Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching.  And learning.  In supposedly digital times.

Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.

In this first conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski, we explore her book chapter written with Dr Oona Morrow, exploring postcapitalist politics in and through life work.  (The chapter is available here via Google Books:  https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0MVgEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA82&dq=Postcapitalist+politics+through+the+sites+and+practices+of+life+work&ots=PiwxHSpCht&sig=23Uz_5QX...

So often teaching and learning are minimized or reduced, in favour of the major research project, or big grant. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the power of teaching and learning, to enliven our universities.

Impact and engagement.  These words pump through our universities.  But what do them mean?

Tara and Priscilla talk about momentum, and how to build a research career, against the odds.

Tara and Priscilla discuss how to build authentic and meaning community links, beyond the superficial metrics and the platitudes.

The news reports discussing universities around the world are negative.  Horrific.  Concerning.  This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about how to - against the odds - build a positive academic culture, to enable growth, development and opportunities.

Tara and Priscilla talk about the power and importance of role clarity and boundary management in our professional lives.

This is a recorded presentation of Tara's From SoTL to SoS and Beyond for the College Development Network in Scotland.

Priscilla and Tara talk about how to use PD to build a sustainable career.

So much of academic life is separated.  Atomized.  This week, Priscilla and I talk about how we maintain the connection between teaching and research.

Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore the specificity and power of a PhD in social work.

Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore why there is both value and meaning in considering the enrolment into a PhD - now.

There is so much focus on supervisors and the candidature of a PhD.  This focus reduces the understanding of the submission process and examination.  Episode ten focuses on the crucial moment of a PhD.  How, when and why it is examined.

For episode nine, Jamie and Tara focus on the writing and editing of a thesis.  And the importance and value of quality writing to enable quality dissemination.

PhD projects - like research more generally - are filled with failure.  Jamie and Tara talk about the importance of this failure and how it is a powerful moment in learning, development, transparency and accountability.

Whenever complaints are listed about doctoral programmes, a lack of feedback is the most common response from students.  But what is feedback - and how can it operate with transparency, compassion, and usefulness?  Also - why do students ignore feedback?

In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.

Professional development is often as popular as teeth extraction.  But Jamie and Tara talk aboout why it matters, and why it is meaningful for a productive research education programme.

Jamie and Tara explore the vexed terrain of professional relationships during the PhD

Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.

Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.

In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.

There is much talk about aspirations, inspirations and motivations.  But how do we cut away the clutter to build a meaningful and actionable goal?  This podcast with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the power and value of specifying a goal that matters.