Latest Episodes

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...