Prof. Lauren Sergio is a neuroscientist whose work on concussions is changing the way sports like hockey and soccer are handling head injuries.

Dr. Vic Metcalf is a marine biologist and the director of New Zealand’s Participatory Science Program. We talk about sex reversing fish, sentinel species, and the importance of public engagement in science.

University Professor Dawn Bazely, of York University, is a biologist and ecologist whose work on plants in the Arctic has shaped political discourse on climate change. She is a powerful advocate of women in STEM.

Prof. Kevin Milligan is an economist at the University of British Columbia. His work on public finance and labour economics speaks to many areas of everyday life. We talk about how rich men live eight years longer than poor men in Canada, and why that’s a problem for our public pension system.

Dr. Michelle Larue studies penguins from space. We talked about how she uses satellite imagery to model populations of species in the Antarctic, and about toxic masculinity in academia and on social media.

Dr. Heidi Matthews is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, at York University. She is a passionate teacher and an outspoken social critic, a legal mind to be reckoned with on subjects from international criminal justice to sexual politics.

Prof. Celia Haig-Brown is an ethnographer and filmmaker who studies Indigenous education. She works with First Nations communities to understand the stories of residential school survivors and to document how First Nations are dealing with mining companies operating on their land.

Welcome to Podcast or Perish, a show about academic research and why it matters.