PhDs - the beginning
Tara introduces and welcomes new students to the PhD space. Importantly, this podcast offers peer learning. Current students work with the new candidates to enable their candidature.
12 Apr 201852min
Mark Brown 17 - How to finish a PhD when it is harder than you thought it would be
Mark Brown is on the final stages of his research. He talks this week about resilience, how to survive and how to finish the thesis.
27 Mars 201810min
Anne McLeod 51 - The End in Sight
A major moment to share with podcast listeners. Anne is within one week of submitting her thesis. She shares with listeners the final strategies she deployed to finish a PhD via a part-time candidat...
27 Mars 201811min
Multimodality
Tara introduces the concept of multimodality. What does it mean? Why is it important? How can it enable research dissemination?
13 Feb 201823min
Tara's take on mentoring
Tara's great friend Jac asked her to offer a perspective on mentoring. This commentary is a bit stroppy and direct, but may poke and provoke your thinking about mentoring. When you ask for a 'mentor...
28 Jan 201818min
The Rescue Doctorate
Tara and Steve talk about an undercooked and underdiscussed 'challenge,' 'problem' and 'issue' in doctoral education. What happens when the supervisor that starts with a student cannot finish them? ...
30 Dec 201740min
The strengths and challenges of ethnography
Steve and Tara are supervising a terrific student researching an Australian police force. We have been discussing the methods available, including ethnography. What are the strengths and challenges o...
28 Dec 201713min
Mick Winter 39 - The result
Tara and Steve offer the final instalment in the Mick Winter PhD story. We talk about the successful PhD that has now been examined and tips for colleagues around the world when confronted by this in...
28 Dec 201723min
