Tarabrabazon's Podcast

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.