I knew that, once completed, people might ask me about the research I did for my thesis, or be interested to know more. At the same time, academic writing can be very dry so I was pondering more accessible ways to present the material. I came across Hannah Fry’s Google DeepMind podcast where she interviews Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson about NotebookLM, and she mentioned that she gave NotebookLM her PhD thesis and it made such an engaging and accessible podcast about her work – so I thought I would give it a go!

As soon as I discovered NotebookLM, towards the end of my research project, I used it a lot to get to grips with academic articles that could seem quite impenetrable at first. So it made sense to me that it could do the same with my own writing, and I was not disappointed.

The final video below includes some words from me, and then the NotebookLM-generated podcast (which really did make my research sound way cooler and entertaining than I thought was possible!), as well as some slides highlighting source material and some comments on the podcast itself. There were very few hallucinatory moments (which I point out) but on the whole the AI podcasters did a good job of capturing the essence of the project.

Enjoy ☺️.