Tara Brabazon podcast

Mick, Tara and Steve probe the key problem for doctoral students: when is enough reading actually enough? When should a PhD student stop reading on a particular topic?

Dr Richard Liu challenges our expectations of assessment through the application of multimodality.

This workshop, presented by Bruce Cameron (Director of Easy Access Australia Publishing) and Naul Nunnari (Manager, Event Access and Inclusion, NSW Department of Premier and Cabinet) assists profit and non-profit organization to create accessible events. A range of strategies are offered that are both clear and easy to implement.

Anne, Steve and Tara consider the intellectual, political and social management of the binary opposition HOME and SCHOOL. What is the impact on this binary opposition for early childhood education? Steve proposes that Anne investigates Derrida and does deconstruction properly, rather than using it as a synonym for 'analysis.'

Mick, Steve and Tara are back together working through Mick's meme chapter. He has been on an Althusserian journey. They discussed the relationship between ISAs, RSAs, statism and anti-statism. But the fear of the tea towel overshadowed much of the meeting. Wives of theorists have to be cautious in the kitchen...

Dr Geoff Pearson, a senior lecturer in Law at Manchester University, presented an innovative seminar on behalf of the School of Teacher Education and CSU Law. Geoff explored the specific challenges and profound benefits of ethnography. He then demonstrated the benefits of ethnography in the study of English football fans.

Tara and Anne talk about the next stage and next chapter of her PhD. Particularly, we enter the terrain of professional development for early childhood educators and teachers? But - in this female-dominated profession - is there a promotion of 'personal' rather than 'professional' development?

Fitbit culture, the quantified self and self monitored fitness are configured as movement monitoring activities for the young. But how are senior citizens using the fitbit? Tara talks with her 87 year old father Kevin about his use of the fitbit and how it has changed his understanding of movement, health and fitness.

What is happening to FIFA? Why are there so many drug scandals in cycling and the myriad codes of football? Do the global sporting events still regenerate and lift a city and region? Steve and Tara talk through the concept of 'sporting claustropolis' to describe and understand what is happening to global and globalizing sport.

Do we have agency? Once more, Mick and Tara are having another 'conversation' (discussion / argument) about human agency. Steve is the voice of reason summoning Althusser and Zizek. Who will he convince in this argument without end?