GradCast Anthony Cruz, Amalie Hutchinson, Meghan Voll, Scott Walters, Mark Ambrogio, Ryan Baxter, Suzy Lee, Apurva Desai, Maria Khan, Garth Casbourn, Liam Clifford

This week, GradCast hosts Amalie Hutchinson and Anthony Cruz chat with Maddie Bloomberg, a Master's student in the department of psychology. Maddie shares her research into category learning and individual differences that can arise between neurotypical and neurodivergent fish-categorizers. 
To find out more about Maddie's work, check out her linkedin

Recorded on June 18, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).

This week, hosts Mark Ambrogio and Garth Casbourn are joined by Alan Oldham, a PhD candidate in Western's School of Kinesiology. In his work, Alan asks some challenging questions about sports. Is it fair for games to end in a tie? How do we decide who can or can't play a sport? Sports play a huge role in our lives, but these questions aren't easy to answer. Fittingly, Alan also talks about his experience in the Olympic sport of rowing.
To get in contact with Alan, find him on Twitter or LinkedIn.

Recorded on June 11, 2024.
Produced by Anthony Cruz.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).

In this very special episode, Meghan Voll and Mark Ambrogio interview soon-to-be Master of Media Studies graduate student Janelle Allan. In this episode, Janelle asks our hosts her burning question about all things grad school, from getting a teaching assistantship, to managing new academic workloads. If you're entering a graduate program, you'll want to tune into this episode!
To follow Janelle on this new journey, follow her on Linkedin!

Recorded on June 4, 2024
Produced by Suzy Lee
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ Produced by White Hot

This week, GradCast welcomes Ameena Abid back to the interview table to follow up on her independent study project within her Master's of Social Work. Join hosts Mark Ambrogio and Anthony Cruz in their discussion with Ameena into her own family history - an autoethnography - and explore topics of nostalgia, the connection between grandparents and grandchildren, and how a story that seems like an outlier case may well comprise a whole story on its own.
To get in contact with Ameena, check out her Linkedin

Recorded on May 28, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson 
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).

This week, hosts Mark Ambrogio and Ryan Baxter interview Benjamin Vazquez, a student at Huron here at Western working on a master of arts in theology. They chat about the work of Gordon Lloyd, a local architect who lived and worked in the late 19th century. Benjamin follows Lloyd's career and spends, in his words, altogether too much time in old churches - but he loves it!

Recorded on May 21, 2024
Produced by Amalie Hutchinson 
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).

This week, hosts Liam Clifford and Amalie Hutchinson are joined by Alexander Sallas, a PhD candidate in Western's Department of English and Writing Studies. In his dissertation, Alexander talks about the Deus Ex Machina, a special, unpredictable way to end a story. Some people believe that this is not a great way to end a story, but Alexander strongly disagrees. Unpredictable events happen all the time in real life, so why can't they happen in a story?

Recorded on May 14, 2024.
Produced by Anthony Cruz.
Theme song provided by https://freebeats.io/ (Produced by White Hot).