Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies

About Grad Chat - Queen's School of Graduate Studies

Hosted by CJ the DJ (Colette Steer), this is a 30 minute radio show featuring a graduate student or postdoc each week. Each episode is an opportunity for Queen’s grad students and postdocs to showcase their research to the Queen’s and Kingston community. From time to time, CJ the DJ also interviews an alum or interview grad students in relation to something topical for the day. Grad Chat is a collaboration between the School of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs and CFRC 101.9FM

Publisher

CFRC Podcast Network

Category

government · history · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Sept 2018

Latest episode

14 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

283 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Oct 2026

   Saba Tabesh (Geography) evaluating the reliability of SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite

   Join Saba Tabesh for a discussion on evaluating the reliability of SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite observations for monitoring water surface elevation in water bodies. SWOT is a recently launched satellite mission that uses advanced radar interferometry to provide high-resolution measurements of water surface elevation on a global scale.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Curtis Shorts (Electrical and Computer Engineering) High Performance Computing (HPC) Architecture

   Join Curtis Shorts (Electrical and Computer Engineering) for a discussion on how the next generation of HPC architecture should look different from the current generation.

3. 

   30 Sept 2026

   John Turnbull (Electrical and Computer Engineering) Making machine learning hold up when the real world drifts away from the training data — tackling natural distribution shifts.

   Join John Turnbull (Electrical and Computer Engineering) for a disccusion on moving machine learning hold up when moved from the lab to the real world.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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