Amplified

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, Stacey Copeland and Hannah McGregor are joined by Lena Mattheis to kick off a brand new series featuring the latest additions to our sustained cohort of podcasters. Lena is the creator and host of Queer Lit, a podcast about LGBTQIA2S+* literature and culture. In this conversation, we reflect on podcasting as a tool for community building and queer scholarly practice, tracing how Queer Lit emerged from Lena's teaching practice and a commitment to accessible feminist and queer knowledge creation. 

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, Hannah McGregor is joined by Fady Shanouda to talk about the role of podcasting in disability scholarship. Fady reflects on the creation of Disability Saves the World, a podcast born during the pandemic that opened space for disabled voices and accessible scholarship. Together, they explore how sound can be a medium for care, connection, and joy, while also breaking down barriers between researchers and audiences. Fady also introduces his latest project, Disability Disruptions, a five-part documentary podcast supported by SSHRC, which brings together activists and scholars to tackle themes of war, colonialism, grief, and disability justice through collaborative sonic storytelling.

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we’re re-releasing an episode from 2022, where Stacey is joined by a leading thinker in the refereed open-access online scholarship movement, Dr. Cheryl Ball. Cheryl is Senior Editor at Kairos: A Journal of Rhetoric, Technology, and Pedagogy. A refreshingly ground-breaking anti-racist community-driven open-access journal publishing academic web texts since 1996. Together we talk about how and why the journal got started and where Cheryl hopes to see digital publishing headed next.

This month on Amplified, Marta and Stacey discuss the We Pod project, a multi-partner cross-border initiative to support the European podcasting ecosystem. Marta Perrota, a professor at the University of Rome, explains the project's inception in 2022, funded by Creative Europe to innovate and support media collaboration. The project involves several European media partners and universities, focusing on creating co-produced podcasts in multiple languages. In our conversation we unpack the challenges and benefits of cross-border collaboration, integrating academic research with industry practices, and the potential of podcasts to engage audiences across languages and borders. 

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we're re-issuing a gem from the archives, where Stacey Copeland sits down with podcast scholars Ian M Cook, Lori Beckstead, and Hannah McGregor to unpack the key provocations, or what the authors term the key 'f**keries,' of their book- Podcast or Perish: Peer Review and Knowledge Creation for the 21st Century. They discuss their hot takes on collaborative writing, alternative forms of peer review, and why the trio claims scholarly podcasting is currently 'unsound.' 

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we're sharing an excerpt of a conversation between Dr. Jasmine Harris and Dr. Hannah McGregor. They discuss their contributions to Podcast Studies: Practice Into Theory, and the role of podcasting as a pedagogical tool in the classroom as a way of moving towards increased equity in higher education.

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month on Amplified, we’re re-issuing an episode featuring BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly in conversation with Editor Paige Raibmon and Soundworks Associate Editor Jenni Shine. BC Studies is a peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal that publishes regional scholarly work in print, audio, and multimedia formats. Together we reflect on how BC Studies became a space for alternative forms of scholarship, and the ways in which the journal continues to push the boundaries of what it means to publish alongside questions of decoloniality, regional-based work, and of course, sound-based scholarship.

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we’re sharing a conversation between Stacey and Sadie Ryan where they discuss Sadie's new project"My Voice My Glasgow", participatory podcasting, and the importance of podcast as research method.

Amplified is an audio blog series about the sounds of scholarship from our team here at the Amplify Podcast Network. This month, we're re-issuing an episode from April 2022 with Amplify Editorial Board Member Kim Fox professor of Practice at The American University in Cairo. Kim and Stacey talk feminism, pedagogy, and what we might envision for the future of podcasting in the university ecosystem. Kim takes us behind the scenes of their latest co-authored study "Egyptian Female Podcasters Shaping Feminist Identities" (Fox & Abada 2022) to reimagine how students might learn differently by stepping in front of the microphone.