Tara Brabazon podcast

The right woman.  The right time.  The right project.  Every now and again, a remarkable researcher transforms a field.  Listen to Narelle Hunter explore how disciplinary literacy can transform the teaching, learning and researching of science.

Tara talks with completed PhD students and scholars just at the cusp of submission.  How do you finish?  How does the PhD end?  A powerful moment in understanding the endings.

The PhD examination is a dark art.  But how are they examined?  What does examination mean in the PhD space?  This podcast between Natalie Hills and Tara Brabazon - and the remarkable students at Flinders University - enters this complex and mysterious doctoral space.

This podcast matters.  So much goes wrong in the PhD candidature.  Let's tell those stories.  And let's explore how to improve the life and research of these students.

Tara conducts an end-of-seminar discussion with PhD students about their aspirations and hopes for a PhD supervisor.  Evocative.  Provocative.  Convincing.

Jamie and Tara talk about that key moment in education:  the transition from high school to university. That first year of university is difficult.  Attrition rates are high.  What can be done to support, scaffold and enable first year university students?  Jamie explores the specific challenges confronting science students, while Tara probes the impact on teachers and teacher education.

Tara and Jamie Quinton talk about pencasting, and the Livescribe.  Many of us tried the smartpen a decade ago - but a new version has just been released.  But why use a smartpen?  Why did it fail a decade ago?  Why could it succeed now? And what is a pencast?  Is this a moment in the history of sonic media?

Tara presents this flipped Professional Development training session for supervisors on 'authorship.'  One of the most volatile, nasty and complex parts of higher education, this session explores the new code of conduct and strategies to manage co-authorship.

Tara talks with Tania Hall about the men and women with intellectual disabilities and their experience of group homes.  Tania's thesis has taken an unusual method, exploring the testimony of these men and women on YouTube.  Her thesis listens to the people on their own terms.  The results are startling.

Tara talks with Sue Charlton.  Sue's soon-to-be completed PhD explores regional health injustices, and how these injustices manifest in pediatric physiotherapy.  But in this podcast, Sue talks about education, teaching and learning from a regional Australian location.  How can we enable regional doctoral education through digital platforms, interfaces and initiatives?

Tara talks with Kathryn Hardwick-Franco about rural, regional and remote education.  Why does regionality offer to our universities?  What values do our doctoral students express when re-evaluating injustice and inequality?

Tara presents this flipped professional development session on the confirmation of candidature.  What is it?  How can this milestone enable a successful completion?  With attention to backward mapping, this 'start' of a candidature can enable a completion.

A provocative title for a disturbing, confronting and difficult topic.  After the publication and dissemination of the Respect, Now, Always Report by Universities Australia, and also the emergence of the #metoo movement, how are relationships between students and staff managed in our universities?  How are borders around behaviours, roles and emotions created?  How can compassionate and kind super...

Tara presents a flipped professional development session for PhD supervisors. And it is difficult.  Difficult people.  Difficult situations.  Difficult conversations.  What creates these moments and events of difficulty?  Working through some framing issues in doctoral education, Tara explores how to avoid the festering rage of difficult conversations, to create an even, caring, compassionate - an...

Tara presents this professional development session for PhD supervisors. How do you select an examiner?  What characteristics are important to you?  What about form and content?  How do we continue to internationalize the doctorate, in terms of standards and quality assurance?

Dr Leanne McRae presents a controversial, complex seminar exploring death, public and private grief and memorialization. What does death and grief mean?  What happens as grief moves from a private to a public space?

Tara offers a first pass of her research exploring translocalism, food tourism, regional development and Kangaroo Island.

An incredibly difficult group to study and understand is the community of students just about to enter an examination process.  This session, facilitated by Tara Brabazon and Natalie Hills, opens out to the voices, views, questions and commentary of PhD students.  What are their concerns with the PhD examination process?  How do we reduce the risks confronting this stressful time?

Sometimes something remarkable is captured from a live seminar.  This session - composed of completed and soon-to-be completed PhD students - explores the final three months before submission.  What happens with family and friends, health and sleep, motivation and commitment?  In this incredibly honest conversation, Tara talks with Jen, Ros, Tiffany and Ruby to understand the experience of a stude...

Tara talks with students in the mid-point of their candidature.  What are there concerns - and how can they be solved?

The lack of communication and shared vision results in profound challenges in doctoral supervision.  Therefore Tara asked PhD students what they believe are the characteristics of a great supervisor.

Tara addresses the specific context of mid-career academics and doctoral supervision.

As part of this Steps programme, Tara talks about how to build PhD supervisions when an early career researcher.

This special event features the leadership team of Emerald Publishing, from Yorkshire in the UK, talking about the future of academic publishing.  The PhD students from Flinders University ask provocative questions at the conclusion of the presentation.

Tara talks with commencing, established and completed PhD students.  What are their worries, fears and successes?