Starting a PhD is an important moment in our lives. Completing a PhD is an incredible achievement. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. Attrition rates are high. In many nations, only 50% of the people that start a PhD finish it. Why? What is going wrong between admission and graduation?Ten drafts to complete your PhD provides concrete strategies to complete a doctorate. Structured through ten drafts, the goal is to - iteratively - improve a PhD dissertat...

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.

Academic Chapbooks is a short book, written by Tara Brabazon, that provides a clear and actionable guide for scholars looking to diversify their publishing options.Chapbooks are short and punchy publications that can serve as dynamic consultancy cards, secure aan early authorship credit on important ideas, and build deep connections with audiences, without the commitment of writing a full-length scholarly monograph.Academic Chapbooks offer time efficient dissemination strat...

Ten drafts to complete a PhD is a book of propulsive purpose. Only 1% of the world's population holds a PhD. But attrition rates remain high. Tara Brabazon provides a concrete strategy to complete a doctorate. Structured through ten drafts, the goal is to - iteratively - improve the PhD dissertation or thesis to enable a successful examination.Each chapter of this book offers a guide through a specific draft and focus for the thesis. From transitions to references, from a Significa...

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 do not know: Information literacy...

There are so many choices of media, platform and interface. How does an academic writer find the best channel for their research? How do scholars reach and activate an appropriate and meaningful audience for their ideas?Disseminating your research with drive, intention and focus is written by Tara Brabazon to build a conscious and empowering relationship between research, audience and platform. Three sections organize this book. The first section reveals the different articles writ...

Setting up your life to write a PhD has a single goal: to ensure that PhD students have the support, preparation and context to succeed.Too often words and phrases like 'burnout' or 'writer's block' are used to mask a complexity of motivational, task or time management issues. But writing is difficult. Writing a PhD is even harder.Preparation is crucial. Planning is crucial. Context is crucial. This book intervenes in assumptions and emotions to create a framework for effec...

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 map for your life.

You enrol in a PhD, believing in the project and committed to its completion. But something goes wrong. A supervisor leaves the institution, becomes sick, or discards you from their research team or lab. What happens next? Who can rescue you? This book - Rescue Yourself: How to complete a PhD without a supervisor - helps students organize their habits, strategies, behaviour and emotions to finish a PhD. Let's start our work from the fear, confusion and worry, and scaffold a thesis to succe...

This book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics and injustice in academic life. How To Embrace Academic Failure illustrates how to create personal...

This compelling book explores current attitudes towards failure in academia. Tara Brabazon argues that success and failures are rarely linked and instead failure can be harnessed as both a diagnostic and a literacy to improve research integrity, authenticity, accountability and consciousness.Brabazon demonstrates how instances of failure can facilitate an awareness of asymmetrical power dynamics and injustice in academic life. How To Embrace Academic Failure illustrates ho...

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 and part comedy, this book opens the weeping ...