
Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Latest episodes

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?

Nov 20, 2019 • 12min
Narelle Hunter 2 - Literacy. We're going mad with literacy
Well, the project has progressed. Narelle, Jamie and Tara start to sharpen the field and literature of literacy feeding into her disciplinary literacy research. And yes - a breakthrough.