Tarabrabazon's Podcast

Students often surprise their supervisors.  Narelle talks about how she has managed to complete so much of her thesis so quickly.  Amazing.

This podcast is the sonic component of a flipped training session for PhD supervisors at Flinders University.  We focus on one key question:  why do students decide to change their supervisor?  We present the reason on the reasons for this change, and how these situations can be managed.

Narelle, Jamie and Tara provide the post-confirmation of candidature update.  We talk about 'what now' and 'what's next' to ensure a rapid completion of Narelle's thesis.

One of the great challenges confronted by supervisors attempting to complete a PhD thesis is managing student perfectionism.  This Step offers some strategies.

The characteristic of a successful PhD candidature is a strong relationship between academic staff and the PhD student.  But what is a 'strong relationship'?  This vlog explores the nature of a 'professional relationship' and its value in framing the student and academic experience of supervision.

Endings are important.  So is quality assurance and standards.  How does a supervisor know when a PhD is 'over' and the thesis will successfully pass through examination.

What is disciplinary literacy?  How can this innovative term be used within doctoral supervision to enhance reading and research, and writing and dissemination?

This professional development session for PhD supervisors enters the vexed terrain of 'rescue supervision.'  What is rescue supervision?  What strategies are available for success?

Tara, Jamie and Narelle prepare Narelle for her CoC event.  We ask questions in real time.  Narelle handles the answers - as we expect - with flair and precision.

Welcome to Core 2 - the second supervisory training session for Flinders University.

Welcome to this first core training session for higher degree supervisors at Flinders University.

Tara introduces the Core Higher Degree Supervisory programme at Flinders University

Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about multiliteracy and its relationship to disciplinary literacy.  How can diversity be enabled - in curricula design and beyond - through multiliteracy?

Well, the project has progressed.  Narelle, Jamie and Tara start to sharpen the field and literature of literacy feeding into her disciplinary literacy research.  And yes - a breakthrough.

Tara Brabazon and Jamie Quinton unpick a flippant comment made by a senior Australian academic.  She dismissed the relationship between undergraduate teaching and learning and PhD supervision. But is there a relationship?  Should there be a relationship?  How is this relationship rendered meaningful?

The right woman.  The right time.  The right project.  Every now and again, a remarkable researcher transforms a field.  Listen to Narelle Hunter explore how disciplinary literacy can transform the teaching, learning and researching of science.

Tara talks with completed PhD students and scholars just at the cusp of submission.  How do you finish?  How does the PhD end?  A powerful moment in understanding the endings.

The PhD examination is a dark art.  But how are they examined?  What does examination mean in the PhD space?  This podcast between Natalie Hills and Tara Brabazon - and the remarkable students at Flinders University - enters this complex and mysterious doctoral space.

This podcast matters.  So much goes wrong in the PhD candidature.  Let's tell those stories.  And let's explore how to improve the life and research of these students.

Tara conducts an end-of-seminar discussion with PhD students about their aspirations and hopes for a PhD supervisor.  Evocative.  Provocative.  Convincing.