Tara Brabazon podcast

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Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate 01/23/2024

Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate How is digitization transforming doctoral education? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/29607538

Bloom 2 - Mpho Dube, midwifery research with love, dignity and care 10/24/2023

Bloom 2 - Mpho Dube, midwifery research with love, dignity and care 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/28415015

Bloom 1 - Megan Bayliss, Lived Experience, and the digital doctorate 10/18/2023

Bloom 1 - Megan Bayliss, Lived Experience, and the digital doctorate 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/28351529

Maive 28 - Headings 09/11/2023

Maive 28 - Headings 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/28003314

Maive 27 - CV 09/03/2023

Maive 27 - CV Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27929025

Maive 26 - Interpretations 08/27/2023

Maive 26 - Interpretations Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27861276

Maive 25 - Objects 08/18/2023

Maive 25 - Objects As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27793974

Maive 24 - Boundaries 08/12/2023

Maive 24 - Boundaries Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27733011

Maive 23 - Confirming progress 07/11/2023

Maive 23 - Confirming progress 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27437925

Maive 22 - Soundscapes 07/04/2023

Maive 22 - Soundscapes Sonic memos. Sonic notetaking. But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work? Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27368298

Maive 21 - Drift 06/27/2023

Maive 21 - Drift 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27287286

Maive 20 - Despair 06/20/2023

Maive 20 - Despair 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? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/27201675

Maive 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair 05/30/2023

Maive 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair 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? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26984673

Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional 05/23/2023

Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26927910

Maive 17 - Solid 05/16/2023

Maive 17 - Solid Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature. When is enough work - enough? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26852295

Maive 16 - Managing disappointment 05/09/2023

Maive 16 - Managing disappointment 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26790321

Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research 04/25/2023

Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26641914

Maive 14 - All Change 04/17/2023

Maive 14 - All Change Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26570964

Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue 04/03/2023

Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism. What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26434299

Maive 12 - Thinking about harm 03/27/2023

Maive 12 - Thinking about harm 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26360466

Maive 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology 03/13/2023

Maive 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26219154

Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded 03/06/2023

Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26145807

Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded 03/06/2023

Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/26145813

Maive 9 - Preparing for the confirmation of candidature 02/20/2023

Maive 9 - Preparing for the confirmation of candidature 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... /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25991169

Maive 8 - Clustering the literature 02/13/2023

Maive 8 - Clustering the literature Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25917618

Maive 7 - Research Headings 02/06/2023

Maive 7 - Research Headings 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? /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25849704

Maive 6 - Commitment 01/23/2023

Maive 6 - Commitment 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25705827

Maive 5 - The Soundscapes of Supervision 01/16/2023

Maive 5 - The Soundscapes of Supervision 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25626786

Maive 4 - Managing feedback 01/09/2023

Maive 4 - Managing feedback 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25551096

Maive 3 - The history of a place 12/20/2022

Maive 3 - The history of a place 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. /episode/index/show/tarabrabazon/id/25381932

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