Tara Brabazon podcast

The majority of PhD students do not remain in universities after graduation. The nature of university employment is precarious, part time and casualized. Therefore, how can we enable employment options for our PhD students beyond higher education? This step session - providing professional development for supervisors - provides some strategies to enable this pathway.

Professional development is about as popular as teeth extraction. What is ironic is that in universities - the home of learning - learning through professional development is deeply unpopular. This step session explores why times have indeed changed, and why professional development is crucial to the future of our higher degree students.

The next episode of our 'Steps' programme for higher degree supervisors explores communication - and mis/communication - between students and their supervisors / advisors. Why do so many students leave a doctoral programme? Why do so many students change supervisors? Part of the answer may be found in the mode of communication deployed by both parties. This session aims to improve and shape the space between students and their supervisors.

Strangers. Skin. Postcoloniality. The alignment of these three terms are volatile and productive. This reading seminar investigates Sara Ahmed's Strange Encounters.

Welcome to our first reading group, exploring Sara Ahmed's Differences that Matter.

PhD students require a portfolio of support. Often forgotten is the 'contact officer.' But what is a contact officer and how can they create the early, quiet resolutions that are so beneficial to doctoral education?

Professional development is important, if earnest. This Steps session probes the saddest of supervisory experiences: the posthumous thesis. We explore the policies and procedures to enable the submission, but also the key emotional challenges for the student's family and the supervisors. We also place attention on examiners and examination.

Tara talks with Odile Ruijs about a distinctive and important mode of partnership and collaboration in doctoral education. Odile, the Manager of International Engagement at Flinders University, explores the importance of sponsorship and sponsored students and how the relationship is fostered and developed.

A bespoke session for our colleagues in the College of Education, Psychology and Social Work. What is a PhD by prior publication? How do you do one - and how do you supervise one?

This session explores the higher degree supervisory charter and its value to and for student diversity. This specialist session for Business, Govenrment and Law offers some strategies to think about professional development, work and supervision in tough times for students and the world.