Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with her namesake, Tara Shem about speech impairments in the early years.  They discuss the strength of speech pathology as an emerging discipline as much as profession and the value of strong partnerships between education and health, teaching and speech pathology.

Steve and Tara ponder the profound instability of the Trump Presidency.  In this interregnum, how will the rise of the right be tempered by any mode or form of progressivism?

Steve and Tara talk about the challenges, opportunities and surprises when preparing Mick Winter's PhD thesis for examination.  They offer models for other supervisors when managing - emotionally and intellectually - the death of a student.  

Tara, Steve and Anne align Terry Johnson's theories of the profession to a post-GFC economic and social climate.

Tara has the pleasure of speaking with Vanessa Alexander.  Vanessa is a part-time Doctor of Education student at Flinders University and Team Leader for Positive Partnerships (http://www.positivepartnerships.com.au/vanessa-alexander-team-leader-south-australia), a support organization to enable school-age children on the autism spectrum. She discusses what drew her to research, her project and the advice she would offer to educators throughout the sector considering an enrolment in a higher degree.

Andrew, Steve and Tara talk about the role and place of sleep in policing.  They also explore the understanding - the theory - of 'work' and the 'job' of policing.

Anne, Tara and Steve present some alternative modelling for Guy Standing's Precariat and Terry Johnson's theorization of professionalism.  

Tara talks with Steve about a new book series and an emerging trope:  Deviant Leisure.  What is deviant leisure and how can it enable a new understanding of capitalism and higher education?  

Steve and Tara summon the interconnected injustices of Hillsborough and Grenfell.  Finally, charges have been made against South Yorkshire Police - 28 years after the event.  But what do we learn about working class people, working class culture and injustice?  Tara and Steve probe the lessons of Hillsborough to understand the events in Grenfell.

Steve and Tara talk Theory.  What is it - and why is it useful for researchers?  In anti-intellectual times, is it the moment to bring back Theory (Capital T)?