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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March 12, 2024 00:31:38
Mary Johnson (English) – Ecocritical approaches to children’s literature

Mary Johnson (English) – Ecocritical approaches to children’s literature

Mary is interested in exploring intersections of girlhood and wild spaces in “Golden Age” (1865-1926) children’s literature. In particular, I want to consider how...

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March 07, 2024 00:34:31
Shamus Tobin (MSc, Astronomy) – Investigating Annular Rings in Young Protostellar Disks

Shamus Tobin (MSc, Astronomy) – Investigating Annular Rings in Young Protostellar Disks

During star formation, gas and dust that goes into forming a new star also go to forming an equatorial disk of material known as...

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February 06, 2024 00:37:53
Graziella Bedenik (Mechanical & Materials Engineering) – the potential to monitor freshwater lakes using robot swarms

Graziella Bedenik (Mechanical & Materials Engineering) – the potential to monitor freshwater lakes using robot swarms

Development and Application of Autonomous Multi-Agent Underwater Robot Swarms for Environmental Monitoring and Response in Canadian Freshwater Lakes. For upcoming interviews check out the...

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January 31, 2024 00:38:31
Sofia Guest & Madeline Myers (Geography) – What We Can Learn from Studying Glaciers in the Arctic

Sofia Guest & Madeline Myers (Geography) – What We Can Learn from Studying Glaciers in the Arctic

Sofia Guest (MSc student) talks about precipitation sources and summer snowfall in the Canadian Arctic, while Maddie Myers (PhD candidate) talks about how glacier...

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January 23, 2024 00:40:38
Angela Stanley & Kharoll-Ann Souffrant – Predoctoral Fellows in Black Studies

Angela Stanley & Kharoll-Ann Souffrant – Predoctoral Fellows in Black Studies

Kharoll-Ann’s research examines the “#MoiAussi movement (#Metoo)” in the province of Quebec from the perspective of Black feminist activists and black women survivors.  Angela...

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January 16, 2024 00:38:34
Heather Morrison (PhD, Education) – Could a national museum dedicated to women’s history as a vehicle for public pedagogy strengthen liberal democracy in Canada?

Heather Morrison (PhD, Education) – Could a national museum dedicated to women’s history as a vehicle for public pedagogy strengthen liberal democracy in Canada?

Heather has two primary objectives. The first is to demonstrate Public Pedagogy’s role as a foundational tenet of liberal democracy in that it promotes...

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