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Smash Cut - An intellectual life

What is an intellectual and how can PhD students - and scholars - live an intellectual life?

Smash Cut - Oral History

This next episode of Smash Cut - the accelerated professional development programme for higher degree students - explores Oral History.  While other research methods focus on representativeness and repeatability, Oral History interviews have a different function.

Smash Cut - Creative Industries

Welcome to this short professional development exploring creative industries.

Smash Cut - Unobtrusive Research Methods

In this professional development session, we explore unobtrusive research methods.

Tara Brabazon's 12 Rules for (academic) life - a stroppy feminist's guide through teaching, learning, politics and Jordan Peterson

Tara presents her flipped keynote for the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.   

Join the online chat.  See you on September 25!  https://twitter.com/AWGSA1/status/1299538650972082176

 

Here are the 12 Rules.

Rule 1             Always ask why.

Rule 2             Be an intellectual and make your choices about the mode.

Rule 3             Laugh like a Medusa and maintain the confidence of a mediocre white man.

Rule 4             Empowered groups have to be very confident in their power to give some away.

Rule 5             Intellectual generosity is the foundation of scholarly life.

Rule 6             Just because you work in higher education does not mean you are an expert in higher education.

Rule 7             Freedom to read is more important than freedom of speech.

Rule 8             Be a leader, rather than complain about leadership.

Rule 9             Teaching matters.  Learning matters more.

Rule 10           Women are humans, citizens, and fully formed people.

Rule 11.          Respect the vulnerable, the sick, the dying and the dead.

Rule 12           Be the change you want to see.

 

Tara Brabazon's 12 Rule for (academic) life - a stroppy feminist's guide through teaching, learning, politics and Jordan Peterson

Tara presents her flipped keynote for the Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association.   Tara sends love, light and peace to the scholars of the world interested in transformative change.  Let's talk.  Let's think.  Let's read.  Much love.   Txxx

Join the online chat.  See you on September 25!  https://twitter.com/AWGSA1/status/1299538650972082176

 

DocFest and planning for the future

Life can be difficult, particularly now.  Configuring the next steps in our lives can be challenging.  It is time for some inspiration.  Tara talks with Maive Jackson Collett and her journey in the last year into a PhD.

 

The Creative PHD - a supervisory training session

The artefact and exegesis thesis is moving far beyond the creative arts.  But what is this mode of thesis?  What are its challenges and strengths?  How are they supervised and - most importantly - how are they examined?

Narelle Hunter 17 - Yep. She's submitted

Narelle, Jamie and Tara have a special announcement.  Narelle has submitted.  Let's talk about it.  And - how did she do it?

Steps What does the Office of Graduate Research do?

In this Steps session, Tara explores the role and place of an Office of Graduate Research.  What is its function for students and supervisors?  How are these roles changing in contemporary Australia?