The Dirty Methods podcast is now streaming! This podcast series, hosted by our very own ME Luka, is a joint project between CLCF, the UTSC Critical Digital Methods Initiative, and the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI).

Grab some headphones and tune in to hear:

This episode features Drs. Alison Harvey from York University, Tamara Sheppard from University of Calgary, Mélanie Millette from Université du Québec a Montréal, and Mary Elizabeth Luka from U of T. These are some of the members of the research group The Fourchettes. In this episode, we talk about how the Dirty Methods project came to be a decade ago, the far-from-linear approach and collaborative processes we have used over the years, and what a dream research institute could look like.

This episode features Dr. Nataleah Hunter-Young, originally at Western University and now at University of Toronto, and host Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka. We talk about formative processes, fuzzy relationships between research creation and practice, as well as ethical research methods and accountability in complex environments.

This episode features internationally renowned ethics and methods scholar Dr. Annette Markham from Utrecht University as well as host Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka. We talk about what it means to be a methodologist, the phasic pursuit of research, wide scope methods and reflexive criticality.

Bonjour and soyez attentifs. This French-edition episode features Drs. Consuelo Vásquez and Mélanie Millette from Université du Québec a Montréal. They talk about the particularities of academic settings and how resistance is articulated within institutions – scholarly or otherwise. Mélanie and Consuelo also discuss pedagogical approaches they have explored in relation to method, and research rooted in values-inflected epistemologies.

This episode features Dr. Mél Hogan from Queen’s University, and host Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka in conversation about the ethical and values-based challenges of grant proposal writing, and a variety of research projects from feminist, queer, and decolonial approaches. We also focus on creative methods and research-creation in this episode.

This episode features Dr. Mark V. Campbell and host Dr. Mary Elizabeth Luka, both from University of Toronto. In it, we talk about archives-based research, building collaborations and community, and how research-creation, exhibition, and other modes of creative responses to academic understandings can be used.