Tara Brabazon's Blog, page 29

Flipping doctoral supervisory training

It is difficult to enthuse academic staff to undertake professional development in and for doctoral supervision.  Yet it is crucial that PhD students gain innovative, dynamic and modern techniques, theories and strategies throughout their candidature.  Steve and Tara talk through the options for a flipped supervisory training strategy.

Creative Industries for PhD Students

Tara and Steve discuss the use and value of creative industries for PhD students.  They probe the 'triple helix' of university, business and government and how doctoral candidates can manage this new environment.

Anne McLeod 43 - Finding those precious 30 minutes

Anne, Steve and Tara work through a key moment in Anne's candidature.  Anne has three chapters that are nearly finished.  She needs a strategy to get that work done.  We explore the role of finding thirty minutes a day to ensure that a part-time PhD fits into a full-time life.

Sunny Rue Chivaura 13 - Making powerful source material function in a PhD thesis

Sunny, Steve and Tara have now reached Sunny's last chapter of her PhD.  It is a long one.  It is complex.  How is Sunny to present and analyse 10 oral history interviews.  More precisely, how is she to structure this rich and hot information within her doctorate? Sunny, Steve and Tara talk through the options.

Research and research training in nursing and midwifery

Tara talks with Dr Lindy King, the Associate Dean (Research Higher Degrees).  They discuss the development of a research culture and the specificity of the disciplines, paradigms, theories and approaches within nursing and midwifery.

Sunny Rue Chivaura 12 - Brexit (really)

Tara talks Sunny and Steve off the theoretical balcony after Brexit.  They talk about what the Brexit means to our understandings of race, conservatism and little Englishness.

It's my happy place - goal management and the PhD

Tara talks with the School of Nursing and Midwifery at Flinders University.  The students express their strategies to complete a rapid PhD thesis while managing the challenges of work and family.

Relationships and the PhD

Tara. Sam and Mel talk about the PhD, love and relationships.

Submitting the thesis

Tara and Karen Jacobs talk about the processes and procedures required to exam a PhD. Tara and Karen talk about the selection of examiners and how to ensure that the PhD is ready to be assessed and passed.

You and your supervisor

Tara talks through the punctuation of a supervisory relationship.  She probes the expectations, assumptions, motivations, disappointments and satisfactions that organize and shape successful and failing PhD supervisory processes and experiences.