
Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Latest episodes

Jan 10, 2021 • 9min
Step Contact Officer
PhD students require a portfolio of support. Often forgotten is the 'contact officer.' But what is a contact officer and how can they create the early, quiet resolutions that are so beneficial to doctoral education?

Jan 2, 2021 • 35min
Steps Supervising a posthumous thesis
Professional development is important, if earnest. This Steps session probes the saddest of supervisory experiences: the posthumous thesis. We explore the policies and procedures to enable the submission, but also the key emotional challenges for the student's family and the supervisors. We also place attention on examiners and examination.

Dec 29, 2020 • 27min
Steps Sponsors, sponsorship and sponsored students
Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education. Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, explores the importance of sponsorship and sponsored students and how the relationship is fostered and developed.

Oct 24, 2020 • 20min
EPSW - Supervising a PhD by Prior Publication
A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. What is a PhD by prior publication? How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?

Oct 6, 2020 • 34min
The supervisory charter and student diversity - a BGL training session
This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity. This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about professional development, work and supervision in tough times for students and the world.

Sep 29, 2020 • 21min
Smash Cut - Multimodality
Are you interested in disseminating research with clarity, precision and purpose? Are you interested in finding new audiences for complex ideas? Then it is time we talk about multimodality.

Sep 29, 2020 • 10min
Smash Cut - Mobility
Mobility - and Mobility Studies - is a potent and expansive way to think about power and inequality. But what is mobility - and why does it matter?

Sep 29, 2020 • 12min
Smash Cut - An intellectual life
What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?

Sep 24, 2020 • 21min
Smash Cut - Oral History
This next episode of Smash Cut - the accelerated professional development programme for higher degree students - explores Oral History. While other research methods focus on representativeness and repeatability, Oral History interviews have a different function.

Sep 17, 2020 • 24min
Smash Cut - Creative Industries
Welcome to this short professional development exploring creative industries.