University research with public stakes.
RadioEd translates University of Denver research into accessible reporting built around social problems. Recent episodes move from renters and brain injuries in courts to youth homelessness, racial violence, childhood trauma, policing, aging, and financial decision-making.
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RadioEd is a University of Denver research podcast that treats scholarship as a way to understand concrete public problems. Its episodes usually begin with a broad, recognizable question and then narrow toward the work of a DU researcher. The result is explanatory without feeling sealed inside campus life. Recent episodes show the range clearly. One follows renters’ absence from land-use hearings and the legal ways housing decisions can leave tenants with less voice. Another looks at brain injuries in the courts, where an invisible disability can affect how people move through the legal system. A conversation on youth experiencing homelessness uses AI and social media data to examine substance use, financial stress, peer influence, and consent. History appears through an episode on Black Wall Street, Jim Crow violence, accounting transactions, and the economic roots of racial violence. The show also turns to prevention and care. Positive childhood experiences are framed as a counterweight to trauma and abuse across generations. Cognitive decline is connected to financial decision-making, family trust, autonomy, and planning for the future. Public policy enters through community safety and what people want from police interactions. The show’s voice is calm and structured. It gives listeners enough context to follow the research without flattening the difficulty of the subjects. The hosts often place institutional systems beside personal consequences: zoning beside renters, courts beside brain injury, finance beside aging, policing beside trust. That pattern gives RadioEd its value. It is not a general campus showcase. It is a guided map of how research reaches housing, health, law, history, family life, and civic safety.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants research explained through policy, law, health, history, and social systems rather than academic abstraction. It fits people who like careful context and practical consequences.
What sets it apart: RadioEd stands apart by keeping the lens on University of Denver research while moving across many public issues. The show links scholarship to specific mechanisms, from hearing notices and court screening reports to social media data and financial protection plans.
Hosted by writer Emma Atkinson, RadioEd is a triweekly podcast created by the DU Newsroom that taps into the University of Denver’s deep pool of bright brains to explore the most compelling and interesting research coming out of DU.
A zoning hearing without renters? RadioEd rewards your habit of asking who got left off the invite.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear, grounded look at how renters get left out of housing decisions close to home.
Radio Ed looks at a civic blind spot hiding in plain sight: renters can pay into a community every month and still be treated as outsiders when local rules get made.
A grounded look at how brain-injury screening can carry context across legal and care systems.
Brain injury becomes a legal and care issue when its signs are hard to see, explain, or carry from one setting to the next. Jordan Ryland's conversation with University of Denver Research Assistant Professor Jennifer McMahon follows that problem through missed symptoms, gaps in…
A grounded look at how communities define safety, trust, and better police interactions.
Safety around police is framed as both an everyday concern and a public-policy question. Joseph, a 20-year-old in Durham, North Carolina, speaks to the sense of security people should be able to feel around officers, while Ajanae Clemons, a University of Denver Assistant…
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
RadioEd's "NIMBY By Design: How Renters' Voices Go Unheard" frames Sarah Schindler's argument that renters are treated as second-class citizens in housing law.
RadioEd host Jordan Ryland interviews University of Denver research assistant professor Jennifer McMahon about the Brain Injury Screening Program for justice-involved individuals whose competency to stand trial is questioned.
An AI analysis of nearly 70,000 Facebook posts identified financial stress as a substance-use trigger among youth experiencing homelessness.
University of Denver researchers connect the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Black Wall Street to economic disputes and racial violence.
Angela Narayan says the 1994 CDC-Kaiser ACEs study connected childhood abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction to later health problems such as cancer, obesity, cardiovascular risk, and premature mortality.
Radio Ed’s “Why University Research Matters” connects DU’s R1 designation in 2021 with research that reaches beyond campus.
RadioEd host Jordan Ryland interviews University of Denver Assistant Professor Ajanae Clemons about how police can build trust in communities that experience both intrusive policing and serious violent crime.
At RadioEd, Emma Atkinson asks University of Denver marketer Ana Babich-Rosario how nostalgia sells through retro packaging and familiar memories.
A psychotherapist discusses how to talk about suicide and support loved ones experiencing suicidal thoughts.
This episode explores the challenges and perceptions of the short-term rental industry, including its impact on Colorado mountain towns.
This episode explores the evolving ideal body portrayed in media, focusing on recent weight loss trends like Ozempic and the impact of celebrity culture on body image.
A Paralympic athlete shares her experience training for the Tokyo Games during the COVID-19 pandemic, highlighting the physical and mental challenges.