Scholarly Podcasts
Scholarly podcasts offer new and innovative ways to reach interested audiences. From being a guest on a podcast to creating a podcast with your research team, this medium is a flexible way to communicate and reach audiences. These resources focus on how you can leverage podcasts and podcasting to engage with broader publics to share your research findings.
Resources and Guides to Develop Scholarly Podcasts
The SSHRC-funded Amplify Podcast Network aims to encourage collaboration and experimentation via the medium of scholarly podcasting. Their Guide to Academic Podcasting is an open educational resource for anyone interested in how to approach academic podcasting
Senior Editor Siobhan McMenemy provides a synopsis of the peer review for the first three seasons of the Secret Feminist Agenda podcast. Scholars considering creating a scholarly podcast can gain insights by reviewing the critical appraisal of these works
In this toolkit, you will find podcasts produced by other academics on various topics and formats to inspire you; Information about where to host your podcast files; Popular podcast directories; Ideas for sharing and promoting your podcast; Potential project funding resources; and Recommended reading.
In this session, panelists explored the full range of podcasting’s potential from how to be guest on one, to how to conceptualize and host one, to how to sustain a multi-season show. Our expert panelists discussed how they’ve leveraged podcasts in their scholarly work to share their research findings as well as shared concrete tips on starting, hosting, and maintaining a podcast.
This session featured Siobhan McMenemy, Senior Editor at Wilfrid Laurier University Press. The session examined her seminal work on scholarly academic podcasts, developing a peer review process, and the intersections she sees of scholarly publishing and podcasting for the future.
Technical Resources across the Tri-campus
The UTSC Library offers an opportunity to record your podcast in AC 252A using their equipment. The space has an audio mixer, microphones, and headphones to help you create your own podcast, voice-over project or even to live-stream an event.
The UTM library’s Outer Circle Recording Studio includes a Podcasting Station equipped with four microphones and a mixing board. The studio is self-serve and bookable for UTM faculty, staff, librarians, and students. The use of the studio is for activities that support the university’s academic curriculum.
The JHB Podcast Studio, located on the 2nd floor of the Jackman Humanities Building (170 St. George Street) is available for bookings. Bookings must be made at least ONE WEEK in advance and use is limited to faculty with research projects in the Humanities and qualitative Social Sciences.
Ziibiing Lab records, produces, and publishes podcasts about global Indigenous politics. To use the accessible podcasting booth, contact the lab via the website
This resource provides an overview of descriptions, captions, subtitles and transcripts and includes step-by-step instructions for generating these using a variety of commonly used tools. Adding a transcript to your podcast makes it more accessible to more people.
University of Toronto Scholarly Podcasts
Between the Pillars Podcast
Host: Librarian John Shoesmith, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library.
This conversational and thematic video podcast highlights the treasures at the Fisher Rare Book Library.
New Books in Library Science
Guest: Prof. Bliss Lim, Cinema Studies Institute.
The New Books Network podcasts is an author-interview consortium bringing voices of authors to a wide listening public.
I’m Pharmacy Podcast
Host: Prof. Mina Tardous, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy.
I’m Pharmacy Podcast explores the heart and soul of academic endeavors and innovations in the faculty of pharmacy at U of T.
Broadcastability
Host: Prof. Chloë Atkins, Department of Political Science.
Broadcastability, created by The PROUD Project (UTSC), is a podcast by, for, and about persons with disabilities in the workforce.
Defy Dementia
Host: Dr. Allison Sekuler, Baycrest Academy for Research and Education.
Defy Dementia is an empowering podcast by Baycrest dedicated to helping you reduce your dementia risk.
For the Love of Work
Host: Prof. Sonia Kang, Department of Management, UTM.
This podcast explores important organizational issues through the lens of employee experience.
Behind the Breakthrough
Host: Christian Coté, University Health Network.
Behind the Breakthrough takes listeners behind the scenes and reveals how UHN scientists came to achieve their groundbreaking medical research.
