Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMiriam Plotinsky, "Hover Less, Teach More: How to Stop Micromanaging Your Secondary Classroom" (Norton, 2022)
Episode 183
What does it take to create a classroom environment in which students take the initiative in their learning and teachers can let go of the 'exhaustiv…
3 years, 8 months ago
SOAS’ Yoga Studies Online
Episode 224
Raj Balkaran speaks with Jacqui Hargreaves & Ruth Westoby about SOAS’ exciting new online learning platform: Yoga Studies Online.
Raj Balkaran is a sc…
3 years, 8 months ago
Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, "The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences" (Columbia UP, 2022)
Episode 316
How do metrics and quantification shape social science? In The Quantified Scholar: How Research Evaluations Transformed the British Social Sciences (…
3 years, 9 months ago
K. Linder et al., "Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers" (Stylus Publishing, 2020)
Episode 103
If you’re a grad student facing the ugly reality of finding a tenure-track job, you could easily be forgiven for thinking about a career change. Howe…
3 years, 9 months ago
College Baseball in the Offseason: Meet the Savannah Bananas
Episode 122
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
The hard work of balancing academics and sports when you attend college on an athlet…3 years, 9 months ago
Jennifer Clary-Lemon et al., "Try This: Research Methods for Writers" (CSU Open Press, 2022)
Episode 181
Try This: Research Methods for Writers (CSU Open Press, 2022) explores interdisciplinary research methods employed in research in writing studies but…
3 years, 9 months ago
Hope for the Humanities PhD
Episode 118
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about:
Why a humanities degree actually opens many career paths. The importance of curiosit…3 years, 9 months ago
Thomas S. Mullaney and Christopher Rea, "Where Research Begins: Choosing a Research Project That Matters to You (and the World)" (U Chicago Press, 2022)
Episode 180
The hardest part of research isn't answering a question. It's knowing what to do before you know what your question is. Where Research Begins: Choosi…
3 years, 9 months ago
Bruce J. Dierenfield and David A. Gerber, "Disability Rights and Religious Liberty in Education: The Story Behind Zobrest V. Catalina Foothills School District" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
Episode 6
In 1988, Sandi and Larry Zobrest sued a suburban Tucson, Arizona, school district that had denied their hearing-impaired son a taxpayer-funded interp…
3 years, 9 months ago
Finding Your Purpose
Episode 95
This episode is the edited version of a live event held on June 17 2022 to celebrate the launch of Finding Your Purpose: a Higher Calling Workbook fo…
3 years, 9 months ago