Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara Brabazon talks with students from the University of Cape Town, exploring their inspirations and aspirations.

How do we value and assess research 'impact'?

Tara Brabazon explores the relationship between cultural studies and E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class.

What makes popular culture popular?  Thinking about The Cascades' "Rhythm of the Rain," Tara Brabazon explores why particular songs become much more than a temporary success on the charts and travel through place and time.

Boniswa discusses how postcolonialism is activated in Angola, with attention to the city imaging of Luanda and education.

Tara Brabazon talks with Ana Kvalheim about her MA Creative Media dissertation about liminal spaces and identities.

Laura Nuevo talks to Tara Brabazon about her research into online infidelity.  This project is the basis of her Master of Arts Creative Media dissertation.

At a recent Teaching and Learning conference at Middlesex University, Tara Brabazon discussed with staff their use of sound in education.

Laura Kinsella discusses her MA Creative Media with Tara Brabazon.  She is particularly interested in how the Flip camera, by using media literacy theory, can moderate and mitigate some of the ethical challenges of visual ethnography.

Laura Kinsella talks with Tara Brabazon about the subject for her MA Creative Media dissertation.  She explores the new types of visual ethnography enabled through the Flip camera.

Tara Brabazon talks with Danny Hagan about his MA Creative Media dissertation.  Danny wishes to explore the liminal space and time between university and the workplace.

Tara Brabazon conducts the final review of Maggie Wouapi's research on podcasting in the Cameroon.

Tara Brabazon discusses with Abigail Edwards the outcomes of her MA Creative Media dissertation research.  How did Abi find the research process?  What were her results?

Tara Brabazon explores the nature of podcasting in the Cameroon.

Tara Brabazon talks with Maggie Wouapi and Abigail Edwards about their MA Creative Media dissertations.  Both are using practice-led research.  In this session we discuss the role of the artefact in building their research project.

Tara Brabazon discusses with Paul Nataraj his vinyl memories project.  He explores the loss of vinyl and its survival as a memory. 

In his continuing conversation with Tara Brabazon, Paul Nataraj describes the progress of his MA Creative Media Progress. Particularly, he explores how memories are both invested in and disconnected from vinyl records.

Students are talked about rather than to.  Therefore, Tara Brabazon wanted to find a way to talk with students to record their views.

Abigail Edwards talks with Tara Brabazon about Asynchronous and Synchronous Learning.

Tara Brabazon discusses how to write an MA dissertation with three of her former students, Makrina Dionyssopoulou, Spiridoula Trivizaki and Yanni Papaioannou.

Tara Brabazon talks with Sarah Ison about how Twitter can be used by librarians.

Tara Brabazon talks with her MA Creative Media students about the importance of studying media literacies.

Tara Brabazon talks with Paul Nataraj about his MA Creative Media dissertation, particularly asking him the process through which he will inscribe the memories onto the vinyl.

Tara Brabazon and Paul Nataraj continue their discussion of the role of vinyl in personal and popular memories.  In this session, Paul discusses the interviews he has conducted.

Paul Nataraj is about to commence his MA dissertation at the University of Brighton. He explores his options and the challenges and opportunities in thinking about vinyl and (un)popular culture.