GradLIFE Podcast

Graduate College (UIUC)

Chatting about the graduate school experience and how to successfully pursue an advanced degree. One conversation at a time.

  1. 06/18/2024

    AI @ Illinois: Surveillance and Syntax with Kainen Bell and Antonio Hamilton

    This episode is part of our special GradLIFE series AI at Illinois, where we delve into the impacts of artificial intelligence technologies on our graduate students' research, teaching, and thinking. On this episode, Bri Lafond (Writing Studies doctoral candidate and Graduate College Career Exploration Fellow) sits down with Kainen Bell (School of Information Sciences) and Antonio Hamilton (English) for a chat about how AI is impacting conversations around writing, education, and surveillance. ____ Show Notes: Kainen Bell Information Sciences at Illinois  Community Data Clinic Wikimedia Foundation Antonio Hamilton English at Illinois Writers Workshop Some Miscellany from the Show:  Anti-Surveillance Campaigns in Brazil - Get my face out of your sight! (Tire meu rosto da sua mira!) - National Campaign in Brazil - No Camera in my face (Sem Câmera na minha cara) - Local Campaign in Recife Brazil From Kainen: To learn more about how global communities are resisting Data Colonialism, read the recently published book, Resisting Data Colonialism – A Practical Intervention - Created by a network of Activists, Scholars, and Community Organizers named Tierra Común - Kainen wrote a submission titled, Resistance storytelling: Anti-Surveillance campaign in Recife, Brazil (Page 63) Institute for IP and Social Justice Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Noble Gender Shades, Joy Buolamwini GradLIFE is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. For more information, and for anything else related to the Graduate College, visit us at grad.illinois.edu

    43 min
  2. 04/25/2023

    Playing Cyberball with Haley Skymba

    If you can, cast your mind back to high school. For some of us, it's been a little longer than others. You might think of the sound of chattering classmates in the hallway, or maybe of studying late for an important test. Adolescence is a particularly challenging time that comes with many difficult emotions, and it's never been easy to be a teenager.  But here at the University of Illinois, researchers have demonstrated that past experiences with bullying, friendlessness, and other forms of social exclusion directly impact teenage girls' perceptions of their self-worth. Beckman Institute researcher and Professor of Psychology Karen Rudolph and her team think this is a crucial first step in crafting intervention programs to improve teen mental health. On this episode of the GradLIFE Podcast, Graduate College Communications Specialist John Moist chats with Haley Skymba, a doctoral student at UIUC and Beckman Institute researcher, to talk about her work on Dr. Rudolph's research team. Haley was gracious enough to come in and chat about her research, background, and where she plans to take her work from here.   __  Show Notes:  The GradLIFE Podcast is a production of the Graduate College at the University of Illinois. Learn more about the GradLIFE Blog, Podcast, and Newsletter here.  To read more about this research, visit the Illini News Bureau and The Beckman Institute  Dr. Karen Rudolph  Haley Skymba  Click here to access the research featured in this podcast from the Journal of Research on Adolescence.  The Beckman Institute's clip of Haley Skymba is kindly provided from this video.  Learn more about the Family Studies Lab  Check out The Beckman Institute   The research discussed in this podcast was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under award numbers MH105655 and MH68444. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and guests and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

    28 min

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Chatting about the graduate school experience and how to successfully pursue an advanced degree. One conversation at a time.