UTS’ own audio production house unlocking academic research through engaging, accessible and award wining podcasts.
From its beginning as a two-year pilot in 2019, Impact Studios has become an important part of UTS’s advocacy and social justice agenda, and is now permanently homed within the UTS Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion.
Impact Studios work with academics, businesses, communities, educational organisations, non-profits, and cultural institutions to embed audio in the research process, making one-of-a-kind podcasts that entertain, inspire, and create change. Through combining academic research with audio storytelling, Impact Studio podcasts have real world impact.
They aim to:
- make academic research more accessible through high quality and engaging audio storytelling
- advance knowledge and learning through research-inspired podcasts
- showcase connected research with impact that partners with industry, professions and community
- establish UTS as a global leader and innovator in educational audio to generate and deepen the engagement and impact of UTS research.
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Life’s Lottery: Backing kids
Kids are our future, but they are rarely at the centre of decisions that really matter. What would it take to truly put kids at the heart of policy, budgets, and broader public work? Hear from advocates, experts, children and their parents and caregivers with bright and practical ideas about how we can improve kids’ health and wellbeing.
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Black Stories Matter
An audio series made up of five groundbreaking conversations from media researchers, historians, former policy makers and Aboriginal journalists on how mainstream media has failed in its telling of Black stories, made with the support of Aboriginal Affairs New South Wales as part of a strategy to improve the dynamics between Aboriginal people and governments.
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The New Social Contract
A podcast that examines how the relationship between universities, the state and the public might be reshaped as we live through the COVID-19 pandemic. This podcast was made in collaboration with UTS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
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UTS 4 Climate
UTS 4 Climate is a five-part podcast series bringing together leading thinkers from politics, economics, science and journalism to continue the conversation on climate change. This audio series creates a space to explore climate change from all angles and find practical answers to what we can do to address the climate crisis and secure our futures.
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The Last Outlaws
In a History Lab season like no other, we’re pulling on the threads of one of Australia’s great misunderstood histories, moving beyond the myths to learn what the Aboriginal brothers Jimmy and Joe Governor faced in both life and death. This podcast was made in collaboration with the Institute for Sustainable Futures.
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History Lab
Australia’s first investigative history podcast exploring the gaps between us and the past. History, is not as we know it. Records are patchy, evidence is destroyed and many people disagree about what happened. This series draws listeners into the investigative process taking them along the exciting but uncertain journey of making sense of the past. It is collaboration between the UTS Australian Centre for Public History and 2SER 107.3
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Contact
For any enquiries, or to find out more, email UTS Impact Studios