Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Andrew Paterson about his remarkable PhD. Andrew interviewed 50 members of the police to listen to their experiences of stress, trauma, violence and police work.

His results are remarkable. Post traumatic stress is not inevitable. Instead, powerful - and cheap - institutional strategies can transform police and policing and first responder cultures more generally.

Tara has the pleasure of conducting a question and answer session with our PhD students on the cusp of submitting their PhD. What strategies do they have to offer? What are their fears and concerns?

Tara talks with Chris Bailey about his thesis exploring food literacy and nutrition literacy among adolescents.  He is aiming to create a measurement tool for food literacy.

What is health and unhealthy food?  How does that information become a literacy for young people?

Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is exploring women in rural and regional areas and how they manage money through their lives and into retirement. Ros has discovered that the women in her research have a 'secret stash.' This podcast explores the rationale for the secret stash and probes what we learn about women, men, money and work.

Tara introduces and welcomes new students to the PhD space. Importantly, this podcast offers peer learning. Current students work with the new candidates to enable their candidature.

Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research. He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.

A major moment to share with podcast listeners. Anne is within one week of submitting her thesis. She shares with listeners the final strategies she deployed to finish a PhD via a part-time candidature.

Tara introduces the concept of multimodality. What does it mean? Why is it important? How can it enable research dissemination?

Tara's great friend Jac asked her to offer a perspective on mentoring. This commentary is a bit stroppy and direct, but may poke and provoke your thinking about mentoring. When you ask for a 'mentor' what are you actually asking for?

Tara and Steve talk about an undercooked and underdiscussed 'challenge,' 'problem' and 'issue' in doctoral education. What happens when the supervisor that starts with a student cannot finish them? Tara talks about the rescue doctorate. How do new supervisors finish a PhD student? What should PhD students look for? Welcome to the rescue doctorate!