Talking Feral

Paul Boyce
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Talking Feral Podcast

Your host Paul Boyce, a biology PhD student, talks with guests about conservation, wildlife research, grad school and academia, science and policy and anything else in this conversation style podcast.

  1. 19/12/2021

    Phillip Vannini - What, Where, and When is Wild?

    Phillip Vannini is a professor and ethnographer at Royal Roads School of Communication and Culture. His recent work includes the documentary film Life off Grid, and the book (and documentary film) Inhabited, Wildness and the Vitality of the Land. This recent work centers around concepts of wilderness, wildness, and wild, and how these mean different things depending on who you ask where, and when. We spoke about these concepts and what they mean for wildlife and resource management, and peopl...

    57 min

  2. 09/11/2021

    Sally Gepp - The Environment in the Eyes of the Law

    Sally Gepp is an environmental lawyer and has practises as a barrister sole in New Zealand. She worked for nine years with environmental NGO Forest & Bird specializing in environmental law, and since 2019 has been working in environmental law independently. She has appeared as counsel in a number of high profile cases including in relation to the Ruataniwha Dam and the proposed the East-West Link highway development in Auckland. Sally was also a trustee of the Biodiversi...

    59 min

  3. 12/10/2021

    Eric Eaton - Field Guide for a Career Entomologist

    Eric R. Eaton is a writer and is author of Wasps: The Astonishing Diversity of a Misunderstood Insect (Princeton University Press, 2021), and the forthcoming Insectpedia (Princeton University Press, 2022). He is also lead author of the Kaufman Field Guide to Insects of North America (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007), and co-author of Insects Did It First (Xlibris, 2018) with Gregory S. Paulson. He has contributed to several other books including Wild in the City: a guide to Portlan...

    1h 14m

  4. 30/08/2021

    Bram Büscher - Conservation & Capitalism

    Dr. Bram Büscher is Professor and Chair of the Sociology of Development and Change group at Wageningen University and holds visiting positions at the University of Johannesburg and Stellenbosch University. His research looks at the political economy of environment and development, including in the politics of conservation, energy and extraction, ecotourism, new media, violence and social theory. He is the author of ‘The Truth About Nature. Environmentalism in the Era of Post-Truth Politics an...

    1h 24m

  5. 29/07/2021

    Rachel Engler-Stringer - Industrial Food and Our Future

    Dr. Rachel Engler-Stringer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan and a researcher with the Saskatchewan Population Health and Evaluation Research Unit. She is currently the chair of the Saskatoon Food Council, has a doctorate in nutrition and her research interests include community food security, food environments and food access, food system sustainability, health promotion, and community...

    1h 27m

  6. 23/07/2021

    Chris Todd Pt2 - The Laurentian Collapse and Money for Grad Students.

    This episode is part 2 of a conversation with Dr. Chris Todd. We discuss the collapse of Laurentian University, graduate student funding and the economics of tertiary education, and the breadth of expectations for academic positions. Check out www.talkingferal.com for more information and extra content!

    1h 38m

  7. 02/07/2021

    Willow Talk - The Roles We Play

    A short episode where I chat with my dog, Willow, about defining our roles in society with qualifications, finding the time to think in a doctorate of philosophy, and mechanistic conservation.

    24 min

  8. 21/06/2021

    Chris Todd - Graduating to Department Head at the Birth of Covid

    Chris Todd is a Professor and Head of the Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Science at the University of Saskatchewan. He is a plant molecular biologist with a research program focusing on molecular mechanisms driving plant responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. Chris has been with the University of Saskatchewan since 2005 and is a winner of the College of Arts and Science Distinguished Teacher Award and the Provost’s Award for Outstanding Innovation in Learning....

    56 min
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Your host Paul Boyce, a biology PhD student, talks with guests about conservation, wildlife research, grad school and academia, science and policy and anything else in this conversation style podcast.

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  • Creator
    Paul Boyce
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    33
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2021 Talking Feral
  • Show Website
    Talking Feral

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