S8E6: Podcasting and Education with María Carreras and Kate Acton

We celebrate 100 episodes by asking how podcasting can teach, build community, and improve animal welfare across languages, disciplines, and daily routines. Guests Maria Carreras and Kate Acton share concrete changes, strategic insights, and challenges that reshape how we listen to animals and to each other.

Date Recorded: 11 April 2025

Featured: 

• When Animals Speak by Eva Meijer
• The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol J Adams.
• Inside of a Dog by Alexandra Horowitz
• Evaluating the Addition of Positive Reinforcement for Learning a Frightening Task: A Pilot Study With Horses by Camie R Heleski et al
• The Ventriloquist’s Burden: Animal Advocacy and the Problem of Speaking for Others by Lauren Corman
•  Preliminary evidence supporting the use of equine science podcasts to bridge the gap between scientists and horse enthusiasts to improve horse welfare by Kate Acton and others. 
• iROAR Network
• Culture and Animals Foundation 
• Conversations in Equine Science podcast
• ECA Podcast 
• Animals Ethics Review
• Journal for Critical Animal Studies
• Derercho Animals podcast 
• Minding animals podcast 
• Comme un poisson dans l'eau
• UCD Veterinary Nursing Podcast
• The Animal Highlight

 

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A.P.P.L.EAnimals in Politics, Law, and Ethics researches how we live in interspecies societies and polities.iROAR NetworkiROAR brings together podcasts that aim is to make the world a better place for animals. Pollination Project The Pollination Project empowers volunteers across by providing the funding they need. Georgia Institute of Technology School of Modern Language, Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts, School of Literature, Media, & CommunDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I ma