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Maive 22 - Soundscapes

Sonic memos.  Sonic notetaking.  But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work?  Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.

Maive 21 - Drift

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore psychogeography.  Specifically, we probe 'drift.'  We have discovered a key theory and trope.  This session explores a distinctive way of thinking about PhD supervision, and the gift of weekly meetings.

Maive 20 - Despair

How do we understand - how do we research - despair?  Case and Deaton explored 'Deaths of Despair'.  But how can Maive explore despair while theorizing the historical transformations of class? 

Maive 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair."  How can this theory enable Maive's research into King's Cross in the 1970s?

Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional

The relationship between the personal and the professional in supervisory relationships should be straight-forward.  It rarely is. Maive and Tara - and with a late guest starring appearance from Jamie - probe the nature of supervisory relationships.  Particularly when the supervisors are married.  There are some controversies about married supervisors.  We talk about it - from the student's perspective.

Maive 17 - Solid

Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature.  When is enough work - enough?

Maive 16 - Managing disappointment

Managing disappointment is a necessity to survive in life.  But during a PhD, disappointment creates a wash of emotions and internal dialogues.  This week, Maive and Tara talk about how to manage disappointment each day, and throughout a candidature.

Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research

Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.

Maive 14 - All Change

Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.

Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue

Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism.  What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?