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An academic podcasting community open to all arts & humanities researchers. Each month takes a new theme, where Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons and Isabel Sykes invite different guests to speak about their work. Kindly supported by techne AHRC doctoral training partnership. Thanks for listening!If you'd like to get in touch, please email technecaster@gmail.com, follow us on twitter at @technecast or on Instagram @technepodcast
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Jennifer Doveton - whose lovely music you hear every time you listen to the technecast - is a postgraduate researcher in her third year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series for markers of class in characterisation and narratives of upward mobility that reproduce neoliberal ideologies of individual aspiration. In this ...
In this latest episode of our Work and Labour series we hear from Julia Pond, a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher working with political economy. She works with choreography, improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, often siting work in public space. Currently, this takes shape in her performance project and fictional company BRED. Julia is a co-initiator of the podcast DanceOutsideDance, and is supported by TECHNE funding for her practice-based ...
David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix to continue their conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. In this part we hear about Unit 38’s involvement with Clapton Community Football Club, as well as public commons work, situated knowledge, and community wealth in Preston.You can find out more about Clapton Community Football Club here: https://...
David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix for a conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. The discussion explores questions of community resources, privilege and design focused on people not materials.There is a small amount of explicit language.---This episode was produced and presented by Felix ClutsonTechnecast is a research and practice podc...
In this latest instalment of our 'Senses' series we hear from Emma Mitchell. Emma is an AHRC-funded Creative Writing doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose work uses archival research and experimental literary forms and practices to reclaim the voices of marginalised women from History. Her project focusses on Georgian sex workers and works with contemporary documents, objects and ephemera to generate narratives that place women’s voices front and centre. An ex-school teacher a...
It's the final Technecast of the year! We've had some lovely new members join the Technecast team this year, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to do some introductions. In this casual epsiode, each member of the team answers some questions about themselves and their research. We also discuss our favourite epsiodes from the past year, so it's a bit of Technecast Wrapped, too. We hope you enjoy!Correction: In this epsiode we mistakenly describe Vietnamese-American author Ocean Vuong as K...
In the first episode of our 'Work, Labour and Protest' series, Isabel introduces us to her project which explores media representations and lived experiences of working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour in the UK.Isabel is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of class, gender, and labour under neoliberal capitalism. She is currently in the second year of her PhD at Brunel University London. If you would like to get involved with the study and you meet th...
In our last episode on the theme 'narratives of nation', our very own Felix Clutson shares his research into football in the age of globalisation. Felix discusses the ways in which football transcends borders (for better or worse), the modern phenomenon of sportswashing, and the plight of his beloved Reading FC. After his presentation he joins Edwin for a conversation based around the question: is football eating itself?Want to turn your research into a podcast? We'd love to hear from you at ...
Beth Williamson is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London working collaboratively with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Her research explores how the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) tackled the problem of ‘orthography’ when recording and mapping place names in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing how geography and linguistics, and politics and diplomacy, shaped the way the world was brought to ‘order’. In this episode of our 'Narratives of Nation' ...
Gareth Hughes is in the second year of his PhD in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway. His thesis explores spatial transformations in contemporary French and multilingual poetry.In this episode of the ‘Narratives of Nation’ series, Gareth talks about the multilingual poems of Michèle Métail, the power of poetry to loosen the bind between nationality and language, and how entering into poetic spaces can help us to reimagine the world.--------------References:Gratton, Peter and...
In the latest instalment of our ‘Narratives of Nation’ series, Rosie Knowles, a PhD researcher at Royal Holloway, tells Isabel about her research into the health geography concept of therapeutic landscapes. In this episode, Rosie shares how her family connections with the steelworks town of Port Talbot inspired her to locate her research here, where she explores therapeutic interactions and connections between this coastal, industrial landscape and its inhabitants.A multitextured landscape in...
In the first episode of our new theme, 'Narratives of Nation', Lili Toitot, PhD researcher at Brunel, tells Edwin about her work on the mixed national identity of the French region of Alsace. An Alsatian herself, Lili examines the documentation of the region's history through the lens of gender and war memorials. The question that emerges from this episode is: what can we learn from Alsace about nationhood and national identity?Image credit: Lili Toitot. War memorial, Strasbourg, Alsace.-----...
We interrupt our scheduled programming to bring you this special episode in light of recent events. Techne's summer congress this year was cancelled due to the on-going industrial action taking place at the University of Brighton. In this episode, the Technecast team explore why industrial action is taking place at Brighton, and the position of the arts and humanities more broadly in UK higher education. A huge thank you to Luke Beesley, a Brighton PGR who gave us a really informative intervi...
Finishing up our theme of life writing, Olivia chats to Al Meggs about his work on reclaiming cabaret.Al trained in dance and went on to a long career through the 1980s and 1990s as performer in cabaret, theatre, T.V. and film, before taking on various guises ‘behind the scenes’. Roles that ranged from stage crew to stage manager to production manager and dresser to wardrobe assistant to costume supervisor.Now, a second year creative writing doctoral student at the University of Brighton. Al'...
Returning to our theme of life writing, Olivia chats to Gemma Turner about her research on early modern carers. Gemma discusses how the early modern gentlewoman Elizabeth Isham reconceptualised her difficult spiritual relationship with caring after writing her autobiographical Booke of Remembrance.Gemma works for the University of Southampton within Student Disability and Inclusion. She recently completed her MRes project entitled 'The Carer's View: A New Perspective on Chronic Illness and Di...
Continuing our theme of senses, researcher and sound artist Samuel Hertz shares his work on the sound(s) of climate and environmental change. More specifically, Samuel examines the ways in which acoustic sound-capturing methods alter human perspectives on space and time. After his presentation, Samuel joins Edwin for a discussion about all things sound, exhibiting his work in the International Space Station and the Pacific Ocean, and his recent performance art piece in Dortmund, Germany, whic...
In our latest installment of our 'Senses' series, Isabel chats to Viveca Mellegård about her fascinating research into the practice of indigo dyeing in West Bengal.Viveca is a researcher and filmmaker and started her career making science and arts programmes at the BBC. She integrates film and photography as research methods with a particular interest in making the embodied aspects of craftsmanship visible.She’s doing a collaborative PhD with Royal Holloway and the Economic Botany Department ...
In this episode, Morag chats to Rachel Holmes about her research to kick off our theme on senses. Rachel Holmes is a practicing artist and writer currently completing her doctorate project The Language of Birds at Kingston School of Art, supervised by Professor Scott Wilson. Influenced by the work of Georges Bataille, Silvia Federici, Eduardo Kohn and Dale Pendell, The Language of Birds is interested in developing a theory of luck or chance, through which the intelligence of the Other (as nat...
Welcome to our first episode in our new series on Life Writing. In this epsiode, Morag chats to Karen about her fascinating research.Karen’s doctoral research explores the lives of former Irish nuns, one of whom is her mother. Her work is located at the interface between a number of disciplines (history, sociology, narrative psychology and Irish Studies) and draws on narrative and life history methodologies to consider these life stories in context. These former nuns entered a religious congr...
During her artist-residency at the Archive of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, Anushka Tay composed a series of music inspired by 19th century plant collection in China. She created four multi-layered, textured pieces which range from an instrumental piano solo evoking Orientalism, to a spoken-word poem collaged with field recordings that she took around Kew Gardens during the summer.In this episode of Technecast, Anushka discusses the way that she navigated her instinctive visceral respon...
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