Tara Brabazon podcast

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.

Tips for success at university include transitioning from school habits, academic integrity, balancing academics and well-being, and embracing opportunities. Tara Brabazon shares insights to help students navigate higher education effectively.

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.