Tara Brabazon podcast
756 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate
January 23, 2024 05:49 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBHow is digitization transforming doctoral education?
Bloom 2 - Mpho Dube, midwifery research with love, dignity and care
October 24, 2023 23:09 - 15 minutes - 21.6 MBTara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women. Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations. In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.
Bloom 1 - Megan Bayliss, Lived Experience, and the digital doctorate
October 18, 2023 01:09 - 21 minutes - 29.1 MBWhen is the right time to complete a PhD? What topics will sustain your interest? In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness. Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and remote living, working and researching.
Maive 28 - Headings
September 11, 2023 20:13 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBWhat do we do when ideas in a chapter are fragmented? How do we create a streamlined argument? This week, Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the role of headings in the drafting stages of research.
Maive 27 - CV
September 03, 2023 18:13 - 17 minutes - 23.7 MBMaive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.
Maive 26 - Interpretations
August 27, 2023 19:57 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBMaive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.
Maive 25 - Objects
August 18, 2023 22:48 - 20 minutes - 28.5 MBAs we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.
Maive 24 - Boundaries
August 12, 2023 00:29 - 12 minutes - 17.7 MBMaive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.
Maive 23 - Confirming progress
July 11, 2023 21:10 - 15 minutes - 20.9 MBIn the middle of a PhD, it is difficult to confirm that the work is of standard and being produced at the necessary speed. Jamie, Maive and Tara talk about how to confirm progress.
Maive 22 - Soundscapes
July 04, 2023 22:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBSonic memos. Sonic notetaking. But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work? Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.
Maive 21 - Drift
June 27, 2023 05:20 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBMaive, 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, and the gift of weekly meetings.
Maive 20 - Despair
June 20, 2023 06:13 - 16 minutes - 22.9 MBHow 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 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair
May 30, 2023 04:34 - 17 minutes - 24 MBMaive, 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?
Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional
May 23, 2023 16:43 - 17 minutes - 24.6 MBThe 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 Jamie - probe the nature of supervisory relationships. Particularly when the supervisors are married. There are some controversies about married supervisors. We talk about it - from the student's perspective.
Maive 17 - Solid
May 16, 2023 07:21 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBMaive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature. When is enough work - enough?
Maive 16 - Managing disappointment
May 09, 2023 17:24 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBManaging 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 disappointment each day, and throughout a candidature.
Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research
April 25, 2023 01:09 - 18 minutes - 25.1 MBMaive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.
Maive 14 - All Change
April 17, 2023 23:22 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBMaive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.
Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue
April 03, 2023 23:38 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBTara and Maive enter claustropolitanism. What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?
Maive 12 - Thinking about harm
March 27, 2023 23:25 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBHarm 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 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology
March 13, 2023 22:21 - 22 minutes - 30.3 MBMaive 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 explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.
Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded
March 06, 2023 22:38Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.
Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded
March 06, 2023 22:38Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.
Maive 9 - Preparing for the confirmation of candidature
February 20, 2023 22:12 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBMaive 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...
Maive 8 - Clustering the literature
February 13, 2023 22:21 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBTara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD
Maive 7 - Research Headings
February 06, 2023 22:42 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBAs 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 difference?
Maive 6 - Commitment
January 23, 2023 23:55 - 9 minutes - 13.1 MBA 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 writing. And why that commitment matters to the form and content of research.
Maive 5 - The Soundscapes of Supervision
January 16, 2023 22:55 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBHow 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 about summoning 1975 through doctoral research and the power of supervisory soundscapes.
Maive 4 - Managing feedback
January 09, 2023 23:59 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBMaive, 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 of feedback for the artefacts and exegeses in doctoral education.
Maive 3 - The history of a place
December 20, 2022 03:14 - 26 minutes - 36.2 MBHow 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, without nostalgia.
Maive 2 - Reading builds thinking
December 12, 2022 22:51 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MBMaive 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 structured.
Maive 1 - The structure of a creative-led PhD
December 05, 2022 23:22 - 6 minutes - 8.71 MBWelcome to our first podcast, introducing Maive's PhD thesis. What is a creative PhD? How is she structuring her research?
Suitcase Scientist
August 27, 2022 23:27 - 22 minutes - 30.6 MBTara and Jamie talk about 'the suitcase scientist.' They explore the synchrotron and its role, not only in scientific discovery but also urban, regional and national development. How can mobile scientists enable mobile knowledge?
Begin with the end in mind - how to finish a PhD quickly, meaningfully and powerfully
July 27, 2022 21:21 - 35 minutes - 49.2 MBThis is Tara's keynote presentation for the University of the Sunshine Coast. She was asked to talk about the PhD as a marathon - and how to complete it.
The auditory academic - transforming the soundscape of scholarship
July 27, 2022 20:43 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBWe are approaching the first anniversary of Schafer's death. The father of the 'soundscape', I take this moment and concept and probe the nature of higher education, and its soundcape. In a visual age, how can an auditory academic transform our universities?
10 Platinum Rules for PhD Supervision
July 25, 2022 23:59 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBToo often - we value 'golden rules': treat other people as you would like to be treated. But what about 'platinum rules'? Treat others as they want to be treated. This podcast is derived from a piece for the Times Higher Education on assisting new supervisors to supervise a PhD with rigour, care, expertise and compassion.
Comfort is a cage. Happiness is the lure.
July 25, 2022 22:59 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBTara was asked by the Times Higher Education to talk about happiness and higher education.
Pick your rabbit
June 02, 2022 23:52 - 7 minutes - 9.62 MBHow do you make a decision to write? What does success in writing look like? This session explores how to create the behaviour to write.
Claustropolitanism at the end of the world: A rethinking of globalization
May 24, 2022 00:26 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBFor this keynote presentation, Tara explores and develops the concept of claustropolitanism and its role in understanding a post-pandemic intern/nationalism. At the end of the world, what is the fate of globalisation?
The book launch for 12 rules for (academic) life
April 28, 2022 01:19 - 1 hour - 89 MBJoin us for a special session exploring Tara's 12 rules for (academic) life
The book launch of Comma: how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD
April 28, 2022 00:02 - 1 hour - 109 MBJoin us for the special launch of Comma: how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD.
Why 'do' professional development?
March 13, 2022 22:20 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBTara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton at the cusp of commencing his new post as a Head of School. They discuss the nature of professional development - why it is as unpopular as teeth extraction - and how it can enable career progression.
Creative Research? Creating new knowledge in difficult times
December 11, 2021 00:25 - 30 minutes - 41.9 MBWhat is creative research? Tara probes the strengths and challenge of this mode of research and its importance in a post-pandemic university. This presentation was a keynote address for the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia in December 2021.
From disruption to dark academia: the post-pandemic knowledge economy
November 28, 2021 02:16 - 18 minutes - 25.5 MBTara presents her keynote for Hong Kong Metropolitan University. This keynote was delivered on November 26, 2021.
A new hope
November 28, 2021 01:40 - 4 minutes - 5.56 MBTara welcomes the next stage of the podcast series and thanks all her friends and colleagues for supporting these podcasts - since 2008.
Palliative nurses in the community at the end of life - a conversation with Lyn Rabbetts
September 14, 2021 06:58 - 9 minutes - 12.9 MBTara talks with Lyn about the value of palliative nurses in the family home, enabling the end of life with authenticity, meaning and care.
Cardiac health for country people - a conversation with Katie Nesbitt
September 14, 2021 05:24 - 9 minutes - 12.7 MBTara talks with Katie about how to enable cardiac health for country people. How do we ensure a parity of health care for regional, rural and remote people?
Steps Selecting Examiners
August 19, 2021 02:18 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBThe most important task for a supervisor of higher degree students is to select examiners. This short training session offers commentary and advice to supervisors, to move from compliance to excellence.
Steps - Writing a supervisory letter after receiving divergent results
August 19, 2021 02:11 - 11 minutes - 16 MBMostly, higher degree examination is a smooth process. Sometimes, examination results are unexpected. Disturbing. Divergent. This training session explores how to explain these divergent results to governance committees that must determine the final result.
Core Training for Full Academic Status (FAS) supervisors
August 03, 2021 04:28 - 26 minutes - 36.7 MBTara offers a core training sesion for Full Academic Status supervisors at Flinders University.