Isolation in academic life: a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West

Welcome to our first conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen. Suzanne has one year to go on her PhD. Let's share this time.

Tara and Priscilla discuss the odd and unique isolation and atomization in academic life.

How do we balance the emotions of care with the labour of care? To answer this question, Tara and Kelly talk about Kelly's article titled "Communities of Care in the Nitty-Gritty of Commons-Work." The article is available to read from here: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5956217

Making changes in our lives.  It is difficult.  But how do we decide when to make those changes?  And what evidence is useful to these transformations?

Tara and Priscilla talk about the challenges and difficulties when we compare ourselves with others.

Tara talks with Kelly about 'transitional commoning,' from her article titled, 'Can the commons be temporary?'  This discussion reveals how - even through disasters - life and transformations can emerge.  This research article is available here - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480 

Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching.  And learning.  In supposedly digital times.

Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.

In this first conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski, we explore her book chapter written with Dr Oona Morrow, exploring postcapitalist politics in and through life work.  (The chapter is available here via Google Books: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0MVgEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA82&dq=Postcapitalist+politics+through+the+sites+and+practices+of+life+work&ots=PiwxHSpCht&sig=23Uz_5QXzIUD7JxYKs6CaNe7k4I&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Postcapitalist%20politics%20through%20the%20sites%20and%20practices%20of%20life%20work&f=false)

So often teaching and learning are minimized or reduced, in favour of the major research project, or big grant. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the power of teaching and learning, to enliven our universities.