Beyond the Jargon

In today's episode, we’re zooming out from individual stars to entire galaxies! Max Kurzner, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, takes us on a journey through the Virgo Cluster—the closest galaxy cluster to our own.

Want to learn more?
Check out Max's research on his website: maxkurzner.com
Explore a visual guide to the Virgo Cluster here: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0919a/

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Present" by 1000 Petal Lotus – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-may-18th-2018

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch 

This week on Beyond the Jargon, we’re looking to the stars—literally! Breanna Crompvoets, a PhD student in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, joins us to break down the science of star formation and what fuels the birth of these celestial giants.

Want to learn more?
Check out Breanna’s research on her website: bcrompvoets.github.io
Take a peek at the stunning image she studied during her master’s: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-webb-reveals-cosmic-cliffs-glittering-landscape-of-star-birth/

Music featured in today’s episode:
"Be My" by Outback x Angela – listen here: https://cfuv.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-cfuv-mar-1st-2019

Produced by Isobel Barlow-Busch 

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/