Tara Brabazon podcast

Professional development is important, if earnest.  This Steps session probes the saddest of supervisory experiences:  the posthumous thesis.  We explore the policies and procedures to enable the submission, but also the key emotional challenges for the student's family and the supervisors.  We also place attention on examiners and examination.

Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education.  Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, explores the importance of sponsorship and sponsored students and how the relationship is fostered and developed.  

A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.  What is a PhD by prior publication?  How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?

This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity.  This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about professional development, work and supervision in tough times for students and the world.

Are you interested in disseminating research with clarity, precision and purpose?  Are you interested in finding new audiences for complex ideas?  Then it is time we talk about multimodality.

Mobility - and Mobility Studies - is a potent and expansive way to think about power and inequality.  But what is mobility - and why does it matter?

What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?

This next episode of Smash Cut - the accelerated professional development programme for higher degree students - explores Oral History.  While other research methods focus on representativeness and repeatability, Oral History interviews have a different function.

Welcome to this short professional development exploring creative industries.

In this professional development session, we explore unobtrusive research methods.

Tara presents her flipped keynote for the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.     

Life can be difficult, particularly now.  Configuring the next steps in our lives can be challenging.  It is time for some inspiration.  Tara talks with Maive Jackson Collett and her journey in the last year into a PhD.  

The artefact and exegesis thesis is moving far beyond the creative arts.  But what is this mode of thesis?  What are its challenges and strengths?  How are they supervised and - most importantly - how are they examined?

Narelle, Jamie and Tara have a special announcement.  Narelle has submitted.  Let's talk about it.  And - how did she do it?

In this Steps session, Tara explores the role and place of an Office of Graduate Research.  What is its function for students and supervisors?  How are these roles changing in contemporary Australia?

In this special HDR training session for colleagues in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, we explore authorship and publishing opportunities, enhancing supervisory relationships - between students and supervisors - and finish with discussions of employabiity.

Tara talks with Ashleigh Merriel, the head of Progressions in the Office of Graduate Research, about Intellectual Property.  What is Intellectual Property?  Why does it matter to PhD students and their supervisors?

Narelle, Jamie and Tara are close to Narelle's completion.  Narelle talks about these final complex stages to completion - while attempting to complete a semester...

Narelle, Jamie and Tara are now in full drafting mode.  As the drafts progress, so does the speed to completion.

Tara talks with Aidan Cornelius-Bell.  In a powerful discussion about student partnerships, politics and activism, Tara and Aidan explore the role of universities in social and political change.  

This specific higher degree supervisory training session has been developed for experienced supervisors wanting a 're-fresh' in their practice.  It offers the continuum of development - from compliance to excellence.  There is specific attention to the challenging moments in supervising, particularly with regard to authorship of academic papers, ethics, and skills development.

Here we go with Narelle's first draft!  What happened with this difficult - challenging - first draft.  How did Narelle handle it?  

The middle of a PhD candidature is the difficult time.  Supervisory changes.  Change of methodology.  Disappointments with data collection.  Add Covid to this story - a students may walk away from the programme.  Join our online mid candidature intensive to create momentum, change and some motivation.

For this third reading group, as part of the Virtual not Viral project, our community reads the edited collection from Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan and Laura Suarsana:  Geographies of the University.

This second reading group podcast, as part of the Virtual not Viral intervention in doctoral education during the period of the corona virus, explore John McGowan's Democracy's Children:  Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics.  Please note:  expletives used during this discussion.