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We bring together a rich array of storytelling creativity and technical expertise in podcasts!

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

can help you tell your story, and visit the Making Impact page to understand more about how we make media.

10/12/2025

World-renowned architect , known for his bold and unusual designs and building materials, has died aged 96. Guess what building Gehry designed at UTS? Leave a comment!

Find out in Welcome to the Neighbourhood: UTS podcast: a history of UTS, , , and .

Hosted by Brittany Rourke, with guests Paul Ashton, Sophie Loy-Wilson, Dom Romeo, and Nathan Sentance.

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05/12/2025

🎉 Here are our Wrapped Best Podcasts from Impact Studios! 🎉

We’re so proud of all the amazing stories and knowledge shared this year. Huge thanks to everyone who listened!

Check out our top 5 most-listened-to podcasts:

🎧 Fully Lit

🎧 History Lab

🎧 Hey History!

🎧 Impact Talks

🎧 Sink or Swim

🔗Link to all of them in our bio!

01/12/2025

🎙 This week, Fully Lit brings you a special episode, recorded live at the inaugural UTS Writers’ Festival

In “Rebel Daughters”, poet Anne Casey () joins Sarah Holland-Batt ( ) to share powerful stories of resilience, heritage, and the voices of women silenced by history. You’ll hear Anne perform a bilingual reading of her work, enlivening the language of her ancestors, followed by an exploration of poetry as resistance, cultural reclamation and the fight against erasure.

From the haunting legacy of the Irish famine to the rebel girls incarcerated at the Newcastle Industrial School, this conversation highlights the intricate relationship between poetry, language, voice and memory.

🎧 Listen now on Fully Lit wherever you get your podcasts.
👉 Link in bio!

28/11/2025

Great news! Our podcast, Fully Lit, was recently featured in Kill Your Darlings 🎙

We are thrilled that the quality of our discussions on Australian literature and writing has been highlighted by the team.

The Highlight:

Even host Lynda Ng praised the depth of the podcast’s production, noting that the combination of interviews and archival material creates “a sonic journey that is quite remarkable.”

Listen now - find the link directly in our bio! 🔗

18/11/2025

Joy, gladioli, ice-cream treats, Sisters and friendly neighbours abounded as the new Joy statue was unveiled in Darlinghurst earlier this month. It was the happy ending to a long campaign to reinstate the work, by artist Loui May. The statue pays tribute to the s*x workers, street walkers and ladies of the night who have formed part of Darlinghurst’s social fabric since the neighbourhood’s earliest days. We were happy to play our small part in supporting that campaign via our prize-winning podcast episode, “Red Light Green Light.” Have a listen on History Lab - ep 20.

07/11/2025

Enjoying an afternoon of readings and conversation about writing at the UTS Writers’ Festival. Our new head of discipline at UTS Writing and Publishing, Sarah Holland-Batt and Anne Casey casey talking poetry, reclaiming lost voices and Irish/Australian history. Coming to you soon on Fully Lit!

29/10/2025

🎉🎶A packed house to hear author Sienna Brown, researcher Ben Etherington, actor Zahra Newman and playwright Alana Valentine discuss life in Australia for Caribbean Australians, in recent history through the stories of boxer Peter Jackson, performer Nellie Small, and now. The panel was expertly introduced by Tamson Pietsch, Director of Australian Centre for Public History, along with excellent food, and rocksteady, ska and reggae from DJ Amma Owusu.

✨It's all to celebrate the release of Caribbean Echoes, a 4 part creative nonfiction/documentary podcast by Sienna and Ben, with the generous support of Western Sydney University's Writing and Society Research Centre

🎧 Listen and follow on History Lab https://impactstudios.edu.au/podcasts/history-lab/s7

27/10/2025

Here comes Joy! Walking the dog through East Sydney yesterday we passed the mummified statue of Joy - a replica of Loui Fraser's original work, depicting a Darlinghurst s*x worker. She was first placed on the corner of Stanley and Yurong Streets in the late 1990s, but there were mixed feelings about her, and she was moved on. Now she is back, and we hear due to be unveiled next weekend. Stay tuned for updates, and meanwhile, listen to Episode 20 of History Lab - 'Red Light, Green Light' - winner of a 2024 Signal Award, which tells some of the history of Joy and of s*x work in Darlinghurst. https://pod.link/1279671703/episode/NWMxNjg1NGItZDIzYy00YTI2LTkyMzYtYjA3MzAwNGNjZDcx

17/10/2025

A busy week for Impact Studios at SXSW, presenting three panels: a wide-ranging discussion on , encyclopaedic knowledge and public knowledge infrastructure; a debate about as a democratic form and finally a talk about what recycling human urine could do for our waterways, soil health, carbon emissions reductions and food systems. Thanks to all our colleagues and collaborators - stay tuned for podcast eps on these topics and more.

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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.

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.

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

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