Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about the STAR project at Charles Sturt University. In this fourth podcast, they talk about difference and diversity. How does the widening participation agenda impact retention?

Tara Brabazon talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their first year widening participation and retention project. This third podcast in the series explores assessment. How can effective assessment for first year students enable both learning and retention?

Tara talks with Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing about their STAR project on widening participation and retention. In this second podcast, Georgina and Liam demonstrate the powerful - indeed causal - relationship between attendance and achievement.

Tara introduces Georgina Sanger and Liam Downing and their STAR project. This is a widening participation project and they explore the strategies to enable attendance.

Tara asks Steve Redhead why graduate students should read Erving Goffman. He probes the strengths and weaknesses of Goffman for current researchers.

Tara talks with Janine McCarthy to explore the challenges of university administration, management and leadership.

Tara offers ten tips to assist postgraduate students about to enter the oral examination for their PhD.

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about her PhD, which investigates the transforming nature of professionalism in early childhood education.

Belinda Waddell, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, introduces the key changes we can make in reducing waste and increasing efficiency in our universities. Belinda particularly focuses on waste water and paper. She argues that we can make a difference if we think before we drink, and think before we print.

Belinda introduces further strategies to enable a sustainable University campus.