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.

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 research security in the modern context.

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 have played a critical role in establishing and advancing research security communities of practice in Canada.

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 research security and research integrity and what it means to be a Modern Responsible Researcher.