In honour of International Women's Day, this episode brings together PhD researchers from a range of backgrounds to explore the role of gender in musical traditions and genres (from opera to classical to popular music). Join us as we celebrate the voices of women in music research, dive into everything from Kendrick Lamar’s iconic Super Bowl performance to Dolly Parton’s timeless legacy, and share a few of our personal listening gems along the way! You can find these gems in the accompanying Spotify playlist.

About the participants:

Adrianna Chmielewska is a first-year PhD student at Kingston University. Her research focuses on adaptation of literature into opera as a reflection of Italian cultural identities. Looking at the development of opera from the 17th to the 21st century, she investigates how turning stories into opera communicates with Italian culture and society. Adrianna sees opera beyond the elitist stereotype, as a persistent, vibrant and culturally rich means of storytelling.

Emma Haughton is a third year student with techne at Kingston University. Her PhD focuses on the intersections of Musicology with English Literature, culture studies, and philosophy exploring women who wrote symphonies during the twentieth century. Her main focus of her thesis is exploring the symphonies of African American composer Florence Price through a postcolonial/transnational lens.

Eva Dieteren is a second year Techne-funded PhD student at Kingston University London. Her research sits at the crossroads of feminist theory and popular music studies, with a focus on exploring concept albums through feminist, new materialist, and decolonial perspectives.

Felix Clutson is a fourth year Teche PhD student at the University of Surrey. His research explores the production and translation of football museum texts, focusing specifically on the tension between the local representation and global reach of clubs.

Isabel Sykes is in her third year of her Techne-funded Sociology PhD at Brunel, University of London. Her project investigates media representations of unpaid domestic labour alongside working-class women’s lived experiences of such work.

This episode was produced and presented by Eva Dieteren

Technecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTP

The music is composed and generously given by Jennifer Doveton

If you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via instagram @technecast

In our final episode of 2024, the team comes together for a roundtable discussion on the theme of ‘care’. Topics include: how can we practice self-care as researchers, particularly in the current turbulent HE landscape? What does care as methodology look like? And does care for ourselves or each other even matter while we are failing to care for our planet?

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Image: GoodFon

Music: Jennifer Doveton

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This episode was hosted and produced by Isabel Sykes

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Technecast is a podcast series showcasing research from across the arts and humanities. It is produced by Felix Clutson, Isabel Sykes, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Eva Dieteren and Pragya Sharma. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We’d be happy to hear from you at [email protected], on Instagram @technepodcast, or on X (formerly Twitter) @technecast.

This episode follows a workshop on ‘The Practice of Interviewing: Perspectives from Across the Arts and Humanities’ hosted by the Technecast team on 20 September 2024. First, you will hear from four Technecast members (Isabel, Felix, Olivia, and Pragya) as they share their own interviewing experiences. This is followed by four practice interviews by Gareth Hughes, Tom Railton, Julia Schauerman, and Emma Haughton. 

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This episode was produced and presented by Eva Dieteren

Technecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTP

The music is composed and generously given by Jennifer Doveton

If you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast

In this episode Edwin Gilson and Florence Fitzgerald-Allsopp, both researchers exploring works of art involving nonhumans at the University of Surrey, join Felix for a conversation about our relationship with the flora and fauna around us. We discuss different approaches to art based on nonhumans, the social lenses humans look through at nonhumans, and how their relationships have changed over the course of their research. 
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This episode was produced and presented by Felix Clutson
Technecast is a research and practice podcast supported by Techne DTP
The music is composed and generously given by Jennifer Doveton
If you’d like to get involved or turn your work into a podcast, please get in touch with us - [email protected] or via X @technecast

In our latest instalment of our series on 'Senses', we hear from Rosalind Holgate-Smith. Rosalind is an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher whose work looks at touch, particularly in the field of dance and contact improvisation. In this episode, Rosalind talks to Morag about her conceptualisation of 'Deep Touch', and how this conceptualisation informs and enriches her teaching and dance practice. We hope you enjoy!
 You can find more of Rosalind's work here: https://rosalindholgate-smith.com/work
Photo for episode cover credited to Bernardo Chances.

Technecast is a podcast showcasing research from across the arts and humanities. It is produced by Felix Clutson, Isabel Sykes, Morag Thomas, Olivia Aarons, Chiara Muzzi, Eva Dieteren and Pragya Sharma. Fancy turning your research into a podcast episode? We'd love to hear from you at [email protected]