Tara Brabazon podcast

Explore strategies for successful academic research planning, navigating challenges in research publication for early career researchers, embracing resilience in academic feedback handling, and overcoming obstacles as mid-career researchers. Discover the importance of mentorship, personal timelines, and creative inspiration in shaping research work.

Tara introduces an assignment exploring the role of food in art.  The image is titled "Mary, egg and croissant" and was photographed by William Klein.  The image is located at these urls:  http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30117891231012175/ andhttps://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2005-107-360

Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event.  They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.

We need - right now - a complex and intricate theorization of power and the state.  Louis Althusser provides scholars and citizens with that theorization.  Steve and Tara, in this sixth podcast in Theoretical Times, discuss Louis Althusser and why he is returning to intellectual fashion.

How do we align and enhance conventional scientific knowledge and indigenous knowledges?  Nicholas Ruddell has taken on this challenge for his PhD.  His goal is to help students and teachers align and combine world views to create an intellectual environment of excitement, motivation, knowledge and social justice.

What role should early childhood educators hold in play?  Tara talks with Kelly Tribolet about how to increase the movement, confidence and skill of children as they move their bodies through space.  

Anne has entered the analogue and digital archive to follow the traces of Terence Johnson.  Most famous for his book Professions and Power,  Anne is exploring with Tara and Steve how much of this sociologist's career has survived in the present.

Anne talks with Tara and Steve about her professionalism research in early childhood education. This has been a crucial week.  Anne has captured the key argument of her main theorist.  She knows him so well, she can tweet her thesis statement.

Dr Kristina Gottschall, from Charles Sturt University's School of Indigenous Australian Studies, explores the role, purpose and trajectory of 'the black kid' in Australian cinema.  

Elly Singer is an Associate Professor at the University of Utrecht Department of Developmental Psychology and University of Amsterdam Department of Education.  She delivered a seminar for the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University exploring play and the building of relationships between children and teachers.