Hello everyone, and welcome to Speakable, a new podcast project from SFU’s Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology and School of Communication. 

Speakable aims to bring together research, teaching, and student work from across FCAT’s schools and programs. Part of the Speakable concept is to foster conversations about complementary cross-disciplinary thematic areas in the work of faculty and graduate students, but also to create opportunities for frank conversations on undergraduate teaching and learning issues. Speakable is part of growing initiatives for scholarly podcasting. Its sustainability model includes mentoring and advanced training of graduate and undergraduate producers and podcast content creators. Through distribution on all major podcast platforms and via CJSF 90.1 FM, Speakable will reach a broad community audience within and outside of SFU, allowing for knowledge sharing and mobilization beyond the university context.

As the second FCAT podcast project to partner with CJSF 90.1FM, Speakable will strengthen an existing relationship with an important community partner. As campus-based, community-access radio, CJSF 90.1 FM exists to compliment commercial media and the CBC by bringing alternative voices, perspectives and music to the broadcast landscape. CJSF is keen to support projects like this which highlight the knowledge and creativity of the SFU community and translate so well into dynamic, grassroots and relevant radio programming.

We would like to respectfully acknowledges the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), kʷikʷəƛ̓əm (Kwikwetlem), Qayqayt, Kwantlen, Semiahmoo and Tsawwassen peoples on whose unceded traditional territories our three campuses reside.