Work is What We All Do

Recorded on 11/06/2026Katie Hall is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Leeds Beckett University, a freelance broadcast journalist at the BBC, and a freelance Content Designer and website builder. Katie moved from London to Leeds in 2006 to do a postgrad in journalism, and - apart from moving to Bradford - has stuck around ever since. Working at most of the two cities' radio stations and universities over the last two decades as well as many further afield, Katie is also a qualified paddle sport instructor and a volunteer bike ride leader.Katie has worked at Real Radio, Radio Aire (and Hallam FM and Viking FM), BBC Online, BBC Radio Leeds (and York, Derby and Sheffield), BBC 5 Live, Leeds Trinity University, York St John and Bradford University since moving to West Yorkshire.Before that she worked at BBC London, and had a bunch of jobs ranging from car park attendant to receptionist to stock room. In her current job, Katie teaches undergraduate journalism students, and the occasional post grad student, and she also sometimes get to teach digital marketing at a partner university in Vietnam.Katie works part time which means she gets to keep freelancing which is perfect for her. Katie’s main teaching focus is radio journalism, but she also teaches online journalism and manages the student website leedsnow.co.uk. Katie was also recently diagnosed with ADHD, which she now realises has quite a lot of relevance to how her career has panned out.You can find out more about Katie’s work at:http://kljhall.co.uk/Or follow or connect with Katie onhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/kljhall/Simon Young Interview https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/episode-16-simon-youngDeby Jackson That Leeds Mag interview https://the-working-hours-podca.captivate.fm/episode/deby-jacksonOther linkshttps://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/https://www.whiterosecc.org.uk/https://www.nuj.org.uk/https://my.ucu.org.uk/https://leedsnow.co.uk/https://www.rajar.co.uk/https://www.audacityteam.org/We don't mention this article in the episode but this a great LRB piece about UK universities: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n10/stefan-collini/squadrons-of-pigsMy linkshttps://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prevent-construction-of-microsoft-hyperscale-datacentres-in-leedshttps://western-studios.com/be-on-a-podcast/working-hours-podcast-the-paid-plan/https://ko-fi.com/workinghourshttps://www.patreon.com/cw/WorkingHoursPodhttps://www.facebook.com/WesternStudiosLeedshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-treen/www.linkedin.com/company/western-studioshttps://bsky.app/profile/workinghourspod.bsky.socialhttps://www.instagram.com/workinghourspodleeds/https://www.instagram.com/western_studios_leedshttps://www.youtube.com/@workinghourspodcast4618