

Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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Jan 29, 2020 • 13min
Steps - Managing student perfectionism
Explore the impact of student perfectionism on PhD programs, including the genetic and societal roots. Discover practical strategies to help students manage perfectionism, cultivate resilience, and embrace failure. Learn about setting achievable goals, fostering adaptability, and reframing mindset towards growth and improvement.

Jan 29, 2020 • 16min
Steps - How to establish and maintain professional relationships between academic staff and PhD students
The characteristic of a successful PhD candidature is a strong relationship between academic staff and the PhD student. But what is a 'strong relationship'? This vlog explores the nature of a 'professional relationship' and its value in framing the student and academic experience of supervision.

Jan 28, 2020 • 14min
Steps - How do you know your student has finished their PhD?
Endings are important. So is quality assurance and standards. How does a supervisor know when a PhD is 'over' and the thesis will successfully pass through examination.

Jan 28, 2020 • 11min
Steps - Disciplinary Literacy
What is disciplinary literacy? How can this innovative term be used within doctoral supervision to enhance reading and research, and writing and dissemination?

Jan 28, 2020 • 45min
Steps - Rescue Supervision
This professional development session for PhD supervisors enters the vexed terrain of 'rescue supervision.' What is rescue supervision? What strategies are available for success?

Jan 8, 2020 • 30min
Narelle Hunter 4 - The CoC questions
Tara, Jamie and Narelle prepare Narelle for her CoC event. We ask questions in real time. Narelle handles the answers - as we expect - with flair and precision.

Jan 8, 2020 • 25min
Core 2 - Flinders Supervisory Training
Welcome to Core 2 - the second supervisory training session for Flinders University.

Jan 8, 2020 • 43min
Core 1 - Flinders Supervisory Training
Welcome to this first core training session for higher degree supervisors at Flinders University.

Jan 7, 2020 • 5min
Core Supervisory Training - an introduction
Tara introduces the Core Higher Degree Supervisory programme at Flinders University

Nov 28, 2019 • 11min
Narelle Hunter 3 - Yes - Multiliteracy
Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about multiliteracy and its relationship to disciplinary literacy. How can diversity be enabled - in curricula design and beyond - through multiliteracy?