Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Narelle, Jamie and Tara talk about multiliteracy and its relationship to disciplinary literacy. How can diversity be enabled - in curricula design and beyond - through multiliteracy?
Well, the project has progressed. Narelle, Jamie and Tara start to sharpen the field and literature of literacy feeding into her disciplinary literacy research. And yes - a breakthrough.
Tara Brabazon and Jamie Quinton unpick a flippant comment made by a senior Australian academic. She dismissed the relationship between undergraduate teaching and learning and PhD supervision.
But is…
The right woman. The right time. The right project. Every now and again, a remarkable researcher transforms a field. Listen to Narelle Hunter explore how disciplinary literacy can transform the t…
Tara talks with completed PhD students and scholars just at the cusp of submission. How do you finish? How does the PhD end? A powerful moment in understanding the endings.
The PhD examination is a dark art. But how are they examined? What does examination mean in the PhD space? This podcast between Natalie Hills and Tara Brabazon - and the remarkable students at Fli…
This podcast matters. So much goes wrong in the PhD candidature. Let's tell those stories. And let's explore how to improve the life and research of these students.
Tara conducts an end-of-seminar discussion with PhD students about their aspirations and hopes for a PhD supervisor. Evocative. Provocative. Convincing.
Jamie and Tara talk about that key moment in education: the transition from high school to university. That first year of university is difficult. Attrition rates are high. What can be done to sup…
Tara and Jamie Quinton talk about pencasting, and the Livescribe. Many of us tried the smartpen a decade ago - but a new version has just been released. But why use a smartpen? Why did it fail a d…
Tara presents this flipped Professional Development training session for supervisors on 'authorship.' One of the most volatile, nasty and complex parts of higher education, this session explores the…
Tara talks with Tania Hall about the men and women with intellectual disabilities and their experience of group homes. Tania's thesis has taken an unusual method, exploring the testimony of these me…
Tara talks with Sue Charlton. Sue's soon-to-be completed PhD explores regional health injustices, and how these injustices manifest in pediatric physiotherapy. But in this podcast, Sue talks about …
Tara talks with Kathryn Hardwick-Franco about rural, regional and remote education. Why does regionality offer to our universities? What values do our doctoral students express when re-evaluating i…
Tara presents this flipped professional development session on the confirmation of candidature. What is it? How can this milestone enable a successful completion? With attention to backward mappin…
A provocative title for a disturbing, confronting and difficult topic. After the publication and dissemination of the Respect, Now, Always Report by Universities Australia, and also the emergence of…
Tara presents a flipped professional development session for PhD supervisors. And it is difficult. Difficult people. Difficult situations. Difficult conversations. What creates these moments and …
Tara presents this professional development session for PhD supervisors. How do you select an examiner? What characteristics are important to you? What about form and content? How do we continue t…
Dr Leanne McRae presents a controversial, complex seminar exploring death, public and private grief and memorialization.
What does death and grief mean? What happens as grief moves from a private to…
Tara offers a first pass of her research exploring translocalism, food tourism, regional development and Kangaroo Island.