Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks through post-candidature care strategies - and employment strategies - for PhD students.

Tara presents  a flipped training sonic session on the 'external PhD.'  How do we supervise students that are disconnected from the physical campus?  In these new times, it is time for new doctoral supervision.  

Tara talks with supervisors about the part-time PhD and strategies to ensure that students remain connected throughout the candidature.

Tara introduces a key new movement in doctoral education:  SOCK.  We explore the Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge.

Tara introduces a new mode of supervisory training for Flinders University.  Time for Steps.

Anne and Tara talk about the intricate and complex emotions at play in the final few months of a PhD candidature.

Tara talks with Mark about wearables.  How can wearable tech manage or solve his interface challenges between the body and the beat?

Tara and Natalie Hills offer an analogue Q and A session about PhD examination.

Tara talks with Andrew Paterson about his remarkable PhD.  Andrew interviewed 50 members of the police to listen to their experiences of stress, trauma, violence and police work. His results are remarkable.  Post traumatic stress is not inevitable.  Instead, powerful  - and cheap - institutional strategies can transform police and policing and first responder cultures more generally.

Tara has the pleasure of conducting a question and answer session with our PhD students on the cusp of submitting their PhD.  What strategies do they have to offer?  What are their fears and concerns?

Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University.  Ros is exploring women in rural and regional areas and how they manage money through their lives and into retirement.  Ros has discovered that the women in her research have a 'secret stash.'  This podcast explores the rationale for the secret stash and probes what we learn about women, men, money and work.

Tara introduces and welcomes new students to the PhD space.  Importantly, this podcast offers peer learning.  Current students work with the new candidates to enable their candidature.

Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research.  He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.

A major moment to share with podcast listeners.  Anne is within one week of submitting her thesis.  She shares with listeners the final strategies she deployed to finish a PhD via a part-time candidature.

Tara introduces the concept of multimodality.  What does it mean?  Why is it important?  How can it enable research dissemination?

Tara's great friend Jac asked her to offer a perspective on mentoring.  This commentary is a bit stroppy and direct, but may poke and provoke your thinking about mentoring.  When you ask for a 'mentor' what are you actually asking for?

Tara and Steve talk about an undercooked and underdiscussed 'challenge,' 'problem' and 'issue' in doctoral education.  What happens when the supervisor that starts with a student cannot finish them?  Tara talks about the rescue doctorate.  How do new supervisors finish a PhD student?  What should PhD students look for?  Welcome to the rescue doctorate!

Steve and Tara are supervising a terrific student researching an Australian police force. We have been discussing the methods available, including ethnography.  What are the strengths and challenges of ethnography?  How / can ethnography be used to study empowered members of our community?

Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story.  We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this incredibly sad situation. Our love and respects to the memory of Dr Mick Winter.

Tara talks with Ellen Fraser-Barbour, a PhD student at Flinders University, about her research.  She is exploring the resilience and autonomy of men and women with intellectual disabilities, and the violence they confront in their daily life.

Sunny Rue Chivaura, a recent graduate from Flinders University, discusses the age of Trump, inflected by race and racism.  When race-based attacks become normal, what happens to the daily lives of citizens of colour?

Tara is joined by some of the most talented and innovative PhD students at Flinders to talk about Guy Standing's The Corruption of Capitalism.  

Tara and Steve talk about the Kiwi PhD oral examination.  What is the role of a PhD oral exam, and how can it internationalize standards and quality in doctoral qualifications?

Tara talks with the remarkable Annie Nguyen, a PhD student at Flinders University.  Annie is using arts-based research to probe the resonances between analogue and digital.  Using Shinkyuu Art as a model, trope and theory, she is creating a new way of thinking about art and research.  

Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University.  Ros is investigating how prepared women are - financially - for retirement.  She also probes the impact of urbanity, regionalism and rurality on the preparedness of women.  This is a podcast about women, work and - yes - inequality.