How To Create An Effective Podcast
15th May 2019 9:15am-5:15pm
Venue: Royal Holloway, 11 Bedford Square, London
Sign up: email techne@rhul.ac.uk
This
workshop run by two ex-BBC journalists and experienced programme-makers will
give you the skills to create effective and engaging podcasts about your
research. Podcasts are the most accessible “windows” to view your university
through, and yours need to reflect the quality of your institution.
What strikes us about university podcasts is that although the production
quality is important, it is the communication
skills of the podcaster, and his or her ability to tell a good story, that makes the podcasts effective and helps them
stand out among fierce online competition.
Our course
will enable you to get the best out of whatever technical expertise or
resources you may have. We help you to pitch your podcast correctly to the target
audience, to organise your thoughts and consider the best ways to present them.
We will give you the skills to present the podcast in a talk format, and the interviewing skills to make an interview/conversation style podcast.
During our workshop you’ll have the opportunity to practise both formats, an audio talk and an on-camera interview. If
the majority of participants are planning to create audio podcasts rather than
vlogs, we will provide them with an opportunity to record both podcasts in the
audio format.
This workshop DOES NOT cover purely technical skills in using recording and editing software, as technical capabilities differ from university to university and from person to person, but we will provide you with a list of useful links to ‘DIY’ podcasting. As experienced ‘radio hands’ we will also give you tips on how to make your audio podcasts sound professional.
It’s
important for us to know your research topics before the workshop, so we will ask
you to fill in a provided short
questionnaire and email it to us a week before the
course date.
The Objectives
The course enables participants
- to communicate effectively in their podcasts
- to pitch their podcasts correctly to the intended audience
- to choose the best format for their podcast
The Learning Outcomes
- Knowing how to tell a good story in a podcast
- Knowing how to plan and structure a podcast
- Knowing how to interview colleagues for a podcast
- Being able to record a podcast
in both talk and interview formats
We have given the course at UCL, UAL and
at Birmingham, Southampton, Essex,
Brunel, Sussex, York, Sheffield, Greenwich and Oxford Universities,
where it has been well received on each occasion. Here are some of the
responses:
“Absolutely everything was excellent and very useful. I thought the way the
structure and content along with the way the questions have to be set was very
useful, and transferable to lecturing or language lessons delivery” Irina Nelson,
Lecturer, Modern Languages, Southampton University
“Fantastic session, highly recommended-thank you!” Dr Amy Chan, Research Associate, Behavioural Medicine, UCL
“It was an excellent experience, thank you very much!” Dr Zeynep Engin, Senior Research Associate, Computer Science, UCL
“Both teachers had a very nice complementary interaction, making the workshop interesting” Caroline Pellet-Many, lecturer Metabolism, UCL
“An often overlooked skill for researchers--happy to see this training happen” Gary Parker, Research Coordinator, Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases, Institute for Global Health, UCL