Talking Papers with Haley Hrymak: Recent Episodes
Haley Hrymak
I interview experts about their fascinating research! I ask everything from how they decided on their research question, to what they want everyone to know about their findings. This podcast will appeal to anyone interested in research, but also anyone interested in learning new things.
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 Recipients" published in August of 2022 in the Journal of Experimental Psychology
Professor Amit Kumar is currently an Asst. Professor of Marketing and Psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the Mc Combs faculty, he completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Cornell University and his A.B. in Psychology and Economics from Harvard University.
Professor Kumar’s research focuses on the scientific study of happiness and has been featured in popular media outlets such as The Atlantic, Bloomberg, Business Insider, CNBC, CNN, Forbes, Fortune Magazine, Harvard Business Review, The Huffington Post, National Geographic, The New York Times, NPR, Oprah Daily, Scientific American, Time Magazine, U.S. News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
His scholarly work has been published in many journals including Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Current Opinion in Psychology, Emotion, The Journal of Consumer Psychology, The Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and the list goes on.
w: http://www.kumar-amit.com/
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 on collecting sociodemographic data in Emergency Departments. This conversation includes recommendations for Emergency Departments to implement equity-focused collection of sociodemographic variables.
Dr. Murdoch Leeies works clinically in Manitoba as an emergency medicine, critical care medicine and organ donation specialist physician. Dr. Leeies is trained in clinical epidemiology and is the Research Director for the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Leeies is leading a collaborative program of research with a focus on the promotion of equity, diversity, decolonization and inclusion (EDDI) in emergency medicine, critical care medicine and organ and tissue donation and transplantation in Canada.
The paper discussed in this episode is titled "Equity-relevant sociodemographic variable collection in emergency medicine: A systematic review, qualitative evidence synthesis, and recommendations for practice"and was published in November 2022 in the American Emergency Medicine Journal. You can read the paper hereClick here to learn more about Murdoch's work
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 recent paper “Substance Use Stigma and Community Drug Checking: A Qualitative Study Examining Barriers and Possible Responses” published within the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
Samantha Davis has her Master of Social Work from the University of Victoria and a Bachelors of Arts from the University of Toronto in Criminology. Samantha is also the Virtual Legal Advocate at Rise Women's Legal Centre where she works with clients around BC who need help with their family law matters.
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 financial regulator instrumental in ‘reregulating’ the savings and loan industry to counter the debacle and aiding the successful prosecution of over 1,000 elite white-collar criminals. He is a serial whistleblower and co-founder of Bank Whistleblowers United. He authored The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One.In this episode, William Black speaks about the article he co-authored with June Carbone "The Problem with Predators" published in the Seattle University Law Review in 2020.
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 pricing in physical climate risk is inconsistent with environmental justice. Why are countries vulnerable to climate change having to pay higher rates to access financing, while these same countries are the least responsible for climate change? The impact of this, is that the countries who need access to financing to respond to climate change and mitigate future risks, are paying more. Pricing in climate risks is individualistic and short-sighted, and instead investment decisions and policies should be guided by principles of global environmental justice.
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 in Canada to investigate the relationships among connectedness to nature, animal–human continuity, moral expansiveness, and support for reconciliation. Participants who felt more connected to nature had more positive attitudes toward reconciliation. They discuss how this implies that strengthening peoples’ connection to nature, and consequently extending peoples’ circles of moral concern, may increase support for reconciliation.
Aleah Fontaine is a Winnipegger of Anishinaabe and mixed-European heritage, and a proud urban band member of Sagkeeng First Nation. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Manitoba. Currently, she is examining how gender and ethnic/racial background relate to intergroup solidarity, with a focus on people’s emotional responses to social injustice and their experiences of collective harm.
Katherine Starzyk, Ph.D., is a Professor in Social and Personality Psychology at the University of Manitoba and Director of the Social Justice Laboratory. She is also a Founding Member of the Centre for Human Rights Research as well as the Centre for Social Science Research & Policy. Presently, alongside a dedicated team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous partners and collaborators, Katherine is spending much of her time on the Canadian Reconciliation Barometer.
Read a summary article on the paper here within The Conversation
Canadian Reconciliation Barometer
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 the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia. Her field of expertise is oral history of genocide and atrocity, and she has done research projects on wartime memory in Bosnia-Herzegovina and the public testimonial practices of Holocaust survivors in Montreal.
Refugee Boulevard: https://www.refugeeboulevard.ca/**
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 University of British Columbia.
In this episode, Beckie discusses her paper “Loss Must Be Marked and It Cannot Be Represented”: Memorializing Sex Workers in Vancouver’s West End” 2018 BC Studies.
This paper won the prize for the best article published within the BC Studies journal in 2018, and in 2019 Becki Ross and her co-author Jamie Lee Hamilton won the Agnus Reid Prize from the Canadian Sociology Association for their community engagement.
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 Scale” both published within the Journal of Family Violence.
The Legal Abuse Scale is a tool that is intended to help assess legal abuse in family court. This tool will hopefully support further development of policy and practice that recognizes and responds to coercive control in the courtroom.
You can read Ellie’s papers and learn more about her work at her website: www.drellengutowski.com.
Twitter: @ellengutowski
The article mentioned by Judith Herman “Justice from the Victim’s Perspective” was published in 2005 in the journal, Violence Against Women.
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-Rise Women’s Legal-January2021.
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 lens.
David Ng is a co-founding member of the Vancouver Artist Labour Union Co-Operative (VALU CO-OP), as well as a founding charter member of the Artist and Cultural Workers Union (IATSE B-778). He is currently a PhD candidate at the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.
Love Intersections: https://loveintersections.com/
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 & Criminal Justice in 2018.
Dr. Douglas is a law professor at the Melbourne Law School and an internationally recognized expert on legal responses to domestic and family violence. In 2021, Dr. Douglas was awarded the Member of the Order of Australia.
w: https://law.unimelb.edu.au/about/staff/heather-douglas
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 Public Leadership.
As a behavioral scientist, she studies the relationship between work and well-being. She aims to uncover the factors that allow people to have meaningful careers and lives. Her research has been published in leading academic journals and featured in interviews with the New York Times and Washington Post among other outlets.
In this episode, Ayse describes her research findings surrounding whether retirement leads to an existential crisis, or an opportunity for a renewed sense of purpose in life.
Website: https://www.ayseyemiscigil.com/
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 living and working in the Niger Delta and how it prompted his interest in environmental sustainability. He explains that it was his work representing start-up clients dealing in renewable energy in South-West Nigeria that eventually made him decide to specialize in how energy law could address climate justice issues.
In this episode he discusses the concept of climate justice, and what it means to him in his work. He also speaks about his experiences attending COP 26 in Glasgow as a delegate from UBC.
Website: https://www.onifade.org/
Liu Institute Network for Africa: https://www.linaubc.ca/
Canada Climate Law Initiative - https://twitter.com/canclimatelaw
Community Sustainable Global: http://csgproject.com/
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 possible benefits that gratitude may have on health. Past research shows there is a strong relationship between giving behavior and health, so the question for this study was: “Is it possible that gratitude may benefit health through the same mechanisms as giving to others?”
Laura and her team found that the gratitude intervention didn’t have any direct impact on inflammatory markers. However, people in this study had an increase in giving behaviours, and concluded that “gratitude may benefit health (reducing inflammatory responses) through the … effects of support-giving.”
Summary→ practicing gratitude was found to increase the subject's likelihood to engage in giving behaviours or support-giving (telling someone you’re grateful for them for example) and that giving of support to others has positive health outcomes including reducing inflammation.
Show notes:
Laura Hazlett is a member of the Social and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory at UCLA: https://sanlab.psych.ucla.edu/overview/
You can read Laura’s articles at Google scholar https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gm3go24AAAAJ&hl=en
Email: laurahazlett@ucla.edu
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