Pod Academy

Here at Pod Academy we are convinced that podcasting is a great way to get research out to a wide audience, to make an impact. If you'd like to try your hand at making a podcast, here are some tips to help you, they came out of a course we ran for our volunteer producers.  And take a listen to the podcast above  - it demonstrates a number of different approaches you might take. Preparation Preparation 1: Preparing around the CONTENT What are you trying to achieve? First of all decide, what are your objectives for the podcast.  Of course two of your principal objectives will be: To make people care about the subject To entertain But you may have other objectives, such as: – To get the audience to see the relevance for themselves of this research To help your audience understand something complex To inform them about something new in the field To introduce them to something quirky they may not know about It may be that your objectives span all or none of these, but whatever you are aiming to achi