Episode Eight - Managing Failure

There is so much focus on supervisors and the candidature of a PhD.  This focus reduces the understanding of the submission process and examination.  Episode ten focuses on the crucial moment of a PhD.  How, when and why it is examined.

For episode nine, Jamie and Tara focus on the writing and editing of a thesis.  And the importance and value of quality writing to enable quality dissemination.

PhD projects - like research more generally - are filled with failure.  Jamie and Tara talk about the importance of this failure and how it is a powerful moment in learning, development, transparency and accountability.

Whenever complaints are listed about doctoral programmes, a lack of feedback is the most common response from students.  But what is feedback - and how can it operate with transparency, compassion, and usefulness?  Also - why do students ignore feedback?

In this sixth episode, Tara and Jamie have a robust (!!!) discussion about the place and role of publications in a PhD programme and degree.

Professional development is often as popular as teeth extraction.  But Jamie and Tara talk aboout why it matters, and why it is meaningful for a productive research education programme.

Jamie and Tara explore the vexed terrain of professional relationships during the PhD

Jamie and Tara talk about writing in a PhD programme, with attention to the 'craft' of writing and the separation of writing and drafting.

Jamie and Tara explore the specific reading cultures that emerge in doctoral education.

In this first episode of The Dance between Experience and Expertise, Tara and Jamie discuss how to prepare fro a PhD enrolment.