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

Bloom 1 - Megan Bayliss, Lived Experience, and the digital doctorate

Oct 18th, 2023 21m 11s

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 po

Maive 28 - Headings

Sep 11th, 2023 17m 32s

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.

Maive 27 - CV

Sep 3rd, 2023 17m 14s

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

Maive 26 - Interpretations

Aug 27th, 2023 15m 47s

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

Maive 25 - Objects

Aug 18th, 2023 20m 44s

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

Maive 24 - Boundaries

Aug 12th, 2023 12m 52s

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

Maive 23 - Confirming progress

Jul 11th, 2023 15m 14s

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.

Maive 22 - Soundscapes

Jul 4th, 2023 12m 11s

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

Maive 21 - Drift

Jun 27th, 2023 12m 39s

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.

Maive 20 - Despair

Jun 20th, 2023 16m 40s

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?

Maive 19 - Space and time and deaths of despair

May 30th, 2023 17m 30s

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?

Maive 18 - The Personal and the Professional

May 23rd, 2023 17m 57s

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 relations

Maive 17 - Solid

May 16th, 2023 10m 18s

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

Maive 16 - Managing disappointment

May 9th, 2023 18m 41s

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 candid

Maive 15 - The Sounds of Research

Apr 25th, 2023 18m 18s

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

Maive 14 - All Change

Apr 17th, 2023 13m 48s

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

Maive 13 - Claustropolitanism and the internal dialogue

Apr 3rd, 2023 11m 26s

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

Maive 12 - Thinking about harm

Mar 27th, 2023 12m 9s

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.

Maive 11 - Why Maive researched ultra realist criminology

Mar 13th, 2023 22m 2s

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 realis

Maive 10 - Confirmation Concluded

Mar 6th, 2023 12m 52s

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

Maive 9 - Preparing for the confirmation of candidature

Feb 20th, 2023 7m 54s

Maive and Tara (over)share the stress of preparing for the Confirmation of Candidature. It is a tough event in the life of PhD students. But it is a proof of concept and not an examination...

Maive 8 - Clustering the literature

Feb 13th, 2023 14m 14s

Tara and Maive talk about literature reviews, and particularly how they can be constructed within the parameters of the artefact and exegesis PhD

Maive 7 - Research Headings

Feb 6th, 2023 11m 23s

As Maive is moving towards her Confirmation of Candidature, she is working on her report that will be assessed by assessors. What are the requirements of that document? What headings will make a difference?