Tara Brabazon podcast

This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.

Tara and Priscilla talk about care.  In our tough times, caring seems the least of our concerns.  But following on from the remarkable Professor Waghid, a caring infrastructure is transformative for our organizations.

Burnout is one of those words.  It masks as much as it reveals.  Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.

Ethics clearances in research are time consuming.  They can be frustrating.  But why do research projects have ethical requirements?  Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.

Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.

Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.

Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.

In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc.  What is it?  What does it look like?  

Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?

Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.

How is digitization transforming doctoral education?

Tara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women.  Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations.  In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.

When is the right time to complete a PhD?  What topics will sustain your interest?  In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness.  Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and...

What do we do when ideas in a chapter are fragmented?  How do we create a streamlined argument?  This week, Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the role of headings in the drafting stages of research.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.

As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.

In the middle of a PhD, it is difficult to confirm that the work is of standard and being produced at the necessary speed.  Jamie, Maive and Tara talk about how to confirm progress.

Sonic memos.  Sonic notetaking.  But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work?  Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore psychogeography.  Specifically, we probe 'drift.'  We have discovered a key theory and trope.  This session explores a distinctive way of thinking about PhD supervision, and the gift of weekly meetings.

How do we understand - how do we research - despair?  Case and Deaton explored 'Deaths of Despair'.  But how can Maive explore despair while theorizing the historical transformations of class? 

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair."  How can this theory enable Maive's research into King's Cross in the 1970s?

The relationship between the personal and the professional in supervisory relationships should be straight-forward.  It rarely is. Maive and Tara - and with a late guest starring appearance from Jamie - probe the nature of supervisory relationships.  Particularly when the supervisors are married.  There are some controversies about married supervisors.  We talk about it - from the student's perspe...