Tara Brabazon podcast

Making changes in our lives.  It is difficult.  But how do we decide when to make those changes?  And what evidence is useful to these transformations?

Tara and Priscilla talk about the challenges and difficulties when we compare ourselves with others.

Tara talks with Kelly about 'transitional commoning,' from her article titled, 'Can the commons be temporary?'  This discussion reveals how - even through disasters - life and transformations can emerge.  This research article is available here - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480 

Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching.  And learning.  In supposedly digital times.

Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.

In this first conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski, we explore her book chapter written with Dr Oona Morrow, exploring postcapitalist politics in and through life work.  (The chapter is available here via Google Books: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0MVgEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA82&dq=Postcapitalist+politics+through+the+sites+and+practices+of+life+work&ots=PiwxHSpCht&sig=23Uz_5QXzIUD7JxYKs6CaNe7k4I&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Postcapitalist%20politics%20through%20the%20sites%20and%20practices%20of%20life%20work&f=false)

So often teaching and learning are minimized or reduced, in favour of the major research project, or big grant. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the power of teaching and learning, to enliven our universities.

Impact and engagement.  These words pump through our universities.  But what do them mean?

Tara and Priscilla talk about momentum, and how to build a research career, against the odds.

Tara and Priscilla discuss how to build authentic and meaning community links, beyond the superficial metrics and the platitudes.

The news reports discussing universities around the world are negative.  Horrific.  Concerning.  This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about how to - against the odds - build a positive academic culture, to enable growth, development and opportunities.

Tara and Priscilla talk about the power and importance of role clarity and boundary management in our professional lives.

This is a recorded presentation of Tara's From SoTL to SoS and Beyond for the College Development Network in Scotland.

Priscilla and Tara talk about how to use PD to build a sustainable career.

So much of academic life is separated.  Atomized.  This week, Priscilla and I talk about how we maintain the connection between teaching and research.

Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore the specificity and power of a PhD in social work.

Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore why there is both value and meaning in considering the enrolment into a PhD - now.

There is so much focus on supervisors and the candidature of a PhD.  This focus reduces the understanding of the submission process and examination.  Episode ten focuses on the crucial moment of a PhD.  How, when and why it is examined.

For episode nine, Jamie and Tara focus on the writing and editing of a thesis.  And the importance and value of quality writing to enable quality dissemination.

PhD projects - like research more generally - are filled with failure.  Jamie and Tara talk about the importance of this failure and how it is a powerful moment in learning, development, transparency and accountability.

Whenever complaints are listed about doctoral programmes, a lack of feedback is the most common response from students.  But what is feedback - and how can it operate with transparency, compassion, and usefulness?  Also - why do students ignore feedback?

In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.

Professional development is often as popular as teeth extraction.  But Jamie and Tara talk aboout why it matters, and why it is meaningful for a productive research education programme.

Jamie and Tara explore the vexed terrain of professional relationships during the PhD

Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.

Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.

In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.

There is much talk about aspirations, inspirations and motivations.  But how do we cut away the clutter to build a meaningful and actionable goal?  This podcast with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the power and value of specifying a goal that matters.

This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.

Tara and Priscilla talk about care.  In our tough times, caring seems the least of our concerns.  But following on from the remarkable Professor Waghid, a caring infrastructure is transformative for our organizations.

Burnout is one of those words.  It masks as much as it reveals.  Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.

Ethics clearances in research are time consuming.  They can be frustrating.  But why do research projects have ethical requirements?  Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.

Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.

Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.

Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.

In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc.  What is it?  What does it look like?  

Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?

Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.

How is digitization transforming doctoral education?

Tara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women.  Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations.  In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.

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.