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Tara Brabazon podcast

757 episodes - English - Latest episode: 24 days ago - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings

Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.

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Episodes

Narelle Hunter 6 - Amazing

February 13, 2020 06:56 - 11 minutes - 15.2 MB

Students 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 MB

This 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 MB

Narelle, 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 MB

One 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 MB

The 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 MB

Endings 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 MB

What 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 MB

This 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 MB

Tara, 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 MB

Welcome 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 MB

Welcome 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 MB

Tara introduces the Core Higher Degree Supervisory programme at Flinders University

Narelle Hunter 3 - Yes - Multiliteracy

November 28, 2019 01:05 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MB

Narelle, 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 MB

Well, 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

The 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

The 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 MB

This 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Jamie 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

A 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Dr 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

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 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 MB

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 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

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.

Steps - Mid-career researchers and PhD supervision

April 22, 2019 05:08 - 8 minutes - 12.1 MB

Tara 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 MB

As 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 MB

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 provocative questions at the conclusion of the presentation.

Finding your doctoral path

April 04, 2019 09:30 - 1 hour - 87.5 MB

Tara 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

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 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

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 of the Australian doctorate in these disciplines.

Steps Cotutelle

January 14, 2019 06:00 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MB

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?  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 MB

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 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 MB

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 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 MB

Tara 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 MB

Annie 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 MB

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.

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