Tara Brabazon podcast

In this Step session Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the gifts and the challenges of regional, rural and remote academic life, with attention to student supervision and research.

Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the decolonizing power and value of working with Indigenous Elders. This partnership transforms research and summons new and powerful configurations of researc…

Plagiarism is a dark force in our intellectual culture.  But it is a proxy for a series of challenges in information literacy.  This Steps professional development session explores these proxies and …

In this professional training session for supervisors at Flinders University, we explore the reasons and rationale for completing milestones during a higher degree candidature.

For this professional development session, Tara introduces the higher doctorate.  What is it?  What is its value.  Most importantly, how do we supervise students to completion in this mode of special…

Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton about the futures of STEM.  The discussion probes multidisciplinary and skill development.  

How are emotions negotiated in the public sphere?  How do emotions rub?  This podcast presents the reading seminar on Sara Ahmed's The Politics of Emotion.

The majority of PhD students do not remain in universities after graduation.  The nature of university employment is precarious, part time and casualized.  Therefore, how can we enable employment opt…

The next episode of our 'Steps' programme for higher degree supervisors explores communication - and mis/communication - between students and their supervisors / advisors.  Why do so many students le…

Strangers. Skin. Postcoloniality. The alignment of these three terms are volatile and productive.  This reading seminar investigates Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters.

Welcome to our first reading group, exploring Sara Ahmed's Differences that Matter.

PhD students require a portfolio of support.  Often forgotten is the 'contact officer.'  But what is a contact officer and how can they create the early, quiet resolutions that are so beneficial to d…

Professional development is important, if earnest.  This Steps session probes the saddest of supervisory experiences:  the posthumous thesis.  We explore the policies and procedures to enable the sub…

Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education.  Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, expl…

A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work.  What is a PhD by prior publication?  How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?

This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity.  This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about…

Are you interested in disseminating research with clarity, precision and purpose?  Are you interested in finding new audiences for complex ideas?  Then it is time we talk about multimodality.

Mobility - and Mobility Studies - is a potent and expansive way to think about power and inequality.  But what is mobility - and why does it matter?

What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?