Shawn Pendergast is an instructor at the Marine Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland, a PhD candidate with the University of Calgary, and has been working in higher eduation and IT for decades. In this episode, Shawn shares strageties for students and instructors on how to approach online courses, course structure, and specific software to keep student engaged and support group projects online.

PhD candidate Naomie Barnes shares her experience doing fieldwork on digital communities. Naomie wrote her master's thesis on true crime fandom, focusing on online forums and chat rooms.

Professor Lynn Kendall is Chair of the Business Administration Department at Memorial University's Grenfell campus. In this episode, she shares strategies and tools for teaching online classes. She also talks about how she transitioned her in-person classes to an online format in response to COVID-19 measures. Check out more resources here.

Celeste Suart is graduate student in the Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences at McMaster University. Celeste is leading a project investigating the impact of the COVID-19 research disruption on graduate students and postdoctoral fellows conducting laboratory-based research in Canada. Click on the link in the description this podcast to take the survey for "When the Labs Closed: Graduate Students’ & Postdoctoral Fellows’ Experiences of Disrupted Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic."

Dr. Gabrielle Young is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at Memorial University. She teaches courses surrounding understanding and supporting students with specific learning disorders. Her research interests surround the use of technology to support students in inclusive classrooms and facilitate positive mental health. In this episode, we focus on strategies for graduate students to get the most out of remote learning and how to maintain a system of support despite social distancing measures.

PhD graduates and current Banting Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Bailey Gerrits (University of Winnipeg) and Dr. William Hébert (Memorial University) walk us through qualitative research strategies, from starting your research to data management. This workshop was presented by the Nexus Centre.

The first episode in our remote learning series! Dr. Vernon Curran, the Associate Dean of Educational Development in the Faculty of Medicine at Memorial University, shares tips and strategies for students adjusting to web-based learning and remote classes.

This episode concludes our series on student research with guest host Bryan Heystee. In part one of this episode, Logan Zeinhart shares his research on spider crabs. In part two, guest host Bryan Heystee talks about his research on philosopher George Grant.

In this episode, guest host Bryan Heystee talks with PhD candidate Sheridan Thompson about her research on coastal changes in Iceland.

In this episode, Rhiana Fitts, a graduate students at Harvard University's T.H. Chan School of Public Health, talks about COVID-19, the differences between social distancing, quarantine and isolation, and more.

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