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Impact Studios is part of the Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion at UTS
We are part of UTS’s Centre for Social Justice and Inclusion, where we work with academics, researchers, philanthropists, companies and knowledge workers to tell stories that have the power to effect real change.
Our team brings together a rich array of storytelling creativity and technical expertise to create innovative work, backed by research skills you can trust.
Contact us to find out how we can help you tell your story, and visit the Making Impact page to understand more about how we make media.
Meet the Impact Studios
Team
Sarah Gilbert
Executive Producer
Sarah Gilbert
Executive Producer
Sarah Gilbert is a skilled and experienced storyteller, whose work spans documentary film and television, print and broadcast journalism, and literary non-fiction.
She has worked on many television documentary projects, with a focus on Australian history. She has been a newspaper reporter in New York, a guidebook writer in Argentina and a journalist at SBS and the ABC. She writes occasional features and op eds in the local and international press, and is the books columnist for Galah Magazine.
She has a Masters in Journalism from Columbia University in New York and a Doctorate in Creative Arts from Western Sydney University.
Sarah leads the team at Impact Studios, where she oversees numerous projects and drives the editorial vision across Impact Studios’ award-winning podcasts.
Olivia Rosenman
Audio producer
Olivia Rosenman
Audio producer
Olivia Rosenman is an award-winning audio producer and journalist. Her audio work has been commissioned by publishers including Google, ABC, Monocle, Bauer Media, Newscorp, the University of Technology Sydney and The Wheeler Centre. At Impact Studios, she is the Executive Producer of a narrative documentary podcast about place-based work that will be published in 2023. She was the Executive Producer of Life’s Lottery, an Impact podcast about how better public policy could break the cycle of disadvantage and she has produced compelling audio documentaries on untold stories from Australian history for Impact’s History Lab.
Having developed a solid understanding of podcast distribution and promotion, Olivia consults on best practice with clients including SBS’ Audio and Language Content division and Queerstories. Prior to working in audio, Olivia was a reporter with Storyful news agency, and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Her freelance writing has appeared in publications including DestinAsian magazine, the Telegraph UK and the China Media Project. Olivia holds a Master of Journalism from the University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney.
Britta Jorgensen
Audio Producer
Britta Jorgensen
Audio Producer
Britta Jorgensen is an award-winning podcast researcher, producer and lecturer. She’s the host, producer and researcher of an ARC series about antimicrobial resistance, Rise of the Superbugs. She was a producer for the Judith Neilson Institute and Deadset Studios podcast, Journo.
Britta has made audio stories for Deadset Studios, ABC Radio National, Swinburne University of Technology, Duolingo, Pinna, the Digital Writers Festival, Audiocraft and the CBAA. She’s taught and mentored many emerging producers in community radio and is a podcast lecturer at the University of Sydney. She won a Burning Seed grant for her interactive audio installation, The Complaints Department.
Britta has written podcast criticism and published peer-reviewed research in podcast studies. She completed her practice-based PhD in podcast journalism in 2020. She won the Journal of Radio & Audio Media Most Outstanding Article of 2021.
Jane Curtis
Audio Producer
Jane Curtis
Audio Producer
Jane Curtis is an award-winning podcast and documentary producer. At the ABC she worked with regional communities to collaboratively tell their stories for TV, radio and online, and worked on podcasts including Ladies We Need to Talk, The Eleventh, Parental as Anything and Tall Tales & True. Her personal podcast is Inner West Icons, a playful documentary history podcast about inner west Sydney.
Tamson Pietsch
Managing Director
Tamson Pietsch
Managing Director
Associate Professor Tamson Pietsch is Director of the Australian Centre for Public History at UTS. She is interested in ideas and how they get made – both in the past and today. Tamson believes that thinking about where we’ve come from and where we want to go really matters – both for individuals and for society – and she is passionate about doing history with public audiences.