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 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 [1] and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts. [2]

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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," [3] "Digital Dieting", [4] and the 3Ds (digitization, disintermedation and deterritorialization). [5] [6] Brabazon is also continuing the work of the late Professor Steve Redhead by developing the "claustropolitanism" theory, as a revision of cosmopolitan sociology. [7]

While a Professor of Media in the United Kingdom, Brabazon delivered her Inaugural Address titled "Google is White Bread of the Mind." [8] This research was presented in her book The University of Google. [9] She explored the development of information literacy in the first year of university degrees. [10]

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. [11] They currently number 300 videos, most created from requests by students. [12] [13]

Qualifications

Recognition

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. [16] She married Professor Steve Redhead in 2002. [17] Their relationship was featured in the Times Higher Education under the title Marital Bliss. [18] After Redhead's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018, [19] Brabazon wrote about their relationship in the second edition of The End of the Century Party. [20]

Brabazon is currently married to Professor Jamie Quinton, Professor and Head of the School of Natural Sciences at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand. [21]

Major publications

Audiobooks

Brabazon has developed new strategies for research dissemination through the audiobook, [7] producing four titles between 2018 and 2023.

This project is developing through the 'auditory academic' initiative, [9] 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, [23] and has written for the Times Literary Supplement, [24] Times Education Supplement, [25] The Guardian, [26] Arts Hub Australia, [27] Arts Hub UK, [28] and Campus Review, [29] also featuring on the cover of a 2019 edition. [30] She has been profiled in a range of publications, including The Guardian. [31]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tara Brabazon".
  2. 1 2 "Tara Brabazon – Professor of cultural studies". Brabazon.net. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  3. 1 2 Brabazon, Tara (22 September 2006). "The Google Effect: Googling, Blogging, Wikis and the Flattening of Expertise". Libri. 56 (3): 157–167. doi:10.1515/LIBR.2006.157. S2CID   145065578 . Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  4. ↑ Tara Brabazon (2016). Digital Dieting : From Information Obesity to Intellectual Fitness. Taylor & Francis. ISBN   9781317150886.
  5. 1 2 Brabazon, Tara (3 July 2014). "The disintermediated librarian and a reintermediated futurea". The Australian Library Journal. 63 (3): 191–205. doi:10.1080/00049670.2014.932681. S2CID   110148379 . Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  6. ↑ "Tara Brabazon podcast: 3D Librarian - information literacy in an accelerated age". Tarabrabazon.libsyn.com. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  7. 1 2 Tara Brabazon (March 2021). "Claustropolitanism, Capitalism and Covid: Un/Popular Culture at the End of the World" (PDF). International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies. 8 (1). ISSN   2409-1294.
  8. ↑ "UK: Google 'white bread for the mind'". Universityworldnews.com.
  9. 1 2 Brabazon, Tara (17 February 2016). The University of Google: Education in the (Post) Information Age. ISBN   9781317012825.
  10. ↑ Andrea L. Foster (17 January 2008). "The Wired Campus". The Chronicle of Higher Education . Retrieved 4 June 2008.
  11. ↑ Tara Brabazon (June 2020). "PhD Media: Community, Connection and Communication through Disintermediated Platforms" (PDF). International Journal of Social Sciences & Educational Studies. 7 (2). ISSN   2409-1294.
  12. ↑ "Office of Graduate Research Flinders University - YouTube". Youtube.com. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  13. ↑ "Tara Brabazon - YouTube". Youtube.com. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  14. ↑ "Tara Brabazon". Flinders.academia.edu. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  15. ↑ "Federation Chamber : CONSTITUENCY STATEMENTS : Boothby Electorate: Australia Day Awards". Parlinfo.aph.gov.au. Retrieved 3 March 2022.
  16. ↑ Brabazon, Tara (2005). Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and Its Popular Music. ISBN   9781920694302.
  17. ↑ "Interview: Tara Brabazon". TheGuardian.com . 22 January 2008.
  18. ↑ "Marital bliss". Timeshighereducation.com. 30 July 2009.
  19. ↑ Brabazon, Tara [@tarabrabazon] (7 March 2018). "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" (Tweet). Retrieved 20 June 2021– via Twitter.
  20. ↑ Redhead, Steve (2019). The end-of-the-century party. Manchester University Press. ISBN   9781526142757. JSTOR   j.ctv12sdv4c.
  21. ↑ "The Marriage of Jamie Scott Quinton and Tara Michelle Brabazon". Thestreamingguys.com.au.
  22. ↑ Noble, Barnes &. "Know what you do not know". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  23. ↑ "Tara Brabazon". April 2015.
  24. ↑ "Mixed emotions".
  25. ↑ "Ignorance is not an option: Comment". ProQuest . ProQuest   1437083156.
  26. ↑ "Tuition fees have made choosing a degree like choosing fruit at a market". TheGuardian.com . 3 April 2009.
  27. ↑ "Two bars". 6 July 2005.
  28. ↑ "Bad Wolf". 9 November 2005.
  29. ↑ "Tara Brabazon | Search Results | Campus Review".
  30. ↑ @tarabrabazon (30 March 2021). "One of the strangest moments of my life ... But information literacy rules ;)" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  31. ↑ "Interview: Tara Brabazon". TheGuardian.com . 22 January 2008.
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