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Tara Brabazon

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

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Friday · 30 min
Summoning the SOCK - A conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 5
The Significant Original Contribution to Knowledge is the defining attribute of a PhD. But how is it created? This week, Suz and Tara talk about how a SOCK is built - and formed.
Thursday · 19 min
Internationalism and Higher Education - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Internationalism is so important to life, universities and the development of knowledge. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the gift and power of internationalization, even - particularly - in xenophobic times.
October 13 · 41 min
Beyond Reactive Protection - a conversation with Emily Wong
Tara talks with her friend and colleague Emily Wong, from Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, about her recently published article, "Reactive Protection: Building Child-Save Systems for Hong Kong's Future." It is a great provocation of an article, transforming our thinking about the rights of children, and the daily and institutional care for the child. Inspirational. To read Emily's fine article - please refer to "Beyond Reactive Protection: Building Child-Safe Systems for Hong Kong's Future" - https://libjournals.mtsu.edu/index.php/ijwc/article/view/2777
October 13 · 21 min
Interrupted Careers - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk West
What does it mean to have a career 'break'? What is a career 'interruption'? Professor Priscilla Dunk-West and I talk about the idea of 'interruption' - and what we learn about a working life through it... And - indeed - a life...
October 8 · 23 min
Deciding to do a doctorate - A conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 4
This week, Tara and Suzanne talk about that pivotal decision. The decision to do a doctorate. How is that decision made, and what information is required to make it?
October 7 · 49 min
Cultivating Commoners - A conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski
How does an individual, collective and community transform in tough times? Kelly and Tara talk about how infrastructures of care can transform individuals and their relationships with the world. This is a delicate conversation about land, gardens and encounters beyond 'the human.' Let's talk about collectives of care. To read Kelly's fabulous article, please refer to this link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427512300447X
October 3 · 19 min
Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 3 - The textures of silence
Interviews and surveys are common in qualitative research. But Suzanne has constructed her interviews in a completely original way. Multimodal. Textured. This week, we talk about the role of silence in interviews. How do we understand and value silence? How do we render it meaningful in research?
September 25 · 18 min
Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen 2 - Interviewing in different ways
This week, Suzanne and Tara talk about interviewing in research. In qualitative methods, it often seems a default strategy for data collection. Suzanne talks about how she approached interviews through a different lens.
September 25 · 22 min
Pay yourself first - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Our needs and goals are - so frequently - marginalized to enable the life and career of others. How do we transform this balance between our aims and hopes - and the imperatives of others?
September 10 · 26 min
Conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen - 1
Welcome to our first conversation with Suzanne Morch-Lassen. Suzanne has one year to go on her PhD. Let's share this time.
August 30 · 26 min
Isolation in academic life: a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla discuss the odd and unique isolation and atomization in academic life.
August 27 · 48 min
How do we balance the emotions of care with the labour of care? A conversation with Kelly Dombroski
How do we balance the emotions of care with the labour of care? To answer this question, Tara and Kelly talk about Kelly's article titled "Communities of Care in the Nitty-Gritty of Commons-Work." The article is available to read from here: https://www.torrossa.com/en/resources/an/5956217
July 30 · 18 min
How do we decide to make changes in our professional lives? A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Making changes in our lives. It is difficult. But how do we decide when to make those changes? And what evidence is useful to these transformations?
July 30 · 18 min
Comparisons - A conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about the challenges and difficulties when we compare ourselves with others.
July 11 · 57 min
Transitional commoning - a conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski
Tara talks with Kelly about 'transitional commoning,' from her article titled, 'Can the commons be temporary?' This discussion reveals how - even through disasters - life and transformations can emerge. This research article is available here - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567480
June 29 · 18 min
Embodied teaching and learning - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Tara and Priscilla talk about bodies. And teaching. And learning. In supposedly digital times.
June 29 · 19 min
Meaningful teaching and learning cultures - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Priscilla and Tara talk about how to enhance teaching and learning in these strange times for international higher education.
May 31 · 57 min
Conversations with Kelly 1 - Postcapitalist politics through the sites and practices of life work
In this first conversation with Professor Kelly Dombroski, we explore her book chapter written with Dr Oona Morrow, exploring postcapitalist politics in and through life work. (The chapter is available here via Google Books: https://books.google.co.nz/books?hl=en&lr=&id=0MVgEQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA82&dq=Postcapitalist+politics+through+the+sites+and+practices+of+life+work&ots=PiwxHSpCht&sig=23Uz_5QXzIUD7JxYKs6CaNe7k4I&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Postcapitalist%20politics%20through%20the%20sites%20and%20practices%20of%20life%20work&f=false)
April 27 · 20 min
The gifts of teaching and learning - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
So often teaching and learning are minimized or reduced, in favour of the major research project, or big grant. This week, Priscilla and Tara talk about the power of teaching and learning, to enliven our universities.
March 27 · 19 min
Impact and engagement - a conversation with Professor Priscilla Dunk-West
Impact and engagement. These words pump through our universities. But what do them mean?

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