Tarabrabazon's Podcast

Tara talks with Dr Leanne McRae.  They explore how podcasting can be used to enable and assist student reading and interpretation.  Leanne outlines the benefits for international students in modelling scholarly processes and practices.

Tara Brabazon talks with Elizabeth van de Sande about her deployment of podcasting in high school teaching.  Liz discusses the function of podcasting in assessment, reflection on assessment and the creation of confidence in students. 

One of the great challenges of practice-led and creative-led research is how to both construct and align an artefact and exegesis.  Too often, students neglect one element and do not integrate the distinct modes of their research.  In this podcast, Tara talks with her former postgraduates about the challenges, benefits and mechanics of creating an artefact and exegesis.  Besides Tara, this podcast features the voices of Nadine Caouette, Matt Homer, Mick Winter and Maggie Wouapi.

Assessment is one of the most frightening parts of first year at university for new students.  Bobbie Yoong and Tara Brabazon talk about how to approach non-essay based assignments.  Particularly, they talk about workbooks, scrapbooks and academic diaries.  Bobbie also helps first year students by reflecting on her own experience.

Too often, particularly in a coursework MA programme, students assume that their work finishes when a paper is submitted.  Tara explores the responsibilities of scholarship and the multiple methods of dissemination.

Tara explores the nature of oral history and oral historiography, particularly in digitized environments.  When should an interview take place and how 'representative' are the findings?

Tara introduces unobtrusive research methods.  When is it best to avoid focus groups, interviews and surveys and think about alternative research methods?

Tara's presentation introduces research methods.  She explores the relationship between 'the how' and 'the why' of research.

Tara talks to Steve Redhead, asking him about the definitions and applications of critical criminology.

Tara Brabazon talks with Mick Winter about his new book, Scan Me:  Everybody's guide to the magical world of QR codes.  They talk about the potential of local content delivered via mobile phones in an appropriate time and place.  As part of geosocial networking, QR codes have found their historical moment.  For further information, please refer to http://scanmebook.com.

What is the difference between (higher) education and training?  Are students 'overqualified' for their first job?  This podcast explores the consequences of tabloid fixations with an 'overqualified' workforce.

Tara asks Steve Redhead about prisons and popular culture.  Why did he take university students on prison visits?

The iPad 2 is the archetype of proto-obsolescent technology.  It embodies Thorstein Veblen's phrase 'conspicuous consumption.'  Yet there is one company that makes iPad cases built on the bookbinding tradition.  Dodocase, based in San Francisco, provides a reminder to users of new media platforms that skill, care and history must attend any decisions about rapid obsolescence and wasteful consumption.

Mick Winter talks with Tara Brabazon for the last time in the context of the MA Creative Media.  Mick and Tara review ihis dissertation process and the entire programme, connecting 'learning' with 'doing.'

Tara Brabazon talks with Faracy Grouse about her sonic intervention.  They discuss the challenges involved in transforming strong artefacts into strong research.

How do we open out universities to enable rather than disable?  Tara Brabazon explores options in developing a rich sensory environment to enliven a learning environment for all students.

In this sixth session for his MA Creative Media dissertation, Mick Winter and Tara Brabazon discuss how his research is to be presented.  Once the artefacts are finished, how does it link with the exegesis?

What is the relationship between popular and unpopular culture?  Put another way, how does one song become a chart success and others do not?  Tara talks about Ron Sexsmith's career and his new release Long Player Late Bloomer to explore how great music can become popular music.

Mick and Tara talk through his complete sonic pieces that aim to create defamiliarization in patterns of thinking about politics and social change.

Faracy talks to Tara Brabazon about her upcoming sonic intervention.  She explores how remembering the analogue recofigures the place of digital platforms in our lives.