Have you heard of doomscrolling? It was coined during the COVID-19 pandemic to describe the phenomenon of the rise in negative feelings after viewing pandemic-related media. In this episode Professor Matthew Prices discusses his research on the negative association between daily social media consumption and mental health symptoms during the COVID-1…

Most young adults use Instagram and Facebook frequently. Social media use is associated with increased negative social comparisons. Negative social comparisons on social media are related to suicidal ideation. In this episode Professor Elizabeth Spitzer discusses her research on the negative social comparison, suicidal ideation, thwarted belongingn…

Performing random acts of kindness increases the happiness in both the givers and receivers. However, people underestimate the positive value performing a random act of kindness may have. In this episode Professor Kumar discusses his recent paper "A Little Good Goes an Unexpectedly Long Way: Underestimating the Positive Impact of Kindness on Recipi…

Understanding patient sociodemographic factors is necessary to quantify equity and inclusion in healthcare. The World Health Organization recommends all countries integrate health inequality monitoring into their information systems and develop practices that promote health equity. Dr. Murdoch Leeies explains the findings of his recent publication …

Drug checking is a harm reduction response to help prevent people who use drugs from consuming substances they did not intend to purchase and to provide the opportunity to make informed decisions about drug use. Substance use stigma prevents people from engaging in harm reduction practices. In this podcast episode, Samantha Davis discusses her rece…

William K. Black is a professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City (UMKC) and the Distinguished Scholar in Residence for Financial Regulation at the University of Minnesota Law School. He is a white-collar criminologist. He was the Executive Director of the Institute for Fraud Prevention from 2005-2007. He was a senior…

Julie Segal is Senior Manager, Climate Finance at Environmental Defence, where she advances climate-related financial policy and regulation. In this episode, Julie discusses her paper, "Justice and Sustainability: Pricing in Physical Climate Risks" which won First Prize Paper in the Ethics & Trust in Finance Global Prize. The paper discusses how pr…

Professor June Carbone Professor holds the Robina Chair in Law, Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to beginning this position in 2013, she was the Edward A. Smith/Missouri Chair of Law, the Constitution and Society at the University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC). She is an expert in family law, assisted repr…

In this episode, Aleah Fontaine and Katherine Starzyk discuss their paper, "Attitudes Toward Reconciliation in Canada: Relationships With Connectedness to Nature, Animal–Human Continuity, and Moral Expansiveness" published in the Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science in 2021. In this paper they surveyed 233 non-Indigenous undergraduate students i…

Dr. Anna Sheftel is internationally recognized for many of her publications, including the article she discusses in this episode: “Talking and Not Talking about Violence: Challenges in Interviewing Survivors of Atrocity as Whole People,” which won the Oral History Association’s 2019 Article Award. Dr. Sheftel is Principal and Associate Professor in…

Becki Ross is a long-time academic-activist in social movements, including feminist activism, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ liberation, trans rights, sex workers’ sovereignty, and reproductive justice. Becki does her queerly feminist anti-colonial teaching and research in Sociology at the Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice at the Uni…

Ellie Gutowski, PhD is an Assistant Professor at University of Toronto in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development. Ellie discusses two of her first author papers: “Like I’m Invisible: IPV Survivor-Mothers’ Perceptions of Seeking Child Custody through the Family Court System” and “Coercive Control in the Courtroom: the Legal Abuse…

Between 2017 and May 2020, with funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada, Rise Women's Legal Centre studied how the family law system responds to family violence in BC. This episode discusses some of the key findings of the 2021 report from Rise Women's Legal Centre, authored by Haley Hrymak & Kim Hawkins: Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along-Ris…

David Ng is a queer, feminist, media artist, and co-Artistic Director of Love Intersections - an arts collective made up of queer people of colour. This episode discusses David and Jen Sungshine's paper on the key themes and methodologies from Love Intersections. The paper also explores the approaches to ethical storytelling through a decolonial le…

The legal system is often used by abusers to exercise coercive control over a former intimate partner. In this episode, Dr. Heather Douglas describes her research findings from interviews with 65 women in Australia, and her recommendations for change as outlined in her paper "Legal Systems Abuse and Coercive Control" published in Criminology & Crim…

In this episode Dr. Ayse Yemiscigil discusses her first author paper “The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?” published in Psychological Science in 2021. Dr. Ayse Yemiscigil is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University and at Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Publ…

In this episode, Temitope Onifade, PhD student at UBC, discusses his paper “Climate Justice Under the Paris Agreement: Framework and Substance” published in the journal Carbon and Climate Law Review, 2021. This paper was one of the top 5 articles in all of 2021 on Lexxion Publisher for the journal Carbon and Climate Law Review Temitope speaks about…

In this episode, Laura Hazlett, PhD student at UCLA discusses her paper “Exploring neural mechanisms of the health benefits of gratitude in women: A randomized controlled trial” published in the journal Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity in 2021. Laura explains that this research from the Social and Affective Neuroscience lab at UCLA examined the possi…

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