Tara Brabazon podcast

A profound challenge in the management of higher education is ensuring the quality of teaching and learning.  Tara talks with Dr Mark Scott about quality assurance protocols and their role in enabling reflection on teaching.

What are visual effects and how are they different from special effects?  Tara Brabazon talks with Damien Markey, an academic from the University of Bolton, about the nature of visual effects and why it is an emerging area of university study and research.

Tara introduces Professor Steve Redhead's innovative assessment protocol for legal studies. Steve discusses the potential of cascading assessment for upper-level undergraduate students to enable research training.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about teaching and learning strategies in law, legal studies, criminology and sociology.

Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about his use of podcasts in the teaching of law, legal studies and criminology. Steve explores the potential of podcasts to both time and space shift learning, while recognizing the challenges of the widening participation agenda in higher edeucation.

Tara talks with Professor Steve Redhead about the potential and challenges of teaching sport in universities.  From leisure studies to sports journalism and entertainment and sports law, sport offers an innovative strategy to teach complex ideas in new ways.

Tara Brabazon asks Shirley Ward about the role of libraries, librarians and information literacy in higher education.

Gerry Rafferty is best known for one song:  "Baker Street."  Tara shows that his career captured the darkness and disappointments of popular music and celebrity.  Coming from Scotland, the ability to emerge from a small nation and gain international success remains an important legacy of Rafferty's career.

Digital storytelling offers a great way to organize and express personal stories.  Yet Tara shows that digital storytelling has a powerful function in education.  Making abstract knowledge applicable knowledge, digital storytelling brings the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.

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 they do it, or why they choose not to do it.

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 when we speed up or slow down our eating.

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 assess an assignment.

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 enable high quality research.

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 log the power and potential of this form of scholarship.

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 oppression.

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 a research project.

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 gifts they offer to researchers through their careers.