GradCast

Written by: Anthony Cruz Amalie Hutchinson Meghan Voll Scott Walters Mark Ambrogio Ryan Baxter Suzy Lee Apurva Desai Maria Khan Garth Casbourn Liam Clifford
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  • The official podcast of the Society of Graduate Students at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. We aim to showcase the innovative research that graduate students are conducting at Western University and appeal to various audiences including those within and beyond the academic community.
    Copyright 2017 GradCast Radio. All rights reserved.
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Episodes
  • #BookCast 6 | The Book of Two Ways

    #BookCast 6 | The Book of Two Ways
    Feb 6 2025

    For our seventh episode of #BookCast, we discuss “The Book of Two Ways” by Jodi Picoult—a story that explores whether we make our choices—or our choices make us. Our story begins with a plane-crash, where our main character, Dawn Edelstein is faced with the choice to return home to her life as a death-doula, or continue on to Egypt to complete her doctoral studies researching the coffin-texts and “Book of Two Ways”, a map of routes souls can take to the afterlife.

    Join Riya Sidhu, Garth Casbourn, Scott Walters, resident Egyptologist: Maris Schneider, and Meghan Voll as we dive into the book’s main themes and quirks, such as it’s non-linear writing style, the duality of life and death, the nature of choices, and selfless versus selfish action. This podcast edit features a reveal of the next title in our ongoing series.

    Aired February 6th, 2025 at 11 AM on Radio Western, 94.9 FM in London, Ontario.

    Recorded on January 28, 2025

    Produced by Scott Walters

    Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
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    57 mins
  • 492 | Mining and Modeling: Here and Abroad

    492 | Mining and Modeling: Here and Abroad
    Feb 4 2025
    This week, hosts Garth Casbourn and Ryan Baxter speak with GradCast's own Mohammad Zeraati, a third-year PhD student in Civil and Environmental Engineering about some of the real-world implications of his research into the “Instability behaviour of granular soil and tailings and particle cementation.” Some of the topics discussed include mining regulation, computational methods, and the environmental effects of mining, through mining waste.

    Recorded on January 28, 2025

    Produced by Jessica Eblie, Scott Walters, Maria Khan

    Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
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    27 mins
  • 491 | Politics and Media Representation of Cow Violence

    491 | Politics and Media Representation of Cow Violence
    Jan 28 2025

    Hosts Mark Ambrogio and Maris Schneider are joined by Sananda Sahoo, a Postdoctoral Associate at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies. In Sananda's PhD dissertation, her research extrapolated how mainstream English-language Indian newspapers represent Muslims in the context of cow violence. She discusses the tension between the Muslims and other communities, mainly Hindus from colonial India and contemporary settings. Now, in Sananda’s post-doctoral research, she is looking into the government's usage of AI and facial recognition technology in the public sector in India and how it impacts human behaviour and surveillance. She also shares her academic joinery and her work at a newspaper and radio station. Content disclaimer: This episode touches upon religious lynching and violence against Muslims in India.

    Recorded on January 21, 2025

    Produced by Maria Khan

    Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot
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    28 mins

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