This interview features guests Shannon Cherry and Wolfgang Vachon. 

Shannon is a school based CYCP (from care) who has been working in Child and Youth Care for nearly two decades. She has recently completed her masters at Ryerson University, where her primary focus has been youth leadership in child welfare. 

Wolfgang has been working with children and youth for close to three decades including those who are street involved, LGBTQ+, survivors of trauma, minoritized, living in state detention, and other forms of state care. A significant part of his practice uses communtiy-arts. Wolfgang teaches child and youth care at Humber College and is currently completing his PhD in CYC at the University of Victoria.

Link to Wolfgang and Shannon's work: https://tuningintocyc.com
www.refiled.ca 

Sources: https://www.iicrd.org/sites/default/files/resources/Asset-based_Development_for_child_and_youthcare_0.pdf

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.

In this episode; Taiwo interviews Stephanie Grukhle. Stephanie is a Master's student in the Department of Political Science and her research focuses on the international effort to eradicate sex trafficking, particularly within a European context.

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.

Taiwo chats with Smith Oduro-Marfo, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science. Smith's research explores surveillance, privacy, and identification systems in Africa - and how they interact with the concept of development.

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.

Taiwo sits down with Nicole Bates-Eamer, a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science, whose research explores the intersection between climate change and the movement of people (voluntary migration and involuntary displacement).

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.

This time, Taiwo talks to Ambreen Shehzad Hussaini, a PhD cadidate in the department of Art History and Visual Studies, about her research into contemporary artistic expressions of the Qur'an. 

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 episode, Taiwo explores the work of Lynn Ng Yu Lin, a PhD Candidate in the department of Political Science and her research into the concept of foreign domestic workers working in senior-care in Singapore and the world.  

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 episode, we join Alby Berticević Nicols, an autistic, agender economics student who is also an activist. Alby discusses their research how economic systems are influenced by gender norms and social hierarchies. The results, such as matriarchal and eglatarian systems when used in practice, offer an interesting set of answers.

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 episode of Beyond the Jargon, we meet Elaine Laberge, a PHD student in Sociology. Taiwo Afolabi and Elaine discuss the lived experiences of inter-generational and inter-sectional poverty and how to support students coming from this background.

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.