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At the dawn of the social media era, Belle Gibson became a pioneering wellness influencer - telling the world how she beat cancer with an alternative diet. Her bestselling cookbook and online app provided her success, respect, and a connection to the cancer-battling influencer she admired the most. But a curious journalist with a sick wife began asking questions that even those closest to Belle began to wonder. Was the online star faking her cancer and fooling the world? Kaitlyn Dever stars in the Netflix hit series Apple Cider Vinegar . Inspired by true events, the dramatized story follows Belle’s journey from self-styled wellness thought leader to disgraced con artist. It also explores themes of hope and acceptance - and how far we’ll go to maintain it. In this episode of You Can't Make This Up, host Rebecca Lavoie interviews executive producer Samantha Strauss. SPOILER ALERT! If you haven't watched Apple Cider Vinegar yet, make sure to add it to your watch-list before listening on. Listen to more from Netflix Podcasts .…
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The University of Victoria is home to a handful of hardworking graduate students doing trailblazing work in their field. In this series, CFUV correspondents sit down with UVic graduate students to learn more about the work they do in a conversational setting.
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The University of Victoria is home to a handful of hardworking graduate students doing trailblazing work in their field. In this series, CFUV correspondents sit down with UVic graduate students to learn more about the work they do in a conversational setting.
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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.…
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…
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…
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/…
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.…
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!…
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…
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/…
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.…
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. 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.…
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