Tarabrabazon's Podcast

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.

Welcome to our first reading group, exploring Sara Ahmed's Differences that Matter.

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.

Welcome to this short professional development exploring creative industries.

In this professional development session, we explore unobtrusive research methods.

Tara presents her flipped keynote for the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.    Join the online chat.  See you on September 25!  https://twitter.com/AWGSA1/status/1299538650972082176   Here are the 12 Rules. Rule 1             Always ask why. Rule 2             Be an intellectual and make your choices about the mode. Rule 3             Laugh like a Medusa and maintain the confidence of a mediocre white man. Rule 4             Empowered groups have to be very confident in their power to give some away. Rule 5             Intellectual generosity is the foundation of scholarly life. Rule 6             Just because you work in higher education does not mean you are an expert in higher education. Rule 7             Freedom to read is more important than freedom of speech. Rule 8             Be a leader, rather than complain about leadership. Rule 9             Teaching matters.  Learning matters more. Rule 10           Women are humans, citizens, and fully formed people. Rule 11.          Respect t

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.