The JCR: A Massey Podcast

Latest Episodes
Ukrainian Female Soldiers Confronting War and Gender Stereotypes
In todays episode, Shree Paradkar, social and racial justice columnist at the Toronto Star and Southam Fellow at Massey College, speaks with Nataliya Machalina, Massey College alumna, Scholar at Risk
The Narrative Battlefield: Russian Disinformation in the War in Ukraine
In this episode, Junior Fellow Robbie Steele speaks with Haley Forgacs, a recent Massey alumna and a graduate of the Masters in European and Russian Affairs at the Munk School ...
Glad Day Bookshop: intersections of Queerness and Economic Democracy
Junior Fellow Noah Khan along with graduate students Tuaha Mubarak and Isaac Giles take a deep dive into the unique ownership structure and rich history of the worlds oldest queer ...
Drowsy Drivers
Suzan Ayas, a PhD student in Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto has spent the past six years in a lab trying to get drivers to fall asleep behind ...
All Policy is Climate Policy
In a rare interview, Dr. Fiona Miller historian turned health policy professor turned climate champion offers no simple answers to simple questions. She shares her extraordinarily difficult jour
Challenging False Divides in Arts, Humanities and Sciences
In this wide-ranging conversation, Julia Caron, a Southam Journalism Fellow and host of CBC Quebec City AM, and Jane Zhao, a Health Policy PhD at UofT and Junior Fellow at ...
Global connection faster than ever
With our ever expanding demand for information, we need to move to methods that allow for faster communication. Fiber optic cables offer a solution, but there are still challenges to ...
Perspectives on the pivotal role of pharmacists in global health
In this episode of JCR, Setayesh Yazdani, a Massey Junior Fellow and a Doctor of Pharmacy Student at the University of Toronto, interviews two clinical pharmacists. Dr. Linda Dresser and ...
Happy cities?
Massey College Junior Fellows, Delaram Farzanfar, PhD student in Psychology at the University of Toronto, graduate fellow at the School of Cities, and Ben Pulver, Art History PhD Student, join ...
Training new doctors through a community, diversity and inclusion lens
Theres a lot of buzz in the science and medical communities about the creation of a new medical school in Brampton, Ontario. Its a collaboration between Toronto Metropolitan University and the Will