Tara Brabazon podcast

Steve and Tara enter the troubled space of doctoral supervision.  There are extraordinary, rigorous, caring and compassionate supervisors.  Then there is another group.  They don't read student work.  They don't meet students.  They offer little support. Steve and Tara talk about this 'old' model of supervision and the agents for change to a new way of thinking about teaching and learning in the s...

It is one of the best days in a person's life.  Sunny has submitted her thesis.  Steve, Tara and Sunny share this great moment with podcast listeners.  But Steve and Tara also put in place a plan for Sunny - 'throughcare' - to enable her career while the thesis is being examined.

Steve and Tara talk through a tough topic:  cosupervision.  What makes a great supervisory relationship?  How does a PhD student select a supervisory team?  What are the key requirements for success?

Karen Jacobs and Tara Brabazon answer student questions about the PhD.  These students are in the middle of their candidature and ask the questions specific to their doctoral moment.  

Tara talks with Shani Sniedze-Gregory about the integrated curriculum.  What is its value to schooling?

Tara and Steve talk to PhD students and early career researchers about a key choice they must make.  Is their PhD a scholarly monograph?  And - if it is - how do they transform an item of assessment (a PhD document) into a book with a wide international audience?

Tara and Mark construct a strategy for Mark to write his exegesis.  Instead of writing it in chapters, Mark has put in place a framework to increase the frequency and efficiency of his writing.

Sunny and Tara probe the final few weeks of a PhD.  It is an emotional time and incredibly intellectually exhausting.  Sunny and Tara talk about how to finish a thesis with rigour, kindness and predictability.  

Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the interface between British and Australian cultural studies to probe the potential of a postcolonial cultural studies.

Anne, Steve and Tara probe the strengths and weaknesses in investigating one theorist in a PhD.  What is the value - and the problems - in applying an old theorist to a new intellectual terrain?

Mark Brown, Tara and Steve discuss his practice-led PhD, with attention to prototyping.  The artefacts are emerging, and the speed of change means that every object that Mark creates is the foundation for the next one.  

Steve, Tara and Sunny discuss the final stages of her PhD completion.  Steve has just completed 'the theory draft.'  We talk about theory and its role in doctoral education, a candidature and a thesis.

Anne, Steve and Tara talk about deskilling, automation, professionalism and early childhood education.  

The PhD students and supervisors from the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education talk with Tara about their expectations going into a PhD and how they were managed through the candidature.  

So much of higher education - and teaching and learning more generally - is based on assumptions.  But what is the point of a PhD oral examination?  What is its role for students and supervisors, and international universities?  

Tara and Steve present some options for men and women who have never really considered the role of social media in research dissemination.  What are the best platforms?  What arguments may convince researchers who have shared their research in this way.  This podcast takes you from zero to social media hero.

Sunny, Steve and Tara go into theory.  They explore Stuart Hall's theorizing and how it frames Sunny's thesis.  Tara goes hard on the current state of cultural studies (again).  Steve and Sunny are patient with her.

Tara and Steve have a sad announcement for podcast listeners.  Mick Winter - our remarkable PhD student - has died.  Steve and Tara talk about 'what's next' and what will happen to his thesis now.

Amy Seymour-Walsh talks with Tara about her PhD and her innovative strategy to move from a series of ideas and incomplete chapters and to a full first PhD draft.  

Tara and Steve offer concrete options and opportunities for PhD students and early career researchers when considering how to write their first refereed article.

Tara, Steve and Anne probe what it means when the word 'educator' is replaced by 'teacher'?  Particularly, they probe the consequences of changing the language from 'early childhood educator' to 'early childhood teacher.'

Steve and Tara introduce Mark Brown's mock confirmation of candidature.  They talk about the value of a mock event and how students can improve and learn through this process.  The podcast also includes Mark's live and raw mock CoC and how - in real time - he created improvement.

Tara and Steve talk about academic journalism as a mode and means of dissemination for scholarship.  When should academics consider journalism?  What are the challenges and pitfalls?  And - how can 'unpopular' topics gain momentum in popular culture?

What are the reasons to choose to enrol in a research masters rather than a doctor of philosophy?  Steve and Tara talk through the differences for students, supervisors and examiners and - once more - recognize the key skill of time management in supervision.

What happens to part-time PhD students through a milestone process?  Tara talks about the use and value of interim milestones