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Roots to Reconciliation On today’s episode of the VIEW to the U podcast, which has come out in honour of the month of June where we celebrate National Indigenous History Month, with National Indigenous Peoples Day falling on June 21st, 2019. We will learn more about the work of Professor Tracey Galloway from U of T Mississauga’s Department of Anthropology, and the health-focused research she does with northern Indigenous populations in Canada. We find out more about Tracey’s journey from working as a nurse in the urban Intensive Care Unit in a London, Ontario hospital to her current academic path where she looks at social determinants of health and assesses access to nutritious, affordable and culturally relevant foods for Indigenous communities in Canada’s north. With this new, third season of the VIEW to the U highlighting UTM’s Global Perspectives, Tracey discusses her Northern research that takes her to some of the most distant areas of Canada and has led to a shift in the way she defines the term “r

Arctic Anecdotes On this episode of the VIEW to the U podcast, which has come out in honour of Earth Day, April 22, 2019, we will learn more about climate change and its effects on aquatic ecosystems and Indigenous populations with Professor Igor Lehnherr. Igor Lehnherr is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at U of T Mississauga, where he has been on faculty since 2014. Prior to coming to UTM he was the W. Garfield Weston postdoctoral fellow in Northern Research in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. His research seeks to understand the impacts of environmental stressors such as contaminants and climate change on aquatic ecosystems, and he focuses primarily on Arctic and Boreal ecoregions. His current projects include studying how the recent accelerated melting of glaciers and lake ice has impacted carbon cycling and mercury bioaccumulation in these northern regions. On this episode of the podcast we get insight on a few other topics that

Mothers and migration On this edition of the VIEW to the U podcast we are hearing from Professor Neda Maghbouleh, who may sound a bit familiar because she was featured last year on the podcast during our Women in Academia season. And, in the spirit of International Women’s Day, which falls on March 8, the interview with Neda is reposted because some of her research has focused on a project that specifically looks at the stress Syrian newcomer mothers face in settling in a new land. Also with this new, third season of the VIEW to the U highlighting UTM’s "Global Perspectives," Neda discusses her research, which largely stems from her passion for Sociology, but also outlines the inspiration for her book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian-Americans & the Everyday Politics of Race, that was inspired, in part, by her own experience of crossing the border at Niagara Falls when she came to Canada from the US to start her academic appointment at U of T in 2013. A full transcript of the podcast interview is availa

Destination: Africa On today’s episode of the VIEW to the U podcast we are talking mapping borders and territories and its impact on identities in Africa in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with Professor Julie MacArthur, an Assistant Professor in UofT Mississauga's Department of Historical Studies and cross appointed in the Department of History in the Faculty of Arts & Science on the U of T St. George campus. She is also a Fellow with the Jackman Humanities Institute at UofT. We cover a range of other topics that relate to Julie's work, such as aesthetic education and African cinema, as well as a special event she is participating in with Masai Ujiri, president of the Toronto Raptors, in relation to Black History Month as it draws to a close for 2019. With this new, third season of the VIEW to the U highlighting UTM’s Global Perspectives, Julie will discuss her research, which focuses on the role of geographic borders and local practices of space, representation and memory shaping constructions of

Kajri Jain is an Associate Professor of Indian Visual Culture and Contemporary Art in the Department of Visual Studies at U of T Mississauga and in the Department of Art at UofT St. George, with a cross-appointment at the Institute for Cinema Studies and in the Centre for South Asian Studies. She is interested in how the values associated with images arise not only from what you see in the visual representation, but also from the production, circulation and deployments of images as material objects. She initially trained as a graphic designer at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, but has been on faculty at UofT since 2007. On this episode of the podcast we are talking art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world with Professor Kajri Jain from UTM’s Department of Visual Studies. On this episode of the podcast Kajri talks about art, art history, and the importance of Art and imagination in research, but also in today’s world. A full t

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Tracy Rogers plots her research path that has led to her place as forensic anthropologist at the University of Toronto Mississauga and as a consultant with the Ontario Forensic Pathology Service. She discusses her broad program of research that touches on several areas, including identifying skeletal remains, analyzing bone composition, and investigating skeletal health. Tracy Rogers is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and the Director of the Forensic Science Program at UTM. Her research examines methods of estimating the age-at-death of an individual based on the skeleton, skeletal-sex determination, skeletal techniques for determining the ancestry of the deceased, and the identification of unidentified human remains. Based on her research expertise she has been actively involved in case work since 1998, and has provided testimony for several high profile cases in Ontario, Manitoba and British Columbia. With t

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Jennifer Stellar from the Department of Psychology at the University of Toronto Mississauga discusses her program of research that touches on several areas, including how individuals and social groups thrive. Her lab particularly focuses on the ways in which various positive emotions, such as compassion, awe, empathy, and gratitude, can improve an individual’s physical health, well-being and enhance relationships, as well as encourage morality and prosocial behaviours. A transcribed version of the interview is available here: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/JS-transcribed%2CSept.2018.pdf. Read more about her work on her website, https://jenniferstellar.com/, or see the TEDMED talk Prof. Stellar gave, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU0QOKIPU9o, as well as read a profile of her work here: https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/main-news/putting-stock-awe-utm-researcher-link-between-positive-emotions-and-physical-health.

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming – Women in Academia – to bring you this special edition of VIEW to the U that features Kent Moore, a Professor in the Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences at UofT Mississauga (UTM), and as of July 1, 2018 is UTM’s Vice-Principal, Research, appointed for a three-year term. On this episode, Kent talks about his research, which investigates climate change, using theoretical, computational, and observational techniques to understand the dynamics of the climate system, and he also studies the impact that weather has on human physiology and performance. He talks about how he got into this field of study, and also what he hopes to accomplish as UTM's new Vice-Principal, Research. A transcribed version of the interview is available: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/KM-transcribed%2CJuly2018.pdf.

The guests on this edition of VIEW to the U are University of Toronto Mississauga Professors Neda Maghbouleh and Jasmine Rault. Neda and Jasmine define and explore their particular studies, covering topics such as race, immigration, ethics, place, sexuality, archives and digital humanities. Today we go beyond limits – not just of race and gender, but also moving past some traditional models of how research is realized or conducted, and perhaps “beyond the limits of imagination,” which comes up in the conversation. We are also expanding into two different departments – with the Department of Sociology represented by both profs, as well as the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology where one of them also holds an appointment. A full transcript of the interview is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/NM-JR-transcribed%2CJuly2018.pdf.

On this episode, Professor Lindsay Schoenbohm talks about her work that uses the landscape to read tectonics, with tectonics being the process that affect the properties and the structure of the Earth’s crust and its evolution over time. We also cover some of the faraway locales she has travelled to in order to conduct her fieldwork – venturing most commonly to ‘seismically active parts of the world,’ where earthquakes can occur – as well as some of the more exciting and memorable trips that have occurred over the course of her academic career. With this second season of the podcast focused on Women in Academia, Lindsay also discusses the associated challenges and frustrations for women in the work environment but she sees hope on the horizon with the open dialogue and debates that have been sparked over the past year or so. Lindsay is an Associate Professor and an Associate Chair in the Department of Chemical & Physical Sciences at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Her research explores Tectonic Geom

Trees are part of our everyday landscape, even in a big city like Toronto, but sometimes we pass by these plants in the urban forest without giving them much thought. They are, however, of significant interest for this guest on VIEW to the U, Professor Tenley Conway, and have been a preoccupation of hers for the last few years. On this episode, Tenley talks her work examining how human-environmental interactions impact the urban forests in cities and suburbs, and the diverse group of actors or the residents that end up shaping what she refers to as our “urban ecosystem.” We also touch on the benefits of trees, but also some of the “disservices” of trees when they cause issues or become problematic for residents. A full transcript of the interview is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/TC-transcribed%2CApril2018.pdf.

On this edition of the VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Sonia Kang charts her research path in the Department of Management within the Institute for Management and Innovation at University of Toronto Mississauga. She discusses her broad program of research that touches on several areas, including managing multiple identities, résumé whitening, the psychological foundations of discrimination, and the effects of stigma and stereotyping and their connection to age, race, gender and also a new line of inquiry looking at the stigma of mental health. A full transcript of the podcast is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/SK-transcribed%2CMarch2018.pdf.

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Liza Blake, an Assistant Professor in the Department of English & Drama at U of T Mississauga, spins us through her work, exploring her current research program at UTM that includes two books in the works focused on medieval and Renaissance literature, poetics, literature and science, and literature and philosophy. With this second season of the podcast focused on Women in Academia, she also imparts some advice for young female scholars that can be useful for really anyone starting out in their career. A full transcript of the interview is available at https://bit.ly/31QXv8R.

Comics, gaming, visualizations, healthcare, learning, and communication integrated via visual media in science and medicine. On this edition of VIEW to the U we will explore all of these concepts with another trip down the hall to the Biomedical Communications department here at U of T Mississauga. You will hear a familiar voice – that of Professor Jodie Jenkinson, whom I interviewed last year on the podcast – and she will be joined by her colleagues Professor Shelley Wall and graduate student Andrea Gauthier. These three academics are helping kick off Season 2 of VIEW to the U, and this year in 2018 will feature women in academia at UTM from a range of our 15 departments. In this first episode we cover a bit of Jodie Jenkinson’s work, which includes looking at how the design of animations and interactive tools may be used effectively for learning, but we also find out more about Shelley Wall’s work in comics and graphic medicine in relation to visual communication, and Andrea Gauthier’s exploration of emp

End-of the year wrap-up of VIEW to the U. Full transcript available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/A%20Year%20in%20Review.pdf.

Professor Loren Martin, a faculty member in U of T Mississauga’s Department of Psychology, discusses the various aspects related to his work, and we touch on several areas including his chronic pain research lab at UTM, how gender factors into pain studies, the placebo affect, and some of the challenges that emerging scholars face. A full transcript of this podcast is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/Transcribed-LM%2CDec.19.pdf.

The guest on this edition of VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Soo Min Toh talks about, among other things, the research that she has done in gender and the workplace, particularly in the area of women in leadership roles, something that has particular relevance for Soo Min’s own current situation: in the summer of 2017, she took on the role of Director at University of Toronto Mississauga’s Institute for Management & Innovation, also known as IMI, where she is helping to foster this expansive team, which boasts no less than 6 graduate professional programs, the home of dozens of faculty members, some cross-appointed over eight of UTM’s departments, and nearly 30 administrative staff, for continued success and future development as IMI continues to evolve. We will also cover a range of topics in relation to scholarship, such as the work Soo Min has done in expatriate management, the integration of foreign-trained professionals within organizations, and, because it’s a word that gets used a lot, what “innovat

On this edition of VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Rebecca Wittmann from the Department of Historical Studies speaks broadly about her research on the Holocaust and its enduring effect on Germany and subsequent generations. We also cover a range of topics in relation to her work, including Rebecca’s very personal connection to this area of research, how Germany has confronted its past, and what lessons are to be drawn from it in light of some of the current political tension around the world. She also talks about her observations on the changing and enhanced academic environment at UTM. A full transcript of the podcast is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/RW-transcribed_Oct%2C2017.pdf.

On this edition of VIEW to the U podcast, Professor Mohan Matthen from the Department of Philosophy discusses his research in perception, and the scientific perspective he brings to his particular branch of philosophy, as well as his more recent work in pleasure learning and cultural learning in relation to aesthetic pleasure. With this Tier I Canada Research Chair in Philosophy, Perception and Communication, we also cover a range of topics as it relates to his work, including the “wow factor” in the movies, a Game of Thrones reference, a bit of virtual reality, and ‘the colour of that dress.’ A full transcript of the podcast is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/MM-transcribed%2COct%2C2017.pdf.

On this edition of the podcast, Professor Jodie Jenkinson, takes us on a virtual tour of her work in the Biomedical Communications department, examining her current research program, how she ended up in this area after starting out her career as an animator, what kinds of developments she’s seen over her time at UTM, and what she sees on the horizon for her field. A full transcript of the podcast is available at http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/vp-research/sites/files/vp-research/public/shared/JJ-podcast-FINAL-transcibed.pdf. Resources See the Science Vis Lab at https://bmcresearch.utm.utoronto.ca/sciencevislab/index.html Also listen to the Raw Talk podcast featuring Prof. Jenkinson https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/raw-talk-podcast/e/8-dr-jodie-jenkinson-48948494 And to find out more about the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications program, see https://bmc.med.utoronto.ca/bmc/.