Tara Brabazon podcast

Steve and Tara talk Theory. What is it - and why is it useful for researchers? In anti-intellectual times, is it the moment to bring back Theory (Capital T)?

Tara and Steve welcome Andrew Paterson to the podcast. Andrew discusses his powerful and fascinating PhD that explores the South Australian police force, stress, resilience and transformational organizational culture.

Tara shares her presentation for the Institute of Education, delivered in London on June 9, 2017. She explores the impact of the deficit model of learning for PhD students and how multimodal supervisory solutions can transform the lives and the success of students.

A record of the presentation is located here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/tara-brabazon-at-ucl-ioe-you-are-more-than-your-thesis-discarding-the-deficit-model-and-enabling-tickets-34951280220#

Tara Brabazon talks with Nazlin Bhimani, librarian and PhD candidate at the Institute of Education, London, to discuss plagiarism, academic integrity and research integrity for PhD students.

The best learning in a PhD programme is peer learning. Tara shares the expertise of Flinders PhD students discussing how to manage their expectations and the lived reality of a doctoral candidature.

John Reid presents his upgrade seminar for his PhD. The topic is indigenous male migration. In this powerful presentation, he summons the image, metaphor, theory and trope of 'the waterhole.'

Tara talks with John Reid about his PhD. What is the function of 'the waterhole' in cultural geography, or as a metaphor, a trope and a theory to understand indigenous masculinity?

As Tara is about to head off to Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, she talks with Steve about why regional education matters. The importance of universities in small cities and large towns is obvious and clear, but rarely recognized in public or education policy.

Sunny, Steve and Tara address the challenge of breaking up 110,000 words into refereed articles. Sunny has already completed two refereed articles and she discusses the surprises that emerge when she cuts up her thesis into new forms of writing, for new audiences.