Project PhDcast
Alison InnesWelcome 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 ... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 10 | Founded | 2 years ago |
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| Number of Listeners | Categories | LeisureEducationHobbiesHow To | |||
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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 S... more
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 th... more
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 ov... more
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 h... more
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 ... more
Welcome back to another episode of Project PhDcast, an audio research diary. This episode I share some thoughts on some recent reading. Joy Wiltenburg’s 2004 article on “True Crime: The Origins of Modern Sensationalism” discusses how sensational crim... more
Alison is joined by long-time podcaster Christine Caccipuoti to dissect the rumours of podcasting’s demise. They explore what it means to be a self-funded, independent podcaster and the relationship of independent podcast creators to the commercializ... more
In Project PhDcast’s first feature-length episode, Alison Innes joins her MythTake co-host Darrin Sunstrum for a conversation about the heroic narrative, academic identities, and the role of podcasting in their academic journeys. Mentioned in this ep... more
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