Project PhDcast

Welcome to PhDcast! I’m your host, creator, and PhD student, Alison Innes, and this ongoing podcast of indeterminate length will take you behind the scenes into my PhD research on podcasts, ethics, and knowledge mobilization. I’ll be using this podcast to reflect on my own podcasting experiences, to share my evolving thinking about podcasts, and to explore some of the ideas I’m encountering in my research. Think of it as a sort of notebook that invites you not only to snoop on my research, but to participate in it, too! -- Made in Canada on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples. -- Visit my website https://podcastologist.ca/contact to share your thoughts! I can also be found on Twitter at @InnesAlison or by email at podcastinghumanities@gmail.com Learn more about this research project and how you can participate by visiting https://podcastologist.ca PhDcast is an ongoing project by Alison Innes, PhD student in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock University. This research project has been approved by the Research Ethics Board at Brock University, file #23-020-MAURO.

Episode 11: (Re)Covering Bad Women– From Ithaka to Whitechapel

This episode is the second in “(Re)Covering Bad Women,” a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasts. This episode is an explanation of my creative podcast episode, (Re)Covering Bad Women: Unruly Slave Girls in the Odyssey. This episode connects the creative sound piece to broader themes from Emily Wilson’s translation of […]

10-16
19:26

Episode 10: (Re)Covering Bad Women– Unruly Slaves in the Odyssey

This episode of Project PhDcast is part one of (Re)Covering Bad Women, a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasting. The first part of (Re)Covering Bad Women is a creative sound piece based on the story of the enslaved girls in Homer’s Odyssey, with passages taken from Emily Wilson’s translation and […]

10-16
14:13

Episode 09: An Autumn Walk in the Woods

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a lovely, golden afternoon in October. The woods are fragrant with fallen leaves. A passing thunderstorm has stirred up the waves on Lake Ontario. Birds flit from branch to branch, crickets chirp, and a flock of geese pass overhead. Won’t you join me for an autumn walk in the woods? For optimal […]

10-15
25:33

Episode 08: Here’s to Punk Podcasting

What does a podcast sound like? What should a podcast sound like? In today’s episode I review three of my recent readings about podcasting sound– an academic text on sonic aesthetics, a news article on AI podcasts, and a blog post on punk rock– and how these are shaping my podcast practice and research. *Contains […]

09-15
34:45

Episode 07 Theories & Methods: Humanities Podcasting & Public Discourse

This post is an accessible version of my research poster for the HUMA 7P02 poster session held at Brock University on 2 April 2025. Do you remember the last time you sat around a campfire, eating smores and sharing stories? We share campfire stories with an intimate group of trusted friends. The growth of podcasting […]

04-02
23:48

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