Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 760
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Complaints in the PhD Space: a flipped professional development session for supervisors
Complaints are always challenging to manage as a supervisor, higher degree coordinator or research administrator.
What are the most commonly reported complaints to Ombudsman in Australia - right now?…
At the end of a PhD, what would I say to students just starting?
In this special session Tara talks with Nat, Tiff, Ben and Andrew. Nat and Andrew have completed their PhDs. Tiff and Ben are under examination. But what would these remarkable students - ex-stude…
Dayflower: the extraordinary research into a pigment
Tara talks with Annie Nguyen about her remarkable research. Blue is a strange colour. Common in the digital world and rare in the analogue age, blue punctuates cliches and expressions. Yet blue is…
So what is industry engagement?
Tara talks with Megan Prideaux, the Office of Graduate Research's magnificent industry, engagement and pathways officer.
They explore the nature of 'industry engagement'. What is it? Why does it ma…
Paediatric physiotherapy and regional health
Tara talks with Sue Charlton. Sue's career created momentum for a remarkable PhD, questioning the configuration of regional health. In this podcast, Sue explores paediatric physiotherapy and the de…
Feminism, the Global Financial Crisis and Claustropolitanism
Tara talks with Ros Wong about money. And women. And financial planning. But Ros and Tara also probe the impact of the Global Financial Crisis on women. They summon a theory to understand women's…
Steps Deficit Doctorate for Supervisors
Tara introduces the deficit model of teaching and learning, alongside its impact on doctoral supervision.
Steps What can PhD students and supervisors 'do' during the examination period for a doctorate?
Once the thesis is submitted, students fret, sweat and stress. Many supervisors do the same. But how can the 2-3 months of examination be used productively and well?
Steps 10 drafts to submission
In this professional development session for supervisors, Tara explores the challenging few weeks before the submission to examiners. How do we stop those weeks becoming months, while controlling th…
STEPS - the PhD setup document
To enable a student to finish a PhD - and certainly finish in the minimum time - requires a sharp, precise and considered beginning to the programme. As part of her STEPS Professional Development Pr…
PhD Milestones: asking the right questions (HDR Supervisor Flipped Seminar)
PhD milestones can be tough for the student. They should be rigorous, precise and clarifying. They should not be brutalizing, cruel and confusing.
This flipped training session for PhD supervisors…
Steps - PhD by Prior Publication Supervisory Training
Tara introduces the PhD by prior publication. What are the specific skills required to supervise this mode of doctorate?
Steps - Artefact and Exegesis PhD
This steps training session prepares supervisors for the artefact and exegesis PhD. What are the challenges in this mode of doctorate and how can they be examined with success and consistency?
Post PhD strategies for career development - a flipped supervisory training session
Tara talks through post-candidature care strategies - and employment strategies - for PhD students.
The external PhD - a flipped staff training session
Tara presents a flipped training sonic session on the 'external PhD.' How do we supervise students that are disconnected from the physical campus? In these new times, it is time for new doctoral s…
Staff Development Step Programme - The Part Time PhD
Tara talks with supervisors about the part-time PhD and strategies to ensure that students remain connected throughout the candidature.
STEPs SOCK (Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge)
Tara introduces a key new movement in doctoral education: SOCK. We explore the Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge.
An introduction to the Steps Programme
Tara introduces a new mode of supervisory training for Flinders University. Time for Steps.
Anne McLeod 52 - The emotional journey of a PhD student
Anne and Tara talk about the intricate and complex emotions at play in the final few months of a PhD candidature.
Mark Brown 18 - Wearables
Tara talks with Mark about wearables. How can wearable tech manage or solve his interface challenges between the body and the beat?