Tara Brabazon podcast

Welcome to our first reading group, exploring Sara Ahmed's Differences that Matter.

PhD students require a portfolio of support. Often forgotten is the 'contact officer.' But what is a contact officer and how can they create the early, quiet resolutions that are so beneficial to doctoral education?

Professional 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.

Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education. Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, explores the importance of sponsorship and sponsored students and how the relationship is fostered and developed.

A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. What is a PhD by prior publication? How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?

This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity. This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about professional development, work and supervision in tough times for students and the world.

Are you interested in disseminating research with clarity, precision and purpose? Are you interested in finding new audiences for complex ideas? Then it is time we talk about multimodality.

Mobility - and Mobility Studies - is a potent and expansive way to think about power and inequality. But what is mobility - and why does it matter?

What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?

This next episode of Smash Cut - the accelerated professional development programme for higher degree students - explores Oral History. While other research methods focus on representativeness and repeatability, Oral History interviews have a different function.