PhDCasting aims to be research through podcasting practice. PhD student Jerry Padfield documents his personal reflections of a journey through a PhD at Falmouth University, researching #podcasting and #CommunityRadio practice for wellbeing. The podcast talks about the experience of completing a PhD, from the perspective of a research student: the milestones, the emotional highs and lows, and also becomes a research tool in itself, interrogating the embodied knowledge within the practice. Each episode also features a conversation with a practitioner discussing issues around podcasting and broadcasting.

Quarter One: September 2018-December 2018

In the first episode I reflect on the experience of starting a PhD. What expectations I had, which were true and what surprised me. Meeting my supervision team and generally learning what it means to be.... a PhD researcher... In a shock twist I win a £20 gift voucher for my Pecha Kucha presentation...

The guest is Helen Moore, editor of Client Culture Magazine which is a subject-driven Arts magazine based in Plymouth. Helen also produces a podcast to go alongside each issue of Client Culture Magazine and has a history of producing art-based Community Radio content.

Links

Client Culture Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clientculture/

Client Culture Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/clientculture/

Helen's Mixcloud: https://www.mixcloud.com/moorseymoore/