Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.

Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism.  What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?

Harm is an important word.  In life.  In theory.  Yet how does our research transform when 'harm' becomes the lens for research?  Maive and Tara probe this concept.

Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis:  an artefact and an exegesis.  Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory?  This week, we explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.

Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature.  What happened.  What were the surprises.  Why it matters.

Maive and Tara (over)share the stress of preparing for the Confirmation of Candidature.  It is a tough event in the life of PhD students.  But it is a proof of concept and not an examination...

Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD

As Maive is moving towards her Confirmation of Candidature, she is working on her report that will be assessed by assessors. What are the requirements of that document?  What headings will make a difference?

A PhD requires commitment:  of time and energy.  But it also requires a commitment to take a risk, and be courageous.  Maive and Tara talk about the commitment to ideas, and a commitment to a mode of writing.  And why that commitment matters to the form and content of research.

How do supervisors provide the context, the frame and the shape for student learning?  One rather unusual method is creating a soundscape for supervisors and students to share.  Tara and Maive talk about summoning 1975 through doctoral research and the power of supervisory soundscapes.