Pod-Co-Lab: Podcasting Across Disciplines
Partner Organisations: University of Sunderland
Creative Practitioners: Jay Sykes
Researchers or Experts: Dr. Caroline Mitchell, Richard Berry, John Mooney
Co/Lab Curator: Dr Suzy O’Hara
Pod-Co-Lab: Podcasting Across Disciplines will explore podcasting as a tool in creating and disseminating academic work. Through a series of studio/location-based podcasting ‘live labs’ the pilot will explore how podcasting and audio might be used by researchers to communicate, discuss, convey and ultimately extend their research.
Senior lecturer in Radio and Podcasting researcher, Richard Berry, Associate Professor of Radio and Participation, Dr. Caroline Mitchell and radio and Podcast producer Jay Sykes and will devise and test novel ways to produce a podcast that supports wider dissemination of the YDAP (Youth Drugs and Alcohol Project) research project currently being delivered by Senior Lecturer in Health Sciences John Mooney.
Pod-Co-Lab: Podcasting Across Disciplines
By testing novel strategies to engage podcasting as a tool in creating and disseminating academic work, Pod-Co-Lab highlights the various ways that university podcasters and independent audio/radio producers can work together with university-based audio.
“This has been an interesting opportunity to reflect on how the podcast format can be used as a tool to explore themes in public health. We have been examining ways in which we can use participatory methods to produce podcasts that utilise the experiences of young people with alcohol to produce comedy content in a podcast. We have held focus group sessions and are conducting interviews to build a framework on which a pilot piece of content can be created.
Our aim is to identify processes of best practice that can be adopted more widely by researchers in sciences to create their own podcasts as a form of open-access content as a form to add value to publications or as non-traditional outputs.
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