Dr. Lena Hübner, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Ottawa, discusses her research on cyber violence and its impact on women’s digital information practices. The conversation explores Hübner’s work, conducted in collaboration with Co-Savoir, a Montreal-based community organization, examining how online harassment such as hate speech, and exposure to harmful content affects racialized women’s access to news and activism.… Read More “Researching Cyberviolence & the Politics of Not Caring with Dr. Lena Hübner”

In this fascinating episode, Dr. Kelly Bronson, reveals how Big Tech companies use AI and big data to gain, maintain, and wield their power, especially within the field of agriculture (pun intended!). The conversation, set during a December 2024 snowstorm in Ottawa, teases out some of the ethical, moral, social, and financial implications of these technologies in order to ask: what are we even doing?!?… Read More “Researching the Politics of AI, Big Data, & Agribusiness with Dr. Kelly Bronson”

In this episode, we find our host particularly giggly with Dr. Maggie M. Werner, professor of writing and rhetoric at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, as they explore the politics of language and writing. The conversation begins with Dr.… Read More “Researching Writing & Portmanteau Words with Dr. Maggie Werner ”

In this episode, Dr. Willow Scobie, associate professor of sociology and coordinator of the MA programs in sociology at the University of Ottawa, discusses her multiple research projects illuminating extractivism both by mining companies in Quebec and within introductory sociology textbooks in Canada.… Read More “Researching Extractivism in Mining and in Scholarship with Dr. Willow Scobie”

In this episode, feminist sociologist Farinaz Basmachi shares her current doctoral research on sexuality, sexual agency, and sexual violence in Canada and Iran, as well as the research from her first dissertation (yes, she’s doing TWO PhD’s!) titled Not Just About a Piece of Cloth: Three Content Analysis Studies of an Online Anti-Mandatory Hijab Movement in Iran.… Read More “Researching Sexual Violence & Revolutionary Resistance with Farinaz Basmechi”

In this episode Phyllis dives deep into the world of social research with the extraordinary Dr. Ivy Bourgeault. 🌟 Highlights include learning how Ivy has published more papers in a year than most do in a career! Appreciating the value of a gender lens in health research and why diversity is so important on our research teams.… Read More “Researching Gender, Health, and Equity with Publishing Powerhouse Ivy Bourgeault”

In this episode, Phyllis digs into what we can learn from error (our own and others) with the brilliant Dr. Michael Allan, a comparative literature professor at the University of Oregon. They kick things off with Mike’s latest research on late-19th-century filmmaker Alexandre Promio of the Lumière Brothers, unpacking what it means to “research an ellipsis.”… Read More “Researching an Ellipsis with Dr. Michael Allan”

In this episode, Phyllis talks with PhD student Tyler Escott (he/they/“whatever”) about sex, sex work, porn, and stigma. His thesis, Making and Managing the Discredited Victim: Reproduction of Sex Work Stigma in Canadian News Media, 2010-2019, was nominated for a university prize for its thorough & brilliant content & discourse analyses of how sex work gets discussed in the media.… Read More “Researching Sex Work, Porn and Stigma with Tyler Escott, MA”