University Podcast Training Workshops: Training to Amplify Impact
Brunel University of London Graduate School Workshop 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, effective research communication and innovative content creation are crucial. Universities are increasingly seeking high-quality professional development opportunities that equip their academics and students with the skills to reach wider audiences and amplify their impact.
If you are a professional services lead, training manager, or department head at a university looking to enhance your community’s digital communication capabilities, Research Podcasts offers a specialised ‘Introduction to Podcasting for Researchers’ workshop. This program provides a professional and practical podcast training solution for your institution.
Why Offer Academic Podcasting Training?
- Enhanced Research Dissemination: Empower your academics to translate complex research into accessible audio content, reaching broader audiences including policymakers, the public, and interdisciplinary peers.
- Boost Student Employability: Provide students with practical, in-demand media skills training that is highly valued across various career paths, both within and outside academia.
- Modern Communication Skills: Position your university at the forefront of contemporary research communication, attracting talent and demonstrating a commitment to innovation.
- Flexible Professional Development: Deliver a tangible and hands-on digital skills workshop that offers immediate and practical value to participants.
Our Tailored Podcast Training Workshop
Our highly practical and interactive academic podcasting workshop is designed to provide your staff and students with the foundational knowledge and hands-on experience necessary to initiate and manage their own podcasts.
Participants will gain proficiency in:
- Podcast Fundamentals: A comprehensive introduction to the podcasting ecosystem, exploring essential apps, software, and recommended hardware, including how consumers and producers interact with podcasts. This section also includes a market research task for trainees to explore existing podcasts in their field.
- Audio Production Skills: Practical, hands-on sessions covering recording techniques, editing, and mixing pre-recorded interviews, voiceovers, and theme music to create a simple podcast episode using freely available editing software.
- Effective Guest Engagement: Learn techniques for getting the best out of podcast guests through interactive role-playing scenarios designed to overcome common challenges in interviews.
- Podcast Practicalities: Review essential kit, hosting mechanics, and funding options, alongside top tips for achieving optimal sound quality for both online and face-to-face recordings. The session also covers wider podcast assets like artwork, transcripts, audiograms, and potential uses of AI in podcasting.
- Podcast Concept Development: Guided exercises utilising a structured template to help participants define their podcast’s niche, format, and content strategy, culminating in designing a pitch that integrates all elements learned throughout the day. This includes discussions on why researchers should be podcasting and case studies from Research Podcasts’ own productions.
Flexible Delivery to Suit Your Institution
We understand the diverse needs of universities. Our university podcasting course is delivered as a focused one-day intensive, either online or face-to-face.
Seamless Implementation
For a smooth learning experience, participants will need headphones and a laptop. We manage the provision of free-to-use editing software (Audacity) and all necessary training materials. Please note that timings are flexible and can be adjusted to suit room availability.
Podcast Training with real impact
We pride ourselves on providing podcast training with real impact. We have worked with students and academics from several institutions including University of Oxford, Royal Holloway, LSE, Coventry University, UCL and University of Glasgow and many DTPs such as LAHP, WRoCAH and SCDTP. Many of these have gone on to create their own podcasts, you can listen to a few of them here:
Partner with Research Podcasts to Enhance Your Offerings
Empower your researchers and students with the podcast training they need to communicate effectively in the digital age. By integrating our research podcast workshop into your professional development portfolio, you are investing in the future of academic outreach and student success.
For detailed programme outlines, testimonials, and to discuss how we can tailor this podcast training for universities to your specific requirements and budget, please contact our Director of Training, Krissie Brighty-Glover, directly at Krissie@researchpodcasts.co.uk.
