October 2025
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Episode 11: (Re)Covering Bad Women– From Ithaka to Whitechapel

This episode is the second in “(Re)Covering Bad Women,” a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasts. This episode is an explanation of my creative podcast episode, (Re)Covering Bad Women: Unruly Slave Girls in the Odyssey. This episode connects the creative sound piece to broader themes from Emily Wilson’s translation of… Continue reading
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Episode 10: (Re)Covering Bad Women– Unruly Slaves in the Odyssey

This episode of Project PhDcast is part one of (Re)Covering Bad Women, a podcast miniseries exploring vulnerability, precarity, and victimization in true crime podcasting. The first part of (Re)Covering Bad Women is a creative sound piece based on the story of the enslaved girls in Homer’s Odyssey, with passages taken from Emily Wilson’s translation and… Continue reading
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Episode 09: An Autumn Walk in the Woods

Happy Thanksgiving! It’s a lovely, golden afternoon in October. The woods are fragrant with fallen leaves. A passing thunderstorm has stirred up the waves on Lake Ontario. Birds flit from branch to branch, crickets chirp, and a flock of geese pass overhead. Won’t you join me for an autumn walk in the woods? For optimal… Continue reading
About Alison

Alison Innes is a researcher, podcast producer, and storyteller who believes that our best conversations help us better understand each other—and ourselves. She is passionate about the power of podcasts to create space for authentic, ethical, and vulnerable storytelling that connects people, ideas, and communities.
As a PhD student in Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program, Alison researches how podcasts foster trust, create connection, and help people make sense of ideas together. She is especially interested in how podcasting can build relationships, share stories, democratize knowledge, and invite more people into conversations that matter.
Whether she’s researching, producing, or holding space for conversations, Alison is guided by a simple belief: that when we share knowledge with curiosity, generosity, and care, we create opportunities to better understand each other.
Podcasting and researching from the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee and Anishinaabe peoples in modern-day Canada. Photo credit Kaitlyn Daw.
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