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An academic podcasting community open to all arts & humanities researchers. Each month takes a new theme, where Felix Clutson, Morag Thomas, Eva Dieteren, Pragya Sharma, 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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In the latest - and last - instalment in our Heritage and Memory series, Adrianna Chmielewska talks to Thomas Nixon-Roworth from Sheffield University on his research into clergy and lay relations in mid-17th century England. In the first half of the episode, Thomas will be talking about the premise of his research and its main themes. Adrianna then talks to Thomas about the fascinating and complex series of relationships at St Stephen, Coleman Street parish in London. Thank you Th...
This week, we take a brief detour from our usual themes to explore a question at the crossroads of social ethics and technology: Can humans and robots be friends? We are joined by Ruby Hornsby, doctoral researcher at the University of Leeds, to explore this question. We discuss what friendship really means, why she argues it cannot exist with machines, and why it’s worth asking what friendship and human connection means in the digital age. This episode was hosted and produced by Eva Die...
In the first installment of our 'Nature' theme, Isabel catches up with friend of the podcast, PhD researcher and filmmaker Viveca Mellegård. She fills us in on how her PhD journey has been progressing, and shares an immersive soundscape of her practice with us. ------------ Image: Viveca Mellegård Technecast music: Jennifer Doveton Soundscape: Viveca Mellegård Link to Episode 1 'Secrets of the Prize Papers' from the podcast On The Record at the National Archives: https://tnaontherecord.libsyn...
Continuing our Heritage and Memory series, Adrianna Chmielewska talks to Helen Williams on her research into representations of motherhood. Helen Williams is a first-year doctoral researcher in creative writing at Brunel University of London. An experienced motherhood journalist, Williams is writing a novel based around her research on the ways relationships between generations of university-educated mothers and daughters are represented in contemporary British fiction. One of the texts...
In our first episode on the theme of Heritage and Memory, PhD researcher Tom Hull from the University of Brighton talks to us about his research project. Tom's project uses a combination of archival research, literary criticism and creative writing to deepening our understanding of Dr James Barry. Dr James Barry was many things. He was a pioneering surgeon, performing the first successful caesarean section within the British Empire where the mother and daughter both survived. He was an ...
In honour of International Women's Day, this episode brings together PhD researchers from a range of backgrounds to explore the role of gender in musical traditions and genres (from opera to classical to popular music). Join us as we celebrate the voices of women in music research, dive into everything from Kendrick Lamar’s iconic Super Bowl performance to Dolly Parton’s timeless legacy, and share a few of our personal listening gems along the way! You can find these gems in the accompanying ...
In our final episode of 2024, the team comes together for a roundtable discussion on the theme of ‘care’. Topics include: how can we practice self-care as researchers, particularly in the current turbulent HE landscape? What does care as methodology look like? And does care for ourselves or each other even matter while we are failing to care for our planet? ------------ Image: GoodFon Music: Jennifer Doveton ------------ This episode was hosted and produced by Isabel Sykes ------------ Techne...
This episode follows a workshop on ‘The Practice of Interviewing: Perspectives from Across the Arts and Humanities’ hosted by the Technecast team on 20 September 2024. First, you will hear from four Technecast members (Isabel, Felix, Olivia, and Pragya) as they share their own interviewing experiences. This is followed by four practice interviews by Gareth Hughes, Tom Railton, Julia Schauerman, and Emma Haughton. ——————— This episode was produced and presented by Eva Dieteren Technecast...
In this episode Edwin Gilson and Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp, both researchers exploring works of art involving nonhumans at the University of Surrey, join Felix for a conversation about our relationship with the flora and fauna around us. We discuss different approaches to art based on nonhumans, the social lenses humans look through at nonhumans, and how their relationships have changed over the course of their research. ------------------- This episode was produced and presented by F...
In our latest instalment of our series on 'Senses', we hear from Rosalind Holgate-Smith. Rosalind is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher whose work looks at touch, particularly in the field of dance and contact improvisation. In this episode, Rosalind talks to Morag about her conceptualisation of 'Deep Touch', and how this conceptualisation informs and enriches her teaching and dance practice. We hope you enjoy! You can find more of Rosalind's work here: https://rosalindholgate-smith.com...
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...
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