Power Plant Sessions

In this episode, host Jacqueline Littlewood spoke to Dr. Brendan Walker-Munro, a research security expert and academic from Australia currently affiliated with Southern Cross University. We spoke about the Australian approach to research security, takeaways from some of his recent research, and safeguarding defence and dual-use research.

In this episode, host Jacqueline Littlewood spoke to two communications professionals in the field of research security administration: Clayton Lewis, the Manager, Policy, Education & Outreach in Research Services at the University of Calgary and Education and Engagement Lead at the University of Alberta Safeguarding Research Office, Rachel Zukiwski-Pezim. We discussed the Canadian resear...

In this episode, Power Plant Sessions' host Jacqueline Littlewood spoke to Professor David McIlhaton, an expert in Protective Security and Resilience and one of the authors of a recently published report titled "State Threats and Universities - Case Studies from the from the United Kingdom."  We discussed the complex landscape of research security in the United Kingdom, exploring both th...

In this episode, Power Plant Sessions host Jacqueline Littlewood speaks to Peter Laffin at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) and Dr. François Paradis , Dean of Applied Research at Lakeland College, about how their institutions specifically, and colleges, polytechnics, CÉGEPs and research institutes more generally, have been approaching research security and their unique challenge...

In this episode, Power Plant Sessions host Jacqueline Littlewood speaks to Dr. Martha Crago, Chair of the Council of Canadian Academies’ panel on Balancing Research Security and Open Science for Dual-Use Research of Concern (and former Vice President, Research and Innovation) at McGill University and Dr. Kelly Cobey, panel member and Director, Metaresearch and Open Science Program, University of O...

In this special extended episode, Power Plant Sessions host Jacqueline Littlewood speaks to experts Dr. Matthew Taylor and Dr. Timothy Caulfield about the relationship between research security and disinformation, their related research, emerging trends in this space, and the ways in which researchers in various domains might be impacted by disinformation. Also discussed are the particular risks a...

In this episode, Power Plant Sessions’ host Jacqueline Littlewood talks with two expert guests from Carleton University: Jessica Adam , Director, Research Security Risk, and Stephanie Carvin , assistant professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. They discuss the historical relationship between academia and the intelligence community, and what this relationship means for rese...

On this episode of the Power Plant Sessions, host Jacqueline Littlewood focused on communities of practice for research security at the national, provincial, and international level and the role these play in capacity-building and safeguarding the research ecosystem. Our panel of experts for the show includes Justin Nankivell , Paul Jarrett , and Martha Wallace . Each of these expert individuals h...

In our inaugural episode, Power Plant Sessions’ host Jacqueline Littlewood talks with two expert guests, Dr. Jason Acker , Associate Vice President Research Integrity Support and Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the University of Alberta, and Shawn McGuirk , Deputy Director at the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), about the connections between rese...