Tarabrabazon's Podcast

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 and Natalie Hills offer an analogue Q and A session about PhD examination.

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.