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EPOD-2026 announced to be hosted by University of Leeds in partnership with C3 staff

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A team of podcasting academics is preparing for the third annual EPOD conference (Podcasting Through Education) to take in Leeds in June 2026. As part of this, work is ongoing to publish another volume in their Routledge Book series under the same title. The work as part of the conference demonstrates the international, innovation-orineted partnerships that C3 members hold.

EPOD Conference & Book Team:

  • Carl Hartley, University of Leeds, UK
  • Camilo Salazar, Morley Radio/Morley College London, UK
  • Carola Boehm, University of Staffordshire, UK
  • Joanna Duchesne, Morley College London, UK
  • Dr Lindsay Persohn, University of South Florida, USA

EPOD’26 Theme: Beyond the Classroom – The Power of Podcasts in Shaping the Future of Learning and Media

  • Venue: University of Leeds
  • Date:  18th – 19th June 2026
  • Deadline for Abstracts: 16 January 2026
  • After the conference book chapters will be due (6000 words): 1 October 2026
  • Approximate Book Publishing Date:  1 July 2027

Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is a conference and book series where academics, researchers and professionals come together to discuss and disseminate their research and innovative practices around learning/educational contexts using recorded audio, media and podcasting.

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.

The book will have a similar theme around challenging and innovating the higher learning spaces through new podcast practices:

Themes of the conference and book will include, but are not limited to:

  • Pedagogical Possibilities of Podcasting: Exploring how innovation in podcasting in education can support diverse teaching and learning strategies, including flipped classrooms, microlearning, and reflective practice.
  • Blurring Boundaries Between Formal and Informal Learning: How do educational podcasts straddle entertainment and learning, and with this make it harder to distinguish between institutional learning and public discourses.
  • Academic Storytelling and Knowledge Mobilisation: Innovative practices that use podcasting to translate research into engaging narratives for public audiences and interdisciplinary dialogue.
  • Decentralising Knowledge Production and Distribution: Podcasting practices that allow academics, students, and external voices to bypass traditional gatekeepers, reshaping who gets to produce and share educational content.
  • Student-Generated Podcasts as Assessment and Engagement: How to empower students to create podcasts as part of coursework, and methods that foster creativity, digital literacy, and ownership of learning.
  • Institutional Strategies for Podcast Integration: Case studies and frameworks for embedding institutional wide podcasting into teaching frameworks, marketing, or outreach strategies.
  • Podcasting and Civic Engagement: Examining podcasting’s role in civic engagement by higher education institutions, including collective cultural production and community partnerships.
  • Reconfiguring Academic Authority and Voice: Podcasts often feature informal, conversational tones. How can they challenge traditional academic hierarchies and open space for diverse epistemologies and challenging discourses?

Submissions: please submit 300-500 word abstracts to epod@morleycollege.ac.uk by 16/01/2026

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 invited to submit a full paper for peer review for consideration within a Routledge book of proceedings.

Key Dates:

  • 16/01/2026 Deadline for Abstracts
  • 16/02/2026 Abstract acceptance notifications
  • 16/02/2026 Early bird registration opens   
  • 16/03/2026 Early bird registration close
  • 17/06/2026 Registration closes
  • 18/06/2026 2-Day Conference starts
  • 01/10/2026 Book Chapters due (6000 words)
  • 01/07/2027 Approximate Book Publishing Date

The first series in the book was published earlier this year, with the next one in the series on schedule to be published in time with the 2026 conference. 

This year’s conference featured Stoke-on-Trent regional podcasting educators, including Carola Boehm (C3), Adam Gratton (CommunityCast) and Alex Hough (C3), whose work will be available in the next book of the series. 

Full call as a printable pdf: https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/c3centre/wp-content/blogs.dir/1790/files/sites/1790/2025/11/Call-For-Papers.pdf

Critical Ecologies Symposium 2025

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Symposium Date: Wednesday, 9th July 10 – 3
Where: Catalyst Building, Leek Road, University of Staffordshire
Expression of Interest in Contributing: Friday June 20th, by 5pm
Registration via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/critical-ecologies-symposium-2025-tickets-1376317244929
PDF Details and Programme: https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/c3centre/wp-content/blogs.dir/1790/files/sites/1790/2025/06/CriticalEcologiesSymposium-2025-1.pdf  

Critical Ecologies is a grassroots research hub, generating a community of practice holding space to focus discussion and innovation around nature recovery and environmental justice.

The 2025 Symposium supports shared visioning for future collaborations and practice-led research connections. We invite all researchers and practitioners interested in these themes to come together via an experimental, generative format, where throughout the day, we will propose provocations that generate knowledge around specific enquiries.

We invite you to propose either a 10-minute sharing provocation of your practice and/or research or a 30-minute hands-on making activity that responds to one of the enquiries.

The Enquiries:
1. Nature Recovery Strategy:
In this session, we will consider the Local Nature Recovery Strategies being prepared nationally; what role and purpose they need to fulfil, and how we, as creative and academic practitioners, might inform the processes or support communities in having a voice within the proceedings. What role can the strategy play in our research and practice in the coming years? More broadly, how can our work as practitioners and researchers better inform policy development?

2. Declaration of Intent:
This session aims to create a shared understanding of the Critical Ecologies Research Hub and to formulate a declaration of intent for the upcoming seasonal cycles. We will discuss the current functions of the hub, which include providing space for resistant research, supporting practice-led research, and fostering transdisciplinary connections and networks. How can we strengthen and build upon these aims?

3. Body/Brain:
Through a haptic experience of the subject themes, this session will enable us to synthesise the insights gained throughout the day, making them visible through practice-led guided engagement with material processes. From this collaborative process, visual motifs will emerge that will reinforce the strategic directions of the research hub moving forward. This session will also facilitate the cross-pollination, discussion, and experimental generation of ideas that occur during a practice-led workshop or workshops.

The outcomes of our collaboration throughout the day will form a Research Document, which will be shared immediately after the Symposium with all participants and will inform our ongoing efforts for the next year’s cycle of Critical Ecologies Seasonal Gatherings for 2025/26.

Symposium Date: Wednesday, 9th July 10 – 3
10 -10.30 – Introduction and framing the day.
10.30 – 11.30 – Enquiry 1: Nature Recovery Strategy
11.30 – 12.30 – Enquiry 2: Convening a Declaration of Intent
12.30 – 1.30 – LUNCH
1.30 – 2.30 – Enquiry 3: Body/Brain
2.30 – 3.00- Wrap Up

Expression of Interest in Contributing
To send in an Expression of Interest to
• present a 10 minute sharing provocation of your practice and/or research or
• a 30 minute hands-on making activity which responds to one of the enquiries,
please send us up to 500 words indicating which of the enquiries you are responding to, and what you intend to present or share by 5pm Friday June 20th to rebecca.nunes@staffs.ac.uk

Attending the Symposium:
If you would like to simply attend the Symposium, please sign up via our EventBrite link above. (We will contact you to ascertain any dietary requirements etc).
Further detail to follow.
We look forward to sharing the day with you.

Education Through Podcasting EPOD Conference Deadline coming up: Don’t miss the deadline!

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The deadline for submitting abstracts for EPOD 2025 Conference is fast approaching. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of this year’s conference!

https://www.epod.org.uk

This conference cements a partnership of EPOD with Routledge. For this year’s conference Morley College London is partnering with the University of Staffordshire, Leeds University, and the University of South Florida. In this conference, academics, researchers and practitioners will share and disseminate research and experience of teaching, learning and training through podcasts.  

The focus of the conference this year will be Between entertainment and education: balancing media industry expectations within educational contexts. 

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.  Note that this is an in-person conference and it will not be possible to present online.

Presenting authors will be given the opportunity to submit a paper for peer review and consideration for the next Routledge publication.  

A publication from last year’s conference contributors is in press and will be published by the time this conference rolls around!

We would really appreciate it if you could help spread the word about EPOD over email to anyone who may be interested, and social media. You can follow, like and share our social media posts on Instagram, X and Facebook, as well as sharing the Call for Submissions to networks.

Many thanks again, looking forward to seeing you in June 2025!

Warm regards, 

The EPOD Team

 

Education Through Podcasting Conference 2025 – Announcement of 2025 Dates and Theme

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Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is a collaboration between Keele University Tim Canfer), University of Staffordshire (Carola Boehm) and Morley College (Camilo Salazar and Joanna Duchesne)  and includes an annual conference and a book series focusing  on discussing  and disseminating research and practice of learning/educational contexts using podcasting and recorded audio media.

EPOD welcomes academics, researchers and professionals to be part of our growing network that explores the intersections between podcasting and education. 

Main Website: https://www.epod.org.uk

EPOD’25 Education through Podcasting Conference

EPOD  2025 will be hosted again on 26th and 27th June 2025 by Morley College’s facilities at their Waterloo Campus in Central London, made for an ideal venue. Our theme for 20025 will be: Between Entertainment & Education: balancing media industry expectations within educational contexts.

Key Date and link to more Info:

  • 03/02/2025               Deadline for Conference Abstracts (see call)

Proceedings Publication

The proceedings from the conference will be published by Routledge. More details can be found here.

About:

Themes of the conference include, but are not limited to:

Introducing the C3 Showcase Website

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The C3 Centre has recently launched its own Showcase website.This website will function as a gallery space, or if you will, a curated and creative multi-element journal. It will be a multi-medial experience showcasing our practice, our research and the work that we are engaged in.

Our research groups will use it to showcase some of their work, bringing together published, underpinning academic writings with practice outputs, such as music, film, visual art or media.

Our showcase is at the beginning of its development, so please be patient with us as we are putting together some exciting arts, writings, media, film and music, drawing from our creative practice-based research.

The link to the showcase website is  https://blogs.staffs.ac.uk/c3showcase/

We would like to invite our research groups to identify researchers who will create their own curated pages showcasing their research. Below is a short how to guide and some examples.

Any questions and if you need a bit of help with putting together a curation, contact either Agata or Carola.

Below an image of a “Curation”.

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Here is a list of our current example curations. that can be used as a template.

Getting into Culture 3.0: cultural engagement, place-making and co-creation

Welcome to C3 Curations

Do you want to co-curate with us?

Call for Papers: “Practice-Based Research”

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Call for Papers: Special Issue of the International Journal for Creative Media Research “Recontextualising Practice-Based Research”

https://www.creativemediaresearch.org/call-for-papers

DEADLINES:

Please send an abstract, up to 5 keywords, and a short biographical note to Agata Lulkowska at Agata.Lulkowska@staffs.ac.uk by 14 January 2022.

​Abstracts should be between 300 to 500 words. Notification of acceptance will be sent by no later than 31 January 2022. If the proposal is accepted, the author(s) will be asked to submit the full article by 4 April 2022.

​For more detailed guidance please see our Author Guidelines page.

​The articles must not exceed 7000-8000 words and can include images, clips, and links. Please, provide correct credits, permissions, and copyright information in order to be sure that the images, clips, and links are copyright free and can be published.

​It is expected that the issue will be published in July 2022 TBC.

More information:

Recontextualising Practice-Based Research

Guest editor: Agata Lulkowska (Staffordshire University)

​Despite having been around for over three decades, practice-based research continues to be a source of controversy and confusion. Questions persist about how to design the most relevant methodology, how to demonstrate ‘originality’, ‘significance’ and ‘rigour’ (as defined in the REF criteria), and how to disseminate the outputs. Positioned in between creative arts and traditional research, Art/Practice-based research often lacks clearly defined target audiences. Moreover, with the emergence of practice-based masters and doctoral programmes across (mostly UK and Australian) HE institutions, questions about how to design the most effective training and support still remain largely unanswered.

​With this in mind, this special issue seeks to re-contextualise practice-based research in creative arts and humanities by returning to the basic questions addressing the trajectory of a typical practice-based research. Topics within the scope of this issue include but are not limited to:

  1. What is practice-based research in creative arts?

  2. How to tame your inner artist: what distinguishes Art/practice-based research from purely artistic practice?

  3. How to navigate Interdisciplinary/transdisciplinary quagmires?

  4. How to design an effective methodology?

  5. How to balance theory, practice and reflective evaluation?

  6. How to disseminate practice-based research?

  7. How to evidence impact?

  8. What are the ingredients of a successful training and support system for practice-based researchers?

 

Noisefloor Festival 2018

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The experimental music and moving image Festival, Noisefloor, hosted by the music and film departments, begins next Tuesday 8th May. All events are taking place in our purpose built TV studios in the Cadman Studios complex, College Road, Stoke on Trent.

Noisefloor has become an important annual event in the experimental music and moving image calendar and attracts submissions and artists from around the world. It’s a chance for our own students to perform with other local and international artists and showcases some of the best talent around.

All events are open to the local community and we’re keen for people to take the opportunity to attend and experience some excellent concerts the see great facilities we have here.

See the full press release here: http://www.staffs.ac.uk/news/international-music-festival-comes-to-staffordshire-university-tcm4296364.jsp

The full concert programme is on the Noisefloor website here: http://www.noisefloor.org.uk/