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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...
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Listen beyond what you can hear
"Everybody wants to be heard. They have a story to tell."
Music is a universal language that can activate a community. In this episode, Dwandalyn Reece discusses her work examining the material culture of music,...
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Developing respectful relationships with Indigenous communities
"It's that interconnectedness that really defines Indigenous ways of knowing."
In this episode, we share highlights from our Hikma Office Hours event about Indigenous ways of knowing and how to work with partners and...
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Be a Rebel with a Cause
"I don't break things without consequence."
In this episode, Brittany Brathwaite discusses her willingness to break the rules in order to change the world, our society, or ourselves for the better. Brittany shares...
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The Business of Doing Better
“The practice of entrepreneurship is the ‘how,’ and the social is the ‘why.’”
In this conversation, author and social entrepreneur Madeleine Shaw invites us to reimagine the landscape of entrepreneurship. She shares...
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3 Tips for Asking Generative Questions
“It’s a way of honoring the knowledge and experience that’s in the room.”
Generative questions are a way of entering a conversation with a new or existing partner and honouring the knowledge and experience that’s in...
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic in the Long-Term Care Sector: Interview with Dr. Farinaz Havaei
In this episode, Dr. Farinaz (Naz) Havaei discusses her research in the long-term care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares some of the findings that emerged from a series of dialogues with key stakeholders...
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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...
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Three Tips to Plan Your Funding Strategy
Erica Machulak, founder of Hikma, shares three of her top tips for planning an effective and manageable funding strategy for the next year.
This episode provides a taste of what you can expect in Hikma's 'Funding...
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There’s not really a ton of secrets
A conversation with Bill Neill about building relationships, keeping your work in perspective, opportunities in the tech sector, and what we mean when we say "coding."
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The questions we ask determine the results we get
A conversation with JP Baker about asking the right questions, organizational structures, and scarcity vs. abundance thinking.
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The art of facilitation, appreciative inquiry,...
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You can check more than one box
A conversation with Nadia Sasso about being an unconventional scholar, what it means to have an entrepreneurial spirit, and how to ask for what you deserve.
Topics discussed in this episode include:
How identity...
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