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 challenges and opportunities.

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 Ottawa Heart Institute about research security, open science, and how to identify and safeguard sensitive research of concern.

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 associated with conducting research on the actors driving mis-and-disinformation.