Full Studio Podcasting – Live conversation and skills session

About the event

Podcasting is an important medium for storytelling. It is used for telling oral histories, engaging the past and for redressing historical injustices. Creatives and academics use podcasts to produce conversations and archive the voices of those not normally present in the official record.  

This session will bring a full studio podcasting suite into the UCL Urban Room to show students, academics, and creative collaborators how to use the medium as a tool for workshopping histories.  

As an open session, we invite participants at entry skill levels and who are interested in historical, heritage and urban issues that relate to social-cultural storytelling.  

Facilitator

Spencer Samuel is a Media Production Technical Manager working in UCL’s Information Service Design, responsible for managing and overseeing the specialist media spaces and studios within SCCI. Spencer has supported school projects, advised academic teams on practice, and led practical workshops for media classes. Spencer previously taught at London Metropolitan University on their film courses, where he also worked as a Senior Technical Demonstrator in film & media, delivering audio-visual specialisms within the faculty.  Spencer also ran the broadcast studio at London Met, supporting journalism students in practical media production.

Spencer has extensive experience as a freelancer on various commercial projects, working with clients such as the BBC Football League Show for IMG, The National Gallery, Royal Academy of the Arts, London Electronic Orchestra and Hot Natured.

Spencer incorporates his rich industry experience into his teaching, aiming to share commercial knowledge to bridge the gap between theory and practice in education, with many of his students going on to earn RTS student awards.   

About the Memory Workshop

The Memory Workshop is a collecting and digitisation project within the UCL Urban Room. Using the idea of lab-based learning, the workshop records oral histories within London and on campus. Students and users of the workshop can digitise vinyl records, VHS and cassette tapes as well as edit their own digital materials. This work is part of Urban Room’s commitment to supporting impactful student research and developing collaborations with artists, residents and organisations around the Olympic Park where UCL East is located.

Discover more Memory Workshops within the Just Imaginaries Exhibition programming at the UCL Urban Room.