Beyond the Jargon

Rethinking our sleep patterns with Stephanie Engstrom

CFUV — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:07:57 +0000

This week’s episode explores one of the great unifiers of the human experience: sleep!

Stephanie Engstrom, an Anthropology master’s student, shares her research on how our sleep patterns have changed throughout history and what that might mean for getting a better night’s sleep today.

Music credits:
"Be My" by Outback x Angela – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-mar-1st-2019
“m disco 1” provided by mobygratis

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Indigenous Language Revitalization with Nicki Benson

CFUV — Fri, 02 May 2025 09:00:00 +0000

How do you learn an Indigenous language when there aren’t any first language speakers around to help? In this episode, Nicki Benson, a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, shares how adult learners are finding creative, community-driven ways to bring Indigenous languages back into daily life.

Want to learn more?
Explore NEȾOLṈEW̱, an Indigenous language revitalization project Nicki collaborated with: netolnew.ca

Check out this guide for engaging with Indigenous languages: https://netolnew.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Indigenous-Languages-CCUNESCO-english-web.pdf

Read through Nicki's paper on Advanced Indigenous Language Learning: https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/CJAL/article/view/33396

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Colonial Navigation with Jesse Robertson

CFUV — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000

How did colonialism unfold off the coast of the Pacific Northwest? Jesse Robertson, a PhD student in the Department of History, explores how encounters between Indigenous mariners and colonial newcomers at sea shaped the course of history. From shipwrecks to shifting power dynamics, we dive into how the ocean became a central stage for colonial encounters.

Want to learn more?
You can find Jesse on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jesse-robertson-b91012189/

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Catalyst Chemistry with Ian Chagunda

CFUV — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 09:00:00 +0000

What if we could make chemical reactions faster, cleaner, and smarter? This week, I’m joined by Ian Chagunda, a PhD student in the Department of Chemistry, who studies catalytic reactions—key processes behind the production of everything from medicines to materials. Using mass spectrometry, he uncovers their hidden mechanisms to make chemistry more efficient and sustainable.

Want to learn more?
Check out Ian’s research on his website: www.ianchagunda.com

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Aquatic Ecology with Ashley Mickens

CFUV — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 00:39:12 +0000

How does the growth of cities affect the lakes around us? Biology master’s student Ashley Mickens is using a small but mighty fish—the threespine stickleback—to investigate how urban development impacts freshwater ecosystems on Vancouver Island.

Want to learn more?
Tune in to Ashley’s podcast, OceanBites Out Loud: https://oceanbites.org/oceanbitesoutloud/
Explore blog posts about marine science research at OceanBites: oceanbites.org

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Sikh Immigration with Jasmine Padam

CFUV — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 23:45:05 +0000

Immigrating to a new country is never easy, and for Sikh women in Canada, the experience comes with its own unique challenges. Jasmine Padam, a master’s student in the Department of Sociology, explores the stories of Sikh women in the Lower Mainland to fill a critical gap in our understanding of immigration. We discuss how history, policy, and community shape their experiences—and why their voices are essential to the conversation.

Want to learn more?
Here are a few Instagram accounts that explore Sikhism, the Sikh diaspora, and Indian history:
@sikhexpo
@sikhheritagebc
@brownhistory
@brownhistorypodcast

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Educational Policies with Alycia Garcia

Isobel Barlow-Busch — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:33:20 +0000

This week, we’re exploring how education policies can shape a student’s future—especially for those new to the country. Alycia Garcia, a PhD student in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, breaks down how American educational policies impact newcomer students and what that means for their learning, belonging, and success.

Want to learn more?
Check out Alycia’s podcast, Teaching Appeal: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/teaching-appeal/id1794920227

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Galaxy Clusters with Max Kurzner

Isobel Barlow-Busch — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 22:05:31 +0000

In today's episode, we’re zooming out from individual stars to entire galaxies! Max Kurzner, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, takes us on a journey through the Virgo Cluster—the closest galaxy cluster to our own.

Want to learn more?
Check out Max's research on his website: maxkurzner.com
Explore a visual guide to the Virgo Cluster here: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0919a/

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Star Formation with Breanna Crompvoets

Isobel Barlow-Busch — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 20:22:36 +0000

This week on Beyond the Jargon, we’re looking to the stars—literally! Breanna Crompvoets, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, joins us to break down the science of star formation and what fuels the birth of these celestial giants.

Want to learn more?
Check out Breanna’s research on her website: bcrompvoets.github.io
Take a peek at the stunning image she studied during her master’s: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-webb-reveals-cosmic-cliffs-glittering-landscape-of-star-birth/

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Be My" by Outback x Angela – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-mar-1st-2019

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch

Kinesiology with Sophia Mastrangelo

CFUV — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

This is the last episode of Beyond the Jargon 2024! Our final guest is Sophia Mastrangelo, a 2nd year Master's student in Kinesiology. This was a super interesting final episode of this season, and I feel like I’ve learned a lot about how we can classify pain and the depth of what pain really is and how it can be reactive to different prompts and situations.

If you’re interested in more Beyond the Jargon episodes or any other podcasts from us, you can check out cfuv.uvic.ca for our podcast archive.

The original music featured in this episode is by Sam Kaiser.

Psychology - Lifespan Health and Development with Tara Cooper

CFUV — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

The guest for this episode is Tara Cooper, who is a 2nd year master’s student in the department of Psychology, specifically in Lifespan Health and Development. I invited Tara on the podcast because I wanted to give her an opportunity to come onto a show at CFUV to promote her own show The Gradcast, broadcasting soon on CFUV, and I’m so glad I did, because I feel like I’ve learned a lot more about cognitive health – especially thinking about my own cognitive health and the social determinants that may be affecting it in my day-to-day life. Stay tuned for the Gradcast coming soon to CFUV!

The original music featured in this episode is by Sam Kaiser.

Musicology with Cleo Yong

CFUV — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 21:00:00 +0000

On the second episode of Beyond the Jargon Season 10, I spoke to Cleo Yong.
Cleo is a second-year master’s student in musicology, focusing on a very interesting piece of contemporary Mexican Opera. I invited Cleo on to highlight the work being done at this level in analysing and promoting music research especially centred around areas and regions that aren’t always talked about as much. If you are interested in Cleo’s performance classwork that we mentioned, or would like to engage more with the School of Music and events they host, visit:

https://finearts.uvic.ca/music/calendar/events/

The original music featured in this episode is by Sam Kaiser.

Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders with Luke Seybold

CFUV — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:00:00 +0000

Beyond the Jargon exists to give a platform to graduate students at UVic so they can discuss their research in an accessible and non-formal way. I will be interviewing graduate students from various faculties at different points in their academic careers, asking them about their research topics, their experiences as grad students, and what their future plans may be. The first guest is Luke Seybold, a first-year master’s student in Mechanical Engineering who is part of the new interdisciplinary cohort at UVic: Coastal Climate Solutions Leaders, or CCSL. We talk about his research into wave-energy conversion and his experience in this new cohort.

Learn more about CCSL here:
https://coastalclimatesolutionsleaders.org/

The original music featured in this episode is by Sam Kaiser.

Graduate Student Perspectives on Indigenous Research Methodologies: Indigenous Youth-Led (Re)search & Sexuality

CFUV — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 06:46:02 +0000

Olvie 李 (she/keoi) was born from migrants of Hong Kong, and raised on Turtle Island. She moved to Lekwungen Territories to complete her masters degree in Social Dimensions of Health at UVic. Her project focuses on youth-led research with Indigenous youth about sexuality and sexual wellness in Wiikwemkoong, a community she calls home and has lived/worked within. She is also a nurse, birth/postpartum doula, and is always interested in radical healing work amongst racialized communities. Olvie is an experienced Public Health Nurse, skilled in Health Education/Promotion, Sexual Health, Immunizations, and Community Health

In the last episode of season 9 of Beyond the Jargon, Olvie shares her perspective as a graduate student and brings light to the importance of community-based and participatory action research approaches. She also brings insights about how vulnerable the journey of a graduate student can be and how important it is to keep the accountability to the communities we work with.

The Sociology of Healthy Aging and Assistive Technology

CFUV — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 01:18:13 +0000

Thomas recently completed his Master’s in Sociology. He and I have been working on a project related to older adults and the use of technology to support aging in place and healthy aging. The name of the project is Knowledge Implementation for Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability of Assistive Technology (KISSS-AT) MSFHR Implementation Science Team Grant, here at the University of Victoria. In this episode, Thomas shares his academic journey and brings lots of insights from an interdisciplinary perspective, indeed Thomas characterized his journey as an artistic one.

Thomas has diversified his research interests and found a way to be more philosophical, psychological, sociological to better understand the world. His Master’s thesis covers themes about the dynamics of violence, relationships, and the proximity to death. He is currently working on a manuscript about stereotype threat. In this episode, Thomas and I had a great conversation and explored questions regarding terminologies beyond the jargon such as: What is sociology? What is microsociology? How is the concept of “institutions” conceptualized in sociology? What is Gerontechnology? What are assistive technologies?

Acknowledgements:

We wish to express our gratitude to the late Dr Karen Kobayashi, whose vision and leadership and legacy for this research is foundational. Karen was a Professor in the Department of Sociology, and a Research Fellow with the Institute on Aging and Lifelong Health at the University of Victoria. As a social gerontologist and researcher, she often used life course and intersectionality approaches to draw attention to equity perspectives. Throughout her career she championed and supported critical, responsive, and accountable scholarship and knowledge mobilization. Her own research reflected her deep values of collaboration, active engagement, respect, and giving back to communities.

Deep gratitude to our key community stakeholders and research team colleagues, Robin Syme, Denise Cloutier, Simon Carroll and our project coordinator, Dr. Gord Miller.

We wish to thank the Michael Smith Foundation for providing the funding for this research project.

Thomas' ResearchGate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thomas-Mallette

Knowledge Implementation for Scale-up, Spread and Sustainability of Assistive Technology (KISSS-AT) https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/kisssat/

CanAssist: https://www.canassist.ca/

Supporting Healthy Aging through the Scale-Up, Spread, and Sustainability of Assistive Technology Implementation: A Rapid Realist Review of Participatory Co-Design for Assistive Technology with Older Adults: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23337214211023269

Karen Kobayashi Memorial Scholarship: https://extrweb.uvic.ca/donate/kobayashi-scholarship

Dual Public Health Emergencies in British Columbia

CFUV — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:04:13 +0000

This episode explores essential concepts regarding substance use. Daniel provides proper wording to refer to substance use and other key concepts and tackling stigma and discrimination while participating in conversations.
In this episode we will chat about the public policies to address the dual public health emergencies in British Columbia, a) the related deaths due to COVID-19 and b) the overdose deaths. Daniel will share his doctoral research project regarding the Public Health Guidance to address the overdose rates in BC, Canada and The Community-based approaches and advocacy groups proposing safe supply sites in BC, Canada.

Canadian Institute for Substance Use Research
https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/cisur/index.php
https://www.uvic.ca/research/centres/cisur/about/staff/staff-profiles-1/gudi%C3%B1o-daniel.php
https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-gudino
https://twitter.com/gudpe7

Amplifying Trans Voices: Community-Based Research

CFUV — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 04:43:23 +0000

Eli is part of the Chair in Transgender Studies and their supervisors are Dr. Aaron Devor from Sociology and Dr. Nancy Clark from the Social Justice Studies Program. Eli is an international graduate student and they share part of their academic journey and some resources for other international students. Eli has a social psychology background and they share their research work with community-based approaches in Canada and Mexico. Recently, Eli was awarded a fellowship through the Chair in Transgender Studies for their research work related to Trans+ topics.

In this episode, Eli shares key terminology regarding LGBTQ2+ themes. Also, we discussed important topics around gender identity. In a very casual and organic way Eli and Matty had a rich conversation and came up with questions and answers to elucidate more regarding key concepts ---Beyond the Jargon--- such as What is the story of the word Transgender? What does it mean to be non-binary? Why is it important to use pronouns? What does it mean to be a “Joto” or “Marica” in Latin America?

https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/research/scholarship/index.php
https://www.uvic.ca/research/transchair/index.php

Find out more about the upcoming Moving Trans History Forward hosted at UVic in 2023
https://www.uvic.ca/mthf2023/

The umbilical cord: the healing power of the arts

CFUV — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:25:16 +0000

In this episode, theatre grad student, Lindsay Delaronde shares her journey in academia and how her trajectories of personal growth influenced her desires of being in the healing field. From fine arts, to counselling; from art therapy to theatre; from land-based to academia settings. Lindsay shares her processes of working with and in community while working in academia and how she keeps the balance between the civic engagement and the expectations of the scholarly world. Her work adds to the decolonizing efforts of many others Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars, students, and community members at the University of Victoria. Lindsay has been genuine, brave and honest to her own values and pathways while processing real struggles in the life journey. Currently, she is ready to embark in an exciting new future endeavours as the recently awarded Audain Professorship from the Department of Visual Arts. With this episode, we celebrate diversity, beauty and the different ways of being and doing at the University of Victoria.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-delaronde-544b7865
https://www.yammagazine.com/creative-lindsay-katsitsakatste-delaronde/
https://dancewest.net/lindsay-katsitsakatste-delaronde-kanienkehaka-mohawknation

Indigenous Theatre Festival
September 16 - 18 (Phoenix Theatre, UVic)

The festival includes workshops, panel discussions, and performances and supports artists and Indigenous communities working to invigorate their languages through the medium of theatre with a goal of strengthen the exchange of research-based knowledge and best practices. Reawakening Language on Stage is hosted in collaboration with the Hul’q’umi’num’ Language and Culture Society, Hul’q’umi’num’ Language Academy, Simon Fraser University Indigenous Language Program, and Royal Roads University.

All events are FREE and open to everyone with advance registration. More information or register at indigenoustheatrefestival.com.

A look Into Psychosis Narratives

CFUV — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 13:30:00 +0000

Luke Kernan is an anthropology graduate student at the University of Victoria currently researching psychosis narratives for his PhD. His research focuses on studying the sensory states of madness within people’s psychosis narratives. He is interested in imaginative ethnography and how comics-poetry can be incorporated in anthropological writing. How can depth and expression break and remold plateaus of communication?

For more information about Luke and his research visit https://luke-kernan.com/ and https://onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca/psychosis/
Find Luke on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/lukekernan -- or @lukekernan
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Luke.Kernan.Writer - or @Luke.Kernan.Writer
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leo_mactighearnaigh/ - or @leo_mactighearnaigh

Two Mental Health groups that Luke Manages:
Unquiet Minds Project - https://www.facebook.com/unquietmindsproject.
“UNQUIET MINDS” is a recurring poetry-and-music, open-mic event, which seeks to openly generate mental health awareness for the Foundry BC network and its communities. We support youth performance via workshops as well as a chapbook publication series.

Graduate Student Health Awareness Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/244849375927364.
This group focuses on social support for graduate students--dealing with the stressors of life and mental health issues. Open to current graduate students and alumni wishing to impart their wisdom. The idea here is to organize social outings to engage each other, share advice, and most importantly, motivate each other and have as much fun as possible living well within the community! Feel free to add others!

The Sociology behind AI and Surveillance Capitalism

CFUV — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 13:30:00 +0000

Talya Jesperson is an MA student in Sociology concentrating in Cultural, Social, and Political Thought (CSPT) at the University of Victoria. She holds a BA Honours in Sociology with a minor in Technology and Society from the University of Victoria. Her research interests are the democratization of digital media and digital technologies, knowledge commons, internet decentralization, digital platforms, surveillance capitalism, and techno-social relationships.
As AI becomes more prevalent in daily life, Talya's qualitative research project aims to examine human relationships with popular AI technologies in the context of AI capitalism. Using conversation agents as the focal point, this study will demonstrate how AI is reshaping techno-social life and explore the potential for AI as a tool for capitalist exploitation.

For more information about Talya and her work, visit https://talya.is/ or find her on twitter @tortalynii (https://twitter.com/tortalynii)

The music featured in this episode includes Tomorrow by Space Monkey Death Sequence, and Camelia byUV protection.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode

Uncovering the lost fishing gear of the Salish Sea

CFUV — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 13:30:00 +0000

Caitie Frenkel is a first year master's student in the School of Environmental Studies at the University of Victoria studying why and where commercial fishing gear gets lost in the Salish Sea. Caitie’s previous career experience includes an internship with Ocean Networks Canada, a naturalist in Victoria’s whale watching industry, coordinating commercial fishing data at Archipelago, and collaborating with the Global Ghost Gear Initiative.

For more information about Caitie and her research: https://natalieban.wordpress.com/
For more information about ghost gear: https://www.ghostgear.org/

What About Care in Child and Youth Care?

CFUV — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 13:30:00 +0000

This interview features guests Shannon Cherry and Wolfgang Vachon.

Shannon is a school based CYCP (from care) who has been working in Child and Youth Care for nearly two decades. She has recently completed her masters at Ryerson University, where her primary focus has been youth leadership in child welfare.

Wolfgang has been working with children and youth for close to three decades including those who are street involved, LGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, minoritized, living in state detention, and other forms of state care. A significant part of his practice uses communtiy-arts. Wolfgang teaches child and youth care at Humber College and is currently completing his PhD in CYC at the University of Victoria.

Link to Wolfgang and Shannon's work: https://tuningintocyc.com
www.refiled.ca

Sources: https://www.iicrd.org/sites/default/files/resources/Asset-based_Development_for_child_and_youthcare_0.pdf

S7 E11: Dennis Gupa

CFUV — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode Taiwo sits down with Dennis Gupa - a PhD Candidate in the Theatre Department. Dennis explores how indigenous performance and human settlements are affected by the onslaught of modernities and colonialism.

Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join Taiwo as he explores the about cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

S7 E10: Leah Tidey & Taiwo Afolabi

CFUV — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:00:00 +0000

In this very special episode; Taiwo chats with Leah Tidey, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Theatre, University of Victoria. Leah does research in Qualitative Social Research and Performing Arts. Taiwo - who's research is also in Applied Theatre as a vehicle for social change - and Leah discuss the convergence and intersections their two research themes possess through theatrical arts.

S7 E9: Stephanie Grukhle

CFUV — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 22:13:00 +0000

In this episode; Taiwo interviews Stephanie Grukhle. Stephanie is a Master's student in the Department of Political Science and her research focuses on the international effort to eradicate sex trafficking, particularly within a European context.

S7 E8: Smith Oduro-Marfo

CFUV — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Taiwo chats with Smith Oduro-Marfo, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Smith's research explores surveillance, privacy, and identification systems in Africa - and how they interact with the concept of development.

S7 E7: Nicole Bates-Eamer

CFUV — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

Taiwo sits down with Nicole Bates-Eamer, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, whose research explores the intersection between climate change and the movement of people (voluntary migration and involuntary displacement).

S7 E6: Ambreen Shehzad Hussaini

CFUV — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 19:00:00 +0000

This time, Taiwo talks to Ambreen Shehzad Hussaini, a PhD cadidate in the department of Art History and Visual Studies, about her research into contemporary artistic expressions of the Qur'an.

S7 E5: Lynn Ng Yu Lin

CFUV — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode, Taiwo explores the work of Lynn Ng Yu Lin, a PhD Candidate in the department of Political Science and her research into the concept of foreign domestic workers working in senior-care in Singapore and the world.

S7 E4: Alby Berticević Nicols

CFUV — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode, we join Alby Berticević Nicols, an autistic, agender economics student who is also an activist. Alby discusses their research how economic systems are influenced by gender norms and social hierarchies. The results, such as matriarchal and eglatarian systems when used in practice, offer an interesting set of answers.

S7 E3: Elaine Laberge

CFUV — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode of Beyond the Jargon, we meet Elaine Laberge, a PHD student in Sociology. Taiwo Afolabi and Elaine discuss the lived experiences of inter-generational and inter-sectional poverty and how to support students coming from this background.

S7 E2: Tara Brosschot

CFUV — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

We join Tara Brosschot, who traveled all the way from the Netherlands to study biology here at UVIC. In this episode, she discusses her research on parasitic worms (or helminths) and how they affect your susceptibility to infection as well as how our body works. What inspired her interest in studying something so scary but so fascinating?

S7 E1: Tanya Manning-Lewis

CFUV — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 19:00:00 +0000

In this episode: Taiwo meets Tanya Manning-Lewis, 3rd year PHD student in the department of curriculum and instruction with a focus on language and literacy. Taiwo and Tanya discuss the use of Jamaican patois in regards to gender, literacy, and race. Beyond the Jargon is a podcast produced with support from the Uvic Graduate Student Society. Each season sees a Grad Student here at Uvic explore and discuss the research conducted by their peers. Join this season's producer - Taiwo Afolabi as he explores the cutting edge research from the researchers themselves in a way that peels away the jargon.

S 06 E 10 Matt Miller

CFUV — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:49:51 +0000

Matt Miller is a MSc candidate in the School of Earth and Ocean Sciences at the University of Victoria, and an Ocean Bridge leader.

For more information, you can visit: bridge.ocean.org

S 06 E 09 Dave Nagel

CFUV — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:45:25 +0000

Dave Nagel is a PhD candidate in Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria with an emphasis on Leadership Studies.

For more information, he can be reached by email: dnagel@uvic.ca or through LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/david-a-t-nagel-436a7b69

S 06 E 08 Brett Jameson

CFUV — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:40:20 +0000

Brett is a PhD Candidate in the SEOS department at the University of Victoria with a focus on Marine Microbial Ecology. For more information, you can follow him on Twitter: @bdjameson or Instagram: @lettersfromiwojame

S 06 E 07 Stefania Gorgopa

CFUV — Tue, 23 Oct 2018 17:32:22 +0000

Stefania recently completed her Master of Science in Environmental Sciences at the University of Victoria. Her thesis is centered around rockfish conservation data deficiency by evaluating the quality of citizen science SCUBA-derived data.

For more information, you can visit https://www.stefaniagorgopa.com/ or follow Stefania on Twitter: @sgorgopa and Instagram: @sgorgopa

S 06 E 06 Dan Hudson

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:58:05 +0000

Dan Hudson is completing his Masters in pure mathematics. His focus is on a hybrid of fields called non-commutative geometry.

S 06 E 05 Paige Thombs

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:53:09 +0000

Paige is an associate fellow at UVic's Centre for Studies in Religion and Society. Paige dreams of a day when reading for pleasure and a full night's sleep is once again a possibility.

For more information you can follow her on Twitter: @paigina or on

Instagram: paigethombs

S 06 E 04 Devon Caldwell

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:47:16 +0000

Devon is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction (Early Childhood Education) at the University of Victoria and a Kindergarten teacher at Oak Lake Community School in Manitoba, Canada. Her main research areas focus on technology and young children.

For more information on her work, you can visit her website https://devoncaldwell.com/ and her blog https://kinderdiva.blogspot.com/

S 06 E 03 Evelyn Sorochan-Ruland

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:40:09 +0000

Evelyn is a visual artist. She received her MFA from the University of Victoria in 2018 and primarily works in contemporary mixed media practices.

For more information on her work, you can visit https://evelynsorochanruland.wixsite.com/evelyn or follow Evelyn on Instagram: @evierenae

S 06 E 02 Erika Richards

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:32:07 +0000

Erika completed her Masters in Music in 2018 (Trumpet Performance) and is now a Law Student at the University of Victoria. She speaks about her experiences and research in the music program and her major career transition.

S 06 E 1 Gillian Chow-Fraser

CFUV — Mon, 22 Oct 2018 23:11:48 +0000

Gillian is a Master’s student in Environmental Science conducting research on the “big bad predators” in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta and how the energy industry impacts how they interact and where they live. She is also an active photographer and explains how camera traps are utilized in her field of work.

For more information, you can visit https://gillianchowfras.weebly.com/ or follow Gillian on Twitter: @gillianchowfras

S 05 E 10 Alex Norfolk

CFUV — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:00:00 +0000

In this episode, UVic Community Development Masters student Alex Norfolk explains the importance of deciphering a uniform definition of sex trafficking between the Washington and British Columbia border.