Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we sit down with Age Studies scholar Dr. Sally Chivers to discuss her podcast, Wrinkle Radio. We discuss making a podcast for the first time, seeing the waveform of your best friend's laughter, and the intersectional ways Age Studies interacts with so many elements of life and scholarship.

Full episode transcript available at amplifypodcastnetwork.ca

Guest bio:

Dr. Sally Chivers is Full Professor of Gender & Social Justice and English at Trent University, where she is a Founding Executive Member and Past Director of the Trent Centre for Aging & Society and recipient of the 2021 Distinguished Research Award.

A prolific and sought-after speaker and collaborator, Dr. Chivers writes, speaks, and makes short films about the social and cultural politics of health, aging, and disability. Her monthly podcast Wrinkle Radio fights ageism one story at a time. She has published two books that draw on film and literary analysis to emphasize connections between aging and disability in the public imagination. Her two co-edited collections show that cultural representations influence how we think about aging, long-term care, and disability, and vice versa. 

Links and Resources:

Wrinkle Radio

Trent Center for Aging & Society

Intro + Outro Theme Music: Pxl Cray – Blue Dot Studios (2016)

Written and produced by: Stacey Copeland and Natalie Dusek

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