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The Whisper Collective is inspired by art collectives who, through the ages, have come together with shared purpose and vision. We value openness, generosity and kindness and search out others who share these values.We want to be the kind of academy we want to see: inclusive, empowered, engaged and kind. We have been holding small networking events in Australia since 2015 and COVID-19 has inspired us to open these to the world. Enjoy our conversations from #Whisperfest events and specially curated episodes about various topics of studying and working in higher education. The Whisper Collective is bought to you by the Whisper Collective: The Research Whisperer team, Tseen Khoo and Jonathan O’Donnell, Narelle Lemon from The Wellbeing Whisperer via Explore & Create Co, and The Thesis Whisperer, Inger Mewburn.
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This pod explores the topic of writing and fear via an interview by Cristina Munoz with the legendary writing teacher Peter Elbow. Hear how Peter approaches the problems of the blank page and Cristina's reflection on her own developing practice as a writer.This pod is part of a series called 'Your Brain on Writing', facilitated by Prof Inger Mewburn and Prof Paul Magee as part of the Centre for Public Awareness of Science internship program at ANU.
1Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the eighth.Mindfulness is about being present in the moment with your writing, but there may be difficult feelings there. It can help to move from rehearsing how badly you feel, to articulating a beneficial wish for everything and everyone around you, including yourself. And apply it more specifically to your writing practice. This practice comes from Chapter 8, ‘Conclusion’ in ...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the seventh.You will need to write an Acknowledgements section in your thesis, and you can have fun working out who you will thank and how you’ll include acknowledgements in your thesis. But you might also want to make a less formal, less constrained, more honest version. Here, for example, is my gratitude list. This practice comes from Chapter 7, ‘Rewriting’ in Writing Well an...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the sixth. Some days, what we need is moderation. Your breath can help you get into the right headspace for that too. Here is an equal breath practice for balanced thinking.This exercise is all about the counting. It’s just complicated enough that you can’t multitask. The equal breathing means your brain should settle into a state that’s not too sleepy and not too fired up but just-Goldil...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the fifth.Taking a deep breath often makes us think about calming down. But we can use our breathing to get fired up too. The other part of the ‘flight and freeze’ response is the ‘fight’ instinct. If you find feeling like fighting gets you excited about writing, then a calming breath isn’t going to help you, you’ll need something to fire you up instead. Here is an energizing breath for firing...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the fourthBreathing is amazing. Your brain checks in on your breathing to find out how things are going in the body, including to work out if it should help out by pumping out stress or calm reactions. So choosing your breath can help you influence your emotions. If you sit down to write and feel your ‘flight’ or ‘freeze’ stress reaction activate because you want to run away from the scar...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the third.The English-language proverb ‘they can’t see the forest for the trees’ means that someone is so involved in the details (the trees) that they can’t see the big picture (the forest). As a PhD researcher, you need to spend a lot of time looking at tiny details. Microscopic particles, items of code, codicils, footnotes, referencing databases and commas. Sometimes you need to look at the...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the second.As you sit down to work at your computer, check in with your task, time, energy, body and mind. What would make your writing five to ten percent more productive? What would make your writing five to ten percent more joyful, luxurious, or comfortable? This practice comes from Chapter 3, ‘Writing’ in Writing Well and Being Well for your PhD and Beyond. As I wrote the fi...
Welcome to a series of eight episodes that focus on writing well and being well for writing. This is the first. Put your headphones on, lace up your shoes, and plan to get away from your desk with a walking practice to help stir up thoughts and get your writing going. This practice comes from Chapter 1, ‘Reading and Thinking’ in Writing Well and Being Well for your PhD and Beyond. In A Philosophy of Walking, Frédéric Gros explores ways that walking and thinking are intertwine...
Do you struggle to find time to write? Do you get distracted by important or urgent tasks, feel blocked, or fail to make progress with writing projects? Does writing often feel like a grind? If so, this interview with Prolifiko's Bec Evans and Chris Smith are the experts you need to hear from! They're in conversation with the Research Whisperers, Tseen Khoo and Jonathan O’Donnell.Bec and Chris’ expert-led training and coaching programmes improve writing productivity and publishing performance...
This podcast episode is with the wonderful minds behind the Conference Inference blog, Jamie Burford and Emily Henderson, both based in the Department of Education Studies at the University of Warwick in the UK. They both research in the area of International Higher Education, with a shared focus on conferences, doctoral education, academic mobilities, gender, and queer theory. Together, they founded the academic blog Conference Inference, which is a hub for thinking about and researching con...
Join: Narelle Lemon, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Malgorzata Powietrzynska, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA Linda Noble, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA Joanna Higgins, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Suskya Goodall, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Catherine Hoyser, University of Saint Joseph, USA Jane Dalton, University of North Carolina, USA This IN CONVERSATION event explores the myraid of cont...
Join: Narelle Lemon, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Bertha Chin, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak, Malaysia Borneo Bron Eager, The University of Tasmania, Australia Kay Hammond, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Megan McPherson, The University of Melbourne This IN CONVERSATION event explores how our story telling widens the conversation about wellbeing and self-care in higher education, not just individually, but collectively. We provide hope. We share w...
Join Narelle Lemon, Wellbeing Whisperer/Swinburne University of Technology, Australia and Katherine Firth, The University of Melbourne, Australia for this recording of the IN CONVERSATION event as part of the book launch tour to celebrate the launching of the series Wellbeing and self-care in higher education: Embracing Positive Solutions (Routledge). This conversation was designed for writers, researchers and PhD students from any discipline in higher education with a focus on the how,...
Welcome to this episode where we are joined by:Narelle Lemon, Swinburne University of Technology, AustraliaAminda O’Hare, Weber University, USA Pattie Pryma, Mount Royal University, Canada Michelle Tichy, Rollins College, USA Emma MacGregor, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada Kristina Turner, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Siobhan O’Brien, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia In this IN CONVERSATION event we engage deeply and explore relationships in higher educat...
Podcasting, eh? Everyone and their pandemic puppy seems to be making podcasts these days. To crowd the bandwagon even more, Research Whisperer Tseen Khoo (La Trobe University) invited some fab poddy colleagues to help her create this meta-resource: a podcast about podcasting, through a researcher lens. In this episode, there's talk of the pros and cons of podcasting for a researcher, and it includes tales of joyous, productive connections as well as professional vulnerability (and...
Welcome to this episode with Narelle Lemon and Desiree Dickerson. This episode was recorded on Monday 23rd Nov 2020, it was the third session on day one of WhisperFest 2020, and our first fireside chat.The focus of this discussion was on perfectionism, burnout and imposter syndrome in higher education. Some things we talked about were the discussion on perfectionism and how we respond to what we notice in ourselves, recognising the cost, and being gentle on oneself with a curiosity
This fireside chat with Dr Tseen Khoo and Dr Kylie Ball about why academia shouldn’t be a competition was recorded on Thursday 26 November 2020 as part of Whisper Fest 2020. Tseen and Kylie talk about the hyper-competitiveness of academia and how we can resist being held hostage by it. They’ll discuss the creation of their blogs and their philosophy (Kylie’s Happy Academic and Tseen’s Research Whisperer), Kylie’s research on highly productive and happy research teams, and why shari...
One way to take back control is to set up a consultancy or other business that builds on your skills and background. This session gives you the low-down on how you can do this, and what it’s like to shift into this space. This podcast episode is a discussion between Inger Mewburn and Tim Cahill a successful consultant and the Managing Director, Research Strategies AustraliaIt was recorded on Thursday the 26th of November, 2020, the last day of Whisperfest. Whisperfest was a four day, online e...
What can a side hustle look like? How might you leave academia? What’s possible when starting your own business? This podcast episode is a discussion between Inger Mewburn and Craig Davis about their successful side hustles, being an entrepreneur, and how to bust a move out of academia. Craig shares his insights into being a start up mentor.It was recorded on Thursday the 26th of November, 2020, the last day of Whisperfest. Whisperfest was a four day, online event featuring lots of people we ...
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