
Tara Brabazon podcast
Tara Brabazon explores popular culture and education, and the relationship between them.
Latest episodes

Mar 24, 2025 • 17min
Ethics - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Ethics clearances in research are time consuming. They can be frustrating. But why do research projects have ethical requirements? Tara and Priscilla talk about ethics - and the alternatives.

Mar 24, 2025 • 19min
Research leadership and research management - a Conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Priscilla and Tara talk about research leadership, and how to enable a plurality of disciplines and approaches, and a diversity of researchers.

Mar 24, 2025 • 17min
A conversation about Menopause - with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about menopause and the transformative capacity of research for women's lives.

Jan 30, 2025 • 19min
How to prepare a second and third edition of a book - a conversation with Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara talks with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West on a fascinating and unusual topic. OK. You have a scucessful book. How do you prepare a second edition? And then a third? What changes? What remains? What transforms?

Jan 27, 2025 • 20min
From Passion to Traction: The skills needed for a postdoc
Tara and Jamie talk about how to take the concrete steps to find, be selected for, and enjoy, a postdoctoral post.

Dec 1, 2024 • 20min
Pondering a Postdoc
In this first episode of Ask Tara and Jamie Anything (!!!!), we respond to Belinda's request to talk about the postdoc. What is it? What does it look like?

May 30, 2024 • 15min
Doug Boothey 2 - Social capital, consciousness and social responsibility
Doug Boothey and Tara Brabazon discuss social capital, consciousness, and social responsibility in the context of contemporary politics and climate change. They explore the impact of the internet on social capital, the role of temperature in climate activism, and the importance of community building. They also discuss the shift in perspectives during the pandemic, emphasizing personal responsibility and engagement in citizenship for strengthening community bonds post-COVID.

Apr 23, 2024 • 16min
Doug Boothey 1 - Learning from the past
Doug, Tara and Jamie talk about starting a PhD with power and energy, and learning from the past.

Jan 23, 2024 • 21min
Touchstone Beginnings - Digital Doctorate
How is digitization transforming doctoral education?

Oct 24, 2023 • 16min
Bloom 2 - Mpho Dube, midwifery research with love, dignity and care
Tara talks with Mpho Dube who explores the power of midwifery in enabling the life and voice of refugee women. Mpho describes this reearch as building life for generations. In this moving podcast, she shows the importance of love in creating a culture of care and social justice.
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