Tara Brabazon podcast: Recent Episodes
Tara Brabazon
Making changes in our lives. It is difficult. But how do we decide when to make those changes? And what evidence is useful to these transformations?
Tara and Priscilla talk about the challenges and difficulties when we compare ourselves with others.
Tara talks with Kelly about 'transitional commoning,' from her article titled, 'Can the commons be temporary?' This discussion reveals how - even through disasters - life and transformations can emerge. This research article is available here - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480
Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching. And learning. In supposedly digital times.
Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.
In this first conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski, we explore her book chapter written with Dr Oona Morrow, exploring postcapitalist politics in and through life work.
(The chapter is available here via Google Books: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0MVgEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA82&dq=Postcapitalist+politics+through+the+sites+and+practices+of+life+work&ots=PiwxHSpCht&sig=23Uz_5QXzIUD7JxYKs6CaNe7k4I&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Postcapitalist%20politics%20through%20the%20sites%20and%20practices%20of%20life%20work&f=false)
So often teaching and learning are minimized or reduced, in favour of the major research project, or big grant. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the power of teaching and learning, to enliven our universities.
Impact and engagement. These words pump through our universities. But what do them mean?
Tara and Priscilla talk about momentum, and how to build a research career, against the odds.
Tara and Priscilla discuss how to build authentic and meaning community links, beyond the superficial metrics and the platitudes.
The news reports discussing universities around the world are negative. Horrific. Concerning. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about how to - against the odds - build a positive academic culture, to enable growth, development and opportunities.
Tara and Priscilla talk about the power and importance of role clarity and boundary management in our professional lives.
Governance is often unpopular. But what is its value in universities? Does it transform what matters?
This is a recorded presentation of Tara's From SoTL to SoS and Beyond for the College Development Network in Scotland.
So much of academic life is separated. Atomized. This week, Priscilla and I talk about how we maintain the connection between teaching and research.
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore the specificity and power of a PhD in social work.
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore why there is both value and meaning in considering the enrolment into a PhD - now.
There is so much focus on supervisors and the candidature of a PhD. This focus reduces the understanding of the submission process and examination. Episode ten focuses on the crucial moment of a PhD. How, when and why it is examined.
For episode nine, Jamie and Tara focus on the writing and editing of a thesis. And the importance and value of quality writing to enable quality dissemination.
PhD projects - like research more generally - are filled with failure. Jamie and Tara talk about the importance of this failure and how it is a powerful moment in learning, development, transparency and accountability.
Whenever complaints are listed about doctoral programmes, a lack of feedback is the most common response from students. But what is feedback - and how can it operate with transparency, compassion, and usefulness? Also - why do students ignore feedback?
In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.
Professional development is often as popular as teeth extraction. But Jamie and Tara talk aboout why it matters, and why it is meaningful for a productive research education programme.
Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.
Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.
In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.
There is much talk about aspirations, inspirations and motivations. But how do we cut away the clutter to build a meaningful and actionable goal? This podcast with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the power and value of specifying a goal that matters.
This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.
Tara and Priscilla talk about care. In our tough times, caring seems the least of our concerns. But following on from the remarkable Professor Waghid, a caring infrastructure is transformative for our organizations.
Burnout is one of those words. It masks as much as it reveals. Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.
Ethics clearances in research are time consuming. They can be frustrating. But why do research projects have ethical requirements? Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.
Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.
Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.
Tara talks with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West on a fascinating and unusual topic. OK. You have a scucessful book. How do you prepare a second edition? And then a third? What changes? What remains? What transforms?
Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.
In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc. What is it? What does it look like?
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?
Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.
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.
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 fitness. Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and remote living, working and researching.
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.
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.
As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.
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.
Sonic memos. Sonic notetaking. But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work? Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.
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.
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?
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?
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. There are some controversies about married supervisors. We talk about it - from the student's perspective.
Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature. When is enough work - enough?
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.
Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.
Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.
Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism. What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?
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.
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 to Maive's PhD.
Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.
Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.
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...
Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maive 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.
Welcome to our first podcast, introducing Maive's PhD thesis. What is a creative PhD? How is she structuring her research?
Tara 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?
This 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.
We 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?
Too 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.
Tara was asked by the Times Higher Education to talk about happiness and higher education.
How do you make a decision to write? What does success in writing look like? This session explores how to create the behaviour to write.
For 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?
Tara 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.
What 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.
Tara presents her keynote for Hong Kong Metropolitan University. This keynote was delivered on November 26, 2021.
Tara welcomes the next stage of the podcast series and thanks all her friends and colleagues for supporting these podcasts - since 2008.
Tara talks with Lyn about the value of palliative nurses in the family home, enabling the end of life with authenticity, meaning and care.
Tara 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?
The 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.
Mostly, 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.
Tara offers a core training sesion for Full Academic Status supervisors at Flinders University.
In this Step session Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the gifts and the challenges of regional, rural and remote academic life, with attention to student supervision and research.
Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the decolonizing power and value of working with Indigenous Elders. This partnership transforms research and summons new and powerful configurations of research sovereignty for doctoral education.
Plagiarism is a dark force in our intellectual culture. But it is a proxy for a series of challenges in information literacy. This Steps professional development session explores these proxies and how to intervene in the research culture of higher degree students.
In this professional training session for supervisors at Flinders University, we explore the reasons and rationale for completing milestones during a higher degree candidature.
For this professional development session, Tara introduces the higher doctorate. What is it? What is its value. Most importantly, how do we supervise students to completion in this mode of specialist doctorate?
Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton about the futures of STEM. The discussion probes multidisciplinary and skill development.
How are emotions negotiated in the public sphere? How do emotions rub? This podcast presents the reading seminar on Sara Ahmed's The Politics of Emotion.
The majority of PhD students do not remain in universities after graduation. The nature of university employment is precarious, part time and casualized. Therefore, how can we enable employment options for our PhD students beyond higher education? This step session - providing professional development for supervisors - provides some strategies to enable this pathway.
Professional development is about as popular as teeth extraction. What is ironic is that in universities - the home of learning - learning through professional development is deeply unpopular.
This step session explores why times have indeed changed, and why professional development is crucial to the future of our higher degree students.
The next episode of our 'Steps' programme for higher degree supervisors explores communication - and mis/communication - between students and their supervisors / advisors. Why do so many students leave a doctoral programme? Why do so many students change supervisors? Part of the answer may be found in the mode of communication deployed by both parties. This session aims to improve and shape the space between students and their supervisors.
Strangers. Skin. Postcoloniality. The alignment of these three terms are volatile and productive. This reading seminar investigates Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters.
PhD students require a portfolio of support. Often forgotten is the 'contact officer.' But what is a contact officer and how can they create the early, quiet resolutions that are so beneficial to doctoral education?
Professional development is important, if earnest. This Steps session probes the saddest of supervisory experiences: the posthumous thesis. We explore the policies and procedures to enable the submission, but also the key emotional challenges for the student's family and the supervisors. We also place attention on examiners and examination.
Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education. Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, explores the importance of sponsorship and sponsored students and how the relationship is fostered and developed.
A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. What is a PhD by prior publication? How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?
This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity. This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about professional development, work and supervision in tough times for students and the world.
Are you interested in disseminating research with clarity, precision and purpose? Are you interested in finding new audiences for complex ideas? Then it is time we talk about multimodality.
Mobility - and Mobility Studies - is a potent and expansive way to think about power and inequality. But what is mobility - and why does it matter?
What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?
This next episode of Smash Cut - the accelerated professional development programme for higher degree students - explores Oral History. While other research methods focus on representativeness and repeatability, Oral History interviews have a different function.
Tara presents her flipped keynote for the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.
Life can be difficult, particularly now. Configuring the next steps in our lives can be challenging. It is time for some inspiration. Tara talks with Maive Jackson Collett and her journey in the last year into a PhD.
The artefact and exegesis thesis is moving far beyond the creative arts. But what is this mode of thesis? What are its challenges and strengths? How are they supervised and - most importantly - how are they examined?
Narelle, Jamie and Tara have a special announcement. Narelle has submitted. Let's talk about it. And - how did she do it?
In this Steps session, Tara explores the role and place of an Office of Graduate Research. What is its function for students and supervisors? How are these roles changing in contemporary Australia?
In this special HDR training session for colleagues in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, we explore authorship and publishing opportunities, enhancing supervisory relationships - between students and supervisors - and finish with discussions of employabiity.
Tara talks with Ashleigh Merriel, the head of Progressions in the Office of Graduate Research, about Intellectual Property. What is Intellectual Property? Why does it matter to PhD students and their supervisors?
Narelle, Jamie and Tara are close to Narelle's completion. Narelle talks about these final complex stages to completion - while attempting to complete a semester...
Narelle, Jamie and Tara are now in full drafting mode. As the drafts progress, so does the speed to completion.
Tara talks with Aidan Cornelius-Bell. In a powerful discussion about student partnerships, politics and activism, Tara and Aidan explore the role of universities in social and political change.
This specific higher degree supervisory training session has been developed for experienced supervisors wanting a 're-fresh' in their practice. It offers the continuum of development - from compliance to excellence. There is specific attention to the challenging moments in supervising, particularly with regard to authorship of academic papers, ethics, and skills development.
Here we go with Narelle's first draft! What happened with this difficult - challenging - first draft. How did Narelle handle it?
The middle of a PhD candidature is the difficult time. Supervisory changes. Change of methodology. Disappointments with data collection. Add Covid to this story - a students may walk away from the programme. Join our online mid candidature intensive to create momentum, change and some motivation.
For this third reading group, as part of the Virtual not Viral project, our community reads the edited collection from Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan and Laura Suarsana: Geographies of the University.
This second reading group podcast, as part of the Virtual not Viral intervention in doctoral education during the period of the corona virus, explore John McGowan's Democracy's Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics. Please note: expletives used during this discussion.
Through the corona virus, the Office of Graduate Research at Flinders University ran a weekly reading group, exploring the nature of the higher education sector and workforce. The first book was edited by Nancy Gleason: Higher Education in the Era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
How can great students find you - and you find them? Interface management is integral to the creation of a strong supervisory profile. This flipped supervisory training session explores some concrete strategies - today - to build your PhD supervisory interface to attract students to your research.
Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about Narelle's first draft. Particularly, they discuss the final drafting stages of a PhD during social distancing and working from home. What lessons can be learned from these unique challenges?
What a time to be doing a PhD. At home. Work. Children. Thesis. How is Narelle managing a thesis in the shadow of a virus? All change.
Well, we talk about deterritorialization... This supervisory session - run in the shadow of the Corona virus - confirms connection, community and continual progress.
Narelle, Jamie and Tara are working to finish this remarkable thesis - quickly. But what is left for Narelle to finish - and how are we going to finish it?
Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about the first week of semester. How does a super-full time person balance life, work, family and the PhD?
Striding through a post-disciplinary wasteland, Narelle, Jamie and Tara get stuck into 'theory.' Yes we go there. We explore scientific theory, humanities theory and see if there is a way that Narelle will not get squashed by the differences in definition.
Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about how teaching - and teachers - can transform. The goal is to move beyond the ambiguous concepts of 'agility,' 'flexibility' and 'creativity.'
Social media proliferates through personal and professional lives. But how can social media be used to engage PhD students and research collaborations?
Students often surprise their supervisors. Narelle talks about how she has managed to complete so much of her thesis so quickly. Amazing.
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, 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.
One of the great challenges confronted by supervisors attempting to complete a PhD thesis is managing student perfectionism. This Step offers some strategies.
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.
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.
What is disciplinary literacy? How can this innovative term be used within doctoral supervision to enhance reading and research, and writing and dissemination?
This professional development session for PhD supervisors enters the vexed terrain of 'rescue supervision.' What is rescue supervision? What strategies are available for success?
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.
Welcome to this first core training session for higher degree supervisors at Flinders University.
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?
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tara conducts an end-of-seminar discussion with PhD students about their aspirations and hopes for a PhD supervisor. Evocative. Provocative. Convincing.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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 this complex and important issue.
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.
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?
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?
Tara offers a first pass of her research exploring translocalism, food tourism, regional development and Kangaroo Island.
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?
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.
Tara talks with students in the mid-point of their candidature. What are there concerns - and how can they be solved?
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.
As part of this Steps programme, Tara talks about how to build PhD supervisions when an early career researcher.
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.
Tara talks with commencing, established and completed PhD students. What are their worries, fears and successes?
Tara talks with Monica Lawrence about indigenous health. What creates social injustice? How can we create social change?
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?
Tara offers a new model for doctoral education. How do we revision the PhD for our present?
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.
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?
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?
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.
Tara talks with students in the crucial mid-point of their candidature. What challenges are they confronting? What solutions are available to them?
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.
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.
Tara talks with Barbara Doherty and Valerie Caines from Flinders University. They have developed a remarkable career-development programme to render our graduates 'work-ready.' But this is not simply professional development. Barb and Val are creating edgy, authentic, powerful and engaging opportunities for students to understand themsevles and understanding their future.
Tara presents this short Steps Professional Development session on 'At Risk' students and candidatures.
What are the characteristics of 'at risk' students and how are these characteristics managed to enable student success?
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? The answers may surprise you.
This podcast explores the complaints from students about supervisors, and also supervisors to students.
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-students - recommend to PhD students just starting their journey?:
This is big. Be inspired.
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 rare. And the rarest of blues is Dayflower. Annie discusses this odd pigment and how it can offer a fascinating test case in moving art between analogue and digital realms.
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 matter to PhD students?
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 deep and profound social injustices in regional locations.
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 behaviour: claustropolitanism.
Tara introduces the deficit model of teaching and learning, alongside its impact on doctoral supervision.
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?
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 the emotion and stress of students and supervisors?
Tara presents one solution: 10 drafts to submission.
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 Programme for PhD supervisors, Tara introduces the 'Setup document,' the foundation for her first meeting and, indeed, the first year of a candidature.
The link to the setup document is here: https://www.academia.edu/35713046/Tara_Brabazon_PhD_setup_document.pdf
and here: https://www.scribd.com/document/370035847/Tara-Brabazon-PhD-Setup-Document
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 probes the type of questions that can be asked of students and the scenarios to avoid.
What is a productive suite of questions for students and their development?
Tara introduces the PhD by prior publication. What are the specific skills required to supervise this mode of doctorate?
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?
Tara talks through post-candidature care strategies - and employment strategies - for PhD students.
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 supervision.
Tara talks with supervisors about the part-time PhD and strategies to ensure that students remain connected throughout the candidature.
Tara introduces a key new movement in doctoral education: SOCK. We explore the Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge.
Tara introduces a new mode of supervisory training for Flinders University. Time for Steps.
Anne and Tara talk about the intricate and complex emotions at play in the final few months of a PhD candidature.
Tara talks with Mark about wearables. How can wearable tech manage or solve his interface challenges between the body and the beat?
Tara talks with Andrew Paterson about his remarkable PhD. Andrew interviewed 50 members of the police to listen to their experiences of stress, trauma, violence and police work.
His results are remarkable. Post traumatic stress is not inevitable. Instead, powerful - and cheap - institutional strategies can transform police and policing and first responder cultures more generally.
Tara has the pleasure of conducting a question and answer session with our PhD students on the cusp of submitting their PhD. What strategies do they have to offer? What are their fears and concerns?
Tara talks with Chris Bailey about his thesis exploring food literacy and nutrition literacy among adolescents. He is aiming to create a measurement tool for food literacy.
What is health and unhealthy food? How does that information become a literacy for young people?
Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is exploring women in rural and regional areas and how they manage money through their lives and into retirement. Ros has discovered that the women in her research have a 'secret stash.' This podcast explores the rationale for the secret stash and probes what we learn about women, men, money and work.
Tara introduces and welcomes new students to the PhD space. Importantly, this podcast offers peer learning. Current students work with the new candidates to enable their candidature.
Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research. He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.
A major moment to share with podcast listeners. Anne is within one week of submitting her thesis. She shares with listeners the final strategies she deployed to finish a PhD via a part-time candidature.
Tara introduces the concept of multimodality. What does it mean? Why is it important? How can it enable research dissemination?
Tara's great friend Jac asked her to offer a perspective on mentoring. This commentary is a bit stroppy and direct, but may poke and provoke your thinking about mentoring. When you ask for a 'mentor' what are you actually asking for?
Tara and Steve talk about an undercooked and underdiscussed 'challenge,' 'problem' and 'issue' in doctoral education. What happens when the supervisor that starts with a student cannot finish them? Tara talks about the rescue doctorate. How do new supervisors finish a PhD student? What should PhD students look for? Welcome to the rescue doctorate!
Steve and Tara are supervising a terrific student researching an Australian police force. We have been discussing the methods available, including ethnography. What are the strengths and challenges of ethnography? How / can ethnography be used to study empowered members of our community?
Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story. We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this incredibly sad situation.
Our love and respects to the memory of Dr Mick Winter.
Tara talks with Ellen Fraser-Barbour, a PhD student at Flinders University, about her research. She is exploring the resilience and autonomy of men and women with intellectual disabilities, and the violence they confront in their daily life.
Sunny Rue Chivaura, a recent graduate from Flinders University, discusses the age of Trump, inflected by race and racism. When race-based attacks become normal, what happens to the daily lives of citizens of colour?
Tara is joined by some of the most talented and innovative PhD students at Flinders to talk about Guy Standing's The Corruption of Capitalism.
Tara and Steve talk about the Kiwi PhD oral examination. What is the role of a PhD oral exam, and how can it internationalize standards and quality in doctoral qualifications?
Tara talks with the remarkable Annie Nguyen, a PhD student at Flinders University. Annie is using arts-based research to probe the resonances between analogue and digital. Using Shinkyuu Art as a model, trope and theory, she is creating a new way of thinking about art and research.
Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is investigating how prepared women are - financially - for retirement. She also probes the impact of urbanity, regionalism and rurality on the preparedness of women. This is a podcast about women, work and - yes - inequality.
Steve and Tara offer suggestions to prospective students about how to contact a supervisor. What helps you gain a supervisor's attention, focus and support?
Tara talks with Karen Jacobs, from the Office of Graduate Research, about milestones. What is a milestone and why does it possess value for PhD students?
Tara talks with her friend and colleague Sam Schulz. Sam is a sociologist of education, with a specialist interest in critical race and white studies. Tara talks with Sam about creating spaces for alternative voices and views that can make change both inside and outside the university.
Tara talks with her namesake, Tara Shem about speech impairments in the early years. They discuss the strength of speech pathology as an emerging discipline as much as profession and the value of strong partnerships between education and health, teaching and speech pathology.
Steve and Tara ponder the profound instability of the Trump Presidency. In this interregnum, how will the rise of the right be tempered by any mode or form of progressivism?
Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination. They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.
Tara, Steve and Anne align Terry Johnson's theories of the profession to a post-GFC economic and social climate.
Tara has the pleasure of speaking with Vanessa Alexander. Vanessa is a part-time Doctor of Education student at Flinders University and Team Leader for Positive Partnerships (http://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/vanessa-alexander-team-leader-south-australia), a support organization to enable school-age children on the autism spectrum.
She discusses what drew her to research, her project and the advice she would offer to educators throughout the sector considering an enrolment in a higher degree.
Andrew, Steve and Tara talk about the role and place of sleep in policing. They also explore the understanding - the theory - of 'work' and the 'job' of policing.
Anne, Tara and Steve present some alternative modelling for Guy Standing's Precariat and Terry Johnson's theorization of professionalism.
Tara talks with Steve about a new book series and an emerging trope: Deviant Leisure. What is deviant leisure and how can it enable a new understanding of capitalism and higher education?
Steve and Tara summon the interconnected injustices of Hillsborough and Grenfell. Finally, charges have been made against South Yorkshire Police - 28 years after the event. But what do we learn about working class people, working class culture and injustice? Tara and Steve probe the lessons of Hillsborough to understand the events in Grenfell.
Steve and Tara talk Theory. What is it - and why is it useful for researchers? In anti-intellectual times, is it the moment to bring back Theory (Capital T)?
Tara and Steve welcome Andrew Paterson to the podcast. Andrew discusses his powerful and fascinating PhD that explores the South Australian police force, stress, resilience and transformational organizational culture.
Tara shares her presentation for the Institute of Education, delivered in London on June 9, 2017. She explores the impact of the deficit model of learning for PhD students and how multimodal supervisory solutions can transform the lives and the success of students.
A record of the presentation is located here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tara-brabazon-at-ucl-ioe-you-are-more-than-your-thesis-discarding-the-deficit-model-and-enabling-tickets-34951280220#
Tara Brabazon talks with Nazlin Bhimani, librarian and PhD candidate at the Institute of Education, London, to discuss plagiarism, academic integrity and research integrity for PhD students.
The best learning in a PhD programme is peer learning. Tara shares the expertise of Flinders PhD students discussing how to manage their expectations and the lived reality of a doctoral candidature.
John Reid presents his upgrade seminar for his PhD. The topic is indigenous male migration. In this powerful presentation, he summons the image, metaphor, theory and trope of 'the waterhole.'
Tara talks with John Reid about his PhD. What is the function of 'the waterhole' in cultural geography, or as a metaphor, a trope and a theory to understand indigenous masculinity?
As Tara is about to head off to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, she talks with Steve about why regional education matters. The importance of universities in small cities and large towns is obvious and clear, but rarely recognized in public or education policy.
Sunny, Steve and Tara address the challenge of breaking up 110,000 words into refereed articles. Sunny has already completed two refereed articles and she discusses the surprises that emerge when she cuts up her thesis into new forms of writing, for new audiences.
Very often in the doctoral space, it is assumed that PhD students understand how to interpret complex and intricate sources. As Anne moves into deep interpretation of Terry Johnson, Steve and Tara talk through strategies to enable high level scholarship.
Mark, Steve and Tara talk about 'the workaround' in technology and its role and impact in regional education. And as a meta-point, this podcast produced what may end up Mark's PhD title and key concept. Podcast can offer a hot moment of innovation for supervisors and students. One of these moments is captured here.
In her first post-thesis week, Sunny has been asked to referee. Tara and Steve talk about how to referee for an academic journal, and the specific challenges for early career researchers.
Steve and Tara enter the troubled space of doctoral supervision. There are extraordinary, rigorous, caring and compassionate supervisors. Then there is another group. They don't read student work. They don't meet students. They offer little support. Steve and Tara talk about this 'old' model of supervision and the agents for change to a new way of thinking about teaching and learning in the supervisory space.
It is one of the best days in a person's life. Sunny has submitted her thesis. Steve, Tara and Sunny share this great moment with podcast listeners. But Steve and Tara also put in place a plan for Sunny - 'throughcare' - to enable her career while the thesis is being examined.
Steve and Tara talk through a tough topic: cosupervision. What makes a great supervisory relationship? How does a PhD student select a supervisory team? What are the key requirements for success?
Karen Jacobs and Tara Brabazon answer student questions about the PhD. These students are in the middle of their candidature and ask the questions specific to their doctoral moment.
Tara talks with Shani Sniedze-Gregory about the integrated curriculum. What is its value to schooling?
Tara and Steve talk to PhD students and early career researchers about a key choice they must make. Is their PhD a scholarly monograph? And - if it is - how do they transform an item of assessment (a PhD document) into a book with a wide international audience?
Tara and Mark construct a strategy for Mark to write his exegesis. Instead of writing it in chapters, Mark has put in place a framework to increase the frequency and efficiency of his writing.
Sunny and Tara probe the final few weeks of a PhD. It is an emotional time and incredibly intellectually exhausting. Sunny and Tara talk about how to finish a thesis with rigour, kindness and predictability.
Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the interface between British and Australian cultural studies to probe the potential of a postcolonial cultural studies.
Anne, Steve and Tara probe the strengths and weaknesses in investigating one theorist in a PhD. What is the value - and the problems - in applying an old theorist to a new intellectual terrain?
Mark Brown, Tara and Steve discuss his practice-led PhD, with attention to prototyping. The artefacts are emerging, and the speed of change means that every object that Mark creates is the foundation for the next one.
Steve, Tara and Sunny discuss the final stages of her PhD completion. Steve has just completed 'the theory draft.' We talk about theory and its role in doctoral education, a candidature and a thesis.
Anne, Steve and Tara talk about deskilling, automation, professionalism and early childhood education.
The PhD students and supervisors from the Prideaux Centre for Research in Health Professions Education talk with Tara about their expectations going into a PhD and how they were managed through the candidature.
So much of higher education - and teaching and learning more generally - is based on assumptions. But what is the point of a PhD oral examination? What is its role for students and supervisors, and international universities?
Tara and Steve present some options for men and women who have never really considered the role of social media in research dissemination. What are the best platforms? What arguments may convince researchers who have shared their research in this way. This podcast takes you from zero to social media hero.
Sunny, Steve and Tara go into theory. They explore Stuart Hall's theorizing and how it frames Sunny's thesis. Tara goes hard on the current state of cultural studies (again). Steve and Sunny are patient with her.
Tara and Steve have a sad announcement for podcast listeners. Mick Winter - our remarkable PhD student - has died. Steve and Tara talk about 'what's next' and what will happen to his thesis now.
Amy Seymour-Walsh talks with Tara about her PhD and her innovative strategy to move from a series of ideas and incomplete chapters and to a full first PhD draft.
Tara and Steve offer concrete options and opportunities for PhD students and early career researchers when considering how to write their first refereed article.
Tara, Steve and Anne probe what it means when the word 'educator' is replaced by 'teacher'? Particularly, they probe the consequences of changing the language from 'early childhood educator' to 'early childhood teacher.'
Steve and Tara introduce Mark Brown's mock confirmation of candidature. They talk about the value of a mock event and how students can improve and learn through this process. The podcast also includes Mark's live and raw mock CoC and how - in real time - he created improvement.
Tara and Steve talk about academic journalism as a mode and means of dissemination for scholarship. When should academics consider journalism? What are the challenges and pitfalls? And - how can 'unpopular' topics gain momentum in popular culture?
What are the reasons to choose to enrol in a research masters rather than a doctor of philosophy? Steve and Tara talk through the differences for students, supervisors and examiners and - once more - recognize the key skill of time management in supervision.
What happens to part-time PhD students through a milestone process? Tara talks about the use and value of interim milestones
Tara talks about the final PhD Milestone that moves student from candidature to examination. She also talks about this challenging moment for students and supervisors and strategies to make this easier.
Tara talks about the 'difficult middle child' in the PhD Milestone Management System: the mid-candidature review. What are key tactics and strategies to enable completion of a PhD and success through the processes?
Tara introduces the first milestone in Flinders University's new Milestone system. The first milestone - in the first year - is Confirmation of Candidature.
Flinders University is introducing milestones in 2017. Tara introduces a quick series on each of the milestones. This first session asks why milestones are necessary, and their value to learning, teaching, students and supervisors.
Mick, Steve and Tara are entering the final drafting stages of Mick's thesis. They have decided to work on two book proposals - one academic and one trade - while the drafting is taking place. The unexpected benefit of this scheme is that Mick is not only producing two books for his post-thesis future, but also reflecting on the entire thesis, while still enrolled as a candidate.
Steve, Tara and Sunny enter the final stage of her thesis. Steve and Tara introduce a strategy to keep this final difficult stage fresh for Sunny while also enabling her - remarkable - future career.
Tara and Steve talk about the victory of Donald Trump. They explore the nature of 'the elites' and 'the establishment,' with attention to whiteness, femininity, heteronormativity and class. More significantly, what do we learn about the nature of education, teaching, learning and reading from this 'victory'? And what do 'we' do next?
Tara presents a podcast version of a talk she delivered for doctoral candidates at the University of the West of Scotland. This talk is followed by commentary and conversation by the PhD students, offering recommendations and advice for completing a doctorate in the minimum time.
Tara talks with Professor David McGillivray about leisure and leisure studies, work and higher education, media and dissemination. David is the Professor of Event and Digital Cultures at the University of the West of Scotland. His innovative work is also creating powerful and innovative opportunities for doctoral students in thinking about the trajectory and potential of their research.
Tara talks with Dr Kevin Moore about the National Football Museum. Kevin reflects on the nature of sport studies and museum studies, particularly through Brexit. Popular culture remains a key area of future study and attention in the contemporary museum.
Tara offers a podcast version of her Keynote Address for the Fourth European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL). This presentation was delivered in Prague on October 10, 2016.
The session explores the impact of the 3Ds - digitization, deterritorialization and disintermediation - on social justice, education, teaching, learning, citizenship and librarianship. Tara shows the potential of and for librarians in creating a reintermediated future.
Tara and Steve probe leisure studies, exploring the transformations to work and education. Particularly, we explore the changes to leisure studies and its ambivalent relationship with physical cultural studies.
Tara and Steve probe the value of a book chapter. Through research evaluation programmes - like the RAE, REF and the ERA - the book chapter is often discredited and undermined. Yet is the status of the book chapter transforming through digitization, deterritorialization and disintermediation?
Tara and Steve introduce and welcome the term 'nanolearning.' What is it and how can it operate with flipped learning and open educational resources? They explore the potential of nanolearning to enliven analogue and digital teaching and learning.
This podcast is derived from a seminar on Richard and Daniel Susskind's book, The Future of the Professions. This group of Flinders postgraduates and staff probe this book and if / how digitization transforms the professions.
Tara introduces the vexed and complex issue of authorship during a doctoral programme. How is authorship to be discussed during a PhD supervisory relationship, and how is authorship regulated and managed?
Tara presents this lunchtime seminar for PhD supervisors offering twenty quick strategies to enable a quick doctoral completions.
Tara presents this short introduction to academic integrity. This session provides the flipped foundation for a lunchtime seminar for supervisors at Flinders University.
Steve, Sunny and Tara talk through the challenges of Sunny's last chapter. As always happens in the last stages of a PhD, emotional and intellectual doubts emerge. How can PhD students manage perfectionism while finishing a PhD?
Tara, Steve and Mick probe the 'frame' in his meme research. Is a meme a frame? Is the meme the carrier for content?
Tara and Steve talk about a key moment in the Australian PhD candidature: the Confirmation of Candidature. Compared to other international examples, this session is held very early in the research project. Steve and Tara talk about the strengths and challenges of this system for students, supervisors and the university.
Tara talks with Bronwyn about science fiction. Bronwyn Lovell is completing a creative-led PhD, probing the limitations and capacities of science fiction. They discuss Dr Who, Star Trek, fantasy and film, arguing for the importance of women writing, directing and producing science fiction.
Karen Jacobs and Tara introduce the new system of Milestones at Flinders university. What are milestones and why are they useful to part time and full time research higher degree students?
Steve and Tara introduce Vicki Pascoe to podcast listeners. Vicki is investigating migrant doctors and medical professionals in rural and regional Australia. Particularly, they talk about the challenges involved when researching this group.
Steve, Tara and Sunny talk about identity, particularly considering the role of Louis Althusser in Stuart Hall's thinking about self and politics.
Anne, Steve and Tara check on Anne's writing strategy to find 30 productive minutes each day. Particularly they explore how to write the transitions between complex ideas to ensure that fragmentation is minimized and smooth and productive arguments are developed.
Steve, Tara and Mick discuss Mick's post-PhD publishing options. They talk through scholarly monographs, trade books and short, specialist e-books. For the traditional thesis, many publishing options are available, creating new audiences for new research.
It is difficult to enthuse academic staff to undertake professional development in and for doctoral supervision. Yet it is crucial that PhD students gain innovative, dynamic and modern techniques, theories and strategies throughout their candidature. Steve and Tara talk through the options for a flipped supervisory training strategy.
Tara and Steve discuss the use and value of creative industries for PhD students. They probe the 'triple helix' of university, business and government and how doctoral candidates can manage this new environment.
Anne, Steve and Tara work through a key moment in Anne's candidature. Anne has three chapters that are nearly finished. She needs a strategy to get that work done. We explore the role of finding thirty minutes a day to ensure that a part-time PhD fits into a full-time life.
Sunny, Steve and Tara have now reached Sunny's last chapter of her PhD. It is a long one. It is complex. How is Sunny to present and analyse 10 oral history interviews. More precisely, how is she to structure this rich and hot information within her doctorate? Sunny, Steve and Tara talk through the options.
Tara talks with Dr Lindy King, the Associate Dean (Research Higher Degrees). They discuss the development of a research culture and the specificity of the disciplines, paradigms, theories and approaches within nursing and midwifery.
Tara talks Sunny and Steve off the theoretical balcony after Brexit. They talk about what the Brexit means to our understandings of race, conservatism and little Englishness.
Tara talks with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University. The students express their strategies to complete a rapid PhD thesis while managing the challenges of work and family.
Tara and Karen Jacobs talk about the processes and procedures required to exam a PhD. Tara and Karen talk about the selection of examiners and how to ensure that the PhD is ready to be assessed and passed.
Tara talks through the punctuation of a supervisory relationship. She probes the expectations, assumptions, motivations, disappointments and satisfactions that organize and shape successful and failing PhD supervisory processes and experiences.
Steve and Tara talk with Sunny Rue Chivaura and Glory Gatwiri, exploring the book Policing the Crisis. What is the use and value of this book now, in a time of asylum seekers, hyper racism, sexism and xenophobia?
Tara presents a podcast version of her seminar that introduces social media options for academics.
Tara introduces the second core section in supervisory training. The goal of this session is to move supervisors from compliance to excellence.
Tara introduces the key stages of doctoral supervision, spanning from admissions to examination.
Sunny is about to fly to Adelaide to join us on the Flinders campus. However before her arrival we continue our discussion of race, injustice and Policing the Crisis.
Anne, Tara and Steve work through theories of agent and agency to enable Anne's discussion of early learning, equity and social justice.
Steve, Tara and Mick explore how to manage the theoretical fragmentation of chapters in a doctoral thesis.
Mark, Tara and Steve return to the challenging issue of balancing artefacts and the exegesis in creative-led doctorates. But it is clear that Mark's prototype is creating a powerful structure and propulsion for his thesis.
Tara introduces Alison Thorsteinsen in the Office of Graduate Research. Alison talks about the support available for doctoral candidates to enable and assist their writing.
Steve Tara and Anne talk about models and theories to understand a 'social agent.' Steve works through the theories of Anthony Giddens to see if his approach has value in understanding teachers and educators in contemporary Australia.
Steve, Tara and Mark focus on the original contribution to knowledge. How can understanding the place in which research takes place enhance the originality of the doctorate?
Tara, Steve and Mick introduce the final year of his PhD. Steve and Tara talk through with Mick the specific challenges of the final year, including the importance of timelines and the selection of examiners.
Anne, Steve and Tara talk about the reasons for the disempowerment of children and early childhood educators. Anne's focus is to think about equity and justice.
Tara talks with Michele Jarldorn about her PhD research, exploring the use of photovoice with former prisoners.
Tara talks with Matthew Bennett a doctoral candidate at Flinders University. Matt's thesis is currently under examination, and he used this time to reflect on his topic: investigating adults with Asperger syndrome. He explores their role in the workplace and also the specific challenges faced in personal relationships.
Glory Gatwiri, a soon-to-be completed doctoral candidate at Flinders University, talks with Tara about her research with women managing vaginal fistula. Her goal is to break the silence around women's sexuality and health to create empowerment for women in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Tara shares her short induction speech for PhD students right at the start of the candidature. What advice would your future self - the you that has completed a PhD - offer to you on the day of your induction?
Tara and Steve continue their conversation about Cultural Studies. In this podcast they explore the role of the creative industries in the 'decline' of Cultural Studies. Is there any way to resurrect Cultural Studies and the creative industries, or is it time for an intellectual divorce?
Tara and Steve talk about the PhD confirmation of candidature. What is the CoC? What value does it have to quality assurance and the andragogical development of our doctoral candidates?
Tara, Anne and Steve discuss Guy Standing's precariat and how the early childhood educator fits into such a category and concept.
Mark, Tara and Steve talk through the deep and profound challenges of part-time doctoral candidature. How do we manage the stress while the clock is ticking, particularly when a confirmation of candidature is pending? We develop some strategies.
Steve, Tara and Mick explore the role and challenges of big chapters in a PhD. Should a big chapter be split? Should it be submitted as a coherent whole? We explore why size does matter in PhD chapters.
Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the challenges when moving into the final year of a PhD. It is important to maintain motivation, but also recognize the work that is still required alongside the work already completed.
Steve and Tara have an announcement to make. They also talk about the past, present and future of cultural studies.
Tara hosts a very special event in Brisbane, talking with women in higher education. We discuss the challenges for women in the neoliberal university, but express shared strategies and goals for the future of our institutions.
Tara shares her workshop presentation at CQU's Research Higher Degrees event. She present strategies for increasing the speed of doctoral candidature. The audience - in both Rockhampton and Melbourne - offer their strategies for rapid doctoral completion.
How have disintermediated media transformed doctoral education? How can disintermediated media enable a productive, fair, rigorous, transparent and compassionate relationship between supervisor and doctoral candidate? Tara shares her keynote address for Central Queensland University's Research Higher Degree Event, held in February 2016.
As Anne's work turns to the discussion of equity and the professions, Steve and Tara acknowledge Anne's fascinating andragogical strategies, using sound and sonic recordings to scaffold her argument.
Mark, Tara and Steve explore - and expose - the specific challenges when configuring a confirmation of candidature document for creative-led doctoral theses.
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the challenges of doctoral research, particularly encircling the phrase 'an original contribution to knowledge.'
Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the use of sound to create a thinking space for doctoral education, particularly enlivening oral history methods.
How do you examine a PhD for the first time? What are your expectations, assumptions and perspectives? Are you confusing your personal experiences of completing a doctorate with the requirements of doctoral examination?
Steve and Tara ask why - so often - the most inexperienced examiners are the harshest. This podcast offers both training and an intervention to ensure that excellence and the maintenance of international standards remain the priority for early, mid and senior researchers.
What is a subculture and is this concept of relevance to the contemporary social sciences and humanities? Tara and Steve discuss subcultures and postsubcultures and ask if style remains resistive.
Mick, Steve and Tara work through Mick's analysis of famous moments of filmic dialogue. At the moment, Mick is finding some patterning, but nothing definitive. Meanwhile, Steve and Tara attempt to preserve Mick's sanity as he applies the crystal meth of methods: content analysis.
Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the next crucial stage of her project: the oral history interviews. They discuss the different mode and styles of interviews and the rich data that can be gained through oral historiography.
Mark and Tara talk about the distinctive digital strategies that are emerging in and through the contemporary PhD.
Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?
What are the challenges confronting PhD students and supervisors in our universities? Tara reveals the impact of neoliberalism on doctoral education, showing why governance and regulation of scholarly standards remains important. This presentation is a recording of Tara's keynote session for the European University Association's Council for Doctoral Education Workshop, held at Delft University of Technology on January 21 and 22, 2016.
Tara and Steve talk about two key phrases - "digital leisure cultures" and "digital leisure studies." What are digital leisure cultures and can they offer a new disciplinary pathway through work, production and consumption?
Doctor Who is a stunning and innovative force in popular culture and popular memory. But why is Doctor Who popular and what is the role of Peter Capaldi in aligning past and present, memory and politics, television and post-television? Steve and Tara talk about Doctor Who through its history and why this programme matters now, perhaps more than at any point in its history.
Mark Brown joins us from Sydney to present his sonic designs for the development of his artefact. Yet his great work raises a question. What is the artefact? What are the examiners assessing? Steve, Tara and Mark try to limit and shape the examined artefact.
Sunny, Steve and Tara enter the complex area of blackness and Australian identity. What space is available to explore blackness - as a scholar - in doctoral education?
A great challenge of doctoral education is balancing description, analysis and high theory. Anne McLeod discusses how to manage this challenge with Steve and Tara, her doctoral supervisors.
Why has the Wizard of Oz moved so successfully through literature and film - and through time? Mick, Tara and Steve probe the power of the Wizard of Oz and what it reveals about children's media.
Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead explore the history of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University. How was the Institute formed? What were the conditions that made it successful? Can such an Institute emerge again from the contemporary higher education sector?
Mark, Steve and Tara talk about how Mark is building his artefact. The use of light, dark, movement and colour is aligning meaning systems and movement systems.
Mick, Tara and Steve entered Mick's meme research - in detail. We started with Casablanca and probed why it is famous - and why it remains famous.
Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about Sunny's rather fabulous week in the media. We talk about the role of these interviews and articles in doctoral research and how powerful research about race can be transformative for rural and regional Australia.
Anne and Steve talk about the value of side roads in a doctorate - to gain experience and expertise - but also recognize why focus, clarity and a clear spine of argument is integral to a doctorate.
Mark and Steve evaluate Mark's strategy for doctoral management, to pinch a few hours and develop annotated bibliographies.
Sunny and Steve discuss the deep and wide benefits of oral history - even in a digital age - in valuing and validating the voice of migrants.
Mick and Steve talk about the relationship between journalistic and academic modes of writing. What is the relationship, and how can journalism become more academic - and academic writing reveal the accessibility of journalism?
Steve and Tara explore the challenges of co-supervision and the advantages of - every now and again - going solo.
Anne, Steve and Tara discuss how to manage the cul-de-sacs of doctoral life. They talk about how to manage the complexity of theory in a thesis while writing in a volatile environment for early childhood education.
Mark, Tara and Steve talk PhD strategy. How do we find those impossible hours for a doctorate in an already over-stuffed life?
Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the specific challenges in gathering and understanding 'the voice' of African migrants in Australia. How do we maintain the integrity of their lives and narratives, but also create space for interpretation and analysis?
Tara, Steve and Mick talks about the next stage of his research. He is now studying how and why particular moving lines are memorable. But can we learn some tips and tricks from sociological research?
Myra Singh, with the support of her supervisor Jae Major, introduces the challenges and strengths of indigenous methodologies. Myra's project focuses on the meanings of 'success' for indigenous students. To enable this project, she introduces yarning as a method of data collection.
Tara, Steve and Mick explore and express the challenges in constructing a literature review in a PhD. We talk about how to transcend the banal and boring and create a spicy and enlivening discussion of academic literature that is productive, powerful, passionate and imaginative.
In a competitive higher education environment, how can PhD students enable and develop their post-PhD career. Tara and Steve provide concrete and clear strategies to create a trajectory for a career while enrolled in a doctorate
Tara and Steve introduce their new doctoral student, Sunny Rue Chivaura. Sunny talks about her project and its value to contemporary Australia. However there is also clear attention to how the theoretical work being completed in this doctorate will demonstrate a major reassessment of Stuart Hall's scholarship.
Mick, Steve and Tara celebrate the arrival of 107 pages of research on memes. Steve and Tara acknowledge the achievement, but also push Mick to complete this large and remarkable section of his work.
Julie Lancaster introduces her doctoral study in inclusive education. She probes how inclusive education - as a paradigm, trope and practice - operates in preservice education and beyond.
James Deehan, PhD student in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt presents the impact of science experiences and beliefs on science teaching.
Anne McLeod explores the volatile and dynamic space of 'professional development' and 'professional learning' in Australian teacher education.
Mark, Steve and Tara discuss the reading programme of a doctorate and how to maintain the excitement while not being overwhelmed. The importance of note taking and annotated bibliographies are discussed.
Andrea Salamon, a doctoral candidate in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, explores the gaps between expectations and outcomes, theories and practice, when considering the capabilities of infants.
Tara, Steve and Mark talk about one of those extraordinary doctoral meetings, determining what we are NOT going to include in the PhD. If such decisions can be made early, years can be saved from a student's candidature.
Tara and Steve discuss the strengths and challenges involved in completing an interdisciplinary doctorate.
Tara and Steve reflect on their use of Skype in the supervision of PhD students. They discuss Skype's use as a synchronous and asynchronous tool, and its specific value for busy postgraduates, busy supervisors and regional education.
Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the value of taking a break - taking a holiday - in the midst of a doctorate.
Anne, Steve and Tara continue their Derrida journey. Anne recognizes the best use of deconstruction for her project.
Dr Bev Moriarty and Ms Maria Bennet present an innovative pilot of a cultural education programme for first year students.
Tara introduces our new doctoral student, Mark Brown. Mark's PhD is developing a new way of thinking about movement and music, inverting the conventional relationship to create object (body) triggered compositions.
Dr Deb Clarke helps early career SoTL (Scholarship of Learning and Teaching) scholars to manage the learning and teaching literature.
Tara talks with the music educator and music education consultant Oriana Zanon and the CSU School of Teacher Education Secretary Anthony Wallis about the major changes being enacted to music education at the University. They discuss the current challenges facing music education in Australia, and how a new future and new opportunities are emerging for teacher education students in and through music.
Tara Brabazon introduces third tier cities. These small urban environments confront particular challenges and opportunities. Tara reveals the international literature in this field to enable these small places to summon big ideas.
Steve and Tara talk about Aca-twitter. How do academics use Twitter and how can it assist early career, mid-career and senior scholars in their teaching and research?
They talk about the gathering of research materials, receiving feedback and returning intellectual generosity to the neo-liberal academy.
Professor Sharynne McLeod introduces her research project, Sound Start Study. She explores the options for intervention in the early years to understand and assist children with speech development.
Mick, Tara and Steve probe the key problem for doctoral students: when is enough reading actually enough? When should a PhD student stop reading on a particular topic?
Dr Richard Liu challenges our expectations of assessment through the application of multimodality.
This workshop, presented by Bruce Cameron (Director of Easy Access Australia Publishing) and Naul Nunnari (Manager, Event Access and Inclusion, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet) assists profit and non-profit organization to create accessible events. A range of strategies are offered that are both clear and easy to implement.
Anne, Steve and Tara consider the intellectual, political and social management of the binary opposition HOME and SCHOOL. What is the impact on this binary opposition for early childhood education? Steve proposes that Anne investigates Derrida and does deconstruction properly, rather than using it as a synonym for 'analysis.'
Mick, Steve and Tara are back together working through Mick's meme chapter. He has been on an Althusserian journey. They discussed the relationship between ISAs, RSAs, statism and anti-statism. But the fear of the tea towel overshadowed much of the meeting. Wives of theorists have to be cautious in the kitchen...
Dr Geoff Pearson, a senior lecturer in Law at Manchester University, presented an innovative seminar on behalf of the School of Teacher Education and CSU Law. Geoff explored the specific challenges and profound benefits of ethnography. He then demonstrated the benefits of ethnography in the study of English football fans.
Tara and Anne talk about the next stage and next chapter of her PhD. Particularly, we enter the terrain of professional development for early childhood educators and teachers? But - in this female-dominated profession - is there a promotion of 'personal' rather than 'professional' development?
Fitbit culture, the quantified self and self monitored fitness are configured as movement monitoring activities for the young. But how are senior citizens using the fitbit? Tara talks with her 87 year old father Kevin about his use of the fitbit and how it has changed his understanding of movement, health and fitness.
What is happening to FIFA? Why are there so many drug scandals in cycling and the myriad codes of football? Do the global sporting events still regenerate and lift a city and region? Steve and Tara talk through the concept of 'sporting claustropolis' to describe and understand what is happening to global and globalizing sport.
Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he convince in this argument without end?
How do teachers and students share their expectations and outcomes about assessment? Dr Jae Major takes colleagues through the methods and strategies to ensure that students and academics can share their assumptions about academic text types.
Tara and Steve get stroppy (again), pondering the nature of ethics committees - and research ethics more generally - in the neoliberal university.
Particular methods are fashionable, and then move out of fashion. Tara and Steve talk about ethnography, the disco of research methods. But as ethnography moves beyond its fame and height in the 1970s, how can it reconfigure and refresh for the 2010s?
It is time for feminist physical cultural studies. Steve and Tara introduce Peta Johnston and her doctoral thesis. Peta is interested in researching women, sexuality, bodies and digitization. Physical cultural studies provides the frame and impetus for this study. Social media provides the foundation. This exciting thesis begins now. Join us on this special journey.
What is a human 'worth'? What does equality actually mean? Dr Tace Vigliante, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, takes these questions as her focus, to develop a social justice education.
Transitions are crucial to education. Dr Libbey Murray, from the Dubbo campus of the School of Teacher Education, explores what academics can learn from the transitional experiences of kindergarten children when thinking about first year teaching and learning in a university.
The calibre of higher education requires the maintenance of standards and the protection of academic integrity. Tara, in this third podcast in her academic misconduct series, offers advice to academic managers. They must manage and monitor the process with ethics, respect and care. Tara helps academic managers ensure a strong process for students, staff and the higher education sector.
What advice can help students manage academic integrity and information literacy, or a charge of plagiarism, collusion and academic misconduct? Tara helps students move through an academic misconduct process and offers clear advice to enable a productive resolution.
Tara presents the first session in her series exploring academic misconduct in our universities. This professional development session is geared for academics. Teachers in our universities are the first responders to academic misconduct. But what is the role of an academic in cases of plagiarism and collusion? Tara talks through this role, alongside presenting the risks and challenges that flood any case of academic misconduct.
Tara introduces her professional development series on academic misconduct. This introductory session defines the terms 'academic misconduct,' 'academic integrity,' 'plagiarism' and 'collusion' to reveal their role in enabling quality and excellence in higher education.
The University of Google has been recognized by Ashgate as a book that transformed its field. Tara talks about this monograph, sharing how it was written and how it activated new relationships between cultural studies, media studies and information literacy.
A weblink to this book is here: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754670971
How has football transformed through globalization and digitization? Steve Redhead talks with Tara about his new book for Routledge, Football and Accelerated Culture: This Modern Sporting Life.
For further details about the book plese refer to the website for this book: http://www.tandf.net/books/details/9781138923157/
Probably the greatest challenge in the completion of a PhD is reaching - and sustaining - the intellectual level of a doctorate. It is particularly tough to keep the level high while teaching undergraduate students. Anne McLeod, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss this challenge. How do we stretch and move from teaching first year students through to high quality doctoral research?
Why was there a riot in Baltimore? Were memes involved? Mick, Tara and Steve continue the discussion about Mick's PhD thinking about the political relationships between film, memes and digitization.
Why study music? Tara Brabazon talks with Oriana Zanon about music education. What is the value of music to pre-service teacher education students?
In a provocative reversal, Leanne interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond. Leanne is interested in the past, present and future of cultural studies and her questions probe the effectiveness of this paradigm in a tough era for higher education.
Anne McLeod, from CSU's School of Teacher Education Dubbo campus, talks about the role of the creative and performing arts in teacher education. She shows the significance of community partnerships and the value - at the level of skill and knowledge - in enabling the creative arts in higher education.
Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.
Professor Melanie Walker, from the Free State University in South Africa, explores how our understandings of higher education transform when deploying the capabilities approach to teaching and learning.
Steve, Anne and Tara are back together again, celebrating the completion of Anne's first chapter and foreshadowing her next chapter. We discuss methods, ethics and the role of curriculum studies in the formulation of professionalism, and the teaching profession.
Put another way, why is Anne using Unobtrusive Research Methods rather than conducting a participant observation of crack use?
Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'
Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter.
They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter. How to handle an intellectual hangover? Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.
Dr Jae Major explores the role, function and place of bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms. With specific attention to Aotearoa/New Zealand, strategies are offered to enable bilingualism to flourish.
How can policy makers and local councils encourage movement in small cities? Leanne McRae, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore these third tier cities and the benefits of thinking about physical cultural studies in a way that integrates the analogue and the digital, the tourist and the resident.
Dr Mike Kent, from Internet Studies at Curtin University, talks with Tara about his career and how to build momentum and success during a challenging time for the higher education sector.
How are men and women with mental illnesses being supported through higher education and elearning? Dr Mike Kent presents the results from a recent survey conducted with students from Open University Australia. These results are startling and challenging, questioning the practices and protocols of university teaching and learning.
Tara talks with Anne McLeod about the place of the creative arts in teacher education. They discuss the disparate streams of the discipline area, but also the value for teachers in understanding voice and movement.
Anne and Tara discuss the particularly difficult challenges of writing a doctorate in a rapidly changing policy environment for early childhood education.
Does parental involvement have an impact on student achievement? While the answer to this question may seem self evident, actually the results are much more ambivalent. Dr Graham Daniel, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, presents an interim report on this research project he shares with Dr Audrey Wang.
With all the pressure and attacks on teacher education, it is a provocative but useful question to ask, why would anyone want to become a teacher? Tara asks the new generation of teacher education students at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus. Their answers are inspiring and aspirational.
How would your personal and professional life change if you concentrated on what you hear, rather than what you see? Tara answers that question and shares her presentation for the 2015 researchED conference in Sydney.
The academic year is about to commence. Tara offers 10 tips to orient students into higher education. Academics hold assumptions about our students. This podcast tells students about our expectations and some strategies to meet them.
Ashgate publishers have described Digital Dieting as one of their books that have made an impact on the scholarly field. Tara talks about how this book was written, its context, interdisciplinarity and its audience.
Tara and Mick continue to hack through morphic fields. They explore how theorists of morphic fields define and apply consciousness. Yes, this is another hippy-inflected podcast.
What happens when a PhD student goes deeply into a research literature and needs to get out of it again? Mick and Tara talk about the morphic fields literature and how to hook this research back into his doctoral thesis.
Anne and Tara talk through the changing context and environment of early childhood education, and the relationship between 'a service' and 'learning.'
What is the sound of food? Tara presents an artefact to accompany a written exegesis. The goal is to probe the sociology of the senses, with attention to the relationship between food and sonic culture.
Do you feel closed in? Do you want to leave the planet because of war, terrorism, violence and xenophobia? The concept that captures this tendency is claustropolitanism. Steve and Tara discuss claustropolitanism, and the popular cultural texts that capture it: Top of the Lake, Breaking Bad, The Tunnel, Orange is the New Black and The Fall.
These theoretical times are also accelerated times. What is the role of momentum and speed in our understanding of identity and popular culture? Tara and Steve talk about accelerated culture and accelerationism, and the countervailing forces of slow culture and slow food.
What happens to a working class when there is no longer work? How do we think about middle class in relation to a digitized, globalized, casual workplace? Steve and Tara talk about reproletarianization and its relationship with Guy Standing's Precariat.
How did the Global Financial Crisis impact on our understandings of social relationships and identity? Has foreclosure become a 'global condition'? Tara and Steve probe the concept of foreclosure and its relevance to theoretical times.
Why are methods so boring in the contemporary university? How can the theories of method be enlivened and enlivening in the humanities and social sciences? Steve and Tara translate and transform Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology to develop a new way of thinking about space, identity, ethnography and surveillance.
Does sociology have a future? How does the discipline - and the scholars within it - manage neo-liberalism, xenophobia, terrorism and gated communities? Steve and Tara explore the concept of 'claustropolitan sociology' as part of their 'Theoretical times' series.
How can you create a research plan? How can early career, mid career and senior scholar managed research policies demanding high levels of productivity and accountability? Tara and Steve talk about how to develop a research career in difficult times for higher education. Strategies are offered for scholars throughout their career.
Tara introduces an assignment exploring the role of food in art. The image is titled "Mary, egg and croissant" and was photographed by William Klein. The image is located at these urls: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30117891231012175/ and
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2005-107-360
Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event. They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.
We need - right now - a complex and intricate theorization of power and the state. Louis Althusser provides scholars and citizens with that theorization. Steve and Tara, in this sixth podcast in Theoretical Times, discuss Louis Althusser and why he is returning to intellectual fashion.
How do we align and enhance conventional scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledges? Nicholas Ruddell has taken on this challenge for his PhD. His goal is to help students and teachers align and combine world views to create an intellectual environment of excitement, motivation, knowledge and social justice.
What role should early childhood educators hold in play? Tara talks with Kelly Tribolet about how to increase the movement, confidence and skill of children as they move their bodies through space.
Anne has entered the analogue and digital archive to follow the traces of Terence Johnson. Most famous for his book Professions and Power, Anne is exploring with Tara and Steve how much of this sociologist's career has survived in the present.
Anne talks with Tara and Steve about her professionalism research in early childhood education. This has been a crucial week. Anne has captured the key argument of her main theorist. She knows him so well, she can tweet her thesis statement.
Dr Kristina Gottschall, from Charles Sturt University's School of Indigenous Australian Studies, explores the role, purpose and trajectory of 'the black kid' in Australian cinema.
Elly Singer is an Associate Professor at the University of Utrecht Department of Developmental Psychology and University of Amsterdam Department of Education. She delivered a seminar for the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University exploring play and the building of relationships between children and teachers.
What are the most effective media platforms for university academics? Steve Redhead and Tara explore which social media platforms are best for academics at each stage of their career.
Tara talks with Daniel Purnell and Graham Daniel about Daniel's successful completion of his education degree. Coming from Lithgow and participating in an international mobility programme, Daniel talks about the successes and challenges of his degree and the hopes for the future.
When do doctoral students have enough theory in their research? Can it be too much? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon talk with Anne McLeod about how to balance theoretical perspectives in her PhD.
Now is the moment. Steve and Tara conduct Mick Winter's 'mock': a practice run for his confirmation of doctoral candidature.
Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about how to be successful in the first year at university.
Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the importance of reading and note taking for first year university students.
Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the first year experience in universities and why attendance is crucial to academic success.
Tara Brabazon talks with Linda Hampstead to address the key challenges that confront students when they arrive on a university campus.
Tara talks with Linda Hampstead about the transition from school to university, work to university and family commitments to study. What are the challenges and opportunities when moving to higher education.
Tamara Cumming presents her soon-to-be completed doctoral research in the School of Teacher Education Seminar Series. Deploying the theories of Deleuze and Guattari, she explores how early childhood educators manage complexity in their workplace and practice.
What do technology, speed, war, bunkers and architecture have in common? All are interests of Paul Virilio. Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Virilio, understanding his specific place in these theoretical times.
Two references were logged in this podcast. Steve's article on Virilio and Parent (http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/topia/article/view/460/12278) and the film Beyond the Bunker (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogwHNYSSe9Q&list=UUhI8hFnlCcKDk-U3au4uCvA).
Being a PhD student is complicated. What is more important: finishing the doctorate in the minimum time, or publishing some articles on the way?
Steve and Tara explore the difficult balance between the PhD and publishing refereed scholarship during the candidature.
What is the role of creativity in a PhD programme? Tara and Steve probe the troubling terrain of the creative doctorate. Investigating the DCA (the Doctor of Creative Arts) and the PhD composed of an artefact and exegesis, they explore the challenges of standards, standardization and quality.
The great survivor of French philosophy, Alain Badiou offers evocative and provocative theorizations of subjectivity, ethics and modernity. Tara and Steve review his career, stature and value in these 'Theoretical Times.'
Slavoj Zizek is much more than a Slovenian Marxist philosopher. Steve and Tara talk about why his theorizations of culture and politics have been so powerful and so popular.
How do we choose the correct pathway for our PhD? Tara and Steve talk with Mick about the formulation of his PhD proposal. They discuss how to create a focus and trajectory for the remainder of a research project.
Tara and Steve Redhead enter the vexed terrain of doctoral examination. They assist doctoral students and supervisors to manage the emotion of the process and create a concrete outcome: a successful doctoral graduation.
Anne McLeod talks with Steve and Tara about how to manage deadlines in her doctorate. How can deadlines be productive, rather than debilitating?
Do you want to become a principal? How will you achieve this goal? Tara talks with Cameron Fraser, an experienced principal and academic in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, to determine how to build momentum for success, achievement and change.
What are the strategies to create a safe learning community? Tara talks with Paige Bennett about bullying and how the definitions, challenges and tools to manage it are transforming.
An opportunity emerges to examine a PhD. But what should this new examiner look for and what should be avoided?
There is a gift and power of physical education. Tara talks with Dr umar umangay about why his HPE class worked so powerfully and passionately.
Can we think about decolonizing the curriculum through post-humanism? Tara talks with umar umangay about bodies, embodiment, spirit and vision, offering a strategy to think about teacher education through an innovative and interventionist frame.
As an early career researcher, the demands on time - particularly through teaching - are great. How do ECRs find time for research? How can we move great ideas into great articles? Tara talks with Dr Randa Khattar about building momentum for research each day, week, month and year.
What are the best social media choices for early career researchers? Tara talks with Dr Randa Khattar about the most effective social media sites when developing an online profile and presence.
A teacher decides that the moment for professional development has arrived. But what are the key issues to consider in terms of career planning? Tara talks with Zeffie Nicholas about how a Masters of Education can enable career progression.
Tara and Mick talk about the new theorist that Mick may engage with or - as usual (!!!) - discard! This week, Mikhail Bakhtin is proving more significant for Mick and his work on memes. Mick's interest with 'voice' and 'resistance' may be finding some resonance in and with Russian Formalism...
What are the warning signs of poor supervisors and examiners? In this final session, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon talk through the characteristics of problematic supervisory behaviour and concerning examiner choice.
Doctoral students own their own work, so when should a supervisor add their name to a publication? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon enter this incredibly controversial area. Who owns a PhD student's publications?
Why do PhD students and supervisors have to fill in so many (damn) forms? How can we transform regulation into a positive outcome for the candidate and the candidature? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore the reason for forms and how they can enable progress, rather than deflect attention from the project.
How important is a co-supervisor? How are conflicts managed between supervisors and students? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore the strengths and profound challenges that emerge between supervisors. The creation of a harmonious supervisory team is a gift. When this relationship turns sour, then it can be debilitating for the student.
The best PhD meetings are a joy, innovative and inspirational. But what are the characteristics of a successful PhD meeting? What preparation is required from a supervisor and a student? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss the attributes of successful meetings, and how to correct and manage challenges and problems.
The core challenge for PhD candidature management is negotiating the student and supervisor relationship. There are ways to ensure that it is a healthy and productive partnership, but it requires work, consciousness and - frequently - regulation. Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore how the health of a student and supervisor relationship can be strengthened.
Are there benefits of a 'celebrity professor' as a PhD supervisor? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon discuss the benefits and challenges in choosing 'a name' rather than a portfolio of expertise.
Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon enter the vexed issue of selection processes that enable entry into doctoral programmes. In this third session, Steve and Tara present warning signs for students and also problematize the biases of supervisors.
How do prospective PhD students locate the perfect supervisor? How do supervisors attract the best students? Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon continue their series on how to supervise PhDs. This episode explores how to find a good supervisor and build that great supervisory relationship.
Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead introduce their ten part series on how to supervise a PhD. In this first session, Tara and Steve talk about the 'crisis' in doctoral education generally and supervision in particular, and the necessity for an intervention in current processes and practices.
In this School of Teacher Education research presentation at Charles Sturt University, Dr MattWinslade demonstrates the value of international mobility programmes when enabled through sport. The development of cultural competence enhances both the ability and employment options of HPE teachers.
Tara talks with Julieanne Channing about the opportunities and support available for students - and prospective students - with impairments.
Mick Winter, Steve Redhead and Tara celebrate Mick's achievement: producing a 100 page agenda for his PhD. This document has revealed and new theory and opportunity for Mick's work on the meme: the carnivalesque.
Tara provides a sonic introduction for her current masters subject, investigating food and drink in contemporary society. She explores the nature of 'the local' and 'the regional,' with attention to both branding and commodification.
An exciting time. Anne has finished ... her PhD proposal. She offers advice for the PhD students who follow.
Jenny Allen and Michael Flood, leaders in Catholic education in the diocese of Bathurst, discuss their commitment and consolidated approach to teaching, learning and inclusive education. Through a memorandum of understanding signed with Charles Sturt University, a careful, compassionate and optimistic future is possible for many students in the region.
Peter Nugent talks with Tara Brabazon about school and university partnerships, with particular resonance for regional New South Wales. Inclusive education, and the needs of rural and regional students, is a key focus.
Anne, Steve and Tara talk through the challenges of part-time doctorates. How do we fit a part-time PhD into a full life?
Tara needed to find out about a recipe for chocolate goo. This family recipe required some information about family food history. Therefore Tara interviewed her parents Kevin and Doris Brabazon. The resultant interview is quirky, complex and surprising.
This podcast captures the launch of the Creative Regions Lab at Charles Sturt University. The lecture that launched the CRL was delivered by Professor Justin O'Connor. His title was "Reframing cultural economy."
Mick, Steve and Tara are together once more. Steve and Mick explore the use of the phrase 'cultural intermediaries' to the meme research. Tara goes straight to a discussion of fetish. (No not that fetish)...
Tara and Anne explore a change in terminology, that also is leading to a change in thinking - and policy - for early childhood education.
Mick and Tara are without Steve this week's meeting. Mick, Tara and Steve have been wrestling with the limitations and boundaries of Mick's thesis. This podcast captures a moment of decision and resolution.
Graham Sattler, the executive director of the Mitchell Conservatorium, presents a public lecture exploring the role of a conservatorium in social, cultural, economic and regional development.
Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Jean Baudrillard. The 'postmodern' label applied to Baudrillard has underplayed his complexity and role in the contemporary academy.
Steve Redhead and Tara talk about the value of podcasts in the teaching of law and legal studies. Particularly when teaching legal theory and inter-disciplinary legal studies, podcasts have great value.
Anne, Steve and Tara are together in Bathurst. And what an explosive session. We talk about Weber and Johnson, types and tropes. A major moment in the thesis.
Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead introduce 'theoretical times' with a discussion of Lucio Colletti.
Steve and Tara talk with Anne McLeod, exploring how she will theorize and shape her historiography of Terence Johnson's Professions and Power.
A very special day for Mick, Tara and Steve. While we started reviewing meme theories, Zygmunt Bauman's liquid metaphors flowed into the discussion. Are meme's sticky?
Tara introduces Anne McLeod's seminar on PhDs by podcasts, from the perspective of the doctoral candidate. The question time explores how doctoral writing and examination will transform as podcasting permeates doctoral education
Mick, Steve and Tara talk through that difficult stage of the doctorate when there is so much to read - and so little time!
Anne and Tara review her confirmation of candidature. We are tired and emotional - but still standing.
Steve and Tara discuss the hardest part of book publishing: rejection. How is it best handled in a positive and productive way?
Notions of quality are transforming in publishing and for publishers. Steve and Tara talk through this change.
Steve and Tara discuss how to work with editors on special topics and special collections.
Steve and Tara continue their book publishing series, exploring how to manage the great challenge of coauthors.
In this final podcast in their series, Steve and Tara provide a step-by-step guide to creating a book proposal.
Steve and Tara explore the challenges and the potentials of edited collections. They show the advantages for editors and contributors, while also offering caveats for early career researchers.
Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, problems and joys that emerge when working with publishers.
Tara and Steve explore the priorities for early career and emerging academics. Should the focus be on refereed articles or a scholarly monograph?
Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead introduce the first podcast in their series on academic book publishing. This first sessions asks if - and why - books matter.
Anne McLeod, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon work on developing the relationship between her written proposal and her oral presentation. It is time for a bit of jazz.
Mick, Steve and Tara explore the role of Dick Hebdige's "Subculture" in the memes project. Particularly Mick asks about the level of consciousness in and through bricolage.
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead to discuss his PhD. There is attention on how a film line becomes memorable and moves through space and time.
Yes, the time for Anne McLeod's mock exam is upon us! Steve, Tara and Anne rehearse the question and answer format for her confirmation of candidature for her PhD. Real time. Real answers. Weird things happened.
Anne, Tara and Steve are together again to talk about Anne's doctorate. But this is a special podcast, as Anne prepares for her conferment of candidature. And again, Tara and Steve enter the debate about whether Australia should have oral examinations for PhDs.
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead about his PhD. This is his first meeting where he explores the nature of memes and his interest in this topic.
Betsy Sullivan presents her research on how to teach Hamlet through Donnie Darko, and Donnie Darko through Hamlet.
Tara shares the expertise from her staff in the School of Teacher Education. She asked them what one piece of advice would they give to students just commencing their degree. The answers were revelatory and important.
Tara talks with Mary Taylor about professional placements and the value of an embedded practicum in teacher education. Mary's expertise in assisting teacher candidates in managing these stressful situations adds both light and insight into teacher education programmes.
Tara talks with Zeffie Nicholas about the challenges and the opportunities of international education. Particularly they explore the advantages of cross-cultural education.
Cameron Fraser talks with Tara about the AQ (Additional Qualifications) programme at CSU Burlington, Canada. They also talk through the specific challenges of educational leadership at the moment.
Tara and Anne - in this final podcast of the year - reflect on the first stage of their supervisory relationship and the progress in the research project exploring the notion of 'professionalism' in early childhood education.
Tara Brabazon talks with Marilyn Pietsch about remote placements in teacher education. Tara and Marilyn are joined by three students who experienced these placements.
Tara, Steve and Anne explore a pivotal breakthrough in her discussion of professionalism. Deploying semiotics on insignias, she demonstrates a great leap in her analysis of early childhood education.
Tara, Steve and Anne explore the shape of her research literature, while also pondering the shape of doctoral supervision.
Tara talks with Randa Khattar about sustainability, social justice and education. Why does sustainability matter in the life of a child?
Tara talks with Anne McLeod about her doctoral research, which investigates theories of professionalism in early childhood education. They discuss how theories of institutions, work and professionalism have transformed from the 1970s to the present.
Tara and Steve Redhead explore the phrases 'research active' and 'research inactive.' They discuss how these phrases used in higher education and what strategies can be enacted to ensure that academics are supported to write and contribute to knowledge.
Anne, Tara and Steve continue their discussion of Anne's thesis on the theories of 'professionalism' in early childhood education. Anne talks through her research questions, while Steve and Tara probe the consequences of empiricism and digitization on her research.
Tara talks with the remarkable Karyn Callaghan. They discuss the time and space of and for the child. Karyn also explains the value of visual arts and documentation in recognizing and affirming the rights of the child.
Tara talks with umar umangay, from the School of Teacher Education's Burlington campus. They discuss the role and function of postcolonialism in teacher education, with the goal and imperative to decolonize the curriculum.
Tara talks with the staff at the School of Teacher Education's Burlington campus in Canada about professional development. She asks the staff to explore how digitization has transformed PD in terms of time management, range of opportunities and the nature of expertise.
Tara talks with colleagues in the School of Teacher Education at the Burlington campus about the nature of 'innovation' in education. What is innovation and - more importantly - how do we as teachers enact it?
Tara talks with colleagues at the Burlington campus of the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. These staff - and our students - are in a special environment. They work in a Canadian campus of an Australian university. Such an institution offers an evocative world view and perspective on the potential of international education.
Tara talks with Anne for this seventh installment of her PhD podcast series. Three months into her doctorate, Anne's supervisors - Tara and Steve Redhead - are about to prepare her for writing the proposal. This podcast explores Anne's trajectory so far and enables her movement into the proposal. The questions to Anne are live and tough. Her answers and clear and inspirational.
Tara talks with Maria Hatzigianni about her journey to Charles Sturt University and her research in early childhood education. There is particular attention to play as a mode and method for learning.
Tara talks with Marilyn about the value to students and communities of regional and remote placements.
Anne and Tara explore how anchorage operates on images. There is attention to the complex and contradictory relationship between images and meaning in the iconography of teaching and teachers.
Tara and Loraine explore how interventions operate in Early Childhood Education. How and why do we change the lives of disadvantages children?
Associate Professor David McKinnon talks with Tara about science education: why he was drawn to it, and why it matters for contemporary students and the contemporary society.
Anne talks with Tara and Steve about the challenges involved in applying semiotics to education research.
Tara and Steve Redhead talk about Wellington, in Aotearoa / New Zealand. They explore city imaging and the specific creative industries agendas and policies in Wellington. Particular attention is placed on the transformative effect of the Global Financial Crisis on the very specific urbanity of Wellington.
Anne McLeod and Tara are joined by Steve Redhead for this week's podcast. Anne explores the role of visuality in her PhD and probes strategies to enable analysis and interpretation, rather than description, of these rich materials.
Tara Brabazon and Anne McLeod discuss how unobtrusive research methods are applied to the study of early childhood education in Australia.
Tara talks with international visitors to Charles Sturt University from the University of East London. Carolyn Silberfeld and Paulet Brown explore the changing nature of international early childhood education.
Anne talks with Tara about her PhD. They explore unobtrusive research methods and their appropriateness to educational resesearch.
Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project: the retention project at Charles Sturt University in Australia. In this final podcast, Tara asks them about the legacy of their project and how they have been personally and professionally transformed by their research.
Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about the STAR project at Charles Sturt University. In this fourth podcast, they talk about difference and diversity. How does the widening participation agenda impact retention?
Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their first year widening participation and retention project. This third podcast in the series explores assessment. How can effective assessment for first year students enable both learning and retention?
Tara talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project on widening participation and retention. In this second podcast, Georgina and Liam demonstrate the powerful - indeed causal - relationship between attendance and achievement.
Tara introduces Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing and their STAR project. This is a widening participation project and they explore the strategies to enable attendance.
Tara asks Steve Redhead why graduate students should read Erving Goffman. He probes the strengths and weaknesses of Goffman for current researchers.
Tara talks with Janine McCarthy to explore the challenges of university administration, management and leadership.
Tara offers ten tips to assist postgraduate students about to enter the oral examination for their PhD.
Tara talks with Anne McLeod about her PhD, which investigates the transforming nature of professionalism in early childhood education.
Belinda Waddell, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, introduces the key changes we can make in reducing waste and increasing efficiency in our universities. Belinda particularly focuses on waste water and paper. She argues that we can make a difference if we think before we drink, and think before we print.
Tara talks with Belinda Waddell, the sustainability champion in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. Belinda expresses clear goals and strategies for academics and administrators to explore when thinking about their use of water, paper and 'waste' materials.
Tara introduces a seminar by Dr Mike Kent exploring the relationship between theories of disability and elearning. Mike explores learning management systems and the future of accessibility.
Tara talks with Professor Bill Green about Murdoch University, higher education, literacy, language and politics. They explore a very particular, special and distinctive pathway through Australia's intellectual history.
Alan Bain talks with Tara about strategies to render universities more productive, socially just and collaborate. He explores his 'smart learning' project and the enabling smart tools that facilitate its development.
Tara talks with Professor Jennifer Sumsion about the importance of early childhood education. Jennifer's goal is to demonstrate the intellectual power and importance of thinking about early childhood education with rigour, creativity and imagination.
Rural education is often neglected and frequently invisible, being marginalized by the seemingly urgent and volatile conditions within urban environments. Tara Brabazon talks with Dr Kathryn Edgeworth about her research and teaching practice in rural education. They explore the impact of this neglect of the rural, and the transformative capacity of migrants in teaching and learning.
First students in our universities are threatened by the institutional consequences of plagiarism. Yet do teachers spend an equivalent amount of time teaching information literacy as they do frightening students about plagiarism? Tara asks her students how they feel about plagiarism and why it has become such an issue in the contemporary university.
Tara asks her Scholarship students - right at the start of their first year - why they enrolled at the University of Bolton. Their enthusiasm, honesty and belief in the future is inspiring.
Tara talks with students in the University of Bolton Foundation Degree in Art and Design. She asks them what they have learnt about art, education, motivation and learning.
Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Morecambe, a town in the north west of England. Morecambe has many claims to fame, including Eric Morecambe, his statue and remarkable tides. But it is through the Midland Hotel, a stunning Art Deco regeneration, that new reasons to visit the town have emerged. Through reclaiming modernism, Morecambe has modernised.
The Hillsborough disaster remains a deep wound in British - and international - football. When 96 Liverpool supporters died in a semi final 23 years ago, the tragedy continued with blame and shame displaced onto the victims. Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Hillsborough and the recent report that finally tells the truth about a bloody day in sporting history.
It is a cliche that we live in fast times, not careful times. One of the most relevant theorists of speed is Paul Virilio. Yet what can first year students gain from reading his work? Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about Paul Virilio and what his research and theories can offer to the understanding of accelerated culture.
Starting a university degree is one of the most exciting moments of our lives. Yet often, that first year is filled with confusion, worry and stress. Tara talks to some of her former students and asks their advice to current first years. They answer one question: if you could do your university degree again, what would you do differently?
In this, the final podcast in their five part series, Katie, Sabera and Tara probe the future of disability support and services in this difficult time for international higher education.
Katie, Sabera and Tara all work at the University of Bolton. In the fourth podcast of their series, Katie, Sabera and Tara talk about the specific experiences, conditions and practices in disability support at the University. Katie and Sabera show the impact of high quality support and care on the life and achievement of all students.
In this third part of their conversation, Katie, Sabera and Tara explore the challenges, difficulties and problems that confront all students in higher education and how an array of modifications can transform the experiences of individual students to create an evocative and effective community of learners.
Katie, Sabera and Tara continue their conversation about disability. In this second part, they explore the legal, social, cultural and personal definitions of disability and the impact of those definitions on higher education.
Katie Morris, Sabera Patel and Tara Brabazon talk about disability services and support at the University of Bolton. In this first podcast, they explore why universities should show an interest in disability.
What can teaching and research about children's literature provide to our wider understandings of literature and culture? Tara talks with Professor David Rudd about what drew him to the study of children's literature and its value in higher education.
Maria and Tara explore the role and function of educational technologies in universities.
A profound challenge in the management of higher education is ensuring the quality of teaching and learning. Tara talks with Dr Mark Scott about quality assurance protocols and their role in enabling reflection on teaching.
What are visual effects and how are they different from special effects? Tara Brabazon talks with Damien Markey, an academic from the University of Bolton, about the nature of visual effects and why it is an emerging area of university study and research.
Tara introduces Professor Steve Redhead's innovative assessment protocol for legal studies. Steve discusses the potential of cascading assessment for upper-level undergraduate students to enable research training.
Tara talks with Steve Redhead about teaching and learning strategies in law, legal studies, criminology and sociology.
Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about his use of podcasts in the teaching of law, legal studies and criminology. Steve explores the potential of podcasts to both time and space shift learning, while recognizing the challenges of the widening participation agenda in higher edeucation.
Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about the potential and challenges of teaching sport in universities. From leisure studies to sports journalism and entertainment and sports law, sport offers an innovative strategy to teach complex ideas in new ways.
Tara Brabazon asks Shirley Ward about the role of libraries, librarians and information literacy in higher education.
Gerry Rafferty is best known for one song: "Baker Street." Tara shows that his career captured the darkness and disappointments of popular music and celebrity. Coming from Scotland, the ability to emerge from a small nation and gain international success remains an important legacy of Rafferty's career.
Digital storytelling offers a great way to organize and express personal stories. Yet Tara shows that digital storytelling has a powerful function in education. Making abstract knowledge applicable knowledge, digital storytelling brings the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.
Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.
Too often, research students underestimate the time involved in editing their thesis or dissertation for submission to examiners. Tara asks her research students about editing: how they do it, why they do it, or why they choose not to do it.
Tara asks her undergraduate research students about their fears as they enter the examination process for their theses.
Tara investigates city imaging and how an understanding of geosocial networking can enhance the social, economic and cultural development of second and third tier cities
Tara explores the impact of speed on popular culture and our daily lives. Using the examples of fast food and slow food, she asks how injustice and inequality are managed, moderated or reinforced when we speed up or slow down our eating.
Tara explores the role of desire and sexuality in the configuration of popular culture. As examples, she explores textual poaching and slash fiction.
Tara and Steve Redhead have a conversation about how to gain a high mark for a research project. They discuss the key characteristics of outstanding student work.
Assisting students through to the submission of a major research project is difficult. To help them, Tara asked students to take on the role of an examiner and discuss the way in which they would assess an assignment.
Information literacy is integral to any research project. Tara asks her 4th year students to think about how they manage the diversity of online and offline sources that are available to them, to enable high quality research.
Tara asks her 4th year research students to probe the advantages and strengths of creative-led research. While there are challenges and risks when compiling an artefact and exegesis, the students log the power and potential of this form of scholarship.
Anjolaoluwa talks with Tara about her Capstone project exploring the lives of Nigerian Canadians. Using oral history, she aims to show the potential of 'blind listening' in countering racism and oppression.
Tara asks her 4th year students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology about why literature reviews are so boring. Her students offer options to enliven and excite this dull section of a research project.
Sammy talks with Tara about his project on J. Cole and how knowledge from popular music can shape and inform social debates.
Victor updates Tara on his multiliteracy and multiculturalism project. He explores the potential and challenges in attaching Canadian bilingualism to a multiliteracy agenda.
Leanne and Tara talk about beginnings and endings. They explore how to start a research project and how to evaluate its success.
Matthew Homer talks with Tara about the special type of research that emerges through creative-led projects. Matt explores how these projects are formed, the risks and challenges, and also the great gifts they offer to researchers through their careers.
Henry Huang is completing a research project on Manga. He talks with Tara about how technology is 'managed' within Manga, with attention to both its utopic and dystopic interpretations.
Most discussions of research methods are hooked into the social sciences and the sciences. Yet what can Communication Studies bring to an investigation of research methods? In this podcast, undergraduate students completing their final project explore the nature of this contribution and the specificity of humanities scholarship.
Dr Matthew Ingram and Tara explore the challenges that confront students during a research project. Matt argues that understanding the research process and taking responsibility for it are key characteristics of success.
Nicole Grifoni is conducting a research project on Drake. She is interested in how popular knowledges about heterosexual relationships are activated in his audience to create social change.
Nada Kabbara is enrolled as a 4th year student at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Tara talks with her about religious extremism, religious tolerance and how we create socially just communication systems.
Assumptions about research supervision are damaging. At the start of any research project, it is important to ask, note and understand student expectations for teaching, learning, research and supervision. Tara talks to her 4th year undergraduate students and probes their requirements of a research supervisor.
Once the research is completed, students may feel that the difficult slog is finally over and they can quickly and accurately write up their project and submit it with ease. Yet such an assumption is mistaken. Tara talks with Mick Winter about the writing phase of research projects. What are the distinctions between journalistic and academic writing? What is the best mode of expression? Can we ever edit too much? Mick answers these questions from his experiences in both graduate education and journalism.
Tara introduces her students from Capstone, the 4th year research project at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Students ask Tara the key questions to commence their research project.
Laura and Tara discuss how to organize time in a research project. How do you know when to stop reading? How valuable is that editing and drafting time? Laura and Tara explore the value of 'seeing' time' to structure time.
Research is difficult. It can be a pleasure, but the point of research is to challenge ourselves and challenge the limits of knowledge to discover something new. Tara concludes her 10 microlectures by discussing how to succeed in research and value the experience.
A rather depressing title to this podcast, but it is important to acknowledge the characteristics of poor research projects that may fail. Tara discusses the signs of research flaws, problems and issues and how students can correct these before submission.
When the research, writing and editing cycles are complete, students - quite rightly - feel that it is time to relax. However the key moment is still in front of them. Preparing the document for submission is crucial to a successful examination. Tara provides a checklist for students to deploy, to ensure that the examiner receives a high quality submission, rather than a document that does not present a student's work at its best.
The relief is real when the first draft of a research project is completed. However the marks - and the high grades - are given to the best edited and drafted documents. Polish creates excellence. Tara explores this difficult, time consuming and stressful stage of a research project, showing what examiners are looking for and how - and where - the marks are carried on a dissertatation.
Too often the phrase 'writing up' is used as a self evident and self explanatory phrase in research projects. Yet writing, researching and thinking are tethered in complex and intricate ways. Tara explores the writing 'stage' in research and shows that it is not a 'stage' at all, but a continual cycle of reflection through scholarship.
The online environment has opened incredible opportunities to research students. Yet how is this plurality of information and platform managed in current research projects? Tara explains - from the perspective of a supervisor and examiner - what is expected from a research bibliography in the 2010s.
Practice-led and creative-led theses and research projects have grown in popularity over the last twenty years. Often formed from an artefact and exegesis, they are not without controversy or challenge, particularly when passing through a process of examination. Tara evaluates the risk and potential of this special mode of research.
Along with research methods, the literature review is a constant - if dull - attendant to any programme of research. Yet literature reviews are not only done poorly, but are often pointless and obliquely connected to the research question or thesis statement. Tara ensures that the focus of the literature review is clear and frames the research effectively and carefully.
Teaching (and learning about) research methods is often the dullest of topics and courses. Yet methods are important, but perhaps not in the way in which they are conventionally taught. Tara talks about why methods matter, but why they must be at the service of theory.
The phrase "doing research" does not capture the complex stages and milestones between finding an idea and submitting a thesis or major assignment. Tara talks through the stages of a research project, understanding how and why examiners give high marks to some students and remove marks from others.
While the intensity of a research project is often focused on the days before submission, the success of a thesis or dissertation is often determined by the first few days of planning. Tara shows how to make that plan, and the tricks and tips that will create a successful research trajectory.
Tara introduces the fourth year research course in Communication at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology: Capstone
Tara talks with Steve Redhead and discusses the characteristics of research projects that fail, or are marginally successful. How can students avoid the pitfalls and errors in their research?
Research training is a major area of the contemporary academy. A key - yet underasked question - is the difference between theory and method. Steve Redhead and Tara explore 'the turn to methods' and the impact of this 'turn' on the scale, scope and quality of research.
Nicola and Tara talk about the capacity of podcasting for assessment in professional communication programmes.
Claire and Tara explore how podcasting can be used in assessment for professional communication programmes. Claire shows how complex ideas can be presented in new ways.
Tara discusses the availability and use of social science and humanities resources for students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. Tara and Steph explore the nature of 'new librarianship,' where ebooks outnumber paper-based resources.
How does where we are configure who we are? Tara explores the role of context in framing our mode of communication.
Tara talks with students about their experiences of Turnitin, the software that 'finds' plagiarism.
Tara and Steve Redhead discuss how to construct an annotated bibliography and research proposal for his course Cultural Studies of Law. The opportunities and challenges for students are discussed, along with potential sources.
Matt Homer talks with Tara about how podcasting can offer new and imaginative opportunities to think about news, current affairs, entertainment and information. Further, innovative new relationships are being created between the production and consumption of sound.
How can we use our voices to create connections between communities? Tara talks with Maggie Wouapi to explore the potential of podcasting in building social relationships and social change.
Tara talks with Mick Winter about the role of podcasting in professional communication. Mick explores the potential of podcasting for beginners and more advanced users, with advice for best use.
Tara talks with Dr Leanne McRae. They explore how podcasting can be used to enable and assist student reading and interpretation. Leanne outlines the benefits for international students in modelling scholarly processes and practices.
Tara Brabazon talks with Elizabeth van de Sande about her deployment of podcasting in high school teaching. Liz discusses the function of podcasting in assessment, reflection on assessment and the creation of confidence in students.
One of the great challenges of practice-led and creative-led research is how to both construct and align an artefact and exegesis. Too often, students neglect one element and do not integrate the distinct modes of their research. In this podcast, Tara talks with her former postgraduates about the challenges, benefits and mechanics of creating an artefact and exegesis. Besides Tara, this podcast features the voices of Nadine Caouette, Matt Homer, Mick Winter and Maggie Wouapi.
Assessment is one of the most frightening parts of first year at university for new students. Bobbie Yoong and Tara Brabazon talk about how to approach non-essay based assignments. Particularly, they talk about workbooks, scrapbooks and academic diaries. Bobbie also helps first year students by reflecting on her own experience.
Too often, particularly in a coursework MA programme, students assume that their work finishes when a paper is submitted. Tara explores the responsibilities of scholarship and the multiple methods of dissemination.
Tara explores the nature of oral history and oral historiography, particularly in digitized environments. When should an interview take place and how 'representative' are the findings?
Tara introduces unobtrusive research methods. When is it best to avoid focus groups, interviews and surveys and think about alternative research methods?
Tara's presentation introduces research methods. She explores the relationship between 'the how' and 'the why' of research.
Tara talks to Steve Redhead, asking him about the definitions and applications of critical criminology.
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his new book, Scan Me: Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes. They talk about the potential of local content delivered via mobile phones in an appropriate time and place. As part of geosocial networking, QR codes have found their historical moment. For further information, please refer to http://scanmebook.com.
What is the difference between (higher) education and training? Are students 'overqualified' for their first job? This podcast explores the consequences of tabloid fixations with an 'overqualified' workforce.
Tara asks Steve Redhead about prisons and popular culture. Why did he take university students on prison visits?
The iPad 2 is the archetype of proto-obsolescent technology. It embodies Thorstein Veblen's phrase 'conspicuous consumption.' Yet there is one company that makes iPad cases built on the bookbinding tradition. Dodocase, based in San Francisco, provides a reminder to users of new media platforms that skill, care and history must attend any decisions about rapid obsolescence and wasteful consumption.
Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon for the last time in the context of the MA Creative Media. Mick and Tara review ihis dissertation process and the entire programme, connecting 'learning' with 'doing.'
Tara Brabazon talks with Faracy Grouse about her sonic intervention. They discuss the challenges involved in transforming strong artefacts into strong research.
How do we open out universities to enable rather than disable? Tara Brabazon explores options in developing a rich sensory environment to enliven a learning environment for all students.
In this sixth session for his MA Creative Media dissertation, Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon discuss how his research is to be presented. Once the artefacts are finished, how does it link with the exegesis?
What is the relationship between popular and unpopular culture? Put another way, how does one song become a chart success and others do not? Tara talks about Ron Sexsmith's career and his new release Long Player Late Bloomer to explore how great music can become popular music.
Mick and Tara talk through his complete sonic pieces that aim to create defamiliarization in patterns of thinking about politics and social change.
Faracy talks to Tara Brabazon about her upcoming sonic intervention. She explores how remembering the analogue recofigures the place of digital platforms in our lives.
Faracy Grouse explains to Tara the development of her instruments. She conveys how they were built and the importance of recycling and sustainability in their construction.
How did the events of September 11 impact on the media and media research? This presentation asks if fighting fundamentalism with other fundamentalisms is the only option.
How do we explain the rise of the celebrity chef and the slow food movement? More potently, how is the relationship between food and popular culture transforming?
Why do newspapers 'encourage' comments from their readers? What is the point? In this podcast, Tara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on online comment cultures.
What happens to the analogue in a digital world? Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon, in this sixth session exploring Faracy's dissertation topic, asks why she is crafting analogue sonic objects. And what is happening with the old piano in the corner of Tara's office without any black and white keys?
In this fourth podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the structure and arguments to be expressed in his dissertation. We explore how and why sound creates social change.
Faracy Grouse, in this her fifth dissertation session with Tara Brabazon, states why she remains facinated by the analogue and what it can offer to humanities education.
A PhD oral examination is one of the most stressful events in academic life. But oral examinations have a shape. In this podcast, Tara presents the ten questions that often start or conclude a PhD exam.
Faracy Grouse and Tara Brabazon explore the function of disconnection from digital environments.
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon explore Gunther Kress and Robert Hodge's Social Semiotics. They ponder the nature of resistance and social change. Most importantly, they explore the function of sound and sonic social semiotics.
Tara talks with John Gill about his dissertation on the comment culture in online fora. Theories of community and otherness are discussed, along with the consequences of anonymity.
Tara talks with Steve Redhead about his new book, We have never been postmodern. They discuss the nature of politics and theory in the contemporary social sciences and the humanities and the currency of post/modernity in higher education.
Faracy and Tara discuss the key theorists for the building of her analogue and ephemeral instruments. Particularly she investigates the concept of randomness and unplugged moments.
In this second podcast investigating Faracy's MA dissertation exploring analogue instruments, she discusses with Tara the nature of an exegesis and its relationship with artefacts.
This podcast is the second in the series where Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon talk about his dissertation. In this week's podcast, Mick and Tara discuss the politics of sound and the role of sound in Mick's research.
Faracy Grouse introduces her MA Creative Media dissertation. Faracy is building instruments to be played by earth, wind, sun and water. She probes the value of 'the analogue' in digital times.
Some errors are more than errors. This podcast explores what particular stylistic flaws mean for the academics who find them.
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon conduct an orientation session on how to commence a dissertation for a Masters-level programme.
Mick Winter explores possible dissertation topics in the MA Creative Media programme. He also offer comments about the motivations for learning and returning to learning.
Tara talks to Dr Mike Kent and Dr Katie Ellis about their new book Disability and New Media. What is the current state of play in thinking about social media and social justice?
Klout has been a big mover in social media during the early stages of 2011. But what is the value of Klout for academics and universities?
Tara applies Harold Innis's Bias of Communication to create methods and models to move students and citizens from information obesity to digital dieting.
Is seeing believing? How can new visual media platforms challenge students to reconfigure and reimagine their environment?
Some universities are using podcasts for innovative functions, encompassing both marketing and research dissemination. Tara explores some of these strategies.
Tara asks what happens when Generation X assumes leadership. Can popular culture provide models for power? Thinking about Michael Winterbottom's The Trip and Kevin Smith's podcast network, Tara explores the future of old pop.
Talk of mobile learning underestimate the importance of time and space in education. This podcast reviews the brilliance of Harold Innis and his bias of communication.
What is the difference between popular cultural history and historical popular culture? Tara Brabazon explores how history is consumed.
Tara Brabazon talks with her soon-to-be completed PhD student Andreas Masouras. Andreas discusses content diversity and what communication scholars can learn from small nations.
This podcast captures Tara Brabazon's presentation for the seminar series titled "The Development of a vision for LSE library services," delivered live on November 26, 2010 at the LSE.
Matt Ingram's dissertation, which investigates the role of social media in leisure, work and education, will deploy artefacts and an exegesis. In this podcast, he discusses the artefacts to be used.
Nick Dunn discusses with Tara Brabazon the developments in his crowdsourcing project. When music becomes a service, rather than a product, how is it funded?
Matt Ingram discusses the development of his social media marketing project. Why are organizations and businesses moving to social media?
What is the relationship between academics and journalists? Can the Web 2.0 environment create closer relationships between these professions?
Matt Ingram, Nick Dunn and Tara Brabazon explore 'The Great Reset' - the changing relationship between work and leisure, production and consumption.
Tara Brabazon explores how librarians can use sound, and in particular podcasting, in their professional lives.
Tara Brabazon explores the value of popular cultural studies as a way to subvert the (easy) justifications of education, beyond 'art' and 'industry.' Lady Gaga dances her way to this different future.
Tara Brabazon talks with Matt Ingram about his MA Creative Media Dissertation. Matt asks how the new economic environment - post the credit crunch - has transformed content, context and marketing
What happens when new media become old media, and old media becomes redundant? Tara Brabazon explores the honesty of dead media in understanding the economic, social and environmental consequences of obsolescence.
Tara Brabazon talks with Nick Dunn about his MA Creative Media dissertation. He is exploring the use of social media to advertise remixing applications for the iPhone.
Tara Brabazon talks with Boniswa Vaz Contreiras at the end of her candidature, just before her journey back to Angola.
How can teachers and learners use social media for teaching and learning, rather than socializing?
Tara Brabazon uses her expertise as both a supervisor and examiner to show how to fail - and indeed how to pass - a Doctor of Philosophy
Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon present an orientation for distance education students. This is the second part of the orientation, where Mick asks his key questions about how to manage a distance education MA degree.
Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his experience and advice for distance education students enrolled in a graduate degree.
Tara Brabazon talks with students from the University of Cape Town, exploring their inspirations and aspirations.
Tara Brabazon explores the relationship between cultural studies and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.
What makes popular culture popular? Thinking about The Cascades' "Rhythm of the Rain," Tara Brabazon explores why particular songs become much more than a temporary success on the charts and travel through place and time.
Boniswa discusses how postcolonialism is activated in Angola, with attention to the city imaging of Luanda and education.
Tara Brabazon talks with Ana Kvalheim about her MA Creative Media dissertation about liminal spaces and identities.
Laura Nuevo talks to Tara Brabazon about her research into online infidelity. This project is the basis of her Master of Arts Creative Media dissertation.
At a recent Teaching and Learning conference at Middlesex University, Tara Brabazon discussed with staff their use of sound in education.
Laura Kinsella discusses her MA Creative Media with Tara Brabazon. She is particularly interested in how the Flip camera, by using media literacy theory, can moderate and mitigate some of the ethical challenges of visual ethnography.
Laura Kinsella talks with Tara Brabazon about the subject for her MA Creative Media dissertation. She explores the new types of visual ethnography enabled through the Flip camera.
Tara Brabazon talks with Danny Hagan about his MA Creative Media dissertation. Danny wishes to explore the liminal space and time between university and the workplace.
Tara Brabazon conducts the final review of Maggie Wouapi's research on podcasting in the Cameroon.
Tara Brabazon discusses with Abigail Edwards the outcomes of her MA Creative Media dissertation research. How did Abi find the research process? What were her results?
Tara Brabazon talks with Maggie Wouapi and Abigail Edwards about their MA Creative Media dissertations. Both are using practice-led research. In this session we discuss the role of the artefact in building their research project.
Tara Brabazon discusses with Paul Nataraj his vinyl memories project. He explores the loss of vinyl and its survival as a memory.
In his continuing conversation with Tara Brabazon, Paul Nataraj describes the progress of his MA Creative Media Progress. Particularly, he explores how memories are both invested in and disconnected from vinyl records.
Students are talked about rather than to. Therefore, Tara Brabazon wanted to find a way to talk with students to record their views.
Tara Brabazon discusses how to write an MA dissertation with three of her former students, Makrina Dionyssopoulou, Spiridoula Trivizaki and Yanni Papaioannou.
Tara Brabazon talks with her MA Creative Media students about the importance of studying media literacies.
Tara Brabazon talks with Paul Nataraj about his MA Creative Media dissertation, particularly asking him the process through which he will inscribe the memories onto the vinyl.
Tara Brabazon and Paul Nataraj continue their discussion of the role of vinyl in personal and popular memories. In this session, Paul discusses the interviews he has conducted.
Paul Nataraj is about to commence his MA dissertation at the University of Brighton. He explores his options and the challenges and opportunities in thinking about vinyl and (un)popular culture.
Tara Brabazon talks with Abi Edwards about her MA Creative Media Dissertation. She is investigating the life cycle of popular culture. What happens to popular culture when it dies? Where does it go?
Tara Brabazon talks with Abi Edwards about her MA Creative Media Dissertation. She is investigating the life cycle of popular culture. What happens to popular culture when it dies? Where does it go?
Tara Brabazon asks Julie Doyle about the advantages and problems of using sonic media to teach visual research methods
Tara Brabazon talks with Maggie Wouapi about her MA dissertation topic. She wishes to investigate podcasting in the Cameroon
Tara Brabazon asks Sarah Ison, a librarian at the University of Brighton, about the potentials of the online library for undergraduate and postgraduate students. There is particular attention on the use of Web 2.0 tools for the library profession and students.
Tara Brabazon talks with Venessa Paech about her MA Creative Media dissertation. She introduces the concept of the 'exile' - the difficult individuals in online communities and how they are 'managed.'
Paul Nataraj continues his discussion with Tara Brabazon about his research project into vinyl and memories.
Makrina Dionyssopoulou talks with Tara Brabazon about her PhD. Mak is investigating how small European nations are using social media to create new forms of identity.
Spiridoula Trivizaki talks to Tara Brabazon about her PhD, investigating senior citizens and their use of the online environment.
Spiridoula Trivizaki talks with Tara Brabazon about how ESL doctoral students manage a higher degree programme.
Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about Irvine Welsh, his writing and negotiations with popular culture.
Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about the nature of popular cultural time. Is it cyclical or linear?
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about his new project, MANC: modern, accelerated, nonpostmodern culture.
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about the night-time economy. What is it, and how does it align with economic development?
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about the future of football, after Hillsborough and the Premier League.
Why is there a confusion between an act of terrorism and an accident? Using the work of Paul Virilio, Steve Redhead explores answer to this question with Tara Brabazon.
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about the place of sport in the contemporary creative industries.
What is the relationship between speed and popular culture? Is popular cultural change increasing in speed?
Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about his memories of Tony Wilson, particularly remembering his support of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture.
Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about his memories of Tony Wilson, particularly remembering his support of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture.
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about the transformations to creative industries after the credit crunch
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about why particular cities are associated with popular musical success.
A microinterview between Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead, investigating theories of 'the accident.'
Tara Brabazon talks to Steve Redhead about the role of architecture in the creation of popular culture.
First year university students are too often the objects of study, rather than partners in learning. Tara Brabazon talks about how and why first year students write, using the inspiration of George Orwell as a starting point.
Tara Brabazon explores the use of the word 'excellence' in the contemporary university sector. What does 'excellence' in teaching and learning actually mean?
Tara Brabazon investigates City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. She presents an interview with City Lights' Event Manager, Peter Maravelis that discusses books, bookshops and politics.
Tara Brabazon explores the role and place of a lecture in online education. Do lectures still have a place in university education?
Tara Brabazon presents the views of her second year Media Studies students, asking why the field is discredited in the United Kingdom
Tara Brabazon ask what happens when debates about digitization are split between utopic and dystopic perspectives.