Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 19 minutes
- Episodes
- 760
- Years Active
- 2010 - 2025
Maive 1 - The structure of a creative-led PhD
Welcome to our first podcast, introducing Maive's PhD thesis. What is a creative PhD? How is she structuring her research?
Suitcase Scientist
Tara and Jamie talk about 'the suitcase scientist.' They explore the synchrotron and its role, not only in scientific discovery but also urban, regional and national development. How can mobile sci…
Begin with the end in mind - how to finish a PhD quickly, meaningfully and powerfully
This is Tara's keynote presentation for the University of the Sunshine Coast. She was asked to talk about the PhD as a marathon - and how to complete it.
The auditory academic - transforming the soundscape of scholarship
We are approaching the first anniversary of Schafer's death. The father of the 'soundscape', I take this moment and concept and probe the nature of higher education, and its soundcape. In a visual …
10 Platinum Rules for PhD Supervision
Too often - we value 'golden rules': treat other people as you would like to be treated. But what about 'platinum rules'? Treat others as they want to be treated. This podcast is derived from a p…
Comfort is a cage. Happiness is the lure.
Tara was asked by the Times Higher Education to talk about happiness and higher education.
Pick your rabbit
Claustropolitanism at the end of the world: A rethinking of globalization
For this keynote presentation, Tara explores and develops the concept of claustropolitanism and its role in understanding a post-pandemic intern/nationalism. At the end of the world, what is the fat…
The book launch for 12 rules for (academic) life
Join us for a special session exploring Tara's 12 rules for (academic) life
The book launch of Comma: how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD
Join us for the special launch of Comma: how to restart, reclaim and reboot your PhD.
Why 'do' professional development?
Creative Research? Creating new knowledge in difficult times
What is creative research? Tara probes the strengths and challenge of this mode of research and its importance in a post-pandemic university.
This presentation was a keynote address for the Universi…
From disruption to dark academia: the post-pandemic knowledge economy
Tara presents her keynote for Hong Kong Metropolitan University. This keynote was delivered on November 26, 2021.
A new hope
Tara welcomes the next stage of the podcast series and thanks all her friends and colleagues for supporting these podcasts - since 2008.
Palliative nurses in the community at the end of life - a conversation with Lyn Rabbetts
Tara talks with Lyn about the value of palliative nurses in the family home, enabling the end of life with authenticity, meaning and care.
Cardiac health for country people - a conversation with Katie Nesbitt
Tara talks with Katie about how to enable cardiac health for country people. How do we ensure a parity of health care for regional, rural and remote people?
Steps Selecting Examiners
The most important task for a supervisor of higher degree students is to select examiners. This short training session offers commentary and advice to supervisors, to move from compliance to excelle…
Steps - Writing a supervisory letter after receiving divergent results
Mostly, higher degree examination is a smooth process. Sometimes, examination results are unexpected. Disturbing. Divergent. This training session explores how to explain these divergent results t…
Core Training for Full Academic Status (FAS) supervisors
Tara offers a core training sesion for Full Academic Status supervisors at Flinders University.
Core Training for Regional, Rural and Remote Supervisors
Tara offers a specialist training session for Regional, Rural and Remote Supervisors.