Julio Martinez's lab website http://martinezlab.robarts.ca/.
Hosts: Connor Chato & Nikol Posnov
Produced by Ariel Frame