Australian Educational Podcasting Conference 2021

Program is live for 6th and 7th October 2021 (Melbourne time)

Registration is for free

Podcasting has created a new medium for eager audiences to find specialised content. Educational podcasting is a medium with many passionate content creators, who are using innovative methods to present complex topics in engaging ways. Alongside pedagogical considerations are more practical considerations; creating content in ways that is sustainable economically, alongside other work.

After a successful first Australian Educational Podcasting Conference held in 2020 hosted by the amazing Lauren Gawne, Rhiannon Evans and Matt Smith from La Trobe University, 2021 will see the return of this conference with co hosts Narelle Lemon, Mia Lindgren and Clare Dyson from Swinburne University of Technology with the aim of bringing together established podcasters from all disciplines to examine the future of podcasting as a medium of and for education and engagement.

Conference theme: Engaging our hearts and minds through audio

In addressing the conference theme “Engaging our hearts and minds through audio” for 2021 the program will explore various perspectives that unpack the power of audio in learning, podcasts for learning and teaching, student voice, conversational methods, podcast interviewing for education, pedagogies of podcasting, podcasts to support educational communities of practice, effective scholarly communication, academic podcasting, podcasts for research purposes, podcasts as research engagement, bringing educational podcasting into the academic CV, navigating the role of the public academic, measuring impact and engagement, and/or sustainable podcast production.


We ask the questions:

  • Can you bridge our hearts and minds through podcasting?

  • Do we connect with our own and each other’s hearts and minds through audio?

  • What does this mean in the learning and teaching space?

  • What can this look like for those who engage with podcasting as research engagement?

Save the date: 6 - 7 October 2021

The 2021 conference will be delivered online over 2 days

Wednesday 6th October and Thursday 7th October will offer an online international program.


Interesting in attending?


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Stay tuned as planning progresses and we launch programming details shortly. But here is a sneak peak...


Keynote from A/Prof Siobhan McHugh, University of Wollongong, Australia

Keynote from Dr Abby Guido from Temple University in Philadelphia, USA

Think-In Session: Learning with and through Podcasts

Think-In Session: Accessing research – podcasts for new knowledge consumption /production

Think-In Session: In Conversation – the power of the listening with our hearts

So, you want to podcast? Live podcast recording and deconstruction keynotewith A/Prof Inger Mewburn (Australian National University), Dr Jason Downs (RMIT) and A/Prof Narelle Lemon (Swinburne University of Technology) (producers of the Whisper Collective, Thesis Whisperer, On The Reg ,and Teachers Supporting Teachers podcasts)

Practical how to interview and edit a podcast in the session Storytelling with Adobe Audition featuring Swinburne’s Adobe Creative Campus

Tech Talk unpacking all the tips with an inbuilt Q&A


The program will be launched shortly...in the meantime you might like to listen to samples of some of our presentations.

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Contact: This conference is being organised by Narelle Lemon, Mia Lindgren and Clare Dyson from Swinburne University of Technology. For more details about the conference email Narelle (nlemon at swin dot edu dot au ) with the subject line "Podcasting Conference".


This conference is supported through Swinburne University of Technology’s Department of Education and Department of Media and Communication in the School of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, the research group Learning in a Connected World Research Theme (a part of the Digital Inclusion Program, Social Innovation Research Institute), and the Swinburne Adobe Creative Campus.