Busting Buzzwords

This episode features the term ‘Interdisciplinarity’.

In this episode, we sit down with Eamonn Murphy, who, at the time of recording, was about to complete his studies at the University of Sydney and be awarded the prestigious University Medal for his Honours thesis. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Class I in French and Francophone Studies, bridging his expertise between the University of Sydney Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the University of Sydney Law School.

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Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgements:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

• Recorded on Gadigal Country at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, FASS Media Room (FMR)/The University of Sydney

• Edited by Digital Media Unit (DMU) staff:

Dominique Altamura | Digital Technology Officer, Production Assistant & Tyler Mahoney | Digital Technology Officer, Media Production

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the phrase ‘AI’.

This episode, we welcome on the pod Dr Jonathan K. Kummerfeld, who is a Senior Lecturer (ie., research tenure-track Assistant Professor) in the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney. He works on Natural Language Processing, with a particular focus on systems for collaboration between people and AI models, including in dialogue and crowdsourcing.

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Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the phrase ‘AI AVATARS’.

We’re back again, this time with Dr Carmen Vallis. Carmen is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Development at the University of Sydney Business School, where she enjoys leading co-design teams to creatively solve educational problems. Her expertise is in writing, learning design, and postdigital research in educational technology. She is an Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, and spends way too much time on her laptop.

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the phrase ‘LEARNING SPACES’.

This time, we welcome Alison Casey, who is a Senior Lecturer in Educational Development with the Business Co-Design team at the University of Sydney and has enormous enthusiasm for and extensive experience in teaching in all its forms. Alison currently leads co-design projects with Business School academics to provide students with better learning experiences. Originally a scientist, she has developed and taught curricula in both quantitative and qualitative subjects. Her expertise is in active learning pedagogies, students as partners practice,  engaging with generative AI in teaching and learning, and authentic assessment.

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠⁠⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the word ‘ENGAGEMENT’.

This time around, we welcome Kirsten Andrews on the pod. Kirsten joined The University of Sydney in 2013 as Head of Media and PR before becoming Director of Media and Government Relations.  She then spent three years as Chief of Staff to the Vice-Chancellor.

Prior to joining the University, Kirsten held senior positions in government and the not-for-profit sector, including at the National Heart Foundation, as Chief of Staff to a federal minister, and Deputy Director of Communications to the Premier of New South Wales. She began her career at the University of South Australia, where she worked in public affairs and student recruitment.

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the phrase ‘PEER REVIEW’ in teaching.

Our guest for this episode is Samantha Clarke, a marine geologist who found her way into academic development, working with educators to improve learning experiences for all students. As a Senior Lecturer in the Educational Innovation team at the University of Sydney, she leads programs focused on teaching development and peer review. As Program Director for the Peer Review of Teaching program, she's passionate about making the process supportive, connecting educators, and celebrating the great teaching that's already happening. 

Connect with Samantha: @samanthalclarke

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠⁠Clara Sitbon⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠Ben Nickl⁠⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠⁠karencyho.com⁠⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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In this out-of-turn episode ahead of the new season of Busting Buzzwords, Clara and Ben reflect on ways of speaking about and giving an Acknowledgement of Country in Australia in ways that are both respectful and truthful to them as educators at The University of Sydney. Rather than relying on pre-formulated phrases, the hosts, who are both migrants to Australia, explore how to find their own words, acknowledge Country with honesty that is meaningful to oneself and to the truth of Country we all live, walk, and work on, and recognise the living significance of Indigenous sovereignty.

This conversation cites Shelley Reys's TEDxSydney "Deliver an Acknowledgement of Country that really means something". It is available on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxo18_7BDt4

From the video description: "Shelley Reys AO is a Djiribul woman of far north Queensland, Australia, and a respected Indigenous specialist, strategist and service provider. Shelley has been a leader in the reconciliation space for 30 years and as CEO of Arrilla Indigenous Consulting, has been helping the Australian workforce to work in the Indigenous space with greater skill and confidence. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community."

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: ⁠Clara Sitbon⁠ and ⁠Ben Nickl⁠

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at ⁠[email protected]⁠

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

• Karen Ho: visual design and cover art, @karencyho on Instagram or check out ⁠karencyho.com⁠
• Jacob Craig: audio production.
• Tyler Mahoney: episode recording.

• FASS Media Room: episode recording studio/main recording venue (located on Gadigal Country of the Eora Nation).

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

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This episode features the word ‘ASYNCHRONOUS’.

Last but most certainly not least, we close out season 1 of ‘Busting Buzzwords’ with episode 5 and our guest Jacob Craig. Jacob blends audio engineering expertise with a passion for experimental music. His Master’s in Creative Sound laid the foundation for a diverse career spanning from the Banff Centre in Canada to a major film scoring studio in Southeast Asia. Jacob founded an experimental record label and has held key audio engineering roles internationally. Now at Sydney University, he applies his technical skills to advance video and audio research and

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on Instagram: @busting.buzzwords

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

 Hosts: Clara Sitbon and Ben Nickl

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email us at [email protected]

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

We thank Michael West as a member and representative of

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This special episode features the word ‘YAAMA’.

Rather than our usual aim to bust a buzzword, here in

Tracey is a Lecturer in the Discipline of Indigenous Studies

If you’d like to read or hear or see more from and about Tracey, you can check out her academic profile here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/tracey-cameron.html or follow these links:

https://honisoit.com/2017/03/yaama-tracey-ngaya/

https://soundcloud.com/usydslc/reviving-the-gamilaraay-language-tracey-cameron-priscilla-strasek

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/awaye/features/word-up/word-up/8415166

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-1-introducing-deep-listening-tracey-cameron/id1690304005?i=1000615097730

You can also find us and leave comments and likes on

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

Hosts:

Clara Sitbon and Ben Nickl

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the

We thank Michael West as a member and representative of

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This episode features the word ‘IMPACT’.

Episode 3 brings us the most amazing duo that is Ksenia Sawczak and Katherine Kenny. Ksenia is the Head of Research and Development in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at The University of Sydney, and Katie is the Deputy Director of the Sydney Centre for Healthy Societies and a Senior Research Fellow in the Disciplines of Sociology & Criminology.

You can find some of Ksenia’s articles that she wrote for The Conversation Australia here: https://theconversation.com/profiles/ksenia-sawczak-1247345/articles. She is an expert in higher education policy and research management and is steeped in thought leadership management in the higher education sector.

Here is Katie’s academic research profile: https://www.sydney.edu.au/arts/about/our-people/academic-staff/katherine-kenny.html. Next to being an ARC DECRA Senior Research Fellow, and SOAR Prize recipient in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Sydney, she is also the Editor in Chief of Health Sociology Review (2023-2026).

When we talked to both of them, we were lucky enough to find out more about Ksenia’s take on translating research impact for the public, which Katie’s project Picturing Cancer Survivorship demonstrates: https://www.picturingcancersurvivorship.org/

*Editors’ note: Ksenia would like to add an update. Since

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Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

Hosts: Clara Sitbon and Ben Nickl

Have a buzzword you’d like us to talk about? You can email

Production Credits and Acknowledgments:

We thank the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the technical team for their invaluable support.

We thank Michael West as a member and representative of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council for recording a Welcome to Country segment for the podcast's pilot season. We thank the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council for the opportunity to collaborate on this project and hope to continue in future. Please note that Michael West/the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council holds the sole copyright to the Welcome to Country segments. No reproduction, edits, or re-use of any kind of these segments is permitted without express and written confirmation from Michael West and the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council.

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