Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.

Too often, research students underestimate the time involved in editing their thesis or dissertation for submission to examiners. Tara asks her research students about editing: how they do it, why th…

Tara asks her undergraduate research students about their fears as they enter the examination process for their theses.

Tara investigates city imaging and how an understanding of geosocial networking can enhance the social, economic and cultural development of second and third tier cities

Tara explores the impact of speed on popular culture and our daily lives. Using the examples of fast food and slow food, she asks how injustice and inequality are managed, moderated or reinforced whe…

Tara explores the role of desire and sexuality in the configuration of popular culture.  As examples, she explores textual poaching and slash fiction.

Tara and Steve Redhead have a conversation about how to gain a high mark for a research project. They discuss the key characteristics of outstanding student work.

Assisting students through to the submission of a major research project is difficult. To help them, Tara asked students to take on the role of an examiner and discuss the way in which they would ass…

Information literacy is integral to any research project. Tara asks her 4th year students to think about how they manage the diversity of online and offline sources that are available to them, to ena…

Tara asks her 4th year research students to probe the advantages and strengths of creative-led research.  While there are challenges and risks when compiling an artefact and exegesis, the students lo…

Anjolaoluwa talks with Tara about her Capstone project exploring the lives of Nigerian Canadians. Using oral history, she aims to show the potential of 'blind listening' in countering racism and oppr…

Tara asks her 4th year students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology about why literature reviews are so boring. Her students offer options to enliven and excite this dull section of …

Sammy talks with Tara about his project on J. Cole and how knowledge from popular music can shape and inform social debates.

Victor updates Tara on his multiliteracy and multiculturalism project. He explores the potential and challenges in attaching Canadian bilingualism to a multiliteracy agenda.

Leanne and Tara talk about beginnings and endings. They explore how to start a research project and how to evaluate its success.

Matthew Homer talks with Tara about the special type of research that emerges through creative-led projects.  Matt explores how these projects are formed, the risks and challenges, and also the great…

Henry Huang is completing a research project on Manga. He talks with Tara about how technology is 'managed' within Manga, with attention to both its utopic and dystopic interpretations.

Most discussions of research methods are hooked into the social sciences and the sciences. Yet what can Communication Studies bring to an investigation of research methods? In this podcast, undergrad…

Dr Matthew Ingram and Tara explore the challenges that confront students during a research project. Matt argues that understanding the research process and taking responsibility for it are key charac…

Nicole Grifoni is conducting a research project on Drake. She is interested in how popular knowledges about heterosexual relationships are activated in his audience to create social change.