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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 Apr 09, 2024
Tuesday Apr 09, 2024
In the third installment of interviewing LIS Ph.D Candidate Alex Mayhew, we turn to Alex’s work on Aging Justice. Approached through a bio-ethical and health justice perspective, Alex makes the bold claim that aging should not only be treated at the same level as disease, but that it is necessary in order to expand capacity and quality of life for older people.
Read Alex’s article here!
Additional articles mentioned in the episode:
- "Just Because I'm 90 Doesn't Mean I'm Ready to Die - Or Disposable"
- "Why I hope to Dies at 75"
- López-Otín et al. (2013). "Hallmarks of Aging: An Expanding Universe"
Listen to Alex's previous episodes:
Recorded on April 2, 2024
Produced by Suzy Lee
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Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
This week, Amalie Hutchinson and Anum Anjum are joined by a fellow GradCast host, Apurva Desai. A Master's student in Health Promotion here at Western, Apurva shares about the three components of health, how qualitative research methods fit his goals of connecting with people, and general wisdom to create healthy habits.
To find out more about Apurva's research journey, check out his LinkedIn profile linked here: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/apurva-desai-uwofans4285091
Recorded on March 26, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
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Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
Tuesday Mar 26, 2024
This week, hosts Anthony Cruz and Carly Charron speak with Riya Sidhu, a PhD candidate in psychology specializing in music cognition. Riya explains the three different projects she's working on to evaluate the factors that influence synchronizing in various contexts, such as during walking or in response to music. These factors include empathy, music training, and dance training and she focuses on talking about groove behaviour. Riya also describes her experience setting up a synchronization study using motion capture technology at the University of Oslo.
Recorded on March 19, 2024
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt
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Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
This week, GradCast hosts Meghan Voll and Mark Ambrogio are joined by Farshid Soltani, a PhD candidate in physics studying all about the nature of black holes. If you were ever curious about the science of black holes, the value of both classical and quantum physics, or wanted to know about the mysterious "white hole", tune in to this week's episode!
Recorded on March 12, 2024
Produced by Suzy Lee
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Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
Tuesday Mar 12, 2024
This week, Scott Walters and Meghan Voll interview one of our own producers, Maria Khan. Maria shares about her master's program in clinical science and audiology. She tells GradCast what a degree in audiology looks like and what an audiologist actually does. Maria is involved with other research activities at Sick Kids, and discusses her research with infant screening tests for hearing, and more.
Check out Maria's other producing efforts, the Hear Here podcast at Sick Kids at this link.
Recorded on March 5, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
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Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
This week, hosts Anum Anjum and Anthony Cruz join Gabriel Jobin, a PhD student with the Drover Research Group working with fundamental chemical reactions to design new and efficient catalysts. We dive into how Gabriel’s research relates to sustainability, life outside of the lab and future directions of addressing global challenges with chemistry. Tune in for Al-uminating chemistry puns!
Recorded on February 27, 2024
Produced by Maria Khan
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Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
Tuesday Feb 27, 2024
This week, hosts Carly Charron and Ryan Baxter speak with Hunter Pharazyn, an occupational therapy student. They discuss the goals of occupational therapy and the unique program offered here at Western. Hunter also describes what led him to this area of work, and what he hopes to pursue in the future.
Recorded on February 20, 2024
Produced by Jordan VanderBurgt
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Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
This week, GradCast hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Apurva Desai are joined by two guests: Varsha Vasudevan and Mani Ahluwalia, both studying topics in Health Promotion. We chat about holistic health, how graduate students experience resilience, and what mindfulness can do for many aspects of success in university.
Recorded on February 13, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
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Thursday Feb 15, 2024
Thursday Feb 15, 2024
For this special #GraduatedLife episode, Meghan Voll and Garth Casbourn are joined by MLIS alumnus Matt Skidmore. Matt tells how his grad degree at Western helped him get his current job as a librarian in Mississauga, and how the things he learned during the degree and on-the-job experience prepared him for what he does now.
Recorded on February 8, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
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Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Tuesday Feb 13, 2024
Today's episode is a merger of two of our beloved mini-series #JarringQuestions and #GradLife. Join co-hosts Meghan Voll, Mark Ambrogio, and Suzy Lee in this mashup as they talk all about extracurriculars, places (and time periods) they'd love to travel to, and the eternal debate: cats or dogs?
Recorded on February 6, 2024
Produced by Suzy Lee
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot