Higher Education Podcasts

Who gets thanked when university research is published? In (Episode 164) Technicians uncovered: inside Tech Exchange at Leeds, a Research Culture Uncovered guest who works on fair attribution recalls a civil engineering PhD student asking, at a first project meeting, how the technicians wanted to be acknowledged. It was, the guest says, the first time that had happened. The best higher education podcasts work at that scale: one meeting, one supervisor, one parking ticket, and behind each the habits of an institution most people see only from outside.

ENGINEERING CHANGE® PODCAST is sharpest on small cases. In Soapbox: The Truth about ABET, the host, an ABET engineering commissioner speaking only for herself, recalls a faculty member whose three non-minoritized students all flagged their minoritized teammate as a poor team player. Her question was what that student's own evaluation said. Her recommendation was to move the student to a team where they could thrive.

The Pickup Meeting, with Michael "Brody" Broshears and Kevin Thomas, lets the jokes in. In Ep. 28 - Kyser Lough, University of Georgia, Brody calls his inbox of perhaps 2,446 emails "a museum of unresolved intentions." Ep. 27 - A "Just Us" Episode turns to numbers. One host cites an Arkansas institution whose freshman-to-sophomore retention fell to 66%, a drop of 11%, and asks whether graduation goals that ignore that drop set people up for failure. The Educational Leadership page continues from there.

Academic Aunties starts from the premise that academia excludes first-generation, racialized and women scholars, and its advice does not pretend otherwise. In Good Supervision, Bad Supervision, a guest recalls being made to teach an early supervisor's introductory Chinese history class without pay. The guest then advises applicants to weigh a whole program and a team of possible mentors, not one name. Perimenopause and Menopause takes on the "neoliberal academy," where, the host says, "we are perpetually expected to ignore our bodies and our emotions."

PhD Lounge serves doctoral students deciding where a PhD leads. In Late-Night Talk: Andrea Grandi, PhD. A Former Postdoc Explains How To Land Your First Industry Role, Grandi, who spent six years in pharma, describes a weekly group call where his clients celebrate their rejections. He calls the number of rejections one predictor of success he has "consistently observed" over two years. That is a coach's observation, not a study. For the move out of the lab, see the Career Guidance & Transitions page.

Many of these shows are campus offices explaining themselves, and the useful ones say exactly what to do. IPS's Podcast, from Michigan Tech's International Programs and Services, does this for international students. In Ask an Attorney - All about H1B, co-host Christian Montesinos, an immigration attorney of almost 15 years, covers H-1B transitions. The episode also urges travellers to carry:

We Are Chattin', Penn State Brandywine's show with Ava Clements and Natalie DiMario, is looser and warmer. In We Are Chattin' with David Rosenberg - Chattin' Golf, Giving and Gratitude, Rosenberg recalls a dance marathon he believes began in 1973. Its 78 dancers lost points for sitting down, and it raised $2,000.

The Catalyst, from Northeast Iowa Community College, shows the employer side. Built by Employers: New Core Manufacturing Skills Career Pathway Certificate and Industry Partnership traces a new certificate to a need its manufacturing alliance kept raising. In LECOM Presents: Heroes In Training, Finding A Path To Podiatry lets second-year podiatry students talk about boards and how they recharge. The Medical & Legal Education page picks up that path.

College on the Radio, Joe Moravchik's show on KYMN Radio in Northfield, gives a professor room to explain. In College on the Radio with guest Dr. Rika Anderson, 3-25-26 (48 minutes), the Carleton biologist explains how "our oceans basically rusted two and a half billion years ago." She then says it is almost impossible to separate genetic from environmental effects in genome studies of outcomes like divorce.

UNA Talks does similar work at the University of North Alabama. In What We Are Learning About Caffeine and Kinesiology (featuring Dr. Lauren Killen), Killen sorts people into positive, negative and non-responders, a useful check on one-size-fits-all advice.

Books to Battles opens up a School of Advanced Air and Space Studies seminar. In SAASS 667: Information and Cyber Power, an instructor says readers must "fight through typology" in John Lindsay's Age of Deception, but calls it "a gold mine" for practitioners who can parse it. The Science Education and Teaching & Pedagogy pages extend these routes.

Simulcast, hosted by Victoria Brazil, Jesse Spurr and Ben Symon, shows healthcare educators how its hosts read a study. In 222 Simulcast Journal CLub April 2026, the hosts welcome an exploratory paper on AI in simulation debriefings. They also worry that a novice would "treat it as more, this is the answer," and they object to "pilot" being used to soften expectations.