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Doug Boothey 2 - Social capital, consciousness and social responsibility

Tara Brabazon podcast - May 30, 2024 02:59 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?

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Doug Boothey 1 - Learning from the past

Tara Brabazon podcast - April 23, 2024 06:38 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.

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Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate

Tara Brabazon podcast - January 23, 2024 05:49 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
How is digitization transforming doctoral education?

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Bloom 2 - Mpho Dube, midwifery research with love, dignity and care

Tara Brabazon podcast - October 24, 2023 23:09 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Tara 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.

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Bloom 1 - Megan Bayliss, Lived Experience, and the digital doctorate

Tara Brabazon podcast - October 18, 2023 01:09 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
When 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 fitnes...

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Maive 28 - Headings

Tara Brabazon podcast - September 11, 2023 20:13 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
What 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.

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Maive 27 - CV

Tara Brabazon podcast - September 03, 2023 18:13 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.

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Maive 26 - Interpretations

Tara Brabazon podcast - August 27, 2023 19:57 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.

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Maive 25 - Objects

Tara Brabazon podcast - August 18, 2023 22:48 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.

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Maive 24 - Boundaries

Tara Brabazon podcast - August 12, 2023 00:29 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.

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Maive 23 - Confirming progress

Tara Brabazon podcast - July 11, 2023 21:10 - 15 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
In 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.

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Maive 22 - Soundscapes

Tara Brabazon podcast - July 04, 2023 22:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Sonic memos.  Sonic notetaking.  But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work?  Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.

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Maive 21 - Drift

Tara Brabazon podcast - June 27, 2023 05:20 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, 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.

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Maive 20 - Despair

Tara Brabazon podcast - June 20, 2023 06:13 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
How 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? 

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Maive 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair

Tara Brabazon podcast - May 30, 2023 04:34 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, 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?

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Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional

Tara Brabazon podcast - May 23, 2023 16:43 - 17 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The 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...

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Maive 17 - Solid

Tara Brabazon podcast - May 16, 2023 07:21 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature.  When is enough work - enough?

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Maive 16 - Managing disappointment

Tara Brabazon podcast - May 09, 2023 17:24 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Managing 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.

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Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research

Tara Brabazon podcast - April 25, 2023 01:09 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.

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Maive 14 - All Change

Tara Brabazon podcast - April 17, 2023 23:22 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.

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Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue

Tara Brabazon podcast - April 03, 2023 23:38 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism.  What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?

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Maive 12 - Thinking about harm

Tara Brabazon podcast - March 27, 2023 23:25 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Harm 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.

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Maive 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology

Tara Brabazon podcast - March 13, 2023 22:21 - 22 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive 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 t...

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Maive 9 - Preparing for the confirmation of candidature

Tara Brabazon podcast - February 20, 2023 22:12 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive 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...

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Maive 8 - Clustering the literature

Tara Brabazon podcast - February 13, 2023 22:21 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD

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Maive 7 - Research Headings

Tara Brabazon podcast - February 06, 2023 22:42 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
As 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?

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Maive 6 - Commitment

Tara Brabazon podcast - January 23, 2023 23:55 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
A 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.

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Maive 5 - The Soundscapes of Supervision

Tara Brabazon podcast - January 16, 2023 22:55 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
How 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.

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Maive 4 - Managing feedback

Tara Brabazon podcast - January 09, 2023 23:59 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Maive, 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.

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Maive 3 - The history of a place

Tara Brabazon podcast - December 20, 2022 03:14 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
How 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. 

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