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

Nov 28, 2021 • 19min
From disruption to dark academia: the post-pandemic knowledge economy
From exploring disruption in universities to the impacts of COVID-19 on the education system, this podcast delves into the shifting perspective on knowledge economy post-pandemic. It also delves into the dark academic culture within universities and the challenges faced in academic leadership and decision-making.

Nov 28, 2021 • 4min
A new hope
Tara welcomes the next stage of the podcast series and thanks all her friends and colleagues for supporting these podcasts - since 2008.

Sep 14, 2021 • 9min
Palliative nurses in the community at the end of life - a conversation with Lyn Rabbetts
Tara talks with Lyn about the value of palliative nurses in the family home, enabling the end of life with authenticity, meaning and care.

Sep 14, 2021 • 9min
Cardiac health for country people - a conversation with Katie Nesbitt
Tara talks with Katie about how to enable cardiac health for country people. How do we ensure a parity of health care for regional, rural and remote people?

Aug 19, 2021 • 13min
Steps Selecting Examiners
The most important task for a supervisor of higher degree students is to select examiners. This short training session offers commentary and advice to supervisors, to move from compliance to excellence.

Aug 19, 2021 • 12min
Steps - Writing a supervisory letter after receiving divergent results
Mostly, higher degree examination is a smooth process. Sometimes, examination results are unexpected. Disturbing. Divergent. This training session explores how to explain these divergent results to governance committees that must determine the final result.

Aug 3, 2021 • 27min
Core Training for Full Academic Status (FAS) supervisors
Tara offers a core training sesion for Full Academic Status supervisors at Flinders University.

Aug 3, 2021 • 36min
Core Training for Regional, Rural and Remote Supervisors
Tara offers a specialist training session for Regional, Rural and Remote Supervisors.

May 9, 2021 • 20min
Steps Regional, Rural and Remote students, supervisors and research
In this Step session Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the gifts and the challenges of regional, rural and remote academic life, with attention to student supervision and research.

May 9, 2021 • 20min
Steps Working with Indigenous Elders to enable research sovereignty
Tara talks with Dr Maree Meredith about the decolonizing power and value of working with Indigenous Elders. This partnership transforms research and summons new and powerful configurations of research sovereignty for doctoral education.