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Podcasting

Peer Review

The peer review of the first season of the Secret Feminist Agenda podcast, created by Hannah McGregor, was completed in May 2018. The reviewers were asked to respond to a set of questions designed to engage with issues related to the various aims of our research into the ways and means of producing, editing, reviewing, and broadcasting scholarly podcasts under a university press imprint. Our questions and the reviewers’ comments have served two purposes: To provide Hannah McGregor with suggestions for improving her podcast in form and content from two scholars who are themselves engaged in scholarly activities relevant to our work on the genre of the scholarly podcast; and to help us to hone a set of peer review questions for the review of subsequent seasons of Hannah’s podcast and other, future podcasts. We encouraged the reviewers to reflect on whether they considered the peer review questions themselves to be relevant and helpful to their task as peer reviewers and to our responsibilities as editors, producers, and publishers of the podcast. 

The desire of scholars and university administrators to disseminate their scholarship beyond the campuses to reach broader audiences isn’t new, but the widespread enthusiasm for forms of audio entertainment, including audiobooks and podcasts, presents an obvious opportunity for those committed to the production and dissemination of scholarship to broaden our vision of scholarly publishing to accommodate new scholarly genres. A podcast that undergoes a publisher’s peer review, which shares the rigour of the manuscript review process and results in the support of colleagues in the relevant field, and that is, additionally, given the professional editorial support, production assistance, and promotional attention of a university press, ought, in turn, to be recognised as making a meaningful contribution to an academic’s publishing record.

 

The Amplify Podcast Network

The Amplify Podcast Network is a collaboration with Simon Fraser University to create a podcast guide, a preservation tool, and several scholarly podcasts. The collaboration aims to make podcasting accessible and create a space for podcasting in academia.

The SSHRC-funded Amplify Podcast Network encourages collaboration and experimentation via the medium of scholarly podcasting, with a focus on podcasts committed to anti-racism, feminist social justice, and community-building. We’re committed to supporting the creation of new scholarly podcasts, while also building the infrastructure that will support them, from new peer review processes to digital preservation tools to open access guides to making your own podcast. 

Amplify represents scholarship that contributes to collective, public knowledge, born of research across the many disciplines and interdisciplines that constitute humanities and social sciences research. Our podcasts explicitly or implicitly engage with the question of what constitutes scholarship by pushing at boundaries, whether they are formal, methodological, theoretical, or otherwise.

In this Adventures in Digital Publishing episode we discuss all things podcast and audio production

AiDP Episode 4: Secret Feminist Agenda from ECDS on Vimeo.

Panelists

  • Stacey Copeland, Assistant Professor of Media Studies, University of Groningen, and Co-director, Amplify Podcast Network
  • Maia Desjardins, Digital Projects Coordinator, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Lindsey Hunnewell, Production Coordinator, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Siobhan McMenemy, Senior Editor & Interim Director, Wilfrid Laurier University Press
  • Hannah McGregor, Director & Associate Professor of Publishing, Simon Fraser University

Moderators