Latest Episodes

Suyin Olguin, PhD student in English Language & Literature.
Topic: Halloween Special – Vampires and Garlic: the Science, Literature, and Folklore of Fending off Vampirism”. Overview: Why does learning more about vampires and...

Erin Gallagher-Cohoon, PhD student in History.
Topic: Canadian history of gay and lesbian/queer parenting. Overview: My research looks at gay parenting from the 1970’s to 2005, looking at custody cases...

Carmel Mikol, MA student in English Language & Literature.
Topic: Disappearance narratives in contemporary global women’s literature. Overview: My research seeks to identify the social and political uses of disappearance narratives by post-war...

Jeffrey Allan, PhD student in Political Studies, supervised by Dr Christian Leuprecht
Topic: Why come back to graduate studies now? Overview: After a successful career as a journalist for the CBC and then a member of...

Kyle Vader, PhD student in Rehabilitation Science, supervised by Dr Jordan Miller
Topic: Chronic pain management in primary health care Overview: The overarching purpose of my thesis is to understand social contributors to chronic pain as...

Derya Gungor, PhD in Sociology supervised by Dr Annette Burfoot.
Topic: The feminist IMPLICATIONS OF maternal and infant health promotion in turkey through the current FAMILY medicine model’s pregnancy-monitoring mandate. Overview: In my PhD...