Tara Brabazon
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These are strange times. A time of climate crises. Health crises. Collapsing systems. Influencers. And yes - Jordan Peterson.
We are currently living in a (Post) Peterson Paradigm. This book – 12 Rules for (Academic) Life - explores what has happened to teaching, learning and politics through this odd and chaotic time. Deploying feminism, this lens offers a glass-sharpened view of this moment in international higher education. It is organized...
2) Re(start)
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How do we make change, particularly in difficult times? How to do we transcend the confusion, anger and fear? While cliches like quiet quitting and deaths of despair punctuate our present, why do these phrases – and these tragic realities - exist? This book – ReStart: moving from despair to defiance - walks with you through change. To restart. To return meaning to your life in a careful, embedded compassionate and way. We build a mattering...
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The doctor of philosophy is a complex degree. The space between students and supervisors is vexed and volatile. It can be exploitative. The Pernicious PhD Supervisor enters this difficult space and provides both the models and the strategies to categorize and manage difficult supervisors and supervisory practices. From the Flamingo to the Wizard, from the White Pointer Shark to the Bower Bird, ten models of supervision are revealed. Part horror...
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Research is anchored by assumptions. How do we complete research - and why? This book - The Three Monkeys of Research - explores epistemology, ontology and methodology. Tara Brabazon explores how ideas become knowledge, and how arguments are verified, believed and disseminated to scholars, stakeholders and citizens.
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The University of Google. ChatGPT. Twitter pile-ons. How do we manage chaos and crises, confusion and catastrophes? How do we understand the difference between the urgent and important, the trivial and significant?
Information literacy is about as attractive as teeth extraction. However, for PhD students and citizens more generally, information literacy enables us to sift and sort knowledge from opinion, and expertise from a vibe.
Know what you...
6) Memories of the Future: (Post) Steve Redhead, Cultural Studies and theories for a still-born cent
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What has happened to Cultural Studies in the last 50 years? This book answers this question. Part biography, part polemic, Memories of the Future asks how - today - activism and courage can return to research, teaching and citizenship.
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Just over 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Starting a PhD is tough. Completing a PhD is even tougher. Tara Brabazon offers strategies to reclaim, restart and reboot a PhD, She takes the barriers - the full stops - in the doctoral process and transforms them into a comma, to enable momentum and success.