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The book launch of Comma: how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD

Join us for the special launch of Comma:  how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD.

Why 'do' professional development?

Tara talks with Professor Jamie Quinton at the cusp of commencing his new post as a Head of School.  They discuss the nature of professional development - why it is as unpopular as teeth extraction - and how it can enable career progression.

Creative Research? Creating new knowledge in difficult times

What is creative research?  Tara probes the strengths and challenge of this mode of research and its importance in a post-pandemic university.

This presentation was a keynote address for the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia in December 2021.

From disruption to dark academia: the post-pandemic knowledge economy

Tara presents her keynote for Hong Kong Metropolitan University.  This keynote was delivered on November 26, 2021.

A new hope

Tara welcomes the next stage of the podcast series and thanks all her friends and colleagues for supporting these podcasts - since 2008.

Palliative nurses in the community at the end of life - a conversation with Lyn Rabbetts

Tara talks with Lyn about the value of palliative nurses in the family home, enabling the end of life with authenticity, meaning and care.

Cardiac health for country people - a conversation with Katie Nesbitt

Tara talks with Katie about how to enable cardiac health for country people.  How do we ensure a parity of health care for regional, rural and remote people?

Steps Selecting Examiners

The most important task for a supervisor of higher degree students is to select examiners.  This short training session offers commentary and advice to supervisors, to move from compliance to excellence.

Steps - Writing a supervisory letter after receiving divergent results

Mostly, higher degree examination is a smooth process.  Sometimes, examination results are unexpected.  Disturbing.  Divergent. This training session explores how to explain these divergent results to governance committees that must determine the final result.

Core Training for Full Academic Status (FAS) supervisors

Tara offers a core training sesion for Full Academic Status supervisors at Flinders University.