Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara, Workshop presenter at CQU's Research Higher Degrees event, shares strategies for speeding up doctoral candidature. Topics include efficient time management for completing a thesis, maintaining structure in supervision, building a scholarly community for students, and handling challenges like deadlines and emotional struggles.

How have disintermediated media transformed doctoral education?  How can disintermediated media enable a productive, fair, rigorous, transparent and compassionate relationship between supervisor and doctoral candidate?  Tara shares her keynote address for Central Queensland University's Research Higher Degree Event, held in February 2016.

As Anne's work turns to the discussion of equity and the professions, Steve and Tara acknowledge Anne's fascinating andragogical strategies, using sound and sonic recordings to scaffold her argument.

Mark, Tara and Steve explore - and expose - the specific challenges when configuring a confirmation of candidature document for creative-led doctoral theses.

Tara, Steve and Mick talk about the challenges of doctoral research, particularly encircling the phrase 'an original contribution to knowledge.'

Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the use of sound to create a thinking space for doctoral education, particularly enlivening oral history methods.

How do you examine a PhD for the first time?  What are your expectations, assumptions and perspectives?  Are you confusing your personal experiences of completing a doctorate with the requirements of doctoral examination? Steve and Tara ask why - so often - the most inexperienced examiners are the harshest.  This podcast offers both training and an intervention to ensure that excellence and the maintenance of international standards remain the priority for early, mid and senior researchers.

What is a subculture and is this concept of relevance to the contemporary social sciences and humanities?  Tara and Steve discuss subcultures and postsubcultures and ask if style remains resistive.

Mick, Steve and Tara work through Mick's analysis of famous moments of filmic dialogue.  At the moment, Mick is finding some patterning, but nothing definitive.  Meanwhile, Steve and Tara attempt to preserve Mick's sanity as he applies the crystal meth of methods:  content analysis.

Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the next crucial stage of her project:  the oral history interviews.  They discuss the different mode and styles of interviews and the rich data that can be gained through oral historiography.