Hikma Collective Podcast

Hikma Collective
Hikma Collective Podcast

Welcome to the Hikma Collective Podcast! In our first season, "The Art of Alternatives," you’ll hear conversations with higher ed administrators, startup founders, and social sector leaders about the creative power of ‘in-betweenness’ and the many different pathways through which ideas take shape, travel and thrive. Sign up at www.hikma.studio to be the first to know when new episodes drop.

  1. Find agency and community within and beyond the academy

    08/24/2023

    Find agency and community within and beyond the academy

    “What does being a scholar mean to you?” How do we create learning communities that offer participants the agency to thrive? This question is at the heart of our “Beyond the Academy” research initiative in partnership with researchers Andrea Webb and Jillianne Code at the University of British Columbia. Through qualitative and quantitative methods, we have gathered insights from professional learners who know firsthand what it means to teach, be taught and co-create knowledge: PhD Students and alumni. In this episode, we share some of our findings, implications, and next steps for this ongoing work.  Topics covered in this episode include:  What does being a scholar mean to you?  Professional agency within and beyond the academy  Communities of practice and the benefits of building a constellation of communities   Dr. Andrea Webb spent a decade as a classroom teacher and department head before returning to higher education as a teacher educator. Her research interests lie in teaching and learning in higher education and she is involved in research projects related to Threshold Concepts, the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL), and Social Studies Teacher Education.   Dr. Jillianne Code is a Canadian researcher, educator, and learning scientist specializing in learner agency, online learning technologies, and the impact of social media on student success and well-being. As the Director of the ALIVE Research Lab at the University of British Columbia, Dr. Code studies agency ‘unbundled’ from formal education, including video games, virtual reality, technology education, and social media communities.

    48 min
  2. 02/02/2023

    Where to Start with the Microplastics Problem (it doesn't need to be the beginning or the end): Interview with Dr. Brian Hunt

    In this wide-ranging conversation, we talk with Brian Hunt about his research with herring around Denman Island, how microplastics can enter the food web, and why tackling microplastics requires a multi-directional approach and all levels of action. Brian also shares his story about how an obsession with fish and an opportunity to join an Antarctic voyage helped shape his career, and how he (somewhat reluctantly) joined the research effort to help tackle the microplastics problem. Topics discussed in this episode include: What a research study in microplastics looks like, from the perspective of a marine biologist who never planned to be a marine biologist How to navigate the vast systems involved in the plastics problem by identifying a place to start and working outwards The exciting potential of the UBC microplastics cluster to bring together different disciplines and partners to solve complex problems And the many benefits of doing this work in British Columbia! Dr. Brian Hunt is a member of the UBC Cluster for Microplastics, Health and the Environment, which brings together a highly interdisciplinary group of scholars aiming to ultimately support the development of informed policies regarding plastics pollution. UBC is situated on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territory of the Musqueam First Nation on the Point Grey campus, and the Syilx Peoples on the Okanagan campus. This episode was produced for the UBC Cluster for Microplastics, Health and the Environment by Hikma Strategies. It includes original music composed by Matthew Tomkinson, the 2022 Hikma Artist in Residence. This score interweaves musical notes and the crunching and clicking of plastic to evoke the omnipresence of microplastics throughout our ecosystem. Matthew holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from the University of British Columbia.  Recording Date: Apr 1, 2022

    41 min

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Welcome to the Hikma Collective Podcast! In our first season, "The Art of Alternatives," you’ll hear conversations with higher ed administrators, startup founders, and social sector leaders about the creative power of ‘in-betweenness’ and the many different pathways through which ideas take shape, travel and thrive. Sign up at www.hikma.studio to be the first to know when new episodes drop.

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