{"id":17,"date":"2025-04-07T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/?p=17"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:30:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T10:30:32","slug":"empowering-student-voices-launching-the-on-history-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/2025\/04\/07\/empowering-student-voices-launching-the-on-history-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Empowering Student Voices: Launching ‘The On History’ Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this blog post, we meet a group of four undergraduate students from the University of York\u2019s BA (Hons) History programme who have recently launched a new podcast. \u2018The On History Podcast\u2019, is a student-led project aimed at making academic history more accessible to a wider audience. Faced with common questions like \u201cWhat does a historian actually do?\u201d<\/em>, the students decided to break down barriers between academia and the public through weekly podcast episodes. Each instalment features a York history professor discussing their research and interests, offering unique insights that often go beyond the traditional curriculum. “It\u2019s been a fantastic venture and great for us even as history students to find out more beyond the curriculum!”<\/em> says Callie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Support from the Creativity Lab<\/strong>
The idea first emerged during a Public History module, where the Creativity Lab delivered embedded teaching to guide the cohort through the process of creating a podcast. This hands-on approach encouraged them to explore and experiment with creative technologies. Enthusiastic about the process, the group decided to produce their own podcast. To make it happen, they returned to the Creativity Lab using it as a launchpad to turn ideas into a reality. \u201cThe Creativity Lab is fantastic,\u201d Callie shares. \u201cThe team walked us through all the technology – which we definitely needed as four humanities students!\u201d<\/em> The Creativity Lab provided end-to-end support throughout the podcast\u2019s development. The students took part in an initial induction session where they were introduced to podcasting equipment and software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Impact<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The support of the Creativity Lab was instrumental in bringing The On History Podcast<\/em> to life. \u201cI am almost certain that the podcast would not have come to fruition without the Creativity Lab. We don\u2019t monetise the podcast, so hiring a studio regularly would have been impossible on a student budget.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The accessibility of the Lab\u2019s facilities and expertise allowed the students to continue to produce high-quality content on a regular basis. \u201cWe would have struggled massively without a helping hand just down the corridor or at the end of an email,\u201d shares Callie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u2018On History\u2019<\/a> Podcast is now available on Spotify<\/strong>, offering listeners an engaging look at the world of history research at York.Head to the Creativity Lab\u2019s podcast webpage<\/a> for more information on how to get started on your own podcast journey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


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Background In this blog post, we meet a group of four undergraduate students from the University of York\u2019s BA (Hons) History programme who have recently launched a new podcast. \u2018The On History Podcast\u2019, is a student-led project aimed at making academic history more accessible to a wider audience. Faced with common questions like \u201cWhat does … Continue reading Empowering Student Voices: Launching ‘The On History’ Podcast<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":260,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","custom_fields":{"_edit_lock":["1744021797:260"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/260"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/creativity-lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}