Oct 29, 2026 · 21 min · 8 segments
This week - we talk about endings. Suz and Tara probe what an ending to a doctorate is and feels like, and how to build - meaningfully - to this successful conclusion.
Tara BrabazonHost
Suzanne Morch-LassenGuest
Yeah, and look, we'll do a little bit of a conversation, but we might make that the basis of a next one or another one where, and we talked a little bit about in our meeting this week, actually, that at this point I'm giving you a couple of writing tasks every week that are what I'm describing as the dreadful cliche, low-hanging fruit.
So we're having a conversation and then I say to you, right, this conversation is recorded, Suze, that issue is, write that up for me and put it in the conclusion.
Or we've just had this conversation, write that up and put that, your industry partnerships, put that in the introduction for me.
The insider, outsider status, make sure that's working well in the methodology, write that up for me this week.
In about three months, we're going to look at what is left to write in the thesis.
And so then I'll be saying to you, right, now you see that problem that exists in your data analysis.
on the the redundancy model or how you handled the outlier data points and that's hard yakka that is hard work so that's what i mean about the last year you know it starts okay because we're doing the relatively straightforward filling in the gaps then the gaps get smaller and they get harder
okay yeah okay that that Yeah, it was the thing of, is it how many more hours? Is it how many more words? Is it, you know, so you've actually made that a lot clearer for me and other people listening to the podcast, what exactly that means.
At this point in the final year, the first couple of months are we're doing a jog.
And then you do 100 metres and then you take a breather and then you do another 100 metres.
Yeah, and look, we'll do a little bit of a conversation, but we might make that the basis of a next one or another one where, and we talked a little bit about in our meeting this week, actually, that at this point I'm giving you a couple of writing tasks every week that are what I'm describing as the dreadful cliche, low-hanging fruit.
So we're having a conversation and then I say to you, right, this conversation is recorded, Suze, that issue is, write that up for me and put it in the conclusion.
Or we've just had this conversation, write that up and put that, your industry partnerships, put that in the introduction for me.
The insider, outsider status, make sure that's working well in the methodology, write that up for me this week.
In about three months, we're going to look at what is left to write in the thesis.
And so then I'll be saying to you, right, now you see that problem that exists in your data analysis.
on the the redundancy model or how you handled the outlier data points and that's hard yakka that is hard work so that's what i mean about the last year you know it starts okay because we're doing the relatively straightforward filling in the gaps then the gaps get smaller and they get harder
okay yeah okay that that Yeah, it was the thing of, is it how many more hours? Is it how many more words? Is it, you know, so you've actually made that a lot clearer for me and other people listening to the podcast, what exactly that means.
At this point in the final year, the first couple of months are we're doing a jog.
And then you do 100 metres and then you take a breather and then you do another 100 metres.
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