Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Ros Wong, a PhD student at Flinders University. Ros is investigating how prepared women are - financially - for retirement. She also probes the impact of urbanity, regionalism and rurality on the preparedness of women. This is a podcast about women, work and - yes - inequality.

Steve and Tara offer suggestions to prospective students about how to contact a supervisor. What helps you gain a supervisor's attention, focus and support?

Tara talks with Karen Jacobs, from the Office of Graduate Research, about milestones. What is a milestone and why does it possess value for PhD students?

Tara talks with her friend and colleague Sam Schulz. Sam is a sociologist of education, with a specialist interest in critical race and white studies. Tara talks with Sam about creating spaces for alternative voices and views that can make change both inside and outside the university.

Tara talks with her namesake, Tara Shem about speech impairments in the early years. They discuss the strength of speech pathology as an emerging discipline as much as profession and the value of strong partnerships between education and health, teaching and speech pathology.

Steve and Tara ponder the profound instability of the Trump Presidency. In this interregnum, how will the rise of the right be tempered by any mode or form of progressivism?

Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination. They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.

Tara, Steve and Anne align Terry Johnson's theories of the profession to a post-GFC economic and social climate.

Tara has the pleasure of speaking with Vanessa Alexander. Vanessa is a part-time Doctor of Education student at Flinders University and Team Leader for Positive Partnerships (http://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/vanessa-alexander-team-leader-south-australia), a support organization to enable school-age children on the autism spectrum. She discusses what drew her to research, her project and the advice she would offer to educators throughout the sector considering an enrolment in a higher degree.

Andrew, Steve and Tara talk about the role and place of sleep in policing. They also explore the understanding - the theory - of 'work' and the 'job' of policing.