Making Podcasts as an Academic: A Hands-on Guide

In this hands-on podcasting workshop you’ll learn about some of the key technical, storytelling and production steps involved in making a podcast. We’ll start at the beginning of the podcast process and work through each step. No audio experience is necessary to be a part of this fast-paced workshop. As we make our podcast, we’ll talk about initiating a podcast as an academic. Before we pick up a microphone to record a podcast, we need to ask ourselves why we’re initiating this podcast project. What power relations or interests are we reinforcing, challenging, or undermining in this podcast project, and what is our institutional justification or legitimacy for doing so? We’ll consider the politics of expression. As podcasting is less regulated and more cost effective than commercial and community radio it might potentially allow for even greater representation of marginalised voices. Podcasting allows voices that are not normally heard to be represented in the podcasting sphere, and we can use this as a provocation to diversify the voices in our projects. We’ll explore the politics of dissemination. Podcast audiences do not exist fully formed out there waiting to be discovered, they’re cultivated and nurtured. At City Road Podcast, we started with the academic audience we had easy access to and created unique content for them to build a niche audience from the ground up. Finally, we’ll get into the politics of impression too. The real politics in podcasting is not solely located in the research or stories that we record and broadcast. Podcasting is also about the politics of who is listening to these stories and who is not. Come along for a fun two hours of podcast making and conversation.

Dallas Rogers is Head of Urbanism in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney. He works on the colonial and contemporary politics of land, housing, property and urban development. His research spans urban and historical geography with a focus on the intersections of race, class, nature, technology and capital. Dallas leads major studies of urbanism funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) and other government and non-government funders. His current ARC studies include: Digital technologies and the private rental sector in Australia; Inequality in Australia: housing in the asset society; and The University and the City. Dallas is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Housing Policy. He has written well over 50 opinion pieces for The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald and The Conversation. Dallas had graduate qualifications in radio production and produces radio features for ABC Radio National. He is the founder of City Road Podcast, amongst others radio projects. 

Refreshments will be provided at this event.

This event is being held as part of RMIT University's Social Change Symposium, presented in collaboration with the College of Design and Social Context and the Social Change Enabling Impact Platform.