From SoTL to SoS and Beyond
Tara Brabazon podcast
This is a recorded presentation of Tara's From SoTL to SoS and Beyond for the College Development Network in Scotland.
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Professional Development and future proofing your career
Tara Brabazon podcast
Priscilla and Tara talk about how to use PD to build a sustainable career.
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Connecting teaching and research - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara Brabazon podcast
So much of academic life is separated. Atomized. This week, Priscilla and I talk about how we maintain the connection between teaching and research.
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The specificity of the social work PhD
Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore the specificity and power of a PhD in social work.
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Why do a PhD now?
Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore why there is both value and meaning in considering the enrolment into a PhD - now.
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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.
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.