From Passion to Traction: The skills needed for a postdoc

This conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West explores the messy and intricate challenges of mobility in academic life.

Tara and Priscilla talk about care.  In our tough times, caring seems the least of our concerns.  But following on from the remarkable Professor Waghid, a caring infrastructure is transformative for our organizations.

Burnout is one of those words.  It masks as much as it reveals.  Let's talk about it - as a proxy and a bandaid.

Ethics clearances in research are time consuming.  They can be frustrating.  But why do research projects have ethical requirements?  Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.

Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.

Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.

Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.

In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc.  What is it?  What does it look like?  

Doug, Jamie and Tara summon Putnum's theorization of 'social capital.'  Why was it meaningful - and does it have a role in understanding contemporary politics, including climate change?