Tara Brabazon podcast

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.