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Tara Brabazon podcast
by Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Episodes
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Internationalism and Higher Education - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Internationalism is so important to life, universities and the development of knowledge. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the gift and power of internationalization, even - particularly - in xenophobic times.
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Beyond Reactive Protection - a conversation with Emily Wong
Tara talks with her friend and colleague Emily Wong, from Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, about her recently published article, "Reactive Protection: Building Child-Save Systems for Hong Kong's Future." It is a great provocation of an article, transforming our thinking about the rights of...
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Interrupted Careers - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk West
What does it mean to have a career 'break'? What is a career 'interruption'? Professor Priscilla Dunk-West and I talk about the idea of 'interruption' - and what we learn about a working life through it... And - indeed - a life...
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Deciding to do a doctorate - A conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 4
This week, Tara and Suzanne talk about that pivotal decision. The decision to do a doctorate. How is that decision made, and what information is required to make it?
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Cultivating Commoners - A conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski
How does an individual, collective and community transform in tough times? Kelly and Tara talk about how infrastructures of care can transform individuals and their relationships with the world. This is a delicate conversation about land, gardens and encounters beyond 'the human.' Let's talk…
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Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 3 - The textures of silence
Interviews and surveys are common in qualitative research. But Suzanne has constructed her interviews in a completely original way. Multimodal. Textured. This week, we talk about the role of silence in interviews. How do we understand and value silence? How do we render it meaningful in research?
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Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 2 - Interviewing in different ways
This week, Suzanne and Tara talk about interviewing in research. In qualitative methods, it often seems a default strategy for data collection. Suzanne talks about how she approached interviews through a different lens.
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Pay yourself first - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Our needs and goals are - so frequently - marginalized to enable the life and career of others. How do we transform this balance between our aims and hopes - and the imperatives of others?
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Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen - 1
Welcome to our first conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen. Suzanne has one year to go on her PhD. Let's share this time.
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Isolation in academic life: a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla discuss the odd and unique isolation and atomization in academic life.
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How do we balance the emotions of care with the labour of care? A conversation with Kelly Dombroski
How do we balance the emotions of care with the labour of care? To answer this question, Tara and Kelly talk about Kelly's article titled "Communities of Care in the Nitty-Gritty of Commons-Work." The article is available to read from here: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5956217
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How do we decide to make changes in our professional lives? A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
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?
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Comparisons - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about the challenges and difficulties when we compare ourselves with others.
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Transitional commoning - a conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski
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 -...
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Embodied teaching and learning - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching. And learning. In supposedly digital times.
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Meaningful teaching and learning cultures - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.
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Conversations with Kelly 1 - Postcapitalist politics through the sites and practices of life work
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:...
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The gifts of teaching and learning - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
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.
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Impact and engagement - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Impact and engagement. These words pump through our universities. But what do them mean?
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How to develop a research trajectory
Tara and Priscilla talk about momentum, and how to build a research career, against the odds.
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Community Connections - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla discuss how to build authentic and meaning community links, beyond the superficial metrics and the platitudes.
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Building a positive academic culture
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.
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Boundaries and boundary management - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about the power and importance of role clarity and boundary management in our professional lives.
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From SoTL to SoS and Beyond
This is a recorded presentation of Tara's From SoTL to SoS and Beyond for the College Development Network in Scotland.
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Professional Development and future proofing your career
Priscilla and Tara talk about how to use PD to build a sustainable career.
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Connecting teaching and research - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
So much of academic life is separated. Atomized. This week, Priscilla and I talk about how we maintain the connection between teaching and research.
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The specificity of the social work PhD
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore the specificity and power of a PhD in social work.
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Why do a PhD now?
Tara and Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explore why there is both value and meaning in considering the enrolment into a PhD - now.
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Episode Ten - Submission and examination
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.
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Episode Nine - Writing and editing
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.
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Episode Eight - Managing Failure
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.
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Episode Seven - Managing Feedback
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?
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Episode Six - Publications and the PhD
In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.
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Episode Five - Professional development and the PhD
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.
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Episode Four - Relationships and the PhD
Jamie and Tara explore the vexed terrain of professional relationships during the PhD
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Episode Three - PhD Writing Cultures
Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.
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Episode Two - PhD Reading Cultures
Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.
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Episode One - Preparing for a PhD
In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.
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Goal settings in our working lives - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
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.
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The power of academic mobility
This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.
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A caring infrastructure - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
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.
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Burnout - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Burnout is one of those words. It masks as much as it reveals. Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.
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Ethics - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
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.
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Research leadership and research management - a Conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.
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A conversation about Menopause - with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.
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From Passion to Traction: The skills needed for a postdoc
Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.
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Pondering a Postdoc
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?
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Doug Boothey 2 - Social capital, consciousness and social responsibility
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?
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Doug Boothey 1 - Learning from the past
Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.
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