EPOD
Education Through Podcasting
CONFERENCE 2025
WELCOME TO EPOD 2025
Registration is now open here for the second annual conference, Education through Podcasting (EPOD). The event will take place on the 26th and 27th of June 2025 at Morley College London, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT.
This conference cements a partnership between Morley College, Routledge, Keele University and the University of Staffordshire. The focus this year will be: Between entertainment and education - balancing media industry expectations within educational contexts.
Academics, researchers and practitioners will share and disseminate research and experience of teaching, learning and training through podcasts. We invite you to submit a paper abstract of 300-500 words to be reviewed for inclusion in the conference programme. This should be submitted by 28/02/2025, and you can find the Call For Papers here. The proceedings will be published by Routledge.
Note that this is an in-person conference and it will not be possible to present online.
ABOUT EPOD
Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is a conference series where academics, researchers and professionals come together to discuss and disseminate their research and practice within learning/educational contexts using recorded audio media and podcasting. This is the second conference and follows a successful EPOD 2024 Conference, 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
Conference themes include:
Practices in the intersection of the podcasting industry and the education sectors
Developments of podcasting as a learning environment
How does podcasting fit into pedagogical trends of Blended, Online, Mixed Mode, Digital or other?
Public vs private vs common. Where does Podcasting in Education sit?
Explorations of issues related to intellectual property in educational podcasting?
Standards and standardisation and their effects on Podcasting in Education (both industry and educational standards)
Case studies of good practice, 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)
EPOD TEAM
Camilo Salazar, Morley Radio/Morley College London, UK
Professor Carola Boehm, University of Staffordshire, UK
Tim Canfer, Keele University, UK
Joanna Duchesne, Morley College London, UK
PEER REVIEW COMMITTEE 2024
Richard Berry, University of Sunderland
Sam Coley, Birmingham City University
John D'Arcy, Queens University, Belfast
Daniel Fastnedge, Auckland University, New Zealand
Andrew Gower, Principal, Morley College London
Carl Hartley, Leeds University
Sarah Hean, University of Stavanger, Norway
Milica Hinic, Mc Master University, Canada
Simon Humphreys, University of Staffordshire
Matteo Maiorana, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Katy McDonald, Newcastle University
Lindsay Persohn, University of South Florida, USA
Kathryn Pugh, University of Bedfordshire
Sofia Theodosiadou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Matthew Turner, Tokyo University of Science, Japan
If you'd like to join the peer review committee, please contact epod@morleycollege.ac.uk
EPOD is proudly sponsored by Routledge, Broadcast Radio, HHB and Morley Radio.
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.
