Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 19
June 10, 2018
An introduction to the Steps Programme
Tara introduces a new mode of supervisory training for Flinders University. Time for Steps.
June 7, 2018
Anne McLeod 52 - The emotional journey of a PhD student
Anne and Tara talk about the intricate and complex emotions at play in the final few months of a PhD candidature.
Mark Brown 18 - Wearables
Tara talks with Mark about wearables. How can wearable tech manage or solve his interface challenges between the body and the beat?
May 22, 2018
PhD examination submission: Q + A
Tara and Natalie Hills offer an analogue Q and A session about PhD examination.
May 21, 2018
Police, policing, stress, change and growth
Tara talks with Andrew Paterson about his remarkable PhD. Andrew interviewed 50 members of the police to listen to their experiences of stress, trauma, violence and police work.
His results are remarkable. Post traumatic stress is not inevitable. Instead, powerful - and cheap - institutional strategies can transform police and policing and first responder cultures more generally.
The final three months before submitting a PhD
Tara has the pleasure of conducting a question and answer session with our PhD students on the cusp of submitting their PhD. What strategies do they have to offer? What are their fears and concerns?
April 18, 2018
Food Literacy
Tara talks with Chris Bailey about his thesis exploring food literacy and nutrition literacy among adolescents. He is aiming to create a measurement tool for food literacy.
What is health and unhealthy food? How does that information become a literacy for young people?
The Secret Stash
Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is exploring women in rural and regional areas and how they manage money through their lives and into retirement. Ros has discovered that the women in her research have a 'secret stash.' This podcast explores the rationale for the secret stash and probes what we learn about women, men, money and work.
April 11, 2018
PhDs - the beginning
Tara introduces and welcomes new students to the PhD space. Importantly, this podcast offers peer learning. Current students work with the new candidates to enable their candidature.
March 27, 2018
Mark Brown 17 - How to finish a PhD when it is harder than you thought it would be
Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research. He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.
