Tara Brabazon podcast

Plagiarism is a dark force in our intellectual culture.  But it is a proxy for a series of challenges in information literacy.  This Steps professional development session explores these proxies and how to intervene in the research culture of higher degree students.

In this professional training session for supervisors at Flinders University, we explore the reasons and rationale for completing milestones during a higher degree candidature.

For this professional development session, Tara introduces the higher doctorate.  What is it?  What is its value.  Most importantly, how do we supervise students to completion in this mode of specialist doctorate?

Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton about the futures of STEM.  The discussion probes multidisciplinary and skill development.  

How are emotions negotiated in the public sphere?  How do emotions rub?  This podcast presents the reading seminar on Sara Ahmed's The Politics of Emotion.

The majority of PhD students do not remain in universities after graduation.  The nature of university employment is precarious, part time and casualized.  Therefore, how can we enable employment options for our PhD students beyond higher education?  This step session - providing professional development for supervisors - provides some strategies to enable this pathway.  

Professional development is about as popular as teeth extraction.  What is ironic is that in universities - the home of learning - learning through professional development is deeply unpopular. This step session explores why times have indeed changed, and why professional development is crucial to the future of our higher degree students.  

The next episode of our 'Steps' programme for higher degree supervisors explores communication - and mis/communication - between students and their supervisors / advisors.  Why do so many students leave a doctoral programme?  Why do so many students change supervisors?  Part of the answer may be found in the mode of communication deployed by both parties.  This session aims to improve and shape the space between students and their supervisors.

Strangers. Skin. Postcoloniality. The alignment of these three terms are volatile and productive.  This reading seminar investigates Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters.

Welcome to our first reading group, exploring Sara Ahmed's Differences that Matter.