Tarabrabazon's Podcast

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?