Tara Brabazon podcast

How can policy makers and local councils encourage movement in small cities?  Leanne McRae, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore these third tier cities and the benefits of thinking about physical…

Dr Mike Kent, from Internet Studies at Curtin University, talks with Tara about his career and how to build momentum and success during a challenging time for the higher education sector.

How are men and women with mental illnesses being supported through higher education and elearning?  Dr Mike Kent presents the results from a recent survey conducted with students from Open Universit…

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about the place of the creative arts in teacher education.  They discuss the disparate streams of the discipline area, but also the value for teachers in understanding voi…

Anne and Tara discuss the particularly difficult challenges of writing a doctorate in a rapidly changing policy environment for early childhood education.

Does parental involvement have an impact on student achievement?  While the answer to this question may seem self evident, actually the results are much more ambivalent.  Dr Graham Daniel, from the S…

With all the pressure and attacks on teacher education, it is a provocative but useful question to ask, why would anyone want to become a teacher?  Tara asks the new generation of teacher education s…

How would your personal and professional life change if you concentrated on what you hear, rather than what you see?  Tara answers that question and shares her presentation for the 2015 researchED co…

The academic year is about to commence. Tara offers 10 tips to orient students into higher education.  Academics hold assumptions about our students.  This podcast tells students about our expectatio…

Ashgate publishers have described Digital Dieting as one of their books that have made an impact on the scholarly field.  Tara talks about how this book was written, its context, interdisciplinarity …

Tara and Mick continue to hack through morphic fields.  They explore how theorists of morphic fields define and apply consciousness.  Yes, this is another hippy-inflected podcast.

What happens when a PhD student goes deeply into a research literature and needs to get out of it again? Mick and Tara talk about the morphic fields literature and how to hook this research back into…

Anne and Tara talk through the changing context and environment of early childhood education, and the relationship between 'a service' and 'learning.'  

What is the sound of food?  Tara presents an artefact to accompany a written exegesis.  The goal is to probe the sociology of the senses, with attention to the relationship between food and sonic cul…

Do you feel closed in?  Do you want to leave the planet because of war, terrorism, violence and xenophobia?  The concept that captures this tendency is claustropolitanism.  Steve and Tara discuss cla…

These theoretical times are also accelerated times.  What is the role of momentum and speed in our understanding of identity and popular culture?  Tara and Steve talk about accelerated culture and ac…

What happens to a working class when there is no longer work?  How do we think about middle class in relation to a digitized, globalized, casual workplace?  Steve and Tara talk about reproletarianiza…

How did the Global Financial Crisis impact on our understandings of social relationships and identity?  Has foreclosure become a 'global condition'?  Tara and Steve probe the concept of foreclosure a…

Why are methods so boring in the contemporary university?  How can the theories of method be enlivened and enlivening in the humanities and social sciences?  Steve and Tara translate and transform Pa…

Does sociology have a future?  How does the discipline - and the scholars within it - manage neo-liberalism, xenophobia, terrorism and gated communities?  Steve and Tara explore the concept of 'claus…