Fieldnotes for Research is made by a small, generous team who bring podcasting, research and teaching expertise together. Between us we've spent years thinking about how audio can carry ideas, hold complexity, and still feel like a conversation you'd want to have with a friend. Here's who's behind the microphone — and behind the scenes.
Meet the team leaders
Narelle Lemon is Professor of Education and a Vice-Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, where she leads the Wellbeing and Education Research Community. Her interdisciplinary research spans wellbeing literacy, self-care, teacher education, and creative and participatory methodologies, and she is an experienced podcast host and producer.
Mia Lindgren is a Professor and an internationally recognised authority in podcast, radio and journalism studies whose practice-led research examines audio storytelling and public understanding of complex health issues. She is co-editor of the Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media and of the Routledge Companion to Radio and Podcast Studies.
meet the team
Jason Goopy is a Senior Lecturer in music teacher educator at Edith Cowan University with expertise in singing-based practices and audio production. His research at the intersection of music, education and wellbeing draws on narrative and arts-based methods, and he recently held a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Susan Main is a Senior Lecturer in teacher educator and applied education researcher at Edith Cowan University whose work is shaped by a sustained commitment to improving learning, participation and opportunity across school and university contexts. She is particularly interested in making research more conversational, relational and accessible to the communities it serves.
Delyse Clayden is a PhD candidate and sessional academic in the School of Education at Edith Cowan University, with 26 years of teaching experience and a long-standing role as a disability advocate. Her research centres on reasonable adjustments, Universal Design for Learning, and amplifying autistic student voices in education.
Cassandra Tytler is an artist and practice-led researcher at Edith Cowan University whose work examines embodied, relational and ecological forms of experience through creative and practice-led methodologies. She works across public-facing and academic contexts, communicating research through exhibitions, artist talks, and publications.
"Good research audio doesn't simplify the work. It opens a door and lets people hear how researchers actually think." - Prof Mia Lindgren
"I wanted a show that sounds like the conversations researchers actually have — curious, a little unpolished, and honest about the process, not just the findings." - Prof Narelle Lemon