Tara Brabazon podcast

How do you examine a PhD for the first time? What are your expectations, assumptions and perspectives? Are you confusing your personal experiences of completing a doctorate with the requirements of doctoral examination? Steve and Tara ask why - so often - the most inexperienced examiners are the harshest. This podcast offers both training and an intervention to ensure that excellence and the maintenance of international standards remain the priority for early, mid and senior researchers.

What is a subculture and is this concept of relevance to the contemporary social sciences and humanities? Tara and Steve discuss subcultures and postsubcultures and ask if style remains resistive.

Mick, Steve and Tara work through Mick's analysis of famous moments of filmic dialogue. At the moment, Mick is finding some patterning, but nothing definitive. Meanwhile, Steve and Tara attempt to preserve Mick's sanity as he applies the crystal meth of methods: content analysis.

Sunny, Steve and Tara talk about the next crucial stage of her project: the oral history interviews. They discuss the different mode and styles of interviews and the rich data that can be gained through oral historiography.

Tara and Steve introduce a new concept, trope and theory: deviant leisure cultures.

Sunny and Tara discuss how to handle oral history testimony in a digital age.

Mark and Tara talk about the distinctive digital strategies that are emerging in and through the contemporary PhD.

Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?

What are the challenges confronting PhD students and supervisors in our universities? Tara reveals the impact of neoliberalism on doctoral education, showing why governance and regulation of scholarly standards remains important. This presentation is a recording of Tara's keynote session for the European University Association's Council for Doctoral Education Workshop, held at Delft University of Technology on January 21 and 22, 2016.

Tara and Steve talk about two key phrases - "digital leisure cultures" and "digital leisure studies." What are digital leisure cultures and can they offer a new disciplinary pathway through work, production and consumption?