In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc. What is it? What does it look like?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.' Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.Oleh Tara Brabazon

How is digitization transforming doctoral education?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Tara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women. Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations. In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.

When is the right time to complete a PhD? What topics will sustain your interest? In this first episode of Bloom, the podcast series for CDU's Graduate Education program, Megan Bayliss describes her journey into doctoral education, and the power of her topic for mental health and mental fitness. Megan is based in Norfolk Island and she talks about …

What do we do when ideas in a chapter are fragmented? How do we create a streamlined argument? This week, Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the role of headings in the drafting stages of research.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about the academic CV and building momentum and a future.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about how interpretations are carefully built from reading and research.Oleh Tara Brabazon

As we probe the role of memory in writing a creative-led thesis, this week we add texture and complexity to objects.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Jamie and Tara talk about building momentum in a thesis while respecting the professional boundaries of supervision.Oleh Tara Brabazon

In the middle of a PhD, it is difficult to confirm that the work is of standard and being produced at the necessary speed. Jamie, Maive and Tara talk about how to confirm progress.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Sonic memos. Sonic notetaking. But what can sound recording 'do' for our intellectual work? Let's talk about sound, speed and scholarship.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore psychogeography. Specifically, we probe 'drift.' We have discovered a key theory and trope. This session explores a distinctive way of thinking about PhD supervision, and the gift of weekly meetings.Oleh Tara Brabazon

How do we understand - how do we research - despair? Case and Deaton explored 'Deaths of Despair'. But how can Maive explore despair while theorizing the historical transformations of class?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Jamie and Tara explore Case and Deaton's "Deaths of Despair." How can this theory enable Maive's research into King's Cross in the 1970s?Oleh Tara Brabazon

The relationship between the personal and the professional in supervisory relationships should be straight-forward. It rarely is. Maive and Tara - and with a late guest starring appearance from Jamie - probe the nature of supervisory relationships. Particularly when the supervisors are married. There are some controversies about married supervisors…

Maive and Tara talk about standards, particularly early in a candidature. When is enough work - enough?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Managing disappointment is a necessity to survive in life. But during a PhD, disappointment creates a wash of emotions and internal dialogues. This week, Maive and Tara talk about how to manage disappointment each day, and throughout a candidature.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive, Tara and Jamie explore how soundscapes can offer interventions in PhD supervision, providing support, feedback and sensory memory.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive and Tara talk about the complexity and volatility of higher education, and the impact of that volatility on higher degree students.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Tara and Maive enter claustropolitanism. What is the impact of despair, the sense that the world is ending, on how we live our lives?Oleh Tara Brabazon

Harm is an important word. In life. In theory. Yet how does our research transform when 'harm' becomes the lens for research? Maive and Tara probe this concept.Oleh Tara Brabazon

Maive is producing creative-led research for her thesis: an artefact and an exegesis. Why - therefore - was she drawn to a very subtle and provocative slice of criminological theory? This week, we explore why this exploration of ultra realist criminology - and social harm - was so important to Maive's PhD.…

Maive and Tara about Maive's confirmation of candidature. What happened. What were the surprises. Why it matters.