Tara Brabazon podcast

How can policy makers and local councils encourage movement in small cities?  Leanne McRae, Steve Redhead and Tara Brabazon explore these third tier cities and the benefits of thinking about physical cultural studies in a way that integrates the analogue and the digital, the tourist and the resident.

Dr Mike Kent, from Internet Studies at Curtin University, talks with Tara about his career and how to build momentum and success during a challenging time for the higher education sector.

How are men and women with mental illnesses being supported through higher education and elearning?  Dr Mike Kent presents the results from a recent survey conducted with students from Open University Australia.  These results are startling and challenging, questioning the practices and protocols of university teaching and learning.

Tara talks with Anne McLeod about the place of the creative arts in teacher education.  They discuss the disparate streams of the discipline area, but also the value for teachers in understanding voice and movement.

Anne and Tara discuss the particularly difficult challenges of writing a doctorate in a rapidly changing policy environment for early childhood education.

Does parental involvement have an impact on student achievement?  While the answer to this question may seem self evident, actually the results are much more ambivalent.  Dr Graham Daniel, from the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University, presents an interim report on this research project he shares with Dr Audrey Wang.

With all the pressure and attacks on teacher education, it is a provocative but useful question to ask, why would anyone want to become a teacher?  Tara asks the new generation of teacher education students at Charles Sturt University's Bathurst campus.  Their answers are inspiring and aspirational.

How would your personal and professional life change if you concentrated on what you hear, rather than what you see?  Tara answers that question and shares her presentation for the 2015 researchED conference in Sydney.  

Tips for success at university include transitioning from school habits, academic integrity, balancing academics and well-being, and embracing opportunities. Tara Brabazon shares insights to help students navigate higher education effectively.

Ashgate publishers have described Digital Dieting as one of their books that have made an impact on the scholarly field.  Tara talks about how this book was written, its context, interdisciplinarity and its audience.