HOPSS project speaker Marianne Wilson

Over the past weekend, between 23rd and 25th June, Queen Margaret University hosted a conference entitled Shaking the archive: reconsidering the role of archives in contemporary society.

Yesterday, on the last morning of the conference, Marianne Wilson represented the whole Heritage organisations and podcasts scoping study (HOPSS) project team* when she delivered a presentation entitled The power of audio: presenting archives via podcasts.

In her conference slot, Marianne summarised the main findings of the HOPSS project as drawn from an analysis of empirical data collected by interview from podcast producers working in cultural heritage in Scotland in 2022. The findings were framed with reference to (1) extant knowledge of podcasting in libraries, archives, museums and academia at the start of the talk, and (2) recommendations for future research directions at the end. For further information about Marianne‘s contribution to the conference please see the post on Edinburgh Napier University’s Social Informatics Research Group’s blog.

*Four of us – Marianne, Dr Bruce Ryan, Dr Iain McGregor and myself – completed this research in 2022 as a sister project to our AHRC-funded Platform to Platform work to draw on personal and media archives to create the Diary of the war podcast series (highly commended by the British Records Association).

Please click the image to see the presentation slides