The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
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The Policy Pod is a series about student advocacy at the University of Toronto. Each episode covers advocacy on a different topic occurring on and around campus and features students from across the university.
The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
1y ago
Join Stephen John, the engineering science academic advisor for first and second year students at UofT, and your host, Youssef, as we discuss our experiences with and advice for imposter syndrome. Stephen brings a unique perspective to this topic as someone who has worked with students experiencing imposter syndrome. We will learn from his perspective on how he helps students cope with imposter syndrome.
Mental Health Resources:
408-helpline: https://www.dcogt.com/408-help-line
Anishnawbe Health Toronto: http://aht.ca/
Engineering Mental Health and Wellness Resources: http ..read more
The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Dr Nate Charach, a psychiatrist who works at a community hospital, and your host Jenna Gu, as we discuss our experiences with and advice for imposter syndrome. Nate brings a unique perspective to this topic as someone who has worked with people and personally experienced imposter syndrome. We will learn from his perspective how our emotions and the culture we are surrounded by affect our imposter syndrome as well as how we can deal with it.
Mental Health Resources:
408-helpline: https://www.dcogt.com/408-help-line
Anishnawbe Health Toronto: http://aht.ca/
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The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Katie Vranesic, a U of T student majoring in civil engineering, and your hosts Yan Yeo, Kelsey Rombouts, and Jenna Gu as we discuss our experiences with and advice for imposter syndrome. Katie brings a unique perspective to this topic as someone who has wrestled with and overcome imposter syndrome in the academic environment and she is also an active member of Skule Mental Wellness where she continues to advocate for better mental health support in the engineering community.
Mental Health Resources:
408-helpline: https://www.dcogt.com/408-help-line
Anishnawbe Health To ..read more
The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Brie Berry-Crossfield, a former grad student, Black Liberation Collective organizer, outgoing APUS Advocacy Coordinator as we dive deeper into the third part of our student finance episode. Brie is also an incoming UTGSU Executive Director as she will be sharing about her experience as a student on student finances. You can find part one and two in the link below. We’ll explore how universities develop their budgets, the idea of free tuition and how students can learn about their fees.
Link to Part One:
https://thepolicypod.podbean.com/e/student-finance-pt-1/
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The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Tyler Riches, a third-year student majoring in human geography and minoring in women and gender studies and urban studies as we dive deeper into the topic of student finance from a student's perspective. Tyler is also UTSU's (University of Toronto Student Union) current Vice-President Public & University Affairs as he will be giving us some insight in his role on the UTSU. This episode is the second part one of our three part series on Student Finance. You can find part one in the link below. We’ll explore why tuition costs have been rising so much in the last decades, the perspective ..read more
The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Professor Paul Hamel, a professor in the faculty of medicine who has done some research on global economics in the first episode of The Policy Pod’s Student Finance podcast. This episode will be part one of our three part series on Student Finance. We’ll explore why tuition costs have been rising so much in the last decades, the perspective of students on this issue and the advocacy they do to change things.
Guests:
Professor Paul Hamel - Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology in the faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
https://www.lmp.utoronto.ca/fa ..read more
The Policy Pod: Stories of Student Advocacy
2y ago
Join Lucinda Qu, Corey McAuliffe and Loizza Aquino, discussing student mental health advocacy at the University of Toronto. Our guests share their thoughts on the challenges of representation, working with the faculty, the structural elements of the mental health crisis and how you can get involved.
Mental Health Resources:
408-helpline: https://www.dcogt.com/408-help-line
Anishnawbe health toronto: http://aht.ca/
Engineering Mental health and Wellness resources: https://www.engineering.utoronto.ca/mental-health-wellness/
For Graduate Students: School of Graduate Studies – University of ..read more