Tarabrabazon's Podcast

How is digitization transforming doctoral education?

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 the academic CV and building momentum and a future.

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.