Tara Brabazon podcast
757 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsTara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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Narelle Hunter 6 - Amazing
February 13, 2020 06:56 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MBStudents often surprise their supervisors. Narelle talks about how she has managed to complete so much of her thesis so quickly. Amazing.
Why do PhD students change supervisors?
February 03, 2020 02:09 - 18 minutes - 25.4 MBThis podcast is the sonic component of a flipped training session for PhD supervisors at Flinders University. We focus on one key question: why do students decide to change their supervisor? We present the reason on the reasons for this change, and how these situations can be managed.
Narelle Hunter 5 - Triumphant
January 29, 2020 03:01 - 10 minutes - 14.8 MBNarelle, Jamie and Tara provide the post-confirmation of candidature update. We talk about 'what now' and 'what's next' to ensure a rapid completion of Narelle's thesis.
Steps - Managing student perfectionism
January 29, 2020 02:47 - 12 minutes - 17.6 MBOne of the great challenges confronted by supervisors attempting to complete a PhD thesis is managing student perfectionism. This Step offers some strategies.
Steps - How to establish and maintain professional relationships between academic staff and PhD students
January 29, 2020 02:26 - 15 minutes - 21.8 MBThe characteristic of a successful PhD candidature is a strong relationship between academic staff and the PhD student. But what is a 'strong relationship'? This vlog explores the nature of a 'professional relationship' and its value in framing the student and academic experience of supervision.
Steps - How do you know your student has finished their PhD?
January 28, 2020 04:19 - 14 minutes - 19.7 MBEndings are important. So is quality assurance and standards. How does a supervisor know when a PhD is 'over' and the thesis will successfully pass through examination.
Steps - Disciplinary Literacy
January 28, 2020 04:17 - 11 minutes - 15.7 MBWhat is disciplinary literacy? How can this innovative term be used within doctoral supervision to enhance reading and research, and writing and dissemination?
Steps - Rescue Supervision
January 28, 2020 04:13 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBThis professional development session for PhD supervisors enters the vexed terrain of 'rescue supervision.' What is rescue supervision? What strategies are available for success?
Narelle Hunter 4 - The CoC questions
January 08, 2020 03:04 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBTara, Jamie and Narelle prepare Narelle for her CoC event. We ask questions in real time. Narelle handles the answers - as we expect - with flair and precision.
Core 2 - Flinders Supervisory Training
January 08, 2020 02:12 - 25 minutes - 34.5 MBWelcome to Core 2 - the second supervisory training session for Flinders University.
Core 1 - Flinders Supervisory Training
January 08, 2020 02:07 - 42 minutes - 58.6 MBWelcome to this first core training session for higher degree supervisors at Flinders University.
Core Supervisory Training - an introduction
January 07, 2020 21:39 - 4 minutes - 6.56 MBTara introduces the Core Higher Degree Supervisory programme at Flinders University
Narelle Hunter 3 - Yes - Multiliteracy
November 28, 2019 01:05 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBNarelle, Jamie and Tara talk about multiliteracy and its relationship to disciplinary literacy. How can diversity be enabled - in curricula design and beyond - through multiliteracy?
Narelle Hunter 2 - Literacy. We're going mad with literacy
November 20, 2019 17:05 - 12 minutes - 16.6 MBWell, the project has progressed. Narelle, Jamie and Tara start to sharpen the field and literature of literacy feeding into her disciplinary literacy research. And yes - a breakthrough.
What is the relationship between undergraduate teaching and learning and PhD supervision?
November 16, 2019 23:42 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MBTara Brabazon and Jamie Quinton unpick a flippant comment made by a senior Australian academic. She dismissed the relationship between undergraduate teaching and learning and PhD supervision. But is there a relationship? Should there be a relationship? How is this relationship rendered meaningful?
Narelle Hunter 1 - Time to change the world (and science)
October 30, 2019 04:25 - 6 minutes - 8.6 MBThe right woman. The right time. The right project. Every now and again, a remarkable researcher transforms a field. Listen to Narelle Hunter explore how disciplinary literacy can transform the teaching, learning and researching of science.
How the hell do you finish? A PhD story
October 23, 2019 05:56 - 50 minutes - 56.3 MBTara talks with completed PhD students and scholars just at the cusp of submission. How do you finish? How does the PhD end? A powerful moment in understanding the endings.
How are PhDs examined?
October 23, 2019 05:01 - 1 hour - 151 MBThe PhD examination is a dark art. But how are they examined? What does examination mean in the PhD space? This podcast between Natalie Hills and Tara Brabazon - and the remarkable students at Flinders University - enters this complex and mysterious doctoral space.
What went wrong in my PhD and how did I make it right?
October 02, 2019 06:37 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBThis podcast matters. So much goes wrong in the PhD candidature. Let's tell those stories. And let's explore how to improve the life and research of these students.
What students ask of a supervisor
September 24, 2019 19:16 - 12 minutes - 16.8 MBTara conducts an end-of-seminar discussion with PhD students about their aspirations and hopes for a PhD supervisor. Evocative. Provocative. Convincing.
Transitions, prerequisites and literacies
September 15, 2019 01:56 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBJamie and Tara talk about that key moment in education: the transition from high school to university. That first year of university is difficult. Attrition rates are high. What can be done to support, scaffold and enable first year university students? Jamie explores the specific challenges confronting science students, while Tara probes the impact on teachers and teacher education.
Pencasting
August 25, 2019 03:40 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBTara and Jamie Quinton talk about pencasting, and the Livescribe. Many of us tried the smartpen a decade ago - but a new version has just been released. But why use a smartpen? Why did it fail a decade ago? Why could it succeed now? And what is a pencast? Is this a moment in the history of sonic media?
Authorship, supervision and the transformations to research culture
August 19, 2019 06:00 - 28 minutes - 39.7 MBTara presents this flipped Professional Development training session for supervisors on 'authorship.' One of the most volatile, nasty and complex parts of higher education, this session explores the new code of conduct and strategies to manage co-authorship.
Understanding injustice in group homes
August 18, 2019 18:36 - 11 minutes - 16 MBTara talks with Tania Hall about the men and women with intellectual disabilities and their experience of group homes. Tania's thesis has taken an unusual method, exploring the testimony of these men and women on YouTube. Her thesis listens to the people on their own terms. The results are startling.
Digitizing the regional doctorate
August 18, 2019 18:21 - 19 minutes - 26.1 MBTara talks with Sue Charlton. Sue's soon-to-be completed PhD explores regional health injustices, and how these injustices manifest in pediatric physiotherapy. But in this podcast, Sue talks about education, teaching and learning from a regional Australian location. How can we enable regional doctoral education through digital platforms, interfaces and initiatives?
Rural, regional and remote education
August 15, 2019 06:59 - 21 minutes - 29.9 MBTara talks with Kathryn Hardwick-Franco about rural, regional and remote education. Why does regionality offer to our universities? What values do our doctoral students express when re-evaluating injustice and inequality?
The confirmation of candidature - a professional development session for supervisors
August 05, 2019 07:27 - 19 minutes - 26.7 MBTara presents this flipped professional development session on the confirmation of candidature. What is it? How can this milestone enable a successful completion? With attention to backward mapping, this 'start' of a candidature can enable a completion.
Sex and our universities
July 21, 2019 02:19 - 44 minutes - 61 MBA provocative title for a disturbing, confronting and difficult topic. After the publication and dissemination of the Respect, Now, Always Report by Universities Australia, and also the emergence of the #metoo movement, how are relationships between students and staff managed in our universities? How are borders around behaviours, roles and emotions created? How can compassionate and kind supervision emerge, while being aware of the parameters of transgression? Tara and Jamie discuss thi...
Difficult situations - conversations - people: A flipped supervisory training session
July 17, 2019 05:08 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBTara presents a flipped professional development session for PhD supervisors. And it is difficult. Difficult people. Difficult situations. Difficult conversations. What creates these moments and events of difficulty? Working through some framing issues in doctoral education, Tara explores how to avoid the festering rage of difficult conversations, to create an even, caring, compassionate - and honest - supervisory relationship.
Selecting PhD examiners - a flipped supervisory training session
June 30, 2019 02:01 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBTara presents this professional development session for PhD supervisors. How do you select an examiner? What characteristics are important to you? What about form and content? How do we continue to internationalize the doctorate, in terms of standards and quality assurance?
Dark Tourism and Public Grieving
June 12, 2019 07:17 - 39 minutes - 53.6 MBDr Leanne McRae presents a controversial, complex seminar exploring death, public and private grief and memorialization. What does death and grief mean? What happens as grief moves from a private to a public space?
Food, tourism, translocalism and Kangaroo Island
May 28, 2019 19:14 - 41 minutes - 56.6 MBTara offers a first pass of her research exploring translocalism, food tourism, regional development and Kangaroo Island.
Students discuss the examination of their PhDs: tips, tricks and challenges
May 28, 2019 18:57 - 2 hours - 169 MBAn 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 to the voices, views, questions and commentary of PhD students. What are their concerns with the PhD examination process? How do we reduce the risks confronting this stressful time?
The finishing - the final three months before submitting a PhD
May 28, 2019 17:55 - 49 minutes - 67.6 MBSometimes 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 happens with family and friends, health and sleep, motivation and commitment? In this incredibly honest conversation, Tara talks with Jen, Ros, Tiffany and Ruby to understand the experience of a student in the final stages of a doctorate.
The challenges within the mid-candidature moment
May 08, 2019 08:19 - 17 minutes - 24.1 MBTara talks with students in the mid-point of their candidature. What are there concerns - and how can they be solved?
What makes a great supervisor? The student perspective
April 25, 2019 00:25 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBThe 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.
Steps - Mid-career researchers and PhD supervision
April 22, 2019 05:08 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MBTara addresses the specific context of mid-career academics and doctoral supervision.
STEPS - Early Career Researchers and the PhD
April 22, 2019 03:18 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBAs part of this Steps programme, Tara talks about how to build PhD supervisions when an early career researcher.
Punk Publishing - Emerald and the future of academic publishing
April 17, 2019 18:39 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBThis 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 provocative questions at the conclusion of the presentation.
Finding your doctoral path
April 04, 2019 09:30 - 1 hour - 87.5 MBTara talks with commencing, established and completed PhD students. What are their worries, fears and successes?
Remote health - indigenous knowledge
March 15, 2019 07:33 - 25 minutes - 34.6 MBTara talks with Monica Lawrence about indigenous health. What creates social injustice? How can we create social change?
Steps - Supervisory Declaration
March 14, 2019 05:17 - 16 minutes - 22.7 MBTara'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 of 'compliance' in the declaration, and what enables a transparent, reflexive and accountable examination process?
4D - The revisioning of the doctor of philosophy
February 20, 2019 09:25 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBTara offers a new model for doctoral education. How do we revision the PhD for our present?
Science is a global endeavour - the Physics PhD
January 28, 2019 00:03 - 18 minutes - 25.9 MBTara 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 of the Australian doctorate in these disciplines.
Steps Cotutelle
January 14, 2019 06:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBTara 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? What are its benefits and challenges?
Steps - Respect Now Always: Negotiating romantic and sexual relationships between supervisors and students
January 14, 2019 05:50 - 27 minutes - 38 MBTara 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 changing environment for students and supervisors, how are boundaries created and cultural safety enabled for candidates?
Terror, consumption and leisure spaces for harm in a post-crash era
December 20, 2018 06:04 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBTara 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 acts of terror emerge in shopping centres, concerts and on the streets. They discuss the transformations to work and the ineffectual 'medication' of wellbeing.
Mid-candidature: strengths, challenges and opportunities
December 03, 2018 06:44 - 29 minutes - 40.6 MBTara talks with students in the crucial mid-point of their candidature. What challenges are they confronting? What solutions are available to them?
Annie and Tara talk Dayflower and Digitization
October 22, 2018 05:19 - 10 minutes - 14.7 MBAnnie Nguyen and Tara talk about the innovations of art-lead research. Annie is investigating the history of a pigment - blue - and one of her case studies is Dayflower. Listen to this and be amazing.
Preparing you for your PhD examination
October 13, 2018 10:51 - 1 hour - 144 MBTara 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.