Episode Ten - Submission and examination
Tara Brabazon podcast
There is so much focus on supervisors and the candidature of a PhD. This focus reduces the understanding of the submission process and examination. Episode ten focuses on the crucial moment of a PhD. How, when and why it is examined.
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Episode Nine - Writing and editing
Tara Brabazon podcast
For episode nine, Jamie and Tara focus on the writing and editing of a thesis. And the importance and value of quality writing to enable quality dissemination.
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Episode Eight - Managing Failure
Tara Brabazon podcast
PhD projects - like research more generally - are filled with failure. Jamie and Tara talk about the importance of this failure and how it is a powerful moment in learning, development, transparency and accountability.
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Episode Seven - Managing Feedback
Tara Brabazon podcast
Whenever complaints are listed about doctoral programmes, a lack of feedback is the most common response from students. But what is feedback - and how can it operate with transparency, compassion, and usefulness? Also - why do students ignore feedback?
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Episode Six - Publications and the PhD
Tara Brabazon podcast
In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.
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Episode Five - Professional development and the PhD
Tara Brabazon podcast
Professional development is often as popular as teeth extraction. But Jamie and Tara talk aboout why it matters, and why it is meaningful for a productive research education programme.
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Episode Four - Relationships and the PhD
Tara Brabazon podcast
Jamie and Tara explore the vexed terrain of professional relationships during the PhD
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Episode Three - PhD Writing Cultures
Tara Brabazon podcast
Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.
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Episode Two - PhD Reading Cultures
Tara Brabazon podcast
Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.
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Episode One - Preparing for a PhD
Tara Brabazon podcast
In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.
info_outlineProfessional 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.