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Tara Brabazon

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Tara Brabazon (born 3 January 1969) is Dean of Graduate Research and Professor of Cultural Studies at Charles Darwin University, in Darwin, Australia, moving from the same position at Flinders University in 2023. She remains the Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University.[https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/tara.brabazon] She has previously held academic positions in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, won six teaching awards, published 20 books, and written 250 refereed articles{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=69K0L5gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate|title = Tara Brabazon}} and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts.{{Cite web|url=https://brabazon.net/|title=Tara Brabazon – Professor of cultural studies|website=Brabazon.net|access-date=3 March 2022}}

Scholarship

Brabazon's key areas of research include media literacies, popular cultural studies, creative industries, city imaging, regional development, the knowledge economy, information management, information literacy, cultural studies and the negotiation of cultural difference. She has developed a series of concepts through her career including "the Google Effect,"{{Cite journal|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/LIBR.2006.157/html|title=The Google Effect: Googling, Blogging, Wikis and the Flattening of Expertise|first=Tara|last=Brabazon|journal=Libri|date=22 September 2006|volume=56|issue=3|pages=157–167|access-date=3 March 2022|doi=10.1515/LIBR.2006.157|s2cid=145065578|url-access=subscription}} "Digital Dieting",{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wIYGDAAAQBAJ&q=Digital+Dieting|title=Digital Dieting : From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness|author=Tara Brabazon|date=2016|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9781317150886}} and the 3Ds (digitization, disintermedation and deterritorialization).{{Cite journal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00049670.2014.932681?needAccess=true|title=The disintermediated librarian and a reintermediated futurea|first=Tara|last=Brabazon|date=3 July 2014|journal=The Australian Library Journal|volume=63|issue=3|pages=191–205|access-date=3 March 2022|doi=10.1080/00049670.2014.932681|s2cid=110148379|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite web|url=https://tarabrabazon.libsyn.com/3d-librarian-information-literacy-in-an-accelerated-age|title=Tara Brabazon podcast: 3D Librarian - information literacy in an accelerated age|website=Tarabrabazon.libsyn.com|access-date=3 March 2022}} Brabazon is also continuing the work of the late Professor Steve Redhead by developing the "claustropolitanism" theory, as a revision of cosmopolitan sociology.{{cite journal|journal=International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies|issn=2409-1294|date=March 2021|volume=8|title=Claustropolitanism, Capitalism and Covid: Un/Popular Culture at the End of the World|author=Tara Brabazon|issue=1|url=https://ijsses.tiu.edu.iq/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Claustropolitanism-Capitalism-and-Covid-UnPopular-Culture-at-the-End-of-the-World.pdf}}

While a Professor of Media in the United Kingdom, Brabazon delivered her Inaugural Address titled "Google is White Bread of the Mind."{{Cite web|url=https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20080117155807429|title = UK: Google 'white bread for the mind'|website=Universityworldnews.com}} This research was presented in her book The University of Google.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GdaXCwAAQBAJ|title = The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age|isbn = 9781317012825|last1 = Brabazon|first1 = Tara|date = 17 February 2016| publisher=Routledge }} She explored the development of information literacy in the first year of university degrees.{{cite web|url=http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2673/the-university-of-google|title=The Wired Campus|work=The Chronicle of Higher Education|access-date=2008-06-04|date=2008-01-17|author=Andrea L. Foster}}

Her professional roles have led to specialisations in aspects of cultural difference, social inclusion, doctoral education, contemporary higher education and leadership. As Dean of Graduate Research, Brabazon developed a weekly vlog series for higher degree students.{{cite journal|journal=International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies|issn=2409-1294|date=June 2020|volume=7|title=PhD Media: Community, Connection and Communication through Disintermediated Platforms|author=Tara Brabazon|issue=2|url=https://ijsses.tiu.edu.iq/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PhD-Media-Community-Connection-and-Communication-through-Disintermediated-Platforms.pdf}} They currently number 300 videos, most created from requests by students.{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwdaNGhdSAwzdztgLTqyhgA|title=Office of Graduate Research Flinders University - YouTube|website=Youtube.com|access-date=3 March 2022}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChI8hFnlCcKDk-U3au4uCvA|title=Tara Brabazon - YouTube|website=Youtube.com|access-date=3 March 2022}}

Qualifications

  • 1991 - Bachelor of Arts, First Class Honours in History; University of Western Australia.
  • 1993 - Bachelor of Literature and Communication; Murdoch University.
  • 1994 - Master of Arts, Passed with Distinction; University of Western Australia.
  • 1995 - Master of Letters in Cultural Studies; Central Queensland University.
  • 1995 - Doctor of Philosophy; Murdoch University.{{cite web|url=https://flinders.academia.edu/TaraBrabazon/Degrees|title=Tara Brabazon|website=Flinders.academia.edu|access-date=3 March 2022}}
  • 1999 - Bachelor of Professional Education, Passed with Distinction; Central Queensland University.
  • 2002 - Graduate Diploma in Internet Studies, with Distinction; Curtin University.
  • 2007 - Master of Education with Honours Class 1; University of New England.
  • 2016 - Le Cordon Bleu Graduate Diploma of Gastronomic Tourism; Southern Cross University.
  • 2021 - Master of Leadership; Deakin University.

Recognition

  • Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce
  • Director of the Popular Culture Collective.
  • Member of the Order of Australia, 2019.{{cite web|url=https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;db=CHAMBER;id=chamber%2Fhansardr%2F07129367-a45a-448c-b34c-f10d11b0374a%2F0290;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F07129367-a45a-448c-b34c-f10d11b0374a%2F0221%22|title=Federation Chamber : CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS : Boothby Electorate: Australia Day Awards|website=Parlinfo.aph.gov.au|access-date=3 March 2022}}

Personal life

Tara Brabazon was born in Perth, Western Australia, going on to write a book about its music in Liverpool of the South Seas.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7szqj-sFxPcC|title = Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and Its Popular Music|isbn = 9781920694302|last1 = Brabazon|first1 = Tara|year = 2005| publisher=University of Western Australia Press }} She married Professor Steve Redhead in 2002.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/jan/22/academicexperts.highereducationprofile|title = Interview: Tara Brabazon|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 22 January 2008}} Their relationship was featured in the Times Higher Education under the title Marital Bliss.{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/features/marital-bliss/407555.article|title = Marital bliss|website=Timeshighereducation.com|date = 30 July 2009}} After Redhead's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018,{{Cite tweet|number=971397247211487233|user=tarabrabazon|title=It is with well-deep sadness that I announce to colleagues around the world that Professor @steveredhead died today. He transformed socio-legal studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural studies. He was a magisterial writer, publishing 17 books. #ripsteveredhead #raveoff|date=2018-03-07|access-date=2021-06-20|last=Brabazon|first=Tara}} Brabazon wrote about their relationship in the second edition of The End of the Century Party.{{Cite book|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv12sdv4c|jstor = j.ctv12sdv4c|title = The end-of-the-century party|last1 = Redhead|first1 = Steve|year = 2019|publisher = Manchester University Press|isbn = 9781526142757}}

Brabazon is currently married to Professor Jamie Quinton, Professor and Head of the School of Natural Sciences at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thestreamingguys.com.au/production/jamie-and-tara/|title = The Marriage of Jamie Scott Quinton and Tara Michelle Brabazon|website=Thestreamingguys.com.au}}

Major publications

  • Tara Brabazon. 2022. Twelve rules for (academic) life: A stroppy feminist's guide through teaching, learning, politics, and Jordan Peterson. Singapore: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon, Tiffany Lyndall Knight, and Natalie Hills. 2020. The Creative PhD: Challenges, Opportunities and Reflexive Practice. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Tara Brabazon, Steve Redhead and Sunny Rue Chivaura. 2018. Trump Studies: An intellectual guide to why citizens do not act in their best interests. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Tara Brabazon (eds.). 2015. Play: A theory of learning and change. Berlin: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2015. Enabling University: Impairment, (dis)ability and social justice in higher education. Berlin: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2014. Unique Urbanity? Rethinking third tier cities, degeneration, regeneration and mobility. Berlin: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon, Mick Winter and Bryn Gandy. 2014. Digital Wine: How QR codes facilitate new markets for small wine industries. Berlin: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2013. Digital Dieting: From information obesity to intellectual fitness. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Tara Brabazon (ed.). 2013. City Imaging: Regeneration, renewal and decay. Berlin: Springer.
  • Tara Brabazon (ed.). 2012. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets. Oxford: Chandos.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2010.Popular Music: Topics, trends, trajectories. London: Sage.
  • Tara Brabazon (ed.). 2008. The Revolution Will Not Be Downloaded: Dissent in the digital age. Oxford: Chandos.
  • Tara Brabazon (ed.). 2008. Thinking Popular Culture: War, terrorism and writing. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2007. The University of Google: Education in the (post) information age. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2006. Playing on the Periphery: Sport, memory, identity. London: Routledge.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2005. From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, popular culture, popular memory. Aldershot: Ashgate.
  • Tara Brabazon (eds.). 2005. Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and its popular music. Perth: UWA Press.
  • Tara Brabazion. 2002. Digital Hemlock: Internet education and the poisoning of teaching. Sydney: UNSW Press.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2002. Ladies who Lunge: Celebrating difficult women. Sydney: UNSW Press.
  • Tara Brabazon. 2000. Tracking the Jack: A retracing of the Antipodes. Sydney: UNSW Press.

Audiobooks

Brabazon has developed new strategies for research dissemination through the audiobook, producing five titles between 2018 and 2023.

  • Trump Studies (2018)
  • Memories of the Future (2019)
  • Comma (2022)
  • Know what you do not know: information literacy for PhD students (2023){{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Barnes & |title=Know what you do not know |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/know-what-you-do-not-know-tara-brabazon/1143383113 |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=Barnes & Noble |language=en}}
  • The Three Wise Monkeys of Research: Epistemology / Ontology / Methodology (2023){{Cite web |last=Noble |first=Barnes & |title=The Three Wise Monkeys of Research |url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-three-wise-monkeys-of-research-tara-brabazon/1144073390 |access-date=2024-01-06 |website=Barnes & Noble |language=en}}

This project is developing through the 'auditory academic' initiative, offering sonic activism and interventions through diverse sonic platforms.

Journalism

Brabazon is a columnist for a range of education and cultural publications. She has produced over 150 articles for the Times Higher Education,{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeshighereducation.com/content/tara-brabazon/|title = Tara Brabazon|date = April 2015}} and has written for the Times Literary Supplement,{{Cite web|url=https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/mixed-emotions/|title = Mixed emotions}} Times Education Supplement,{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1437083156|title = Ignorance is not an option: Comment|website = ProQuest| id={{ProQuest|1437083156}} }} The Guardian,{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/mortarboard/2009/apr/03/tuition-fees-choosing-a-degree|title = Tuition fees have made choosing a degree like choosing fruit at a market|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 3 April 2009}} Arts Hub Australia,{{Cite web|url=https://www.artshub.com.au/news/features/two-bars-77206-2296152/|title = Two bars|date = 6 July 2005}} Arts Hub UK,{{Cite web|url=https://www.artshub.co.uk/news/features/bad-wolf-85377-1213911/|title=Bad Wolf|date=9 November 2005}} and Campus Review,{{Cite web|url=https://www.campusreview.com.au/?s=Tara+Brabazon|title=Tara Brabazon | Search Results | Campus Review}} also featuring on the cover of a 2019 edition.{{cite tweet|number=1376793459076423684|user=tarabrabazon|title=One of the strangest moments of my life ... But information literacy rules ;)|date=30 March 2021}} She has been profiled in a range of publications, including The Guardian.{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2008/jan/22/academicexperts.highereducationprofile|title = Interview: Tara Brabazon|website = TheGuardian.com|date = 22 January 2008}}

References

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External links

  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20071018230612/http://www.australianoftheyear.gov.au/pages/bio.asp?pID=211 Bio at archived Australian of the Year site]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070820230214/http://www.tlc.murdoch.edu.au/eddev/grants/awards/recipients03_04.html Bio at Teaching Excellence Award]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20080723182043/http://slwa.wa.gov.au/pbk02rep.html Digital Hemlock at the Western Australian Premier's Book Award]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070816084558/http://www.popularculturecollective.com/ Popular Culture Collective homepage]
  • [http://www.artshub.co.uk Arts Hub UK]
  • [http://www.artshub.com.au Arts Hub Australia]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20070520001015/http://www.brighton.ac.uk/cmis/courses/postgraduate/maca/index.php?PageId=454 University of Brighton Master of Arts Creative Media]
  • [https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=69K0L5gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate Tara Brabazon on Google Scholar]

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