Tara Brabazon podcast

Tara talks with Belinda Waddell, the sustainability champion in the School of Teacher Education at Charles Sturt University. Belinda expresses clear goals and strategies for academics and administrators to explore when thinking about their use of water, paper and 'waste' materials.

Tara introduces a seminar by Dr Mike Kent exploring the relationship between theories of disability and elearning. Mike explores learning management systems and the future of accessibility.

Tara talks with Professor Bill Green about Murdoch University, higher education, literacy, language and politics. They explore a very particular, special and distinctive pathway through Australia's intellectual history.

Alan Bain talks with Tara about strategies to render universities more productive, socially just and collaborate. He explores his 'smart learning' project and the enabling smart tools that facilitate its development.

Tara talks with Professor Jennifer Sumsion about the importance of early childhood education. Jennifer's goal is to demonstrate the intellectual power and importance of thinking about early childhood education with rigour, creativity and imagination.

Rural education is often neglected and frequently invisible, being marginalized by the seemingly urgent and volatile conditions within urban environments. Tara Brabazon talks with Dr Kathryn Edgeworth about her research and teaching practice in rural education. They explore the impact of this neglect of the rural, and the transformative capacity of migrants in teaching and learning.

First students in our universities are threatened by the institutional consequences of plagiarism. Yet do teachers spend an equivalent amount of time teaching information literacy as they do frightening students about plagiarism? Tara asks her students how they feel about plagiarism and why it has become such an issue in the contemporary university.

Tara asks her Scholarship students - right at the start of their first year - why they enrolled at the University of Bolton. Their enthusiasm, honesty and belief in the future is inspiring.

Tara talks with students in the University of Bolton Foundation Degree in Art and Design. She asks them what they have learnt about art, education, motivation and learning.

Tara talks with Steve Redhead about Morecambe, a town in the north west of England. Morecambe has many claims to fame, including Eric Morecambe, his statue and remarkable tides. But it is through the Midland Hotel, a stunning Art Deco regeneration, that new reasons to visit the town have emerged. Through reclaiming modernism, Morecambe has modernised.