Tara Brabazon podcast

Steve and Tara offer suggestions to prospective students about how to contact a supervisor.  What helps you gain a supervisor's attention, focus and support?

Tara talks with Karen Jacobs, from the Office of Graduate Research, about milestones.  What is a milestone and why does it possess value for PhD students?

Tara talks with her friend and colleague Sam Schulz.  Sam is a sociologist of education, with a specialist interest in critical race and white studies.  Tara talks with Sam about creating spaces for alternative voices and views that can make change both inside and outside the university.  

Tara talks with her namesake, Tara Shem about speech impairments in the early years.  They discuss the strength of speech pathology as an emerging discipline as much as profession and the value of strong partnerships between education and health, teaching and speech pathology.

Steve and Tara ponder the profound instability of the Trump Presidency.  In this interregnum, how will the rise of the right be tempered by any mode or form of progressivism?

Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination.  They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.  

Tara, Steve and Anne align Terry Johnson's theories of the profession to a post-GFC economic and social climate.

Tara has the pleasure of speaking with Vanessa Alexander.  Vanessa is a part-time Doctor of Education student at Flinders University and Team Leader for Positive Partnerships ( http://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/vanessa-alexander-team-leader-south-australia ), a support organization to enable school-age children on the autism spectrum. She discusses what drew her to research, her project and t...

Andrew, Steve and Tara talk about the role and place of sleep in policing.  They also explore the understanding - the theory - of 'work' and the 'job' of policing.

Anne, Tara and Steve present some alternative modelling for Guy Standing's Precariat and Terry Johnson's theorization of professionalism.  

Tara talks with Steve about a new book series and an emerging trope:  Deviant Leisure.  What is deviant leisure and how can it enable a new understanding of capitalism and higher education?  

Steve and Tara summon the interconnected injustices of Hillsborough and Grenfell.  Finally, charges have been made against South Yorkshire Police - 28 years after the event.  But what do we learn about working class people, working class culture and injustice?  Tara and Steve probe the lessons of Hillsborough to understand the events in Grenfell.

Steve and Tara talk Theory.  What is it - and why is it useful for researchers?  In anti-intellectual times, is it the moment to bring back Theory (Capital T)?

Tara and Steve welcome Andrew Paterson to the podcast.  Andrew discusses his powerful and fascinating PhD that explores the South Australian police force, stress, resilience and transformational organizational culture.

Tara shares her presentation for the Institute of Education, delivered in London on June 9, 2017. She explores the impact of the deficit model of learning for PhD students and how multimodal supervisory solutions can transform the lives and the success of students. A record of the presentation is located here:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tara-brabazon-at-ucl-ioe-you-are-more-than-your-thesis-dis...

Tara Brabazon talks with Nazlin Bhimani, librarian and PhD candidate at the Institute of Education, London, to discuss plagiarism, academic integrity and research integrity for PhD students.  

The best learning in a PhD programme is peer learning.  Tara shares the expertise of Flinders PhD students discussing how to manage their expectations and the lived reality of a doctoral candidature.

John Reid presents his upgrade seminar for his PhD.  The topic is indigenous male migration.  In this powerful presentation, he summons the image, metaphor, theory and trope of 'the waterhole.'

Tara talks with John Reid about his PhD.  What is the function of 'the waterhole' in cultural geography, or as a metaphor, a trope and a theory to understand indigenous masculinity?

As Tara is about to head off to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, she talks with Steve about why regional education matters.  The importance of universities in small cities and large towns is obvious and clear, but rarely recognized in public or education policy.

Sunny, Steve and Tara address the challenge of breaking up 110,000 words into refereed articles.  Sunny has already completed two refereed articles and she discusses the surprises that emerge when she cuts up her thesis into new forms of writing, for new audiences.

Very often in the doctoral space, it is assumed that PhD students understand how to interpret complex and intricate sources.  As Anne moves into deep interpretation of Terry Johnson, Steve and Tara talk through strategies to enable high level scholarship.

Mark, Steve and Tara talk about 'the workaround' in technology and its role and impact in regional education.  And as a meta-point, this podcast produced what may end up Mark's PhD title and key concept.  Podcast can offer a hot moment of innovation for supervisors and students.  One of these moments is captured here.

In her first post-thesis week, Sunny has been asked to referee.  Tara and Steve talk about how to referee for an academic journal, and the specific challenges for early career researchers.