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What are YOU going to do with THAT?

Interviews with young scholars over a glass of Amaretto

So you have a PhD or trying to get one. But what are YOU going to do with THAT?Danni Reches, a PhD candidate at the University of Haifa interviews young researchers and scholars to learn about their process, their succes
Latest Episode6/3/2021

Episode 37 - Instagram as a socio-economic research tool (Inbar Michelzon)

Season 2, Ep. 17
Instagram is free, but does that mean that it is indifferent to socio-economic, racial, and cultural differences? Inbar Michelzon, a PhD candidate in Bar-Ilan University (Israel) is conducting a socio-digital research on the implications of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds over the experiences of teens from different classes. In this episode Inbar chats with Danni about her decision to get into researching the underdeveloped field of youth and social media, and especially girls and Instagram. She talks about the cultural imposed shaming of "slags" and "sluts" on girls from certain classes and how it had affected her decision to proceed to a PhD research. Inbar also talks about the importance of a good PhD supervisor and how important it is to have a supervisor that you can talk openly with.In this episode Inbar drank simple coffee and Danni drank of course, her Amaretto. Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow Inbar on Twitter@inbarmdInbar'sLinkedin PageContact us:On Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATOn Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATOn Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
6/3/2021

Episode 37 - Instagram as a socio-economic research tool (Inbar Michelzon)

Season 2, Ep. 17
Instagram is free, but does that mean that it is indifferent to socio-economic, racial, and cultural differences? Inbar Michelzon, a PhD candidate in Bar-Ilan University (Israel) is conducting a socio-digital research on the implications of cultural and socio-economic backgrounds over the experiences of teens from different classes. In this episode Inbar chats with Danni about her decision to get into researching the underdeveloped field of youth and social media, and especially girls and Instagram. She talks about the cultural imposed shaming of "slags" and "sluts" on girls from certain classes and how it had affected her decision to proceed to a PhD research. Inbar also talks about the importance of a good PhD supervisor and how important it is to have a supervisor that you can talk openly with.In this episode Inbar drank simple coffee and Danni drank of course, her Amaretto. Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow Inbar on Twitter@inbarmdInbar'sLinkedin PageContact us:On Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATOn Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATOn Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
5/20/2021

Episode 36 - The mystery of the stable isotopes and river geochemistry (with Ana Cristina Vasquez)

Season 2, Ep. 16
Ana Cristina Vasquez is doing a PhD in Marine Sciences at the Tongji University, in Shanghai, China where she is researching stable isotopes and river geochemistry. In this episode Ana chats with Danni about changing her field of research and practice from social sciences and human rights to STEM and marine sciences, about moving from Costa Rica to China, about science communication, research during Covid pandemic, and being a foreigner student in China. During this episode Ana drank Costa-Rican coffee and Danni drank (of course) Amaretto.Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow Ana on Twitter@criskotsuAna'sLinkedin PageFollow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
5/6/2021

Episode 35 - Why Manchester United in Pidgin? (With Wally Shannon Mbassi Elong)

Season 2, Ep. 15
Wally Shannon Mbassi Elong from Cameroon wanted to be a translator. That was his dream from the age of 11 and his mother supported that dream until he finished high-school and had to make a career choice. She forced him to go into advertisement and that completely shuffled his plans. Listen to the episode and find out how he ended up doing a PhD at London Metropolitan University, in Media and Communication about Football Fandom, Glocalisation and a social media group called Man United in Pidgin.In this episode Danni chats with Wally about this decision to move to the UK, what Glocalisation means and the lonely elements of doing a PhD, and why he decided to take part in our video compilation where PhD students from all over the world answered the question "Why am I doing a PhD?". In this episode Danni drank her Amaretto and Wally drank a raspberry juice.Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow Wally on Twitter@IdolKiller92Follow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
4/22/2021

Episode 34 - Baseball and Transnational Migration (Amir Segal)

Season 2, Ep. 14
Transnational migration refers to the situation of migrants that are still connected to their country of origin. Amir Segal's research looks into that phenomenon through a specific case study of North-American (mainly Canada and the US) Jews who migrate to Israel. Amir explores that through three aspects: (1) Fund raising; (2) Diplomacy; and (3) Baseball. To this end, Amir, who knew nothing about baseball learned how North-American migrants not only imported that sport to Israel, but have led it of holding a national team that will play in the Tokyo Olympic Games in the summer of 2021.Amir also talks about his struggles to find a supervisor to do his PhD, his love for writing poems, and his brand new clothes that he bought to celebrate the end of Covid-19 lockdowns in Israel. During the episode Amir drank Turkish coffee and Danni drank her Amaretto.Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
4/8/2021

Episode 33 - Unlikely journey - from high school dropout to a PhD (Dr. David Gillespie)

Season 2, Ep. 13
David Gillespie who left high school and joined the British Army at the age of 16, received his PhD in Electronic & Electrical Engineering a couple of weeks ago. In this episode David talks about his journey from the army to academia and to an industry PhD, his persistence and stubbornness that enabled him to find his own path, and the importance of celebrating every win - the little ones and the big ones. In this episode Danni drank her Amaretto and David drank Whisky. Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow David on Twitter@TinkerAndHawkDavid's Linkedin PageFollow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube ChannelOur website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
3/25/2021

Episode 32 - From Bollywood to Academia - with Ntasha Bhardwaj

Season 2, Ep. 12
Ntasha Bhardwaj started her journey in front of the cameras - as an uprising Bollywood star, but she knew that her ambitions are within the academic world and especially in criminal justice. Since there was no criminal justice program in India, Ntasha completed her master degree in social work and moved to the US to do another masters degree in criminal justice at the Rutgers School of Criminal Justice where she's also doing her PhD. She founded the South Asian Institute of Crime and Justice Studies and recently returned to India to complete her research and develop the field of south-Asia oriented criminal justice. In this episode Ntasha talks with Danni about her journey, and her research on incarcerated women in India and Sri-Lanka. The episode was recorded on March 8, 2021 - international women's day. During the episode, Ntasha drank Blue Tokai Indian coffee and Danni drank her famous Amaretto. Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Follow Ntasha on:Twitter:@ntashabhardwajInstagram:@ntashab23Linkedin PageSouth Asian Institute of Crime and Justice StudiesFollow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube Channelfor short videos by Danni:Our website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!
3/11/2021

Episode 31 - A minority girl against all odds - with Sawsan Kheir

Season 2, Ep. 11
Coming from a very traditional Druze community in northern Israel, Sawsan Kheir had a dream to become a psychologist, but not enough self-confidence. In this episode she tells Danni how she overcame lots of obstacles until she finally became a double degree PhD candidate. Sawsan also talked about her field of research which is focused on the effects of modernization on the values and role of faith in the lives of Druze and Muslim students in Israel. It is part of a global research project known as the Young Adults and Religion in a Global Perspective(YARG), headed by Prof. Peter Nynäs of the Åbo Akademi University.Sawsan shares about the influences of her car accident while 8 month pregnant which forced her, eventually, to change her PhD topic; about traveling abroad alone for the first time in her life for a conference; why she named her daughter Mulan (yes! after the movie character), and her plans for the future. In this episode Sawsan drank traditional Druze mate and Danni drank her traditional amaretto.Sawsan was born and raised in Peqi’in, a Druze village in the Western Galilee. Worked as an educational psychologist in the Haifa Municipality’s Jewish Education System for several years. She is currently serving as a teaching assistant and am a Joint Program PhD candidate at the Department of Psychology at the University of Haifa and the Faculty of Arts, Psychology, and Theology at Åbo Akademi University, Finland.Host: Danni Reches (@DanniReches)Producer and Editor: Ido Rosenzweig (@IdoRosenzweig)Sawsan on:Twitter:@khsawsan0706Facebook: @Sawsan.KheirLinkedin PageFollow us on Twitter:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Facebook:@What2DoWithTHATFollow us on Instagram:@What2DoWithTHATSubscribe toour YouTube Channelfor short videos by Danni:Our website:www.what2dowiththat.comEnjoy the episode!