Catherine Wynne & Lucyl Harrison on the wider PhD journey

Join Catherine and Mike as they meet Catherine Wynne, Reader in English and Lucyl Harrison, PhD student in English, both members of the Living with Death - Learning from COVID research cluster at the University of Hull. They explore how a chance conversation as part of a personal supervision session led to the development of a podcast with a now global listenership and talk all things public engagement, research development, the wider PhD journey and podcasting as a diverse way of engaging with learning & assessment.

Dr Catherine Wynne is Reader in Victorian and Early Twentieth-Century Literary & Visual Cultures and Associate Dean for Research and Enterprise in the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education. Catherine supervises Lucyl's PhD thesis on the language and literature of COVID & pandemics and as Associate Dean, leads a team responsible for the faculty's postgraduate researchers.

Lucyl Harrison is a PhD researcher specialising in how viral experience narratives are archived during pandemics with a focus on the emerging genre of Covid fiction. She founded the podcast, Pandemic Pages, which explores how writers have responded to the coronavirus pandemic through literature. Featuring in-depth conversations with authors, academics, and creative voices, Pandemic Pages brings listeners an insightful look into the cultural and emotional impact of pandemics on storytelling. She is also a 'Story Maker' at the National Centre for Writing in Norwich, Norfolk.

Catherine: “When you’re working with PhD students, you need to start thinking about developing them for the knowledge exchange and creating all of those other professional skills sets that can be adaptable in various ways”

Lucyl: “When I started my PhD I kind of needed to be practical about the academic space and jobs because not everybody gets a job in academia afterwards... so part of the reason of doing the podcast was building a digital portfolio [...] trying to set myself up outside... [but it’s been so much more!]... and a really good networking tool.

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