Tara Brabazon podcast

An incredibly difficult group to study and understand is the community of students just about to enter an examination process.  This session, facilitated by Tara Brabazon and Natalie Hills, opens out…

Sometimes something remarkable is captured from a live seminar.  This session - composed of completed and soon-to-be completed PhD students - explores the final three months before submission.  What …

Tara talks with students in the mid-point of their candidature.  What are there concerns - and how can they be solved?

The lack of communication and shared vision results in profound challenges in doctoral supervision.  Therefore Tara asked PhD students what they believe are the characteristics of a great supervisor.

Tara addresses the specific context of mid-career academics and doctoral supervision.

As part of this Steps programme, Tara talks about how to build PhD supervisions when an early career researcher.

This special event features the leadership team of Emerald Publishing, from Yorkshire in the UK, talking about the future of academic publishing.  The PhD students from Flinders University ask provoc…

Tara talks with commencing, established and completed PhD students.  What are their worries, fears and successes?

Tara talks with Monica Lawrence about indigenous health.  What creates social injustice?  How can we create social change?

Tara's Step training session focuses on a minor part of the supervisory journey:  the supervisory declaration at the point the thesis is about to be released to examiners.  What is necessary as part …

Tara offers a new model for doctoral education.  How do we revision the PhD for our present?

Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton about Physics and the PhD.  Why complete a PhD in physics or nanotechnology?  They discuss the global trends in science PhDs and the specificity and benefits o…

Tara talks with Megan Prideaux, Partner Engagement and Pathways Officer at Flinders University.  They discuss cotutelles, a special, distinctive international doctoral mode.  What is a cotutelle?  Wh…

Tara talks with Ashleigh Merriel, the head of higher degree progressions at Flinders University.  They discuss the difficult - messy - topic of sex, romance, love and doctoral education.  In a changi…

Tara Brabazon talks with Dr Leanne McRae about her new book in Emerald's Deviant Leisure Series.  The book, titled Terror, consumption and leisure spaces for harm in a post-crash era, explores why ac…

Tara talks with students in the crucial mid-point of their candidature.  What challenges are they confronting?  What solutions are available to them?

Tara and Natalie Hills take the Flinders university students through their PhD examination process.  The students - as always - worked us hard and asked key questions in doctoral education.

Tara talks with Barbara Doherty and Valerie Caines from Flinders University.  They have developed a remarkable career-development programme to render our graduates 'work-ready.'  But this is not simp…