Interculturality Podcasts
Interculturality Podcasts (IPods) is a project that I started in August 2023. It aims to provide alternative and, arguably, more accessible means of knowledge-sharing compared to books and journal articles. IPods aspires to organise interviews with researchers and academics in the area of intercultural studies. The interviews focus on current issues, debates, and challenges in this area in addition to topics related to our guests’ expertise and research backgrounds.
I aim to organise and release episodes on a regular basis but this is subject to change depending on my workload and availability. Episodes will be shared below and will be accompanied with a short guest biography, and links to their institutional profiles and current projects.
Ep.1 Dr Haynes Collins: Interculturality, Higher Education, and Swimming – Interculturality Podcasts
Dr Haynes Collins is our guest for episode 1 of Interculturality Podcasts. Haynes is an associate professor of intercultural studies in the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of Leeds. His teaching responsibilities fall broadly within the areas of intercultural studies, sociolinguistics, and language teaching. He's interested in the ways "institutional and media discourses mobilise the concept of culture and interculturality to serve ideological agendas". He writes about and conducts ethnographic research within the area of interculturality with a recent project called "An Anthropology of Swimming".
Some of the topics we covered in this podcast:
Native-speakerism
Different understandings of culture and interculturality
Buzzwords in Higher Education
Interculturality and swimming
Haynes's Website: An Anthrology of Swimming
IPods main website: International Students Voices
Ep.2 Professor Adrian Holliday: Culture, Essentialism, and Higher Education. – Interculturality Podcasts
Professor Adrian Holliday is our guest for episode 2 of Interculturality Podcasts. Adrian is professor of Applied Linguistics & Intercultural Education at Christ Church Canterbury University. As described on his personal website, "his career began in English language education in Iran the early 1970s, and has travelled through engagements with a global cultural politics to arrive at current interest in the ideological underpinnings of intercultural communication. This trajectory has also taken in a fascination with the everyday complexities of social life and how to investigate them through sociology and qualitative research".
Some of the topics we covered in this podcast episode:
Adrian's trajectory, personal experiences, and how they shaped his thinking.
Essentialist approaches to the study of culture and interculturality.
Interculturality within Higher Education.
Researching interculturality.
Adrian's wesbite: https://adrianholliday.com/
IPODs main website: International Students Voices
Ep.3 Professor James Simpson: Belonging, Language, Interculturality, and Higher Education – Interculturality Podcasts
Professor James Simpson is our guest for episode 3 of Interculturality Podcasts. James is a professor in the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong university of Science and Technology, where he currently directs the Masters programme in International Language Education. His research interests include Language and migration, language education, multilingualism, language policy, and creative inquiry in applied linguistics. James's recent works are informed by his interest in belonging and social justice. He currently convenes the Belonging Research Network, a link to this is included in the episode description.Some of the topics we covered in this episode:Belonging in Hong Kong and UK higher education. Language, multilingualism, and minoritised languages. Interculturality and belonging. James Simpson's Staff ProfileGoogle ScholarBelonging Research NetworkNavigating Belonging ProjectInterculturality Podcasts (IPods) Main Website
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