A discussion with Professor Sandra Bucerius about the largest mixed methods study on Canadian prisons in the history of Canadian criminology, including Canada’s much overlooked remand prisons. Dr Bucerius is the Director of the Centre for Criminological Research, the principal investigator for a $2.5 million SSHRC Partnership Grant on the intersecting issues of justice and injustice, and a Professor and Henry Marshall Tory Chair in the Department of Sociology at the University of Alberta.

In this episode, we chat with Professor Kisha Supernant about Indigenous-led and community-engaged archaeology, and the work of the Institute of Prairie and Indigenous Archaeology (IPIA). Dr Supernant is the Director of the IPIA and a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alberta. The IPIA Guide to Good Relations when working with Indigenous communities is being released this month.

A discussion with Professor Jennifer Jennings on gender and entrepreneurship, and how and why women and men do things differently in starting a business, here in Canada and elsewhere. Dr Jennings is a professor in the Alberta School of Business and Canada Research Chair in Entrepreneurship, Gender and Family Business at the University of Alberta.