Tara Brabazon podcast

Through the corona virus, the Office of Graduate Research at Flinders University ran a weekly reading group, exploring the nature of the higher education sector and workforce.  The first book was edited by Nancy Gleason:  Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

How can great students find you - and you find them?  Interface management is integral to the creation of a strong supervisory profile.  This flipped supervisory training session explores some concrete strategies - today - to build your PhD supervisory interface to attract students to your research.

Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about Narelle's first draft.  Particularly, they discuss the final drafting stages of a PhD during social distancing and working from home.  What lessons can be learned from these unique challenges?

What a time to be doing a PhD.  At home.  Work.  Children. Thesis.  How is Narelle managing a thesis in the shadow of a virus? All change.

Well, we talk about deterritorialization...  This supervisory session - run in the shadow of the Corona virus - confirms connection, community and continual progress.  

Narelle, Jamie and Tara are working to finish this remarkable thesis - quickly.  But what is left for Narelle to finish - and how are we going to finish it?

Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about the first week of semester.  How does a super-full time person balance life, work, family and the PhD?

Striding through a post-disciplinary wasteland, Narelle, Jamie and Tara get stuck into 'theory.'  Yes we go there.  We explore scientific theory, humanities theory and see if there is a way that Narelle will not get squashed by the differences in definition.

Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about how teaching - and teachers - can transform.  The goal is to move beyond the ambiguous concepts of 'agility,' 'flexibility' and 'creativity.'  

Social media proliferates through personal and professional lives.  But how can social media be used to engage PhD students and research collaborations?

Students often surprise their supervisors.  Narelle talks about how she has managed to complete so much of her thesis so quickly.  Amazing.

This podcast is the sonic component of a flipped training session for PhD supervisors at Flinders University.  We focus on one key question:  why do students decide to change their supervisor?  We present the reason on the reasons for this change, and how these situations can be managed.

Narelle, Jamie and Tara provide the post-confirmation of candidature update.  We talk about 'what now' and 'what's next' to ensure a rapid completion of Narelle's thesis.

One of the great challenges confronted by supervisors attempting to complete a PhD thesis is managing student perfectionism.  This Step offers some strategies.

The characteristic of a successful PhD candidature is a strong relationship between academic staff and the PhD student.  But what is a 'strong relationship'?  This vlog explores the nature of a 'professional relationship' and its value in framing the student and academic experience of supervision.

Endings are important.  So is quality assurance and standards.  How does a supervisor know when a PhD is 'over' and the thesis will successfully pass through examination.

What is disciplinary literacy?  How can this innovative term be used within doctoral supervision to enhance reading and research, and writing and dissemination?

This professional development session for PhD supervisors enters the vexed terrain of 'rescue supervision.'  What is rescue supervision?  What strategies are available for success?

Tara, Jamie and Narelle prepare Narelle for her CoC event.  We ask questions in real time.  Narelle handles the answers - as we expect - with flair and precision.

Welcome to Core 2 - the second supervisory training session for Flinders University.

Welcome to this first core training session for higher degree supervisors at Flinders University.

Tara introduces the Core Higher Degree Supervisory programme at Flinders University

Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about multiliteracy and its relationship to disciplinary literacy.  How can diversity be enabled - in curricula design and beyond - through multiliteracy?

Well, the project has progressed.  Narelle, Jamie and Tara start to sharpen the field and literature of literacy feeding into her disciplinary literacy research.  And yes - a breakthrough.

Tara Brabazon and Jamie Quinton unpick a flippant comment made by a senior Australian academic.  She dismissed the relationship between undergraduate teaching and learning and PhD supervision. But is there a relationship?  Should there be a relationship?  How is this relationship rendered meaningful?