Doing Social Research
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Doing Social Research is the podcast where we dig into cool research being done in the humanities and social sciences. My goal is to help demystify research for students, help other researchers hear stories they can identify with, and provide a platform for the tons of brilliant work being done right now to understand the world around us.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Candid scholar conversations turn research methods, ethical choices, and academic uncertainty into accessible lessons about how social knowledge is made.
Phyllis Rippey treats research as work people do, question, and revise. Her academic interviews pair detailed introductions with open conversations about how scholars choose problems, test assumptions, and reckon with the institutions surrounding their work.
A seed patent dispute takes you past the lab bench to farmers worried about their neighbors.
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A loose humanities conversation that keeps turning side streets into thinking.
The episode traces writing, research, politics, teaching, parenting, and Hannah Arendt into a conversation about keeping academic argument recognizably human. Phyllis Rippey and Dr.
AI, big data, and agribusiness are tied to farmers' fears about patents, GMO contamination, and rural fracture.
Kelly Bronson and Phyllis Rippey frame AI, big data, and agribusiness as a question of power: who gets to define risk, who bears it, and whose evidence carries weight.
A thoughtful conversation about social research, graduate school, and decolonizing academic practice.
Phyllis Rippey’s conversation with Willow Scobie stays focused on research, graduate school, and student supervision, and it has a clear center of gravity.
A steady, practical look at AI, writing, and classroom integrity.
AI and Higher Learning treats AI in education as a classroom problem with real tradeoffs, not a theory exercise. Mish Bhute speaks with University of Ottawa sociology professor Phyllis Rippey about assignments that actually make students think, and about academic integrity as…
A patient look at cyber violence, bias, and the strain between inquiry and agenda.
Dr. Lena Huebner's work on cyber violence gives this episode its center of gravity, with a focus on how racialized and disadvantaged women in Quebec use digital information and make their way through it.
Campus radio from the wrong side of reality.
Campus decisions, Northeast news, and Northeast priorities.
How research culture changes in practice.
Conversations from inside the IT channel.
Phyllis Rippey introduces Dr.
Mish talks with University of Ottawa sociology professor Phyllis Rippey about what AI means for students and how to handle it wisely.
Phyllis Rippey opens with Kelly Bronson's work.
Phyllis Rippey sits down with Willow Scobie for a conversation that begins with research and keeps expanding.
Phyllis Rippey opens by welcoming her longtime friend Dr.
Farinaz Basmechi, a PhD candidate in feminist and gender studies at the University of Ottawa with a prior sociology PhD from the University of North Texas, compares female graduate students' experiences of sexual agency and sexual violence during COVID-19 in Ottawa and Tehran.