Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Janine McCarthy to explore the challenges of university administration, management and leadership.

Tara offers ten tips to assist postgraduate students about to enter the oral examination for their PhD.

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about her PhD, which investigates the transforming nature of professionalism in early childhood education.

Belinda Waddell, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, introduces the key changes we can make in reducing waste and increasing efficiency in our universities.  Belinda particularly focuses on waste water and paper.  She argues that we can make a difference if we think before we drink, and think before we print. 

Belinda introduces further strategies to enable a sustainable University campus.

Tara talks with Belinda Waddell, the sustainability champion in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University.  Belinda expresses clear goals and strategies for academics and administrators to explore when thinking about their use of water, paper and 'waste' materials.

Tara introduces a seminar by Dr Mike Kent exploring the relationship between theories of disability and elearning.  Mike explores learning management systems and the future of accessibility.

Tara talks with Professor Bill Green about Murdoch University, higher education, literacy, language and politics.  They explore a very particular, special and distinctive pathway through Australia's intellectual history.

Alan Bain talks with Tara about strategies to render universities more productive, socially just and collaborate.  He explores his 'smart learning' project and the enabling smart tools that facilitate its development.

Tara talks with Professor Jennifer Sumsion about the importance of early childhood education.  Jennifer's goal is to demonstrate the intellectual power and importance of thinking about early childhood education with rigour, creativity and imagination.

Rural education is often neglected and frequently invisible, being marginalized by the seemingly urgent and volatile conditions within urban environments.  Tara Brabazon talks with Dr Kathryn Edgeworth about her research and teaching practice in rural education.  They explore the impact of this neglect of the rural, and the transformative capacity of migrants in teaching and learning. 

First students in our universities are threatened by the institutional consequences of plagiarism.  Yet do teachers spend an equivalent amount of time teaching information literacy as they do frightening students about plagiarism?  Tara asks her students how they feel about plagiarism and why it has become such an issue in the contemporary university.

Tara asks her Scholarship students - right at the start of their first year - why they enrolled at the University of Bolton.  Their enthusiasm, honesty and belief in the future is inspiring.

Tara talks with students in the University of Bolton Foundation Degree in Art and Design.  She asks them what they have learnt about art, education, motivation and learning.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Morecambe, a town in the north west of England.  Morecambe has many claims to fame, including Eric Morecambe, his statue and remarkable tides.  But it is through the Midland Hotel, a stunning Art Deco regeneration, that new reasons to visit the town have emerged.  Through reclaiming modernism, Morecambe has modernised.  

The Hillsborough disaster remains a deep wound in British - and international - football.  When 96 Liverpool supporters died in a semi final 23 years ago, the tragedy continued with blame and shame displaced onto the victims.  Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Hillsborough and the recent report that finally tells the truth about a bloody day in sporting history.

It is a cliche that we live in fast times, not careful times.  One of the most relevant theorists of speed is Paul Virilio.  Yet what can first year students gain from reading his work?  Tara Brabazon talks with Steve Redhead about Paul Virilio and what his research and theories can offer to the understanding of accelerated culture.

Starting a university degree is one of the most exciting moments of our lives.  Yet often, that first year is filled with confusion, worry and stress.  Tara talks to some of her former students and asks their advice to current first years.  They answer one question:  if you could do your university degree again, what would you do differently?

In this, the final podcast in their five part series, Katie, Sabera and Tara probe the future of disability support and services in this difficult time for international higher education.

Katie, Sabera and Tara all work at the University of Bolton.  In the fourth podcast of their series, Katie, Sabera and Tara talk about the specific experiences, conditions and practices in disability support at the University.  Katie and Sabera show the impact of high quality support and care on the life and achievement of all students.

In this third part of their conversation, Katie, Sabera and Tara explore the challenges, difficulties and problems that confront all students in higher education and how an array of modifications can transform the experiences of individual students to create an evocative and effective community of learners.

Katie, Sabera and Tara continue their conversation about disability.  In this second part, they explore the legal, social, cultural and personal definitions of disability and the impact of those definitions on higher education.

Katie Morris, Sabera Patel and Tara Brabazon talk about disability services and support at the University of Bolton.  In this first podcast, they explore why universities should show an interest in disability.

What can teaching and research about children's literature provide to our wider understandings of literature and culture?  Tara talks with Professor David Rudd about what drew him to the study of children's literature and its value in higher education.

Maria and Tara explore the role and function of educational technologies in universities.