Tara Brabazon podcast

Very often in the doctoral space, it is assumed that PhD students understand how to interpret complex and intricate sources.  As Anne moves into deep interpretation of Terry Johnson, Steve and Tara t…

Mark, Steve and Tara talk about 'the workaround' in technology and its role and impact in regional education.  And as a meta-point, this podcast produced what may end up Mark's PhD title and key conc…

In her first post-thesis week, Sunny has been asked to referee.  Tara and Steve talk about how to referee for an academic journal, and the specific challenges for early career researchers.

Steve and Tara enter the troubled space of doctoral supervision.  There are extraordinary, rigorous, caring and compassionate supervisors.  Then there is another group.  They don't read student work.…

It is one of the best days in a person's life.  Sunny has submitted her thesis.  Steve, Tara and Sunny share this great moment with podcast listeners.  But Steve and Tara also put in place a plan for…

Steve and Tara talk through a tough topic:  cosupervision.  What makes a great supervisory relationship?  How does a PhD student select a supervisory team?  What are the key requirements for success?

Karen Jacobs and Tara Brabazon answer student questions about the PhD.  These students are in the middle of their candidature and ask the questions specific to their doctoral moment.  

Tara talks with Shani Sniedze-Gregory about the integrated curriculum.  What is its value to schooling?

Tara and Steve talk to PhD students and early career researchers about a key choice they must make.  Is their PhD a scholarly monograph?  And - if it is - how do they transform an item of assessment …

Tara and Mark construct a strategy for Mark to write his exegesis.  Instead of writing it in chapters, Mark has put in place a framework to increase the frequency and efficiency of his writing.

Sunny and Tara probe the final few weeks of a PhD.  It is an emotional time and incredibly intellectually exhausting.  Sunny and Tara talk about how to finish a thesis with rigour, kindness and predi…

Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the interface between British and Australian cultural studies to probe the potential of a postcolonial cultural studies.

Anne, Steve and Tara probe the strengths and weaknesses in investigating one theorist in a PhD.  What is the value - and the problems - in applying an old theorist to a new intellectual terrain?

Mark Brown, Tara and Steve discuss his practice-led PhD, with attention to prototyping.  The artefacts are emerging, and the speed of change means that every object that Mark creates is the foundatio…

Steve, Tara and Sunny discuss the final stages of her PhD completion.  Steve has just completed 'the theory draft.'  We talk about theory and its role in doctoral education, a candidature and a thesi…

Anne, Steve and Tara talk about deskilling, automation, professionalism and early childhood education.  

The PhD students and supervisors from the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education talk with Tara about their expectations going into a PhD and how they were managed through the c…

So much of higher education - and teaching and learning more generally - is based on assumptions.  But what is the point of a PhD oral examination?  What is its role for students and supervisors, and…

Tara and Steve present some options for men and women who have never really considered the role of social media in research dissemination.  What are the best platforms?  What arguments may convince r…

Sunny, Steve and Tara go into theory.  They explore Stuart Hall's theorizing and how it frames Sunny's thesis.  Tara goes hard on the current state of cultural studies (again).  Steve and Sunny are p…