Tara Brabazon podcast

When is the right time to complete a PhD? What topics will sustain your interest? In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness. Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and remote living, working and researching.

What do we do when ideas in a chapter are fragmented? How do we create a streamlined argument? This week, Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the role of headings in the drafting stages of research.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.

As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.

In the middle of a PhD, it is difficult to confirm that the work is of standard and being produced at the necessary speed. Jamie, Maive and Tara talk about how to confirm progress.

Sonic memos. Sonic notetaking. But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work? Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore psychogeography. Specifically, we probe 'drift.' We have discovered a key theory and trope. This session explores a distinctive way of thinking about PhD supervision, and the gift of weekly meetings.

How do we understand - how do we research - despair? Case and Deaton explored 'Deaths of Despair'. But how can Maive explore despair while theorizing the historical transformations of class?