‘Uncurated’ podcast: a full semester engagement with Museums & Collections
In this example, the AE team supported a full-semester engagement with the University’s cultural collections, including access to objects and to specialist collections expertise, for 30 postgraduate media students, in semester 2 2021.
Overview from Dr Louisa Lim, lead academic “Uncurated was a podcast done by the first Advanced Audio; Podcasting class (JOUR90024) offered by the Centre for Advancing Journalism.Its aim was to reexamine the university collections through student eyes, and we worked with the Academic Engagement Team at M&C to set up framework sso that students could interview curators and get acquainted with the collections remotely as the whole project happened in lockdown. We produced seven full episodes, each featuring one piece from a different collection. Uncurated hit no 1 in the Apple charts for Visual Arts podcasts.It's now won Silver at the New York Festivals of Radio for student social justice content, as well as being a finalist in the student documentary category.The New York Festival of Radiois probably the world's top audio award, so this is an amazing result for us. Uncurated has also won an Ossie student journalism award in the Innovation category, and I won the Journalism and Research Association of Australia's Outstanding teaching award in 2021 for the project.
The project was run by a team of students. Of the core team, host Angus Thompson won a coveted cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald, the producer Nell Geraets is a cadet at The Age and the sound designer Clancy Balen got a job at the Examiner in Launceston.”
Listen to the trailer for the project: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/introducing-uncurated/id1588841724?i=1000537571612