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We are part of UTS’s Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, where we work with academics, researchers, philanthropists, companies and knowledge workers to tell stories that have the power to effect real change. Our team brings together a rich array of storytelling creativity and technical expertise to create innovative work, backed by research skills you can trust. Contact us to find out how we

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History Lab is back — fresh and reimagined.You'll hear new regular episodes in three formats:- History Lab Originals – s...
12/10/2025

History Lab is back — fresh and reimagined.

You'll hear new regular episodes in three formats:
- History Lab Originals – signature investigative storytelling
- History Lab Studio – interviews and deep dives with historians
- History Lab Live – public talks from libraries, bookshops, and university halls

This new rhythm means more variety, more regularity and more ways to engage with the history that shapes our world.

What is coming up?

ORIGINALS: Caribbean Echoes – A powerful four-part series by Sienna Brown and Ben Etherington uncovering the lives and legacies of Caribbean people in Australia. Episodes 1 & 2 out now.

LIVE: David Scott Mitchell Oration – ABC Chair Kim Williams on libraries, archives, and democracy. Coming October.

LIVE: The Last Outlaws – Professor Katherine Biber on crime, justice, and truth telling. Coming November.

🎧 Listen, share, and help build a platform for public history in Australia — something we need now more than ever.

🕶️🎧Weekend listening sorted! Dive into the fierce, fiesty world of 1940s Caribbean Australian superstar Nellie Small, wh...
10/10/2025

🕶️🎧Weekend listening sorted! Dive into the fierce, fiesty world of 1940s Caribbean Australian superstar Nellie Small, who could bring down the house and come back at racism with a joke. 🎶Featuring Alana Valentine, Cassandra Pybus, Vanessa Cassin with actors Zahra Newman and Graeme Rhodes Rhodes, and made by Sienna Brown and Ben Etherington, it's episode 3 in the 'Caribbean Echoes' series on our award-winning podcast series History Lab.

Listen at https://pod.link/1279671703/episode/NDI5NWZlMDItYWE2OC00NGFhLThhMTgtNGM5ZDhkZmEyMTNk

The research for this series was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Project Creole Voices in the Caribbean and Australia: Poetics and Decolonisation (DP220101256).

Ben and Sienna are also grateful to the Writing and Society Research Centre and School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University for their generous support in the production of this series.

Archival photos: State Library of New South Wales and Harry Martin.

“Mudgin-Gal Yarns came out of a simple but radical idea: Aboriginal women don’t need to be spoken for — we just need to ...
08/10/2025

“Mudgin-Gal Yarns came out of a simple but radical idea: Aboriginal women don’t need to be spoken for — we just need to be listened to.”
Larissa Behrendt at today’s launch of the Mudgin-Gal Yarns podcast.

In 2023–24, inner-city Aboriginal women in Sydney came together in four yarning circles to share their experiences of seeking help for domestic and family violence and to imagine what change could look like.

Those yarning circles were recorded. And in the final one, the women participants said they wanted their voices to be amplified.

We worked with Mudgin-Gal CEO Ashlee Donohue and UTS - University of Technology Sydney Jane Wangmann, who had set up the yarning circles as part of social impact research, to turn those conversations into a podcast series.

The launch took place today at The National Centre of Indigenous Excellence.
🎧 Mudgin-Gal Yarns Episode 1 is out now — new episodes drop weekly.
https://www.mudgin-gal.org.au/about/mudgin-gal-yarns-podcast-and-report

Explore the poetic, philosophical, and genre-defying world of Gail Jones’s latest novel, The Name of the Sister, in our ...
05/10/2025

Explore the poetic, philosophical, and genre-defying world of Gail Jones’s latest novel, The Name of the Sister, in our newest episode.

In conversation with fellow author Debra Adelaide, Jones reflects on writing “a modernist novel with a crime in it”—a story that asks how fiction can bear witness to suffering without exploiting it.

Her prose is deeply visual, filled with images that linger long after the page. As Jones reminds us: we are made up of all we have read.

🎧 Listen now wherever you get your podcasts.
📖 The Name of the Sister is out now from Text Publishing.
📍Recorded live at — check out their events page for more literary brilliance.

How can museums, literature and journalism do truth-telling?Professor Robynne Quiggin AO is joined by Lorena Allam, Kate...
02/10/2025

How can museums, literature and journalism do truth-telling?

Professor Robynne Quiggin AO is joined by Lorena Allam, Kate Grenville, Professor Lindon Coombes and Dr Mariko Smith to talk through different ways of facing the past and imagining a more just future, in Episode 28 of Impact Talks at UTS.

🎧 Listen now: Link in Bio!

🎉We're thrilled to share that two of our podcasts are finalists. 🚶‍♀️Hey History's Ep 7 Walk for Truth-telling: Best K...
25/09/2025

🎉We're thrilled to share that two of our podcasts are finalists.
🚶‍♀️Hey History's Ep 7 Walk for Truth-telling: Best KIDS episode
🌊Sink or Swim's Ep 1 Taking the plunge: Best DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION episode

🚶‍♀️Hey History! Ep 7 explains truth-telling to kids. You'll join the Justice Commission's Walk for Truth with , hear from students at St Patrick's Primary School Port Fairy, and learn about truth-telling in a wider context with Dr. Matthew R. Keynes.

Ep 7 was made by , , , and John Jacobs (sound engineer) with support from , especially Rachel Fyfe.

🌊Sink or Swim Ep 1 follows as she examines what it means to be a non-swimmer in a nation that prides itself on its prowess in the pool. You'll hear from writer @ about her own hard-won adventures in the water, and get Olympian Shane Gould's take on Australia’s swimming scorecard.

Sink or Swim Ep 1 was made by , @angelicaojinnaka, , , , , , , and Melissa May (sound engineer).

Warnings from Australia's first ever National Climate Risk Assessment dropped last week and they are making us break out...
21/09/2025

Warnings from Australia's first ever National Climate Risk Assessment dropped last week and they are making us break out in a sweat.

The report puts a spotlight on the issue of urban heat - one that we explored last summer with our series Sink or Swim.

News that many of our suburbs will keep getting hotter will come as no surprise to the people of Blacktown To hear what locals are already doing to stay cool - and how climate resilience is wrapped up with some bigger questions about social inclusion and public spaces - listen to story of learning to swim over one hot Western Sydney summer.







🍿Free event!🍿Come to Parramatta's Lit 11am Friday 26 Sept to hear Sienna Brown and Ben Etherington tell the stories of C...
19/09/2025

🍿Free event!🍿Come to Parramatta's Lit 11am Friday 26 Sept to hear Sienna Brown and Ben Etherington tell the stories of Caribbean Australians Nellie Small and Peter Jackson, and the making of History Lab podcast Caribbean Echoes.

At Western Sydney University, as part of Sydney Fringe Festival.
🎫 Tickets https://sydneyfringe.com/events/caribbean-echoes-recovering-west-indian-australia-lives/

Photo of Nellie Small: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales

How do writers get their start as critics? Is there a way to balance humility with critical rigour? And does humour have...
18/09/2025

How do writers get their start as critics? Is there a way to balance humility with critical rigour? And does humour have a role to play in criticism?

In the latest episode of Fully Lit, we come to you live from Parramatta, where critics Max Easton, Eda Gunaydin and Lucy Van joined our very own James Jiang for a spirited conversation about the pleasures and rewards of writing criticism.

Be inspired by these three critics as they discuss what makes them take to their keyboards – and how they preserve their enthusiasm along with their exactitude. The event, Critics Rejoice, was recorded on September 6 as part of the Parramatta’s Lit and Sydney Fringe Festivals.

🎧Do you want useful news and insights about audio storytelling? Hear about our latest episodes? Or just read an independ...
15/09/2025

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❓How can we envision trans futures? What does trans flourishing look like? Who are the q***r or trans icons that inspire...
11/09/2025

❓How can we envision trans futures? What does trans flourishing look like? Who are the q***r or trans icons that inspire us? In the latest episode of Impact Talks at UTS, Madi Day, Archie Thomas, Anna Cody, Sidhi V. and Sasha B. discuss these questions in a lecture and panel facilitated by Woody (Louis Walker).

This event was the Andrew Jakubowicz annual lecture, coordinated by UTS Social and Political Sciences, UTS Centre for Social Justice & Inclusion, and UTS Trans and Gender Diverse Staff Reference Group.
Link in bio to listen!

What kind of critical culture do you get when most poetry critics are also poets? And how can the reviewer not break out...
10/09/2025

What kind of critical culture do you get when most poetry critics are also poets? And how can the reviewer not break out into a cold sweat when appraising the work of friends and colleagues?

This week 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗟𝗶𝘁 brings you a gem from the Poetry Says archive, wherein writer and editor 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗻 reflects on 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗼𝗻'𝘀 2015 Sydney Review of Books essay 'The Poet Tasters' - a forensic and statistical critique of Australian poetry. Listen to find out why the essay brought Alice's career as a poetry reviewer to an abrupt stop, then read Alice in conversation with 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐉𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐠 in 'The Poet Eaters' at SRB.

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