Tara Brabazon podcast

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

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 discove…

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 candida…

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 'mento…

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? …

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 …

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 …

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 ci…

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 m…

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 r…

Steve and Tara offer suggestions to prospective students about how to contact a supervisor.  What helps you gain a supervisor's attention, focus and support?

Tara talks with Karen Jacobs, from the Office of Graduate Research, about milestones.  What is a milestone and why does it possess value for PhD students?