Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is exploring women in rural and regional areas and how they manage money through their lives and into retirement. Ros has discovered that the women in her research have a 'secret stash.' This podcast explores the rationale for the secret stash and probes what we learn about women, men, money and work.

The podcast discusses the challenges and surprises of starting a PhD journey, fieldwork strategies in Nairobi, the importance of the student-supervisor relationship, effective reading management, research tools, maintaining focus, and creating a research community. It also explores networking and support structures for students in various disciplines.

Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research. He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.

A major moment to share with podcast listeners. Anne is within one week of submitting her thesis. She shares with listeners the final strategies she deployed to finish a PhD via a part-time candidature.

Tara introduces the concept of multimodality. What does it mean? Why is it important? How can it enable research dissemination?

Tara's great friend Jac asked her to offer a perspective on mentoring. This commentary is a bit stroppy and direct, but may poke and provoke your thinking about mentoring. When you ask for a 'mentor' what are you actually asking for?

Tara and Steve talk about an undercooked and underdiscussed 'challenge,' 'problem' and 'issue' in doctoral education. What happens when the supervisor that starts with a student cannot finish them? Tara talks about the rescue doctorate. How do new supervisors finish a PhD student? What should PhD students look for? Welcome to the rescue doctorate!

Steve and Tara are supervising a terrific student researching an Australian police force. We have been discussing the methods available, including ethnography. What are the strengths and challenges of ethnography? How / can ethnography be used to study empowered members of our community?

Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story. We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this incredibly sad situation. Our love and respects to the memory of Dr Mick Winter.

Tara talks with Ellen Fraser-Barbour, a PhD student at Flinders University, about her research. She is exploring the resilience and autonomy of men and women with intellectual disabilities, and the violence they confront in their daily life.