Tara Brabazon podcast

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore psychogeography.  Specifically, we probe 'drift.'  We have discovered a key theory and trope.  This session explores a distinctive way of thinking about PhD supervision,…

How do we understand - how do we research - despair?  Case and Deaton explored 'Deaths of Despair'.  But how can Maive explore despair while theorizing the historical transformations of class? 

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair."  How can this theory enable Maive's research into King's Cross in the 1970s?

The relationship between the personal and the professional in supervisory relationships should be straight-forward.  It rarely is. Maive and Tara - and with a late guest starring appearance from Jami…

Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature.  When is enough work - enough?

Managing disappointment is a necessity to survive in life.  But during a PhD, disappointment creates a wash of emotions and internal dialogues.  This week, Maive and Tara talk about how to manage dis…

Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.

Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.

Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism.  What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?

Harm is an important word.  In life.  In theory.  Yet how does our research transform when 'harm' becomes the lens for research?  Maive and Tara probe this concept.

Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis:  an artefact and an exegesis.  Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory?  This week, we…

Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature.  What happened.  What were the surprises.  Why it matters.

Maive and Tara (over)share the stress of preparing for the Confirmation of Candidature.  It is a tough event in the life of PhD students.  But it is a proof of concept and not an examination...

Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD

As Maive is moving towards her Confirmation of Candidature, she is working on her report that will be assessed by assessors. What are the requirements of that document?  What headings will make a dif…

A PhD requires commitment:  of time and energy.  But it also requires a commitment to take a risk, and be courageous.  Maive and Tara talk about the commitment to ideas, and a commitment to a mode of…

How do supervisors provide the context, the frame and the shape for student learning?  One rather unusual method is creating a soundscape for supervisors and students to share.  Tara and Maive talk a…

Maive, Tara and Jamie talk about how students can handle feedback, with attention to creating a record of learning for future publications and dissemnation.  The also talk about the different modes o…

How do we think about, remember, summon and research a place that no longer exists?  How do we understand an historic place?  Maive, Tara and Jamie talk about a past of meaning, resonance and power, …

Maive and Tara talk about the importance of reading in rebooting and freshening a PhD process.  Reading new ideas and research can transform not only the writing process, but how the thesis is struct…