Mick Winter 18 - Louis and Slavoj and Mick (and a bus)
Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he con...
5 Juni 201511min
Academic text types and assessment design - embedding literacy outcomes
How do teachers and students share their expectations and outcomes about assessment? Dr Jae Major takes colleagues through the methods and strategies to ensure that students and academics can share t...
3 Juni 201548min
What is the point of an ethics committee?
Tara and Steve get stroppy (again), pondering the nature of ethics committees - and research ethics more generally - in the neoliberal university.
30 Maj 201518min
Does ethnography still matter in a digital age?
Particular methods are fashionable, and then move out of fashion. Tara and Steve talk about ethnography, the disco of research methods. But as ethnography moves beyond its fame and height in the 1970...
30 Maj 201517min
Peta Johnston 1 - Raunching and twerking to physical cultural studies
It is time for feminist physical cultural studies. Steve and Tara introduce Peta Johnston and her doctoral thesis. Peta is interested in researching women, sexuality, bodies and digitization. Physi...
29 Maj 201510min
Equal human worth and social justice education
What is a human 'worth'? What does equality actually mean? Dr Tace Vigliante, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, takes these questions as her focus, to develop a socia...
27 Maj 201556min
Understanding the transition to university - how can kindergarten children help us understand tertiary transition
Transitions are crucial to education. Dr Libbey Murray, from the Dubbo campus of the School of Teacher Education, explores what academics can learn from the transitional experiences of kindergarten ch...
20 Maj 201555min
Academic misconduct series 3 - for academic managers
The calibre of higher education requires the maintenance of standards and the protection of academic integrity. Tara, in this third podcast in her academic misconduct series, offers advice to academi...
16 Maj 201522min
