Hi, Great video as always. I am 55 and pursuing my practice based phd here in the uk. I used to be a psychiatric nurse, however my passion is my painting, and I am extremely grateful to be given the opportunity. It is now July.2024 I hopefully qualify in January 2025. I wish to become an academic/lecturer. I understand that employment competition is strong, and so I am concerned, however, I do believe I have an advantage over a younger person because of my experience of life . I also understand employers may prefer a more mature person, especially teaching within the arts.

Thank you so much. Your explanation is very clear. I will start my PhD journey this August and your sharing is truly helpful. Thank you 🙏

I’m so very grateful to you for sharing your knowledge with such wisdom and passion. It’s gotten me back on track multiple times. (PhD student at Durham Uni, UK)

You ma’am, are a Queen. Thank you.

Many thanks to Prof. Tara Brabazon and her colleagues.

شكرا جزيلا على جهدك و تحفيزك تارا ❤🎉❤

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Brilliant content and amazing presenter! Thank you so much for sharing this.

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Excellent. Million dollars

Thank you Tara! Great videos and wish you were at our office.

brilliant!

Many thanks for the great conten? - what is the difference between orginality, significance, contribution, gap, novelity, innovation, - does the 95,000 include everthing including referencing, table of contents, list of figures, etc.

I have a teaching demo and interview tomorrow. A few months back, I watched your videos while waiting for my grad school admissions results. I got in. I hope I do well tomorrow. I have a horde of hornets in my stomach.

Thank you Thank you is not enough. I wish I wish . Timeless information. I am viewing 7 years later

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You two are wonderful people, remember that!

This vlog is a masterpiece!!!!

I loved doing my intrinsic interest phd in my late 40s/early 50s which I did partly to gain the expertise to do a startup, but it inadvertently lead to an academic career which has been soul destroying. Under the thumb of ruthless autocrats, the sort of job I could get was nothing like the intellectual independence of a phd. If I could get a job doing something like a phd, I would! So I'd like to do a 2nd IFF I could get a 2nd scholarship which doesn't look likely. What I'd really like to do is an entrepreneurial phd, where you get the support to do your startup, but I don't think that exists.

Thank you so much, Tara! Your examples and liveliness have made an essential, hard-to-digest academic topic come alive.

Thanks you

These videos are wonderful. Thank you!!

Thanks, thanks, thanks!!!! Your videos are REALLY helpful.

I'm very impressed that a professor takes part of her time to give thise invaluable advice

Thank you.

The statement from the first couple minutes made me feel unsettled. It made me self aware. However, thanks to this video I'm building the courage to give my thesis a second chance. See you in a couple months.

I accidentally left this tab open, so when I returned the next day this lady scared the bones out of me :). Joke aside, excellent content! Many thanks !

What you said at 11:08 caused emotional damage to your desk.

This video is amazing; it's so eye opening ( e.g. number 10...) Thank you!

'...like a Dalek. In came Doris, and then she left.' I love this image.

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excellent

Tara until listening to your story I thought I was the luckiest with my supervisors! Now I think we should co edit book on our supervisors :-) My first MA supervisor destroyed my grades to sabotage me not to write truth arguments on Bosnian War as he was working on my country policies and writing everything opposite of the truths. My phd supervisor is missing and in parallel to phd I did second MA where my supervisor changed my topic on Ukrainian war when I summited it to protect me form commission that was sold, and I thought he is sold too and does not want me to write truths so I persisted on my regular topic and I was punished by the grade. I will just tell you that whole thesis was analysis, from the fist line to the last, and one commission member was telling me " there is no analysis" so the two supervisors collided , while the third excused herself to leave as we already had arguments on the class and when she learned my phd is on that topic and its my native language she stopped circulating the half-truths ! I think I will write book or better make a movie on supervisors only!

that is a lovely flamingo :)

Incredible Vlog series. Ability to articulate and demonstrate a deep understanding of the audience is remarkable.

This Professor is a godsend. Love and respect from Ethiopia.

Excellent video, truly helpful !

Thank you very much for this video. I received my examiner's corrections recently and could not understand the polarising comments between the two examiners. After much thinking, I came to the conclusion that one examiner did not grasp what my work was about. The examiner was constantly commenting on something particular that my research was not addressing. After 5 days of trying to understand the examiner's perspective, I came to the conclusion that the examiner's expectation of my research might be at fault. The examiner was expecting something that my work was not researching and could not deliver. Having it confirmed by you as number 10, the big split between the examiners, makes me think that I was not so wrong in my assumption. Of course, I also did the big mistake (as until today I did not know), that I had to specify in my introduction what my thesis will not address! I will follow your recommendations and hopefully these changes will be enough to appease the examiner and make my thesis clearer to the reader.

Thanks Dean Tara!!! Truly appreciate the gems! 💎

To the Artifact and Exegisis section. 27:45 You very briefly mentioned DCA? Is that offered? What is it? vs PhD exegesis model. What is the difference? The well defined Arifact with Exegesis- Contributes to New Knowledge. Got it. Thanks so much again Tara. Binge listener...

Excellent. Very useful for student teachers at all levels of education

Great session. Very helpful indeed.

How the research has been used.

I love this Supervisor advice.

Prof Brabazon, when do you sleep :O

Teaching is time-oriented and research is task-oriented. 12:47 strategies 13:28 list all the tasks and make them bite size 14:28 task: sort order from easy to difficult; 15:35 time: how long it takes accurately 16:50 find 30min, 60min slots in timetable 18:15 give all to work efficiently in these time slots

Thank you very much! I really enjoying your videos!

When you said Sounds of a PHD student i thought you were going to talk about the excuses and whining they might do!!

Amazing. Great tips!

Definitely important to know how to select a supervisor. Check the profile for publication each year, but also does anyone from their own group publish papers, or just the big boss' name on publications (red red flag)?