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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

C3 Centre’s  Professor Neil Brownsword and the Ceramic Cultures, Practices and Debates Research Group is organising a symposium to celebrate the rich ceramics heritage of the city

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  • Where: Stoke Town Hall, Glebe Street, Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HP
  • When: Nov 21 at 9am to Nov 22 at 5pm GMT
  • How to register for free: Eventbrite Link

Legacy and Continuity Ceramic Symposium will be a  two-day symposium celebrating the rich ceramics heritage of the city and its modern World Craft City status.

This symposium will be one of the highlight events for the Stoke100 Centenary Heritage Celebrations. Re-Form’s Dr Alasdair Brooks and C3’s Professor Neil Brownsword in collaboration with Jingdezhen Ceramic University in China will bring together speakers from across the globe to outline the international impact of Stoke-on-Trent’s ceramic industry.

This two-day symposium celebrates the rich ceramics heritage of the city and its modern World Craft City status to engage both scholars and members of the public in a discussion of the past and present of Staffordshire ceramics.

The symposium is free to attend and is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

Day One: The Archaeology of 19th-Century British Ceramics in an International Context

The first day will emphasise the global reach and significance of Stoke-on-Trent’s history and heritage from an archaeological perspective. Speakers working on objects from England, Scotland, Portugal, Ghana, the Persian Gulf, the US, Chile, and New Zealand will address how relevant studies of 19th-century British ceramics can contribute to an understanding of globalised trade, international domestic consumption, and the socio-economic impact of formal and informal empire.

Day Two: Willow Pattern Ceramics and Stories of ‘Other’: Cultural Influence and Exchange Between China and Britain

Day two will expand on the themes explored in the Spode Museum’s exhibition Willow Pattern Ceramics and Stories of ‘Other’, curated for the City of Stoke-on-Trent’s Centenary Celebrations. Speakers from the UK and China will explore the cultural origin of the famous Willow pattern, the British Orientalist discourse reflected in the 19th century Willow pattern story, and industrial exchange and impacts of globalization between the British and Chinese ceramics industries to the present day.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/legacy-and-continuity-ceramic-symposium-tickets-1418675770419

Last Chance to register for Critical Ecologies Summer Symposium 2025

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Last call to participate in our C3 Critical Ecologies Symposium, July 9th 2026!

Where:    Level 3, Catalyst Building. Leek Rd. Campus, University of Staffordshire
When:    July 9th 2026 10 – 4pm

Last chance to sign up and join Rebecca Nunes and Anna Francis and other researchers whose practices intersect with climate alliance and social equity for a day of research sharing and development of exploratory future collaboration. If you would like to join us please email or Teams me: rebecca.nunes@staffs.ac.uk so we can add you in. The day will be held in Catalyst, and food and drinks will be provided.

Critical Ecologies Summer Symposium 2025

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 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 – 4

Level 3, Catalyst Building. Leek Rd. Campus, University of Staffordshire 

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.

London’s EPOD conference set to highlight education through podcasting in June

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Education through Podcasting (EPOD) is organising its second conference on 26th and 27th June 2025 at Morley College London. A group of educators, podcast practitioners and industry experts will gather to discuss ‘Between entertainment and education’. Speakers will share how they use podcasts, best practices, and themes around ethics and inclusivity.

This conference continues a partnership formed between University of Staffordshire’s C3 Centre, Routledge, Morley College London, the University of Leeds and the University of South Florida. Industry sponsors include Audio UK, Broadcast Radio, HHB, Morley Radio, Routledge, and The Radio Academy.

It was announced also on the Podnews’s newsletter at https://podnews.net/press-release/epod-conference-25, which has a distribution of 32,457.

Carola Boehm, EPOD committee member and C3 member, said: ‘This is a fabulous conference that highlights the opportunities of podcasting to lean into higher education, and universities to lean into podcasting’.

This year’s keynote speakers include freelance producer and presenter Meera Kumar, recently named Producer of the Year 2024; Naomi Mellor, host and producer; and Stephen Coleman, author and emeritus Professor of Political Communication at the University of Leeds.

Camilo Salazar, EPOD committee member and manager at Morley Radio in London, said: ‘We are excited to host this event again. It will be so interesting to bring together people from all over the world and hear how media industry expectations apply in educational contexts.’

Each year, speakers will be given the opportunity to write up a chapter for a book in the EPOD book series, published by Routledge. The first book from the inaugural conference is due for release later this year. For more information about the event or to get tickets to attend, visit: https://www.epod.org.uk/epod-conference-2025

 

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:

EVENT: Critical Ecologies, Thursday 11th July 2024

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  • Thursday 11th July 2024
  • Catalyst CA2 Creative Lab
  • 10 am – 5pm

Critical Ecologies is an opportunity for academic and non-academic staff to come together and share research in alliance with communities and ecologies.

We have two exciting keynote presentations, and space for 6 presenters from within the University to share their research. In creating this fledgling research hub we are acknowledging the need for an open and respectful space where we can build (and rebuild) an interdisciplinary research culture. We also aim to centre nature recovery and environmental justice within these interdisciplinary conversations.

2022 Communities and Communication Conference: Call for Papers

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The theme for this year is: Diverse Voices.

The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY 17th DECEMBER
2021.

Conference website is at https://filmfreeway.com/Communitesandcommunication

This year we are expanding the range of accepted submissions to artworks, performance, video submission, and other non-conventional forms.

Potential Topics:

  1. Representation
  2. Local vs global
  3. Crossing boundaries 
  4. Accessibility
  5. Platforms for dissemination
  6. Collective voice
  7. Art as activism 
  8. Quiet voices

The need for Diverse Voices’ inclusion into the conversation on communities and communication has never been more urgent. Connecting communities only makes sense when a variety of experiences share the stage in a respectful and engaging way, building a network of support and understanding between disciplines and different forms of expression. Building upon the success of last year’s edition, we are excited to invite participants from around the globe to engage in the discussion, in the hope for a more integrated approach to knowledge generation.

For more information and proposals contact: CommunitiesandCommunication@staffs.ac.uk 

GUIDANCE FOR AUTHORS

The deadline for submissions is FRIDAY 17th DECEMBER 2021.

The proposals should include: Title, up to 5 keywords, abstract (250 words), author name, affiliation and short bio (50 words) + if relevant, sample of the artwork/description/still/video.

All the proposed submissions must respond to the brief and be linked, in one way or another, to the ideas of communities, communication and diverse voices. All the creative work must be copyright free.


All proposals should be emailed to CommunitiesandCommunication@staffs.ac.uk
All Audio Visual submissions: https://filmfreeway.com/Communitesandcommunication

We encourage submissions from Early-Career, PhD students and independent researchers and artists. The conference is organised by the Department of Media and Performance, School of Digital, Technologies and Arts at Staffordshire University and will take place over two days 19-20 May 2022.