Tara Brabazon podcast

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair." How can this theory enable Maive's research into King's Cross in the 1970s?

The relationship between the personal and the professional in supervisory relationships should be straight-forward. It rarely is. Maive and Tara - and with a late guest starring appearance from Jamie - probe the nature of supervisory relationships. Particularly when the supervisors are married. There are some controversies about married supervisors. We talk about it - from the student's perspective.

Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature. When is enough work - enough?

Managing disappointment is a necessity to survive in life. But during a PhD, disappointment creates a wash of emotions and internal dialogues. This week, Maive and Tara talk about how to manage disappointment each day, and throughout a candidature.

Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.

Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.

Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism. What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?

Harm is an important word. In life. In theory. Yet how does our research transform when 'harm' becomes the lens for research? Maive and Tara probe this concept.

Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis: an artefact and an exegesis. Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory? This week, we explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.

Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.