Tara Brabazon podcast

Nada Kabbara is enrolled as a 4th year student at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Tara talks with her about religious extremism, religious tolerance and how we create socially just…

Assumptions about research supervision are damaging. At the start of any research project, it is important to ask, note and understand student expectations for teaching, learning, research and superv…

Once the research is completed, students may feel that the difficult slog is finally over and they can quickly and accurately write up their project and submit it with ease. Yet such an assumption is…

Tara introduces her students from Capstone, the 4th year research project at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.  Students ask Tara the key questions to commence their research project…

Laura and Tara discuss how to organize time in a research project. How do you know when to stop reading? How valuable is that editing and drafting time? Laura and Tara explore the value of 'seeing' t…

Research is difficult.  It can be a pleasure, but the point of research is to challenge ourselves and challenge the limits of knowledge to discover something new.  Tara concludes her 10 microlectures…

A rather depressing title to this podcast, but it is important to acknowledge the characteristics of poor research projects that may fail.  Tara discusses the signs of research flaws, problems and is…

When the research, writing and editing cycles are complete, students - quite rightly - feel that it is time to relax.  However the key moment is still in front of them.  Preparing the document for su…

The relief is real when the first draft of a research project is completed.  However the marks - and the high grades - are given to the best edited and drafted documents.  Polish creates excellence. …

Too often the phrase 'writing up' is used as a self evident and self explanatory phrase in research projects.  Yet writing, researching and thinking are tethered in complex and intricate ways.  Tara …

The online environment has opened incredible opportunities to research students. Yet how is this plurality of information and platform managed in current research projects?  Tara explains - from the …

Practice-led and creative-led theses and research projects have grown in popularity over the last twenty years.  Often formed from an artefact and exegesis, they are not without controversy or challe…

Along with research methods, the literature review is a constant - if dull - attendant to any programme of research.  Yet literature reviews are not only done poorly, but are often pointless and obli…

Teaching (and learning about) research methods is often the dullest of topics and courses. Yet methods are important, but perhaps not in the way in which they are conventionally taught. Tara talks ab…

The phrase "doing research" does not capture the complex stages and milestones between finding an idea and submitting a thesis or major assignment.  Tara talks through the stages of a research projec…

While the intensity of a research project is often focused on the days before submission, the success of a thesis or dissertation is often determined by the first few days of planning.  Tara shows ho…

Tara introduces the fourth year research course in Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology: Capstone

Tara talks with Steve Redhead and discusses the characteristics of research projects that fail, or are marginally successful. How can students avoid the pitfalls and errors in their research?

Research training is a major area of the contemporary academy. A key - yet underasked question - is the difference between theory and method. Steve Redhead and Tara explore 'the turn to methods' and …

Nicola and Tara talk about the capacity of podcasting for assessment in professional communication programmes.