Tara Brabazon podcast

Mark and Tara talk about the distinctive digital strategies that are emerging in and through the contemporary PhD.

Mick and Tara talk about 'the big three' films: Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. Why have these three films dominated the most famous movie quotations of all time?

What are the challenges confronting PhD students and supervisors in our universities? Tara reveals the impact of neoliberalism on doctoral education, showing why governance and regulation of scholarly standards remains important. This presentation is a recording of Tara's keynote session for the European University Association's Council for Doctoral Education Workshop, held at Delft University of Technology on January 21 and 22, 2016.

Tara and Steve talk about two key phrases - "digital leisure cultures" and "digital leisure studies." What are digital leisure cultures and can they offer a new disciplinary pathway through work, production and consumption?

Doctor Who is a stunning and innovative force in popular culture and popular memory. But why is Doctor Who popular and what is the role of Peter Capaldi in aligning past and present, memory and politics, television and post-television? Steve and Tara talk about Doctor Who through its history and why this programme matters now, perhaps more than at any point in its history.

Mark Brown joins us from Sydney to present his sonic designs for the development of his artefact. Yet his great work raises a question. What is the artefact? What are the examiners assessing? Steve, Tara and Mark try to limit and shape the examined artefact.

Sunny, Steve and Tara enter the complex area of blackness and Australian identity. What space is available to explore blackness - as a scholar - in doctoral education?

A great challenge of doctoral education is balancing description, analysis and high theory. Anne McLeod discusses how to manage this challenge with Steve and Tara, her doctoral supervisors.

Why has the Wizard of Oz moved so successfully through literature and film - and through time? Mick, Tara and Steve probe the power of the Wizard of Oz and what it reveals about children's media.

Tara Brabazon and Steve Redhead explore the history of the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture at the Manchester Metropolitan University. How was the Institute formed? What were the conditions that made it successful? Can such an Institute emerge again from the contemporary higher education sector?