Master of Philosophy
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Nov 2, 2026
Mike RaffanHOST
And, uh, when you mentioned uni there, what did you study at uni?
Fraser ClyneGUEST
Um, actually, uh, at Aberdeen I studied geography, uh, and then, because I like student life, I went on to do a postgrad at MPhil in town and regional planning at Glasgow.
Fraser ClyneGUEST
So, and there was another reason for going to Glasgow because when it was Aberdeen, Glasgow always beat us in team competitions.
Fraser ClyneGUEST
They won everything.
Karen HollandsHOST
Gillian is an author, researcher and book vampire based in Mugginjin, Brisbane.
Karen HollandsHOST
She holds a Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing and is a current PhD candidate at the University of Queensland.
Karen HollandsHOST
Her work has been shortlisted and longlisted for a number of awards, including the Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer for her debut collection, Common Places.
Karen HollandsHOST
Gillian is also one of the organisers of the Australian Short Story Festival and considers herself short fiction's pageant mum, obsessed with telling everyone how perfect it is.
Sheetal LakhaniGUEST
The one that we get trained also are mostly public because there's a lot of inflow there.
Sheetal LakhaniGUEST
So in two settings where I got trained, my MPhil and PhD, both were um seeing a footfall of about a thousand patients per day at least
Laurie EdmondsonHOST
wow
Sheetal LakhaniGUEST
so they're very crowded uh the public systems and so of course there's a private system that gets tapped into as well people with paying capacities which is now quite a lot in the last few years also access the private system on their own It just got passed as a rule that mental health should be covered in policies for insurance.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
Absolutely.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
Besides the topic that I'm interested in doing, the Masters in Philosophy has been giving me such great curiosity about what is the evidence behind the things that we believe so easily.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
And it really helps you interrogate that a lot deeper in any kind of topic or subject.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
But me particularly this time, very interested in women in leadership, particularly during a certain change in their lives when they go through perimenopause.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
Absolutely.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
Besides the topic that I'm interested in, doing the Masters in Philosophy has been giving me such great curiosity about what is the evidence behind the things that we believe so easily.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
And it really helps you interrogate that a lot deeper in any kind of topic or subject.
Nthabiseng Hlophe MatshekgaGUEST
But me particularly this time, very interested in women in leadership, particularly during a certain change in their lives when they go through perimenopause.
Thomas FriedmanGUEST
Well, I never forget my first night here.
Thomas FriedmanGUEST
I was a Marshall Scholar, so I was educated here, my postgraduate education, at first the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, and then at Oxford where I ultimately got my master's degree, M. Phil degree in Middle East Studies from St. Anthony's.
Thomas FriedmanGUEST
So I came here for the first time in the fall of 1975 as a Marshall Scholar, and the first night I was here, went to a play with a group of other Marshall scholars, a little night music.
Thomas FriedmanGUEST
And so whenever I arrive in London, I think of, send in
Fiona ClarkGUEST
He has.
Fiona ClarkGUEST
My son has decided that he will probably kill me for this, that he ended up being a, he did a Masters in Philosophy and then became a lawyer and has just recently quit his astronomical paying corporate law job to move to New York to become a script writer.
Joyce HarperHOST
Oh, my goodness.
Joyce HarperHOST
What a family.
Serafine JaneGUEST
The first one is 11 years, second is six years, and then the third one is four years.
Serafine JaneGUEST
And I'm currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy in midwifery, whereby I'm conducting research on the perspective of midwives in diagnosing breast cancer during pregnancy.
Serafine JaneGUEST
because myself I had it just after I had my last born and I realized that during my antenatal service the midwives they don't do the breast examination as they are supposed to do even though it is a requirement they don't do it so I'm conducting that research to find out why midwives are not able to diagnose or notice breast changes during pregnancy so that is basically about me oh
Kwamara ThompsonHOST
my god that is beautiful what you are doing you're giving back to the community into the world um as you were talking my friend is a breast cancer survivor and she got breast cancer after she delivered birth to her only child and um it was because she thought that she had mastitis and my mother and i both were like that doesn't something doesn't sound right you might want to get checked again and She flew from Florida where she was visiting us back to New York where she lived and went directly to the doctor and was diagnosed with breast cancer.
N. SukumarGUEST
She was not allowed to write.
N. SukumarGUEST
Her M.Phil thesis was, you know, plagiarized, copied by her own supervisor.
N. SukumarGUEST
She went on fighting from tooth to nail.
N. SukumarGUEST
So that is second case.
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His works are a multi-layered mix of colourful forms often dominated by broad brushstrokes.
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Having achieved an MPhil at the Royal College of Art, Stuart went on to have a long career as an educator.
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He was Head of Painting at Cardiff School of Art and Design, and he's lectured at a number of art schools across the country.
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He was President of the RWA, the Royal West of England Academy, in Bristol from 2016-19, and he's an Honorary Royal Scottish Academician.
Stewart GeddesGUEST
And thankfully, I had the parental support to go and study it.
Bob ChaundyHOST
Yeah, that's important, isn't it? Yeah.
Bob ChaundyHOST
So you trained at Bristol Poly, then you did the MA at City, then the MPhil at the Royal College.
Bob ChaundyHOST
When did you first decide that abstraction was the way forward?
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