This Gasta presentation introduces an emerging project on scholarly podcast creation in Irish higher education. The focus is on academics who design and produce podcasts as part of their teaching, research, and public engagement activities. The Gasta will briefly outline the rationale for treating podcasting as a scholarly practice in its own right, and will sketch initial questions about how episodes are planned, scripted, recorded, and disseminated. In particular, it asks whether there is an identifiable ground-up methodology for scholarly podcast creation in Ireland, or whether current practice is largely ad hoc and individually driven.

The presentation will act as a call for collaboration, inviting colleagues who are already podcasting - or who are interested in beginning - to contribute to a collaborative inquiry into process, pedagogy, and impact. Participants will be invited to share their workflows, tools, and institutional contexts, with a view to co-developing a mapped overview of current practice and, ultimately, a flexible methodological framework for scholarly podcast production that can inform future teaching, research, and recognition of podcasting as academic work.