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Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.
Tara and Priscilla talk about care.  In our tough times, caring seems the least of our concerns.  But following on from the remarkable Professor Waghid, a caring infrastructure is transformative for our organizations.
Burnout is one of those words.  It masks as much as it reveals.  Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.
Ethics clearances in research are time consuming.  They can be frustrating.  But why do research projects have ethical requirements?  Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.
Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.
Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.
Tara talks with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West on a fascinating and unusual topic.  OK.  You have a scucessful book.  How do you prepare a second edition?  And then a third?  What changes?  What remains?  What transforms?
Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.
Pondering a Postdoc

Pondering a Postdoc

2024-12-0120:001

In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc.  What is it?  What does it look like?  
Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?
Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.
How is digitization transforming doctoral education?
Tara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women.  Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations.  In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.
When is the right time to complete a PhD?  What topics will sustain your interest?  In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness.  Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about the gift and challenges of regional, rural and remote living, working and researching.
Maive 28 - Headings

Maive 28 - Headings

2023-09-1117:321

What do we do when ideas in a chapter are fragmented?  How do we create a streamlined argument?  This week, Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the role of headings in the drafting stages of research.
Maive 27 - CV

Maive 27 - CV

2023-09-0317:14

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.
Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.
Maive 25 - Objects

Maive 25 - Objects

2023-08-1820:44

As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.
Maive 24 - Boundaries

Maive 24 - Boundaries

2023-08-1212:52

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.
In the middle of a PhD, it is difficult to confirm that the work is of standard and being produced at the necessary speed.  Jamie, Maive and Tara talk about how to confirm progress.
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