Podcasts

Here, you can find captivating podcasts produced by our academic staff and students, helping to share their research in a bitesize format.

• Is there a crisis in the professoriate? | 12 September 2024
  What’s it like to be a senior academic and more specifically a (full) professor at a time of acute anxiety, turbulence and precarity for the higher education sector? In this podcast, Professor Richard Watermeyer speaks with four field-leading academics – Cassie Sugimoto and Mary P Sheridan in the US, Kalpana Shankar in Ireland, and Gemma Derrick in the UK – to get under the skin of their various experiences of working in an age of ‘permacrisis’.
• BBC Sounds More or Less | 4 September 2024
  Research conducted by our Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Education, Cathryn Knight and Dr Emily Lowthian at Swansea University in a Nuffield Foundation study found that 47% of Welsh children born in 2002/2003 have had Special Educational Needs (SEN). But what does that number really mean?
• The noises of knowledge production | 7 October 2023
  The noises of knowledge production: close your eyes and listen to a non-verbal soundscape of the School of Education, produced by the TLC Research Centre's Dr Rachel Helme and Michael Rumbelow.
• Why is the diary the secret to teacher well-being and improved reflection? | 9 March 2023
  The guest on this week's episode of 'Beyond Survival: the new teacher podcast' is Dr Lucy Kelly. Lucy is an Associate Professor of Education at Bristol University and runs their English PGCE. She is also the author of a wonderful new book 'Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for educator wellbeing'. In today's episode we answer the question: Why is the diary the secret to teacher well-being and improved reflection?
• Collection: Reimagining the Diary with Professor Lucy Kelly | March 2023
  In these two short films we discuss Lucy's new book ‘Reimagining the Diary: Reflective practice as a positive tool for wellbeing’
• FreshEd #303 Playing with Blocks: The Square Root of Tree | 27 November 2022
  Flux is a FreshEd series where graduate students turn their research interests into narrative-based podcasts. This episode was created by Michael Rumbelow, a PhD student at the University of Bristol. In his Flux episode, Michael takes listeners on a sonic journey to explore block play. He weaves together sounds and ideas to show the power and possibilities of play.
• Research Frontiers: The psychology of education with Dr Felicity Sedgwick | 8 July 2022
  Research Frontiers is a podcast series brought to you by the University of Bristol. In this episode, host Ruby Lott-Lavigna is joined by Dr Felicity Sedgewick, lecturer and lead researcher at the University of Bristol, who specialises in the areas of mental health and autism; and Sarah Boon, a recent alumna of the MSc Psychology of Education programme. Together they discuss the need to adapt education settings to allow for different learning styles with a focus specifically on the needs of autistic students at university.
• Forest of Thought: Playing with Time with Professor Keri Facer | 3 June 2020
  “The Future.” We say the words all the time, but what do we really mean? How do our stories about yesterday and today help shape tomorrow? Could a different idea of the future change the present? And how are we all entangled in the mysterious process of bringing the future into being?! Join us for a session of playing with time, with Professor Keri Facer.
• PsychologiCALL with Dr Felicity Sedgewick | 19 May 2020
  Dr Felicity Sedgewick is a developmental psychologist at the University of Bristol who specialises in autism, relationships, and gender. During this podcast she chats to Sue about a piece of work looking at the friendships and romantic relationships of autistic women, and the ways in which they are both similar and different to the experiences of non-autistic women.