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QMU Podcast

QMU Podcast

By: Queen Margaret University
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 The QMU Podcast is a new way to keep up-to-date with what's happening at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh. Tune in for the latest news from the University, hear about our world-leading research from our academic staff and find out how you can connect with us. Subscribe now and engage with the QMU community - wherever you are, whenever you want.Copyright Queen Margaret University
Episodes
  • Practice makes perfect - discussing creative practice research at Queen Margaret University

    Practice makes perfect - discussing creative practice research at Queen Margaret University
    Feb 11 2025
    Practice makes perfect - discussing creative practice research at QMU.

    In this episode of the Queen Margaret University podcast series, members of the QMU Creative Practice Research Cluster discuss different interpretations of creative practice research and how art can "count" as research. Topics covered include the difference between art and research, advice for researchers and students considering working in this area, and personal experiences of balancing multiple identities such as practitioner, artist, researcher, academic, and pracademic.

    This podcast features contributions from Lecturer in Media Practice and doctoral candidate Andrew Rooke, Assistant Lecturer and filmmaker Regina Mosch, Lecturer in Drama and Performance Bianca Mastrominico, and Reader of Arts Management and Cultural Policy Dr Anthony Schrag.
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    55 mins
  • A journey through our history - celebrating QMU's 150th anniversary

    A journey through our history - celebrating QMU's 150th anniversary
    Jan 30 2025
    No-one in the world knows more about the history of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh than Dr Tom Begg, author of the book ‘The Excellent Women’. Dr Begg, a former economics lecturer at Queen Margaret College, agreed to share his encyclopaedic knowledge in the first podcast ever recorded about the history of our institution. Interviewed by Professor Richard Butt, Deputy Principal of QMU, Dr Begg gives a fascinating insight into the work of the founders of the Edinburgh School of Cookery (later to become Queen Margaret College) and discusses the contribution that the institution made to the health of the nation and women’s educational and career opportunities. This special podcast has been created specifically to mark the institution’s 150th anniversary in 2025.
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    57 mins
  • QMU Podcast - History of TV Food & Cooking Programmes

    QMU Podcast - History of TV Food & Cooking Programmes
    Apr 25 2024
    Queen Margaret University (QMU) has a proud history relating to food, cooking and nutrition dating back to its inception in 1875. In this podcast, lecturer Donald Reid interviews Dr Ana Tominc, Reader in Media and Communication at QMU and Dr Kevin Geddes, QMU MSc Gastronomy graduate, about food and cooking programmes on TV – where they started in UK and across Europe, their development, and how they have grown in popularity to become an important part of modern culture.

    Dr Tominc specialises in food, media and communication, and in 2022, she edited a collection of essays and articles on food and cooking in early TV in Europe (Routledge), which was shortlisted for MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Award 2023. Dr Geddes, whose recent PhD from Edinburgh Napier University looks at early food TV in Britain, was a contributor to the book.ook.
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    35 mins
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