Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 10

Steps What does the Office of Graduate Research do?

In this Steps session, Tara explores the role and place of an Office of Graduate Research.  What is its function for students and supervisors?  How are these roles changing in contemporary Australia?

HASS Training 1 - authorship, publishing, supervisory relationships and employability

In this special HDR training session for colleagues in Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, we explore authorship and publishing opportunities, enhancing supervisory relationships - between students and supervisors - and finish with discussions of employabiity.

Steps - Intellectual Property

Tara talks with Ashleigh Merriel, the head of Progressions in the Office of Graduate Research, about Intellectual Property.  What is Intellectual Property?  Why does it matter to PhD students and their supervisors?

Narelle Hunter 16 - Looking at the ending

Narelle, Jamie and Tara are close to Narelle's completion.  Narelle talks about these final complex stages to completion - while attempting to complete a semester...

Narelle Hunter 15 - Speed

Narelle, Jamie and Tara are now in full drafting mode.  As the drafts progress, so does the speed to completion.

Student Partnerships and Activism

Tara talks with Aidan Cornelius-Bell.  In a powerful discussion about student partnerships, politics and activism, Tara and Aidan explore the role of universities in social and political change.  

Core Re-fresh

This specific higher degree supervisory training session has been developed for experienced supervisors wanting a 're-fresh' in their practice.  It offers the continuum of development - from compliance to excellence.  There is specific attention to the challenging moments in supervising, particularly with regard to authorship of academic papers, ethics, and skills development.

Narelle Hunter 14 - The First Draft

Here we go with Narelle's first draft!  What happened with this difficult - challenging - first draft.  How did Narelle handle it?  

Managing the middle of a PhD candidature through Covid

The middle of a PhD candidature is the difficult time.  Supervisory changes.  Change of methodology.  Disappointments with data collection.  Add Covid to this story - a students may walk away from the programme.  Join our online mid candidature intensive to create momentum, change and some motivation.

Reading Group 3 - Geographies of the University

For this third reading group, as part of the Virtual not Viral project, our community reads the edited collection from Peter Meusburger, Michael Heffernan and Laura Suarsana:  Geographies of the University.