Neil McPhedran
Podcast Marketer & Exec Producer
Appears in 83 Episodes
How Podcast Spaces Support Research, Teaching, and Community
How do you build a podcasting culture in higher ed? Don’t start with the equipment. In this episode of Continuing Studies, Neil records live from Helix at the Universi...
How Podcasting Can Change the Classroom Dynamic: Live from Higher Ed PodCon 2026
Can podcasting make teaching more human, more connected, and more effective? In the second live episode from Higher Ed PodCon, Neil and Jen sit down with Rudy Salo, a ...
The Art of Hosting: Live from Higher Ed PodCon 2026
How do great hosts create conversations that feel purposeful, natural, and worth staying with? In this episode of Continuing Studies, Neil and Jen sit down with Sophie...
Helping Academics Bring Research Podcasts to Life: Funding, Training, and Production Support
How do you turn a research idea into a podcast that is clear, credible, and actually doable? In part two of our three-part series on how collaborative research podcast...
Beyond the Interview: Using a Book Club Podcast to Bring Academic Expertise to the Public
How can academics make their ideas easier to find, more engaging, and harder to misrepresent? In this episode of Continuing Studies, Neil and Jen dig into the podcast...
Why Great Interviews Start with Not Knowing Everything
After 300+ interviews with Stanford experts, Russ Altman knows how to turn complex ideas into conversations people actually want to follow. In this episode of Continui...
How to Use Podcasting for Participatory Research
How can podcasting become more than a way to share research—and actually become part of the research itself? In this episode of Continuing Studies, Neil and Jen talk w...
Using Academic Research to Make Sense of the News Cycle
How can a podcast use academic research to help us make sense of today’s news? Neil and Jen talk with Gemma Ware, head of audio at The Conversation UK and host/co-prod...
How MIT Turns Teaching into Podcasts, Video, and Reach
25 years ago, MIT made a bold choice: share our knowledge with the world, free of charge. Eventually, out of this, Chalk Radio was born as one tool of MIT's OpenCourse...
How To Be a Better Podcast Host (or Co-host)
What are the core skills that make a great podcast host? Before podcasting, there was broadcasting, and there’s still a lot to learn from it. This week, Neil and Jen ...
How Science Vs. Turns Research Into Stories: Jokes, Citations, and a Lot of Editing
What does it take to turn rigorous scientific research into stories millions of people actually want to listen to? This week, Neil and Jen sit down with Blythe Terrell...
Opening Doors for Academic Voices
How can podcasting bring diverse voices and forms of academic work to a larger audience? Neil and Jen sit down with Will Brehm, creator of FreshEd, to talk about how ...
From the Classroom to Industry Jobs: Inside a Master’s Program in Podcasting
Can you actually study podcasting at university—and does it lead to a career? Neil and Jen talk with Chloe Sackur and Max’ed Aadan, recent graduates of the MA in Podc...
Innovation Fuel 2.0: The Evolution of Podcasting in Case-Study Learning
What happens when a classroom podcast turns into peer-reviewed scholarship, an AI teaching tool, and its own academic platform? When Dave Keighron and Dr. Gelareh Farh...
"University 3.0 and the Podcast Revolution: Who Owns Knowledge Now?"
As universities face pressure to evolve, podcasting is emerging as an unexpected catalyst and channel for change. Carola Boehm first caught Neil’s attention with her E...
Do Podcasts Count? Journals, Peer Review, and the Future of Academic Work in Audio
A thoughtful look at how podcasting is expanding the ways academic work is created and shared. Jim Ambuske, historian and producer, is back to share his thoughts on wh...
Higher Ed Podcaster Predictions For 2026
Start your 2026 inspired and ready for what’s next in higher ed podcasting—straight from the people building it. What’s ahead for higher ed podcasting in 2026? This ep...
Best Of: Building a Podcast Audience
The evolution of Think Fast, Talk Smart and what it teaches higher ed about communication and connection. To close out the year, Continuing Studies revisits one of it...
Rethinking Scholarship Through the Power of Podcast Storytelling
How podcasting fits into modern scholarship and the evolving goals of higher education. Barry Lam—philosopher, professor, and creator of the acclaimed narrative podcas...
Podcasting Black Excellence in Higher Ed
How a podcast amplifies Black voices and their journeys of excellence at UIC. Dr. Aisha El-Amin, Executive Associate Vice Provost of Student Success and Belonging at ...
