Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara and Steve probe the value of a book chapter.  Through research evaluation programmes - like the RAE, REF and the ERA - the book chapter is often discredited and undermined.  Yet is the status of…

Tara and Steve introduce and welcome the term 'nanolearning.'  What is it and how can it operate with flipped learning and open educational resources?  They explore the potential of nanolearning to e…

This podcast is derived from a seminar on Richard and Daniel Susskind's book, The Future of the Professions.  This group of Flinders postgraduates and staff probe this book and if / how digitization …

Tara introduces the vexed and complex issue of authorship during a doctoral programme.  How is authorship to be discussed during a PhD supervisory relationship, and how is authorship regulated and ma…

Tara presents this lunchtime seminar for PhD supervisors offering twenty quick strategies to enable a quick doctoral completions.

Tara presents this short introduction to academic integrity.  This session provides the flipped foundation for a lunchtime seminar for supervisors at Flinders University.

Steve, Sunny and Tara talk through the challenges of Sunny's last chapter.  As always happens in the last stages of a PhD, emotional and intellectual doubts emerge.  How can PhD students manage perfe…

Tara, Steve and Mick probe the 'frame' in his meme research.  Is a meme a frame?  Is the meme the carrier for content?

Tara and Steve  talk about a key moment in the Australian PhD candidature:  the Confirmation of Candidature.  Compared to other international examples, this session is held very early in the research…

Tara talks with Bronwyn about science fiction.  Bronwyn Lovell is completing a creative-led PhD, probing the limitations and capacities of science fiction.  They discuss Dr Who, Star Trek, fantasy an…

Karen Jacobs and Tara introduce the new system of Milestones at Flinders university.  What are milestones and why are they useful to part time and full time research higher degree students?

Steve and Tara introduce Vicki Pascoe to podcast listeners.  Vicki is investigating migrant doctors and medical professionals in rural and regional Australia.  Particularly, they talk about the chall…

Steve, Tara and Sunny talk about identity, particularly considering the role of Louis Althusser in Stuart Hall's thinking about self and politics.

Anne, Steve and Tara check on Anne's writing strategy to find 30 productive minutes each day.  Particularly they explore how to write the transitions between complex ideas to ensure that fragmentatio…

Steve, Tara and Mick discuss Mick's post-PhD publishing options.  They talk through scholarly monographs, trade books and short, specialist e-books.  For the traditional thesis, many publishing optio…

It is difficult to enthuse academic staff to undertake professional development in and for doctoral supervision.  Yet it is crucial that PhD students gain innovative, dynamic and modern techniques, t…

Tara and Steve discuss the use and value of creative industries for PhD students.  They probe the 'triple helix' of university, business and government and how doctoral candidates can manage this new…

Anne, Steve and Tara work through a key moment in Anne's candidature.  Anne has three chapters that are nearly finished.  She needs a strategy to get that work done.  We explore the role of finding t…

Sunny, Steve and Tara have now reached Sunny's last chapter of her PhD.  It is a long one.  It is complex.  How is Sunny to present and analyse 10 oral history interviews.  More precisely, how is she…