Tara Brabazon podcast

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Tara Brabazon podcast episodes

November 06, 2015 Steve goes solo
Steve and Tara explore the challenges of co-supervision and the advantages of - every now and again - going solo.
9 min
October 30, 2015 Anne McLeod 35 - Writing through the problem
Anne, Steve and Tara discuss how to manage the cul-de-sacs of doctoral life. They talk about how to manage the complexity of theory in a thesis while writing in a volatile environment for early childhood education.
9 min
October 30, 2015 Mark Brown 4 - Big life - big job - what about the thesis
Mark, Tara and Steve talk PhD strategy. How do we find those impossible hours for a doctorate in an already over-stuffed life?
8 min
October 30, 2015 Sunny Rue Chivaura 2 - Finding a voice
Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the specific challenges in gathering and understanding 'the voice' of African migrants in Australia. How do we maintain the integrity of their lives and narratives, but also create space for interpretation and analysis?
12 min
October 30, 2015 Mick Winter 24 - Writing a fieldwork diary (without the field)
Tara, Steve and Mick talks about the next stage of his research. He is now studying how and why particular moving lines are memorable. But can we learn some tips and tricks from sociological research?
9 min
October 28, 2015 Using indigenous methodologies in research
Myra Singh, with the support of her supervisor Jae Major, introduces the challenges and strengths of indigenous methodologies. Myra's project focuses on the meanings of 'success' for indigenous students. To enable this project, she introduces yarning as a method of data collection.
56 min
October 23, 2015 Mick Winter 23 - Bring me diamonds bro (sorting out the literature review)
Tara, Steve and Mick explore and express the challenges in constructing a literature review in a PhD. We talk about how to transcend the banal and boring and create a spicy and enlivening discussion of academic literature that is productive, powerful, passionate and imaginative.
13 min
October 18, 2015 How can PhD students build a CV?
In a competitive higher education environment, how can PhD students enable and develop their post-PhD career. Tara and Steve provide concrete and clear strategies to create a trajectory for a career while enrolled in a doctorate
25 min
October 17, 2015 Sunny Rue Chivaura 1 - Disinterring Stuart Hall
Tara and Steve introduce their new doctoral student, Sunny Rue Chivaura. Sunny talks about her project and its value to contemporary Australia. However there is also clear attention to how the theoretical work being completed in this doctorate will demonstrate a major reassessment of Stuart Hall's scholarship.
14 min
October 17, 2015 Mick Winter 22 - Doctoral Tourettes (standards standards standards)
Mick, Steve and Tara celebrate the arrival of 107 pages of research on memes. Steve and Tara acknowledge the achievement, but also push Mick to complete this large and remarkable section of his work.
7 min