Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 24

Mid-candidature Question and Answer Session

Karen Jacobs and Tara Brabazon answer student questions about the PhD.  These students are in the middle of their candidature and ask the questions specific to their doctoral moment.  

Why interdisciplinarity? Why an integrated curriculum? A conversation with Shani Sniedze-Gregory

Tara talks with Shani Sniedze-Gregory about the integrated curriculum.  What is its value to schooling?

How do I change a PhD into a book?

Tara and Steve talk to PhD students and early career researchers about a key choice they must make.  Is their PhD a scholarly monograph?  And - if it is - how do they transform an item of assessment (a PhD document) into a book with a wide international audience?

Mark Brown 15 - Writing the exegesis in one piece

Tara and Mark construct a strategy for Mark to write his exegesis.  Instead of writing it in chapters, Mark has put in place a framework to increase the frequency and efficiency of his writing.

Sunny Rue Chivaura 21 - Why haven't I freaked out yet?

Sunny and Tara probe the final few weeks of a PhD.  It is an emotional time and incredibly intellectually exhausting.  Sunny and Tara talk about how to finish a thesis with rigour, kindness and predictability.  

Sunny Rue Chivaura 20 - Postcolonial Cultural Studies

Sunny, Steve and Tara explore the interface between British and Australian cultural studies to probe the potential of a postcolonial cultural studies.

Anne McLeod 47 - One theorist and your PhD

Anne, Steve and Tara probe the strengths and weaknesses in investigating one theorist in a PhD.  What is the value - and the problems - in applying an old theorist to a new intellectual terrain?

Mark Brown 14 - Fun with prototyping

Mark Brown, Tara and Steve discuss his practice-led PhD, with attention to prototyping.  The artefacts are emerging, and the speed of change means that every object that Mark creates is the foundation for the next one.  

Sunny Rue Chivaura 19 - The Theory Draft

Steve, Tara and Sunny discuss the final stages of her PhD completion.  Steve has just completed 'the theory draft.'  We talk about theory and its role in doctoral education, a candidature and a thesis.

Anne McLeod 46 - Deskilling professionals

Anne, Steve and Tara talk about deskilling, automation, professionalism and early childhood education.