Conference Workshops

Catherine recording an episode of Speaking of Research at the SCDTP conference in 2025

Conference delegates who join part 1 of the workshop will get a basic understanding of how they can use podcasts as a medium to engage around and disseminate their research. Using positive examples of podcasts produced & presented by researchers with Research Podcasts training and support, this session will cover what makes a ‘good’ academic/research focused podcast and why. Through interactive exercises and discussion, we will then help them discover more about the essential practicalities and skills needed to podcast and the things they should consider before embarking on their own.

Part 1 is often run as a parallel session with other workshops and can vary in length, depending on the requirements of the conference, from 30 mins to 2 hours.

In part 2, delegates will also have the opportunity to undertake a ‘mock’ podcast interview with one of Research Podcast’s experienced podcast producers and presenters.

These are informal interactions designed to give delegates the opportunity to experience a recorded interview in a low stakes setting to develop their confidence and skills in this type of situation. It’s also an opportunity to see how they might conduct an interview themselves should they become the presenter of their own podcast.

We will edit and deliver these within seven days for you to use as you wish. Depending on what level of production you require we can also add intros, closers and music.

The podcast workshop for conferences is delivered concurrently in one day but we would recommend delivering the workshop in the morning and to record the mock podcasts in the afternoon. This is so participants can put into practice what they have learned in the morning, feel more comfortable with the trainers and can think about their answers for the interview in the afternoon.

If you would like to publish these mock podcast episodes in their own right we can help design podcast artwork, audiograms and transcripts and publish them to podcast apps like Spotify and Apple. See for example: Speaking of Research from SCDTP, Doctoral Dialogues from the University of Westminster, Making SENSS from the South and East Network for Social Sciences (SENSS), The Archive & The Studio from the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) and The BruPod from Brunel University.

Our Director of Training and Production, Krissie Brighty-Glover, is always eager to meet new researchers and explain the benefits of podcasting for academics so if the conference package interests you but you don’t want a recording session reach out and we can design a bespoke talk (see for example Southampton below).

Research Podcasts where invited back to SENSS’ Summer Conference in July 2026 to deliver our “Why Should Academics Podcast?” workshop followed by 10 students sitting down with our producer Alex Canner ‘speed podcasting’ resulting in a fantastic new series – Making SENSS.

Across ten episodes, our guests explore how rigorous research translates into practical, real-world solutions – from humanising social care and creating inclusive urban environments to building safer digital economies and tackling climate change through behavioural science. Through candid, insightful conversations, each episode unpacks why this research matters and how it promises to transform policy, public understanding, healthcare, and everyday life.

Research Podcasts have been delivering our “Introduction to Podcasting for Researchers” workshop to LAHP students for 5 years but this year we did something a bit different.

As part of their public engagement day our Senior Producer Catherine McDonald and Director Krissie Brighty-Glover delivered a workshop on why academics should be podcasting as part of LAHP’s public engagement day followed by short podcast recordings creating The Archive & The Studio in the process.

This series takes you inside the minds of outstanding doctoral researchers across London who are bridging the gap between historical scholarship and modern public engagement.

The title represents the two distinct worlds that arts and humanities researchers inhabit: the quiet, rigorous discovery of the Archive and the creative, experimental energy of the Studio. Through candid, insightful conversations recorded at Queen Mary, University of London, our guests unpack why their research matters and how they hope to transform society, culture, policy, and industry.

On publication of the podcast Academic lead of LAHP, Dr Marquard Smith, said “this is such incredible training for PhD students, thanks so much to Krissie and the team”.

Following a morning workshop exploring why podcasting is a fantastic medium for impact researchers sat down with Catherine to discuss their projects, who might benefit from their work, and the changes they hope to inspire. We recorded a follow up Series 2 online in the 2025/26 academic year and have just completed Series 3 – In dialogue with stakeholders – whereby researchers spoke to their key stakeholders in a longer interview format about how their research could make impact in the real world. The first three episodes will be released in October 2026.

After a morning workshop discussing how and why PhD students and academics should be podcasting, the Research Podcasts team spent the afternoon interviewing PhD students about their research and PhD journeys.

From these interviews we produced an 8 episode podcast series including podcast artwork, audiograms and transcripts for the graduate school to help promote the summer school and their wider activities.

The BruPod was so well received that we returned in 2025 to record series 2:

This is a fantastic example of our podcast workshop for conferences in action.

Listen to the latest episode of The BruPod now:

Krissie Brighty-Glover was asked to join a panel – Alternative Formats for Outputs and Collaborations – in June 2026 at the University of Southampton. She delivered a short talk on what researchers should be podcasting alongside Catherine Grant who explored the use of video essays as an output followed by an interesting Q&A about impact in Higher Education and thinking beyond of monographs and seminar papers.

SWDTP invited us to lead a workshop and record a mini podcast based on their conference theme – Let’s Collaborate – which was published monthly throughout late 2022 and 2023. All episodes where recorded at the conference with students given final say whether they wanted their recordings to be used once they had listened to the final edited episode. We handled all the administration for SWDTP (contacting students, uploading episodes to a podcast host and creating wider podcast assets like show notes and artwork) and now they have a digital footprint for their 2022 conference which they can use to promote the DTP and their students’ work.

We asked the students to tell us about their research, their methodologies, what they hoped to change and what advice they would give someone thinking of embarking on a PhD – the last question threw out some amazing advice which we clipped up below: