Decentered Podcast

At today's Leicester Stories Community Reporters Club, we discussed the role and purpose of vox-pops as a way to gather evidence of opinions and awareness [...]

In this final session of the A Germ's Journey Newsdesk, Charlie, Sapphire, Sarah, Indiani and Rob discussed the newsdesk day and what threads we think [...]

Facilitated by Dr Caroline Wood of the Nuffield Department of Population Health at the University of Oxford, this conversation brought together public health researchers and [...]

This session of the A Germ's journey newsdesk brought together producers for BBC Media Action, Mary Morgan, based in Sierra Leone, and Mian Muhammed Junaid, [...]

This is conversation from the A Germ's Journey newsdesk was hosted by Indrani Lahiri of De Montfort University, and discussed the development of A Germ's [...]

Part of the A Germ's Journey Newsdesk, this conversation was hosted by Malteser International and German Toilet Organization, and discusses both, the development and the [...]

One of the challenges of the pandemic is to manage news and information carefully, so that people in different counties and who have different cultures, [...]

This session is coordinated by Governor Frances Daly and discussed the effective hygiene practices within Irish prisons during the lockdown. Working with the Irish Red [...]

The A Germ's Journey International Newsdesk is an opportunity to be part of a global conversation about the challenges of managing public health communications using [...]

I'm in the process of developing a set of programmes that tell stories that are relevant to the process of building back better here in [...]

How do we bridge the gap between participation in arts and digital participation in arts? Starting a conversation about digital arts participation with the ArtWorks [...]

Over a series of three conversations, A Germ’s Journey brings together a group of practitioners and advocates of community-focussed health and community media are coming [...]

Over a series of three conversations, A Germ’s Journey brings together a group of practitioners and advocates of community-focussed health and community media are coming [...]

Over a series of three conversations, A Germ’s Journey brings together a group of practitioners and advocates of community-focussed health and community media are coming [...]

In a special addition of the Decentered Media podcast, in association with the University of Leicester Business School, we discussed the changing nature of business [...]

Neil McInroy is the Chief Executive of CLES, the National Organisation for Local Economies. We discussed how community wealth building is an essential part of [...]

Social Capital Week takes place annually during the last week of February. It’s a week of activities that aim to bring the concept of Social [...]

In the fifth session of our World Radio Day Discussions, we were joined by Dr Katie Moylan, of the University of Leicester and Richard Davis [...]

The fourth conversation that we had today, as part of our World Radio Day discussions, brought together Dr Kate Baker, of Agile Rabbit & University [...]

The third discussion today as part of our World Radio Day conversations, was with Lucinda Guy, of Soundart Radio and  Marla King who makes the [...]

The second discussion that we had today in celebration of World Radio Day was about how community radio has managed through the lockdown. Dr Jo [...]

Here is the podcast for the first session of our World Radio Day discussions, in which we focussed on community radio and social gain. With [...]

How can we use community media to develop effective learning tools to help raise awareness of the importance of handwashing to combat bacterial infections? This [...]

As part of the Decentered Media World Radio Day discussions, I spoke with Juliet Nugble-Nunkpeku from Volta Premier 98.1 FM, which is part of Ho [...]

This latest episode of the Decentered Media Podcast features Jamie Grundy, author of Ninety Minutes of Freedom. The story of the only prisoner football team [...]

How do practitioners and advocates of community media engage with people in a caring and trusted way? That is the question that I discussed with [...]

As Leicester continues with it’s ongoing lockdown, which is the longest continuous period of lockdown for any place in the UK, there is a need [...]

This is a special edition of the Decentered Media podcast, and the first to be sponsored by University of Leicester School of Business. Today I [...]

How do we discuss and share our experiences of climate change and environmental campaigning? How can we develop an alternative space, outside the mainstream news [...]

How we respond to the pandemic in a way that is inclusive, participative and empowering? This is the question that I discussed with Shim Gooch [...]

Does community media have a positive and progressive role to play in helping to Build Back Better after the Covid-19 pandemic? What is the progressive [...]

How have community radio stations dealt with the pressure of the lockdown and responded to the pandemic? How has community radio continued to support local [...]

As part of the Documentary Media Centre Parallel Lives Newsday, John and I chatted with Gail Brown from Leicester Coffee House about her trips to [...]

What’s the value of participative arts, and how do different creative practitioners engage with people through direct, action-based activities? Joining me to discussing how participative [...]

Do we get the media we deserve or the media we are given? This was one of the topics discussed by Professor Natalie Fenton and [...]

Parallel Lives is a project that aims to connect people who create and produce documentary forms of media across the world. As the lockdown is [...]

The pandemic lockdown is not only an issue of physical health, but it also has repercussions for mental health and well-being. Julian Harrison is an [...]

As the UK takes cautious steps to return to some form of normality following the Covid-19 lockdown, we can start to reflect on how the [...]

What can communications strategists learn from community media that would enable them to enhance the effectiveness of communication during the pandemic, and beyond? Nicky Woods [...]

Sarah Reilly is a disability rights advocate and researcher who advocates on behalf of disabled people in support of better access to legal and social [...]

The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown is not yet fully understood, but it will bring about change in many ways, not least the way that [...]

Julia Ford is developing Ponderlife as a community of like-minded people who aim to value and practice a more sustainable life. Julia’s day job is [...]

“The Quetzal is a South American bird which was caught for its beautiful head and tail feathers and caged. Legend has it that it dies [...]

Leicester has been put back into lockdown because the spread of the Covid-19 virus has not been sufficiently contained. So John Coster and I hastily [...]

For the first time in over three months, John Coster of the Documentary Media Centre and I were able to get together to record a [...]

Using film to support social change campaigns has increased significantly in the last decade. The ability to capture and share video DSLRs, and now on [...]

How do we support and promote the role of community media in a world that is dominated by large media organisations and platforms? What can [...]

It was fantastic to talk today with Dr Jen Unwin  @jen_unwin and Dr David Unwin @lowcarbgp about their work to promote low-carb health. We talked [...]

We’ve all be coping in different ways with the Covid-19 lockdown. Many of us have changed our use of media as a way of coping [...]

In a report this week from the UK media regulator Ofcom, there is evidence that people are turning away from seeking news related to the [...]

What are we going to do when we move out of the Covid-19 lockdown, and start to socially interact more? Earlier I was chatting with [...]