Gradcast

This week our brave heroes meet with Annalise Trudell who finished her PhD on working with young women to give themselves agency. Warning, a handful of swear words worked themselves in. Hosts: Yimin Chen & Taniya Nagpaland

This week we meet with Music student Matthew Becker, and talk about the art of making music. Host: Alex Moszczynski

This week, we meet with Library and Information Science MA (and by the time of airing now a PhD student) Kirstyn Seanor working to make libraries a more equitable place to go. Hosts: Yimin Chen & Taniya Nagpaland

This week we meet with Benedict Chang, juggler and researcher on the brain's processing of motion. Host: Alex Moszczynski

This week we are live from the WUGSOM 2016 graduate music conference. Our rapid fire interviews are with Mary Blake Bonn, Kyle Hutchinson, Rebecca Long, Steven Janisse, and Gregory Walshaw. Host: Tristan Johnson

This week we talk to Kristen Wallentinson. This weekend, Gradcast will be participating in the WUGSOM 17th annual Music conference. Kristen meets with us to discuss how this conference came to be, what to expect, and how to get there. Host: Tristan Johnson

This week we talk to the keynote speaker of the Western Research Forum Anabel Quan-Haase. Her presentation was on serendipity. Hosts: Tristan Johnson & Taniya Nagpaland

This week we cover two interviews from the Western Research Forum we attended last April. Our Guests are Susan Bird talking about infant nutrition, and a discussion with Anandita Ghosh about Islamophobia after 9/11. Hosts: Tristan Johnson & Taniya Nagpaland

This week we talk to Kristopher Ohlendorf looking at how music works in the internet. Hosts: Alex Moszczynski & Yimin Chen

This week we talk about Tom Waits and Spoken word with Music theorist Chantal Lemire. Hosts: Tristan Johnson & Emma Bridgwater

This week as we experience the anniversary of a major change in Nicaragua, we talk to Jaime who grew up there, and who's parents were part of it. Host: Tristan Johnson

This week we talk to medical doctor and Health Promotion Master's student Dalia Hasan about her work to have better medical school training to combat childhood obesity. Hosts: Jina Kum and Susan Anthony

This week we meet with future Librarian Claire Burrows. She's working on finding out what libraries need to be accessible to those with disabilities, by asking and studying those that use it.  Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Yimin Chen

This week we talk to Melanie Stone, who through a photo stream research project looks at working women, often mothers, interacting with he world with a disability. Her work chronicles the day to day experiences balancing these identities. Hosts: Taniya Nagpaland and Tristan Johnson

This week we talk to Linguist Kristy Townsend who works with Canadian First Nations communities in Alberta looking at the discourses around mental health. Hosts: Taniya Nagpal and Emma Bridgwater

This week we meet with Biologist Jantina Toxopeus who fresh back from the Czech Republic talks about her work with crickets. Hosts: Taniya Nagpal and Alex Moszczynski  

This week we talk to Cliff Davidson, a Sociologist finding out how university students define success at university, and how that might be different from the administration. Hosts: Tristan Johnson and Yimin Chen

This week we met with student / Buddhist monk Kelsang Legden to talk about his life as a Buddhist monk in a PhD program, and his research in knowledge production amongst the Buddhist temple community. Host: Tristan Johnson and Yimin Chen

This week we meet with FIMS PhD Student Indranil Chakraborty. His work deals with the IT industry in India, and the lives of the people that make these entire communities work. It involves discussions on the importance of labour organization.  It is also sadly Aniruddho's last episode hosting with us. He will be missed.  

This week we meet with Arwen Johns the Peruvian archaeologist who studies ancient Peruvian animals. Host: Yimin Chen