MACS launch: Tara Brabazon on Surviving the PhD

Posted on | March 3, 2006 |

Glen’s post asking for input on the proposed CSAA wiki for postgrads reminds me to publicise this seminar we’re holding soon. It’s the defacto MACS launch for this year - everyone is welcome. Plus there is a prize for guessing which topics I suggested the speaker address!

Postgraduate Development Seminar
Sponsored by the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, and the ARC Cultural Research Network
Monday 20 March 2006, 4.00pm – 6.00pm
CCCS Seminar Room, Forgan Smith Tower, Level 4

Associate Professor Tara Brabazon, School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University

The seminar will take the form of a roundtable discussion: Tara will introduce the topics, and after a short presentation, will open the floor for discussion. Participants are invited to offer their own opinions and experiences in a supportive and collegial atmosphere. Following the seminar, participants are welcome to join Tara at the Staff and Graduates Club for drinks.

The following topics will be addressed, although the seminar will not be limited to these issues.
Surviving the PhD, including:
-New media practicalities: seductions and benefits of spending time on-line during the PhD
-Blogging to the exclusion of dissertation progress
-The ‘reality’ of postgrad life: teaching, and RA appointments during candidature

Getting published, including:
-Internet publication at a time of RQF

Cultural studies career prospects post-PhD, including:
-The problem of too many opportunities for non-continuing work

Biography
Tara Brabazon is Associate Professor in the School of Media, Communication and Culture, Murdoch University, Western Australia. Tara won the Australian National Teaching Award for the Humanities in 1998, along with other Awards in the areas of disability and cultural studies education. In 2005, Tara won both the Murdoch University Postgraduate Supervisor of the Year and the Teaching Excellence Award.

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Comments

7 Responses to “MACS launch: Tara Brabazon on Surviving the PhD”

  1. jean
    March 4th, 2006 @ 10:20 am

    hmmm….yes, i have my questions ready

  2. Glen
    March 5th, 2006 @ 12:03 pm

    hey mel is there anyway to record this session and put it online as a podcast? jean, can you help? is it possible? some of the sessions of a conference that the canadian space & culture people (anne golloway and rob sheilds (who I saw on a SBS doco about japanese sex dolls??wtf?)) were involved in were put online. is there someway to record this at least for future reference? I am thinking it would be good to have this sort of thing online and could be hosted somewhere. it would be a good resource. the sort of thing that would be useful on a postgrad wiki!

  3. melgregg
    March 5th, 2006 @ 6:18 pm

    yeah good idea. i’ve asked about this sort of thing in the past & it’s not impossible, just complicated by tech redundancy issues. i’ll see what we can do. it’s likely that it would need to be ‘hosted’ on the CRN website with CSAA wiki linking to it. john, if you’re reading, can you clarify whether we can do something here? otherwise, i’ll get back to you glen.

  4. John
    March 6th, 2006 @ 11:00 am

    I’m on it…

  5. Mark Bahnisch
    March 6th, 2006 @ 12:19 pm

    Blogging to the exclusion of dissertation progress

    Is it just me or is it much easier to write in WordPress than Word? :)

  6. Tara Brabazon
    March 24th, 2006 @ 5:03 pm

    Hi Everyone -

    A big thank you to everyone who made my two days in Brisbane so wonderful.

    I wish you all every happiness and success. Thanks for a great Monday night…

    T XXX

  7. home cooked theory » Blog Archive » Issues
    April 27th, 2006 @ 2:41 pm

    [...] Just wrote an email to the CSAA-forum asking for input for a panel I’m speaking on at the Crossroads conference (this is in addition to the workplace culture panel I’m doing with Kate). The idea is for ACS board members from different regions to talk about industrial issues in their part of the world so that we get a sense of the institutional status of cultural studies in different regional formations. As the youngest board member I’ve also offered to speak about some of the particular circumstances faced by a younger generation of cultural studies researchers, for instance, issues raised in these blog posts and exchanges. Maybe I could smuggle Glen into my suitcase! [...]

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