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Have you listened to the Laurier Research Chat podcast and wanted to participate in the conversation?
Recruitment for Season 3 of the Research Chat podcast is now open! Graduate student participants are trained and coached through writing a clear language article about their research and how to interview each other, and speak about their research. Potential participants must meet the following criteria:
"The plain language and conversational format of Research Chat provides an excellent venue for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to reach both traditional and non-traditional audiences, and a means to enhance the impact of their research and findings."
Brent Wolfe, Acting Associate Vice-President and Dean, Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies
If you are interested in sharing your research and participating in Season 3 of Research Chat, please email Shawna Reibling at sreibling@wlu.ca.
Launched in 2020, Research Chat is a podcast showcasing graduate students' research and experiences at Wilfrid Laurier University.
The second season features graduate students from diverse faculties and departments, including Human and Social Sciences, Geography and Environmental Studies, Psychology, Music, and more. Students exploring similar areas of interest interview each other about their ongoing research. Each episode set switches who is the interviewer and who is the interviewee. Both episodes feature engaging conversations about current research practices. Students also share how COVID-19 has affected them in their research programs.
Each podcast is complemented by an article and supplementary materials. The first season of Research Chat is also available, which features graduate students discussing risk management by insurance companies, climate change action, improving hiring practices, babies without birth registration, a recreation program for disabled kids, and giving voice to the voiceless.
Research Chat is a partnership between the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, WLU Library/WLUPress and the Office of Research.