EPOD
Education Through Podcasting
Conference 2024
Welcome to EPOD - Education Through Podcasting
Education Through Podcasting Conference 2024
Welcome
Epod is a collaboration between Keele University, York St John University and Morley College. Morley College's exceptional facilities at their Waterloo Campus in Central London, makes for an ideal venue for the first EPOD conference.
Proudly sponsored by Broadcast Radio, HHB and Routledge
EPOD 2024
(Education through Podcasting Conference 2024)
Venue: Morley Radio/Morley College London, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT
Dates: Wednesday 19 June and Thursday 20 June:
Wednesday - registration at 18:00, followed by a live podcast panel and drinks reception. Expecting to finish around 20:00
Thursday - the conference will begin at 08:30 with registration and a keynote starts at 09:00. The day concludes at approximately 17:30.
Keynote Speakers
(in alphabetical order of surname)
Kirsty Fairclough, Manchester Metropolitan University
Nicole Logan, Reduced Listening
Mark Steadman, Creative Mentor and Podcaster
Proceedings Publication
The proceedings from the conference will be published by Routledge.
About:
Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is a new conference series cementing a partnership between Routledge, Morley College, York St John University and SoundLearnings Podcast. Academics, researchers and practitioners will find a forum, through the unique medium of radio and podcasting, to come together to share and disseminate their research and experience of teaching, learning and training through the use of podcasts. All speakers at the conference will be given the opportunity to write up their presentation into a chapter for the proceedings book published by Routledge.
Themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:
Audio as a medium for education
Specific audio developments that have influences the podcasting space
Historic or contextual developments of podcasting as a learning environment
Standards, standardisation, and the controversy around RSS feeds
Explorations of definitions and concepts and delineations (example: radio/ podcasting)
Blended, Online, Mixed Mode, Digital: Educational environments, its pedagogical trends and how audio fits into this picture
Discourses around the educational aspects of public vs private in the podcast space
Explorations of issues related to intellectual property in educational podcasting
Case studies of good practice
Case studies in podcasting and community learning
Case studies in discipline specific uses of podcasting in education (e.g. in Theatre, Music, Storytelling and Creative Writing, Forensic Science and True Crime, Philosophy, Journalism and Podcasting, Media Production, Audio, Music Technology and Music Production
Find key dates surrounding the conference, paper submission and publications here.
EPOD Founding Committee:
Professor Carola Boehm, University of Staffordshire, UK
Tim Canfer, Keele University, UK
Camilo Salazar, Morley Radio/Morley College London, UK
Associate Professor Russ Hepworth-Sawyer, York St John University, UK
Associate Professor Mark Marrington, York St John University, UK
EPOD Local Committee:
Joanna Duchesne, Morley College London, UK (Associate Chair)
Kody Wilson, Morley Radio/Morley College London, UK (Assistant Chair)
Peer Review Committee:
Francessco Bentivegna, Bristol University
Richard Berry, University of Sunderland
Erin Besser, Cal State Fullerton
Catherine Chambers, Keele University
Dom Conroy, London Metropolitan University
Sam Coley, Birmingham City University
John D'Arcy, Queens University, Belfast
Don Duncan, University of Galway
Ben Falk, City University, London
Caroline Ford, Chester University
Magz Hall, Canterbury Christ Church University
Imke Henkel, Birkbeck, University of London
Katy McDonlad, Newcastle University
Elizabeth Hidson, Sunderland University
Warren Kidd, University of East London
Kathryn Pugh, University of Bedfordshire
Mark Randell, Derby University
Hilary Scott, Northampton University
Richard Shannon, Goldsmiths, London
Tim Shaw, Newcastle University
Gary Stevens, University of Lincoln
Hilary Weston-Jones, Birmingham City University
if you'd like to join the peer review committee, please contact EPOD@morleycollege.ac.uk
Equality and Diversity:
All involved in the organisation of EPOD are committed to encouraging fairness, equality and diversity throughout our event, in terms of the organisational structure, the invited participants and in the encouragement of presenters and paper authors. We welcome anyone interested in the conference themes to engage with us and join us in building a sustainable conference that can represent all education through podcasting related interests.
In Person conference:
Please note that this is an in-person conference and it will not be possible to present online.