

Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
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Jun 5, 2012 • 2min
Using podcasts in the teaching of law, legal studies and criminology
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.

Jun 5, 2012 • 6min
Why teach sport in universities?
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.

May 29, 2012 • 16min
Tara talks with Shirley Ward about information literacy
Tara Brabazon asks Shirley Ward about the role of libraries, librarians and information literacy in higher education.

May 11, 2012 • 7min
Beyond Baker Street
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.

May 11, 2012 • 8min
Telling stories
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.

Apr 10, 2012 • 31min
Helping graduate students to publish their research
Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.

Apr 6, 2012 • 5min
Why editing matters in a research project
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.

Apr 6, 2012 • 8min
Research students express their concerns with the examination process
Tara asks her undergraduate research students about their fears as they enter the examination process for their theses.

Mar 15, 2012 • 33min
Those dark satanic mills - from revolution to regeneration
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

Mar 15, 2012 • 40min
The turn to slow
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.


