Tara Brabazon podcast

Mark and Tara talk about the distinctive digital strategies that are emerging in and through the contemporary PhD.

Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films:  Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca.  Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?

What are the challenges confronting PhD students and supervisors in our universities?  Tara reveals the impact of neoliberalism on doctoral education, showing why governance and regulation of scholarly standards remains important.  This presentation is a recording of Tara's keynote session for the European University Association's Council for Doctoral Education Workshop, held at Delft University o...

Tara and Steve talk about two key phrases - "digital leisure cultures" and "digital leisure studies."  What are digital leisure cultures and can they offer a new disciplinary pathway through work, production and consumption?

Doctor Who is a stunning and innovative force in popular culture and popular memory.  But why is Doctor Who popular and what is the role of Peter Capaldi in aligning past and present, memory and politics, television and post-television?  Steve and Tara talk about Doctor Who through its history and why this programme matters now, perhaps more than at any point in its history.

Mark Brown joins us from Sydney to present his sonic designs for the development of his artefact.  Yet his great work raises a question.  What is the artefact?  What are the examiners assessing?  Steve, Tara and Mark try to limit and shape the examined artefact.

Sunny, Steve and Tara enter the complex area of blackness and Australian identity.  What space is available to explore blackness - as a scholar - in doctoral education?

 A great challenge of doctoral education is balancing description, analysis and high theory.  Anne McLeod discusses how to manage this challenge with Steve and Tara, her doctoral supervisors.

Why has the Wizard of Oz moved so successfully through literature and film - and through time?  Mick, Tara and Steve probe the power of the Wizard of Oz and what it reveals about children's media.

Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead explore the history of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University.  How was the Institute formed?  What were the conditions that made it successful?  Can such an Institute emerge again from the contemporary higher education sector?

Mark, Steve and Tara talk about how Mark is building his artefact.  The use of light, dark, movement and colour is aligning meaning systems and movement systems.

Mick, Tara and Steve entered Mick's meme research - in detail.  We started with Casablanca and probed why it is famous - and why it remains famous.

Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about Sunny's rather fabulous week in the media.  We talk about the role of these interviews and articles in doctoral research and how powerful research about race can be transformative for rural and regional Australia.

Anne and Steve talk about the value of side roads in a doctorate - to gain experience and expertise - but also recognize why focus, clarity and a clear spine of argument is integral to a doctorate.

Mark and Steve evaluate Mark's strategy for doctoral management, to pinch a few hours and develop annotated bibliographies.

Sunny and Steve discuss the deep and wide benefits of oral history - even in a digital age - in valuing and validating the voice of migrants.

Mick and Steve talk about the relationship between journalistic and academic modes of writing. What is the relationship, and how can journalism become more academic - and academic writing reveal the accessibility of journalism?

Steve and Tara explore the challenges of co-supervision and the advantages of - every now and again - going solo.

Anne, Steve and Tara discuss how to manage the cul-de-sacs of doctoral life.  They talk about how to manage the complexity of theory in a thesis while writing in a volatile environment for early childhood education.

Mark, Tara and Steve talk PhD strategy.  How do we find those impossible hours for a doctorate in an already over-stuffed life?

Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the specific challenges in gathering and understanding 'the voice' of African migrants in Australia.  How do we maintain the integrity of their lives and narratives, but also create space for interpretation and analysis?

Tara, Steve and Mick talks about the next stage of his research.  He is now studying how and why particular moving lines are memorable.  But can we learn some tips and tricks from sociological research?

Myra Singh, with the support of her supervisor Jae Major, introduces the challenges and strengths of indigenous methodologies.  Myra's project focuses on the meanings of 'success' for indigenous students.  To enable this project, she introduces yarning as a method of data collection.

Tara, Steve and Mick explore and express the challenges in constructing a literature review in a PhD.  We talk about how to transcend the banal and boring and create a spicy and enlivening discussion of academic literature that is productive, powerful, passionate and imaginative.

In a competitive higher education environment, how can PhD students enable and develop their post-PhD career.  Tara and Steve provide concrete and clear strategies to create a trajectory for a career while enrolled in a doctorate