Tara Brabazon podcast

Ethics clearances in research are time consuming.  They can be frustrating.  But why do research projects have ethical requirements?  Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.

Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.

Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.

Tara talks with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West on a fascinating and unusual topic.  OK.  You have a scucessful book.  How do you prepare a second edition?  And then a third?  What changes?  What remains?  What transforms?

Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.

In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc.  What is it?  What does it look like?  

Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?

Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.

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.

Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis:  an artefact and an exegesis.  Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory?  This week, we explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.

Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature.  What happened.  What were the surprises.  Why it matters.

Maive and Tara (over)share the stress of preparing for the Confirmation of Candidature.  It is a tough event in the life of PhD students.  But it is a proof of concept and not an examination...

Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD

As Maive is moving towards her Confirmation of Candidature, she is working on her report that will be assessed by assessors. What are the requirements of that document?  What headings will make a difference?

A PhD requires commitment:  of time and energy.  But it also requires a commitment to take a risk, and be courageous.  Maive and Tara talk about the commitment to ideas, and a commitment to a mode of writing.  And why that commitment matters to the form and content of research.

How do supervisors provide the context, the frame and the shape for student learning?  One rather unusual method is creating a soundscape for supervisors and students to share.  Tara and Maive talk about summoning 1975 through doctoral research and the power of supervisory soundscapes.

Maive, Tara and Jamie talk about how students can handle feedback, with attention to creating a record of learning for future publications and dissemnation.  The also talk about the different modes of feedback for the artefacts and exegeses in doctoral education.

How do we think about, remember, summon and research a place that no longer exists?  How do we understand an historic place?  Maive, Tara and Jamie talk about a past of meaning, resonance and power, without nostalgia. 

Maive and Tara talk about the importance of reading in rebooting and freshening a PhD process.  Reading new ideas and research can transform not only the writing process, but how the thesis is structured.

Welcome to our first podcast, introducing Maive's PhD thesis.  What is a creative PhD?  How is she structuring her research?  

Tara and Jamie talk about 'the suitcase scientist.'  They explore the synchrotron and its role, not only in scientific discovery but also urban, regional and national development.  How can mobile scientists enable mobile knowledge?

This is Tara's keynote presentation for the University of the Sunshine Coast.  She was asked to talk about the PhD as a marathon - and how to complete it.

We are approaching the first anniversary of Schafer's death.  The father of the 'soundscape', I take this moment and concept and probe the nature of higher education, and its soundcape.  In a visual age, how can an auditory academic transform our universities?

Too often - we value 'golden rules':  treat other people as you would like to be treated.  But what about 'platinum rules'?  Treat others as they want to be treated.  This podcast is derived from a piece for the Times Higher Education on assisting new supervisors to supervise a PhD with rigour, care, expertise and compassion.

Tara was asked by the Times Higher Education to talk about happiness and higher education.

How do you make a decision to write?  What does success in writing look like?  This session explores how to create the behaviour to write.

For this keynote presentation, Tara explores and develops the concept of claustropolitanism and its role in understanding a post-pandemic intern/nationalism.  At the end of the world, what is the fate of globalisation?

Join us for a special session exploring Tara's 12 rules for (academic) life

Join us for the special launch of Comma:  how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD.

Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton at the cusp of commencing his new post as a Head of School.  They discuss the nature of professional development - why it is as unpopular as teeth extraction - and how it can enable career progression.

What is creative research?  Tara probes the strengths and challenge of this mode of research and its importance in a post-pandemic university. This presentation was a keynote address for the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia in December 2021.

Tara presents her keynote for Hong Kong Metropolitan University.  This keynote was delivered on November 26, 2021.