Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs

Hosted by CJ the DJ (Colette Steer), this is a 30 minute radio show featuring a graduate student or postdoc each week. Each episode is an opportunity for Queen’s grad students and postdocs to showcase ...more

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April 21, 2022 00:31:36
Balancing Life

Balancing Life

As with the rest of the world, University life is ever changing and not just because of COVID-19. Suyin talks about how school has...

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April 13, 2022 00:34:17
Alyssa Grocutt (Management) – Workplace Safety

Alyssa Grocutt (Management) – Workplace Safety

Alyssa studies the indirect victims of workplace safety incidents, from family members to leaders at work. Her goal is to gain an understanding of...

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April 05, 2022 00:31:09
Yiyi He (Cultural Studies) – Ec(h)oing across Borders: Contemporary Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism in China and the Asian North American Context

Yiyi He (Cultural Studies) – Ec(h)oing across Borders: Contemporary Environmental Literature and Ecocriticism in China and the Asian North American Context

Yiyi’s research engages in a critical dialogue between contemporary environmental writing and ecocriticism in China and the Asian North American context. Specifically, she introduces...

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March 29, 2022 00:33:57
Collette Pilsworth PhD student in Geological Sciences – Advancing tools and techniques for the exploration of undercover ore deposits

Collette Pilsworth PhD student in Geological Sciences – Advancing tools and techniques for the exploration of undercover ore deposits

A geochemical and mineralogical study of drill core fracture coatings from the Oberon gold deposit, Northern Territory, Australia. Understanding how elements move around near...

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March 15, 2022 00:37:18
Melanie Proulx (Cultural Studies) – The representation of sexual violence in comics

Melanie Proulx (Cultural Studies) – The representation of sexual violence in comics

This doctoral research-creation project uses an embodied auto-ethnographic methodology to investigate how comics about sexual violence can reduce survivors’ risk of reception (the risk...

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March 09, 2022 00:32:50
Abdul Rahman Alashraf (Postdoctoral Fellow) – Wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 Initiative

Abdul Rahman Alashraf (Postdoctoral Fellow) – Wastewater surveillance of COVID-19 Initiative

University researchers from the Beaty Water Research Centre (BWRC) with universities and utility companies across Ontario are collaborating through the Wastewater Surveillance Initiative (WSI)....

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