Podcasts by The Wisdom of Waterloo
A social scientist from Waterloo in Sydney has conversations with his friends about research, writing, and whatever else takes his fancy.
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Episode 5: We're not ready to ditch capitalism from 2020-04-24T05:28:47
I threw an invitation onto Facebook for people to challenge me on my iconoclastic (for a left-winger) views. My friend Zach was keen to discuss my belief that we're not ready to ditch capitalism...
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Episode 4: Being a dungeon master from 2019-11-17T22:00
In this episode Pat talks to his friend Will - an experienced Dungeons & Dragons DM - about the process of creating a campaign and a fantasy world. Also along is experienced player (and Bard...
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Episode 3: The Paradigm Wars: Research approaches, Jordan Peterson, and epistemology from 2019-11-10T22:03
In this episode we discuss the way research paradigms are positioned as ‘battling’ each other, and we look at the particular example of Jordan Peterson’s attacks on the humanities in Universities. ...
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Episode 2: Research as a right and a battle from 2019-11-03T22:00:18
In this wide-ranging, wine-fuelled conversation, we talk about Arjun Appadurai's conception of research as a 'right', how our understanding of knowledge and research has been shaped by globalisatio...
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Episode 1: What even is a research paradigm? from 2019-10-27T21:57:34
This episode introduces the idea of research paradigms, giving an overview of five major paradigms: positivism, postpositivism, constructivism, critical theory and postructuralism. We talk about th...
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