My year-long sabbatical is over — a wonderful opportunity to change up my working pace and dive into some projects, though not always the break some might think it is! Among the highlights: presenting and partnering with PodSummit; working with Ashley King, Inside Out and Chromatic Theatre to produce the (award-winning and chart-topping!) Static: A Party Girl’s Memoir; completing the draft of my PhD thesis; and achieving perfection on Stardew Valley.
At the top of the list was getting to spend a month in the U.K., working on my thesis in Glasgow and meeting with brilliant podcast and audio scholars in Sunderland. I was also able to take part in a civic engagement residency through the Bothy Project and the Thinking Culture programme at the University of Glasgow, spending a week on the Isle of Eigg off the west coast of Scotland. This is an area that most Scots haven’t travelled to, and I was so lucky to be able to explore the island and learn about its history and culture while staying in a gorgeous off-grid bothy with a view I still dream of! I also had a great time doing two podcasting workshops with some of Eigg’s residents. I wrote a reflection of my time on Eigg for the Thinking Culture blog — you can find it here.
Looking forward to being back in the classroom this year, and building a new research team with Kyle Napier to support a grant from Braiding Knowledges Canada.
Static = Comedy Gold!
After being shortlisted in four categories, Static was honoured to win runner-up (silver) in the Comedy Gold category at the International Women’s Podcast Awards at the BBC studio in London!
Click here for a full list of the categories and winners.
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Gearing up for PodSummit
PodSummit is almost here! This two-day conference in Calgary is a place for podcasters to geek out over all of the wonderful ways audio enriches our lives.
I’m thrilled to be part of this year’s lineup, on a panel with Kattie Laur from Pod the North and Bob Kane from Libsyn called “The Future of Canadian Podcasting”.
The Community Podcast Initiative will also be repping at the event, with our panel “Raising Voices: How Podcasters Create Space for Under-Represented Communities” — with Michelle Robinson from the Native Calgarian podcast, Kels Delamarter with the Queer in Alberta podcast, and Camille Craig from Inside Out Theatre, moderated by the CPI’s own Brad Clark.