Technecast

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An academic podcasting community open to all arts & humanities researchers. Each month takes a new theme, where Felix Clutson, Edwin Gilson, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons and Isabel Sykes invite different guests to speak about their work. Kindly supported by techne AHRC doctoral training partnership. Thanks for listening!If you'd like to get in touch, please email [email protected], follow us on twitter at @technecast or on Instagram @technepodcast

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Jennifer Doveton: Work and Labour - I work in the kitchens

May 07 2024 23 mins  
Jennifer Doveton - whose lovely music you hear every time you listen to the technecast - is a postgraduate researcher in her third year at Brunel University. Her research is on middle-class subjectivity and moral value in British screen fantasy. At the moment she's looking at the Harry Potter film series and the His Dark Materials television series for markers of class in character

Julia Pond: Work and Labour - Dancing Degrowth

Mar 22 2024 33 mins  
In this latest episode of our Work and Labour series we hear from Julia Pond, a transdisciplinary dance artist, teacher and researcher working with political economy. She works with choreography, improvised movement and text, humour, and, sometimes, bread dough, often siting work in public space. Currently, this takes shape in her performance project and fictional company BRED. Jul

Unit 38 (Part 2 of 2): Work and Labour - A people's design service

Mar 08 2024 28 mins  
David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix to continue their conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. In this part we hear about Unit 38’s involvement with Clapton Community Football Club, as well as public commons work, situated kn

Unit 38 (Part 1 of 2): Work and Labour - A people's design service

Feb 21 2024 26 mins  
David McEwen, a co-founder and director of Unit 38, joins Felix for a conversation about architecture and community. Unit 38 is an architecture practice working on community projects in east London, in particular Wards Corner in Tottenham. The discussion explores questions of community resources, privilege and design focused on people not materials.There is a small amount of explic

Emma Mitchell: Senses - Scenting story: unlocking olfactory memories of Georgian London

Feb 02 2024 48 mins  
In this latest instalment of our 'Senses' series we hear from Emma Mitchell. Emma is an AHRC-funded Creative Writing doctoral researcher at Brunel University London whose work uses archival research and experimental literary forms and practices to reclaim the voices of marginalised women from History. Her project focusses on Georgian sex workers and works with contemporary document

Winter Break Episode - Meet the Team

Dec 15 2023 22 mins  
It's the final Technecast of the year! We've had some lovely new members join the Technecast team this year, so we thought we'd take this opportunity to do some introductions. In this casual epsiode, each member of the team answers some questions about themselves and their research. We also discuss our favourite epsiodes from the past year, so it's a bit of Technecast Wrapped, too.

Isabel Sykes: Work & Labour - From Benefits Broods to Tradwives: Media Narratives of Domestic Labour

Nov 10 2023 40 mins  
In the first episode of our 'Work, Labour and Protest' series, Isabel introduces us to her project which explores media representations and lived experiences of working-class women’s unpaid domestic labour in the UK.Isabel is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research focuses on the intersections of class, gender, and labour under neoliberal capitalism. She is currently in the s

Felix Clutson: Narratives of Nation - Football in the Globalised Age

Oct 12 2023 35 mins  
In our last episode on the theme 'narratives of nation', our very own Felix Clutson shares his research into football in the age of globalisation. Felix discusses the ways in which football transcends borders (for better or worse), the modern phenomenon of sportswashing, and the plight of his beloved Reading FC. After his presentation he joins Edwin for a conversation based around

Beth Williamson: Narratives of Nation - The Problem of Orthography at the Royal Geographical Society

Sep 15 2023 25 mins  
Beth Williamson is a PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London working collaboratively with the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Her research explores how the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) tackled the problem of ‘orthography’ when recording and mapping place names in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, revealing how geography and linguistics, and po

Gareth Hughes: Narratives of Nation - The Power of Poetic Spaces

Aug 25 2023 43 mins  
Gareth Hughes is in the second year of his PhD in Comparative Literature and Culture at Royal Holloway. His thesis explores spatial transformations in contemporary French and multilingual poetry.In this episode of the ‘Narratives of Nation’ series, Gareth talks about the multilingual poems of Michèle Métail, the power of poetry to loosen the bind between nationality and langu