Thesiswhisperer Pod
The podcast feed for Thesiswhisperer.com: tune in for audio projects produced by Professor Inger Mewburn from The Australian National University. Scroll down in the feed for past projects, including 'Academics Talk about The Chair' and 'Your brain on Writing'... Coming soon: 'Academic workers talk about Severance'
Episodes
16 episodes
Episode Nine: The We, we are
It's the final episode of Severance, and it's really fucking tense! For our final show this season, it's just us: Outie Anitra and Innie Inger, talking about episode 9. So much happened this episode! So many big reveals, and new pl...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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53:13
Episode Eight: What's for dinner?
Worker solidarity is the theme of this episode, and in celebration, we invited Anitra's current boss, Geoff Stringer. Don't worry though - he's not going to rat us out to the higher ups.The team dissect episode: What's for Dinner. This ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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45:52
Episode Seven: Defiant Jazz
You'll never look at mandated company fun the same way after this episode, especially when it becomes clear that inter-departmental politics can get its own body count. Prof Narelle Lemon, who is now at Edith Cowan University, join...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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43:32
Episode Six: Hide and Seek
Love is in the air in episode six of Severance, where inter-departmental politics is platonic. Sort of. Maybe. Bert and Irv grow closer, Mark and Helly take the work flirt to the next level and Devon has a mysterious encounter in the local...
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44:04
Episode Five: The grim barbarity of optics and design
We saved this one for Anitra's co-worker and Director of Digital Experience, Joyce Seitzinger, because it is the infamous "bring-your-baby-goat-to-work" day episode. There is also a lot of Ricken in this ep, which gives us an excuse...
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52:21
Episode four: The You you are
In this episode we are joined by Inger’s ANU colleague and fellow podcaster Will Grant and we are talking about how no one wants to go into the break room. Like, ever. We dissect Cobel’s (unasked for) freelancing — ‘wet work’ at Pet...
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48:04
Episode three: In perpetuity
In Episode Three of Severance, work friendships take a dark turn and we discuss it all with Anitra’s ex-and-current-coworker, Senior Learning Designer Miriam Renoyldson. Anitra mangles the word 'cishertrowhitemaletriarchy', which Mi...
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51:37
Episode two: Half Loop
We focus on Episode Two of Severance and are joined once again by our friend and academic wellness expert Professor Narelle Lemon.We delve into the topic of corporate gaslighting and how the work of MDR is the best description ever of an...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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46:53
Episode one: The good news about Hell
Welcome to episode one of Academics talk about Severance': the Apple TV show that has a lot to say about Work. We hope this series helps you cope with fact that season two seems to be infinitely delayed, or maybe just stuck on the Severance Flo...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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50:16
Coming soon! Academics talk about... Season two.
Coming soon to this channel, will be a new series of ‘academics talk about…: Season one, which you’ll find by scrolling down in this feed, was ‘Academics talk about The Chair’ - the excellent Netflix series about a sma...
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Season 2
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Episode 0
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4:06
Episode six: The Chair
Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining the last episode - The Chair.In the last episode, unresolved sexual tension (UST) is resolved (sort ...
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1:13:21
Episode five: The last bus in town
Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode four: 'The last bus in town'.We're joined, again, for this episode by Dr Bertha Chin, senior...
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1:17:36
Episode Four: Don't Kill Bill
Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode four: 'Don't Kill Bill'.We're joined for this episode by Dr Bertha Chin, senior lecturer fro...
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1:04:19
Episode three - The town hall
Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode three: The Town Hall.Once again we're joined for this episode by Professor Pauline Reynolds ...
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1:08:02
Episode two: The faculty party
Inger, Megan, Anitra and Narelle continue their episode by episode forensic examination of 'The Chair'. This time we're examining episode two: the faculty party. We are joined for this episode by Professor Pauline Reynolds who is ...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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1:12:43
Episode one: Brilliant Mistake
It feels like every academic in the world has a hot take on the new Netflix show 'The Chair'. Opinions are divided, and, in that academic way we know and love, everyone thinks they're right. We’re a bunch of academics in lockdown here i...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:04:15