EPOD24

Call For Papers

EPod 2024

(Education through Podcasting Conference 2024)

Venue: Morley Radio/Morley College London, 61 Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7HT

Date:  July 2024 (TBC):

• Day 1 - registration at 18:00 followed by live podcast panel and drinks reception.

• Day 2 - conference will begin at 09:00 with keynote and conclude at approximately 17:30.

About:

Education through Podcasting (Epod) is a new conference series cementing a partnership between Routledge, Morley College and SoundLearnings. Academics, researchers and practitioners will find a forum, through the unique medium of radio, to come together to disseminate their research and experience of teaching, learning and training through the use of recorded audio media. 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 podcastingCase 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

Submissions: please submit 300-500 word abstracts to epod@morleycollege.ac.uk by 02/02/2024

Paper abstracts of 300-500 words will be reviewed for inclusion in the conference programme and forthcoming book. After the conference, presenting authors will be expected to submit a full paper for peer review for consideration within a Routledge book of proceedings in the P.O.E.M. Series. 

Key Dates:

• 02/02/2024 Abstracts received

• 23/02/2024 Abstract acceptance notifications

• 23/02/2024 Early bird registration opens

• 31/05/2024 Early bird registration close

• --/06/2024 Registration close

• --/07/2024 Conference Starts 

• 04/10/2024 Book Chapters due (6000 words) 

• 01/05/2025 Book Publishing Date (approximately)