Tara Brabazon podcast

Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter. They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter.  How to handle an intellectual hangover?  Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.

Dr Jae Major explores the role, function and place of bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms.  With specific attention to Aotearoa/New Zealand, strategies are offered to enable bilingualism to flourish.

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 cultural studies in a way that integrates the analogue and the digital, the tourist and the resident.

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 University Australia.  These results are startling and challenging, questioning the practices and protocols of university teaching and learning.

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 voice and movement.

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 School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, presents an interim report on this research project he shares with Dr Audrey Wang.

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 students at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus.  Their answers are inspiring and aspirational.

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 conference in Sydney.  

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 expectations and some strategies to meet them.

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 and its audience.

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 his doctoral thesis.

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 culture.

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 claustropolitanism, and the popular cultural texts that capture it:  Top of the Lake, Breaking Bad, The Tunnel, Orange is the New Black and The Fall.

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 accelerationism, and the countervailing forces of slow culture and slow food.

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 reproletarianization and its relationship with Guy Standing's Precariat.

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 and its relevance to theoretical times.

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 Paul Virilio's Bunker Archaeology to develop a new way of thinking about space, identity, ethnography and surveillance.

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 'claustropolitan sociology' as part of their 'Theoretical times' series.

How can you create a research plan?  How can early career, mid career and senior scholar managed research policies demanding high levels of productivity and accountability?  Tara and Steve talk about how to develop a research career in difficult times for higher education.  Strategies are offered for scholars throughout their career.

Tara introduces an assignment exploring the role of food in art.  The image is titled "Mary, egg and croissant" and was photographed by William Klein.  The image is located at these urls:   http://www.pinterest.com/pin/30117891231012175/  and https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/RP-F-2005-107-360

Steve, Tara and Mick review Mick's endorsement of candidature event.  They explore why it was so successful, offering strategies for other doctoral students who follow him.