Tara Brabazon podcast

Anne McLeod, from CSU's School of Teacher Education Dubbo campus, talks about the role of the creative and performing arts in teacher education. She shows the significance of community partnerships and the value - at the level of skill and knowledge - in enabling the creative arts in higher education.

Mick asks about the role of definitions - particularly dictionary definitions - in doctoral research. Steve and Tara provide some unexpected answers. And for once - they agree.

Professor Melanie Walker, from the Free State University in South Africa, explores how our understandings of higher education transform when deploying the capabilities approach to teaching and learning.

Steve, Anne and Tara are back together again, celebrating the completion of Anne's first chapter and foreshadowing her next chapter. We discuss methods, ethics and the role of curriculum studies in the formulation of professionalism, and the teaching profession. Put another way, why is Anne using Unobtrusive Research Methods rather than conducting a participant observation of crack use?

Professor Jo Reid explores professional decision making in our universities and the possibilities for autonomy in 'neoliberal times.'

Steve, Mick and Tara are back together to acknowledge Mick's great work with morphic fields, but to prepare him for writing of the next long chapter. They discuss the challenges in writing a new doctoral chapter after completing a large and intense chapter. How to handle an intellectual hangover? Steve, Mick and Tara talk through some strategies.

Dr Jae Major explores the role, function and place of bilingual identities in monolingual classrooms. With specific attention to Aotearoa/New Zealand, strategies are offered to enable bilingualism to flourish.

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.