Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies Podcast
1) Educational Development Associates Kim, Paul, and Hebatella from the Centre for Teaching and Learning
This week we have Kim Hill-Tout, Paul Akpomuje, and Hebtalla Ouda discuss their roles as Educational Development Associates at the Centre for Teaching and Learning. They discuss supports available to ...Show More
2) Grad Chat Transitions
This week’s show is hosted by Suyin the DJ Bear. Suyin the DJ Bear interviews CJ the DJ, Colette Steer, and KM on the FM, Katie-Marie McNeill, about Grad Chat’s history and future. As you may have hea...Show More
3) Peash Saha (Computing) – Improving Efficiency of Societal Services for the Vulnerable through Algorithmic Approach
A social choice represents the collective decision of the individuals based on their preferences over the alternatives. There are societal services operated by governmental or non-governmental organiz...Show More
4) Bhavya Bogra (Geography) – Travel Needs of Older Adult Women in Mid-Sized Canadian cities
With Canada’s aging population and rising immigration rates, this research explores the unique transportation challenges faced by older adult women—both local-born and immigrants—in mid-sized Ca...Show More
5) Nithikaa Shashikanth (Rehabilitation Science) – Parent-Administered Sensorimotor Intervention (PASI) Program
Nithikaa looks at the effect of the Parent-Administered Sensorimotor Intervention (PASI) on the developmental outcomes in infants born preterm at 18 months of age and to determine the long-term impact...Show More
6) Nikta Sadati (English Literature) – Afrofuturism and Diaspora Studies
Nikta’s research for my dissertation, titled “Queer Remembering: Fractured Memory and Haunted Futures in Contemporary Novels of the Black Diaspora,” focuses on the contemporary re-imagining of a...Show More
7) Danielle Harper (Pathology & Molecular Medicine) – Genetic disruption to decrease breast cancer metastasis
Danielle studies triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), an aggressive breast cancer subtype associated with poor survival. Unlike other subtypes for which there are targeted therapies, treatment option...Show More
8) Margot Smith (Geography) – An Astrobiologists’s study of lipids in spring waters up in the high Arctic
The Arctic is host to cold, hypersaline, perennial springs that flow through 600m of permafrost. I studied 44 samples from cores, sediments, filtrates and microbial mats from these springs. Surficial...Show More
9) Basmah Rahman (English Literature) – Canadian BIPOC Literature and Educational Pedagogies
Canadian provincial education systems play a vital role in developing the social and academic interests of youth who, typically, spend over thirty hours in classrooms per week. Yet, significant consis...Show More
10) Alyssa Grocutt (Management) – Employee perceptions and behaviours towards tattooed colleagues
Alyssa’s research focuses on nuances in observer perceptions and treatment of tattooed colleagues based on tattoo content. For upcoming interviews check out the Grad Chat webpage on Queen’...Show More