Podcast Production Workshop

As a partner for the Nordic Asia Podcast, the Centre/Graduate School is organizing a Podcast Production Workshop to provide practical training for participants to embark on the exciting journey into the world of podcasting. PhD candidate Joanne Kuai is an experienced journalist and podcaster producer and will be the instructor of the workshop. The venue will be the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, where we will also be able to use the university’s studio.

For PhD students within the Graduate School we will fund travel and accommodation. Other interested can apply and attend if there is space.

Deadline to apply 25 September.

Agenda and further information

This one-and-a-half-day workshop covers all the essential aspects of podcast production, from concept development to recording to post-launch engagement, ensuring participants leave with a comprehensive understanding of how to produce a podcast.

This hands-on interactive workshop will start from the basics and requires no prior experience. The topics we will cover include: 

1. Why Podcast
   1. What is a podcast?
   2. Podcast in research communication
   3. Nordic Asia Podcast
2. What to Podcast
   1. Selection of topic(s) and guest(s)
   2. Podcast outline and episode structure
   3. Interview skills 
3. How to Podcast: Production Skills
   1. Before recording
   2. During recording
   3. After recording
4. Post-Production and Beyond 
   1. Editing
   2. Publishing 
   3. Distribution

The participants will have the opportunity to participate in practical exercises and produce their own podcast episodes in the professional podcast recording studio at Lund University. The program is as follows: 

Program: 

Day 1 

Afternoon Session: Introduction to Podcasting 

Location: 

13:00 – 14:30 Presentation from instructor 

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break

15:00 – 17:00 Group Work: Recording preparation 

Day 2

Morning Session: Hands-On Production 

Location: 

09:00 – 10:00 Preparation for recording 

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break 

10:15 – 12:00 Recording practice and feedback

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Break 

Afternoon Session: Post-Production 

Location: 

13:00 – 14:30 Editing your podcast 

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee Break 

15:00 – 17:00 Continue editing and Workshop Wrap-up

Instructor: 

Joanne Kuai is a PhD Candidate at Karlstad University, Sweden with a research project on "Journalism as an Institution in the Age of Artificial Intelligence." She is an affiliated PhD student with the Graduate School of Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden, an instructor for JournalismAI Academy hosted by LSE, UK, and a regular contributor to the New Books Network Podcast. Her research interests centre around data and AI for media, computational journalism, and the social implications of automation and algorithms.