Tara Brabazon

Tara Brabazon (born 3 January 1969) is the Dean of Graduate Research and the Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, a fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce and director of the Popular Culture Collective. She has previously held academic positions in the UK, New Zealand and Canada, won six teaching awards, published 19 books, written 200 refereed articles and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts.[1] She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019.[2]


Scholarship

Media literacies, creative industries, images of the city in culture, the knowledge economy, information management, information literacy, cultural studies and the negotiation of cultural difference.

Her professional roles have led to specialisations in aspects of doctoral education, and contemporary higher education.

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.[3] She married Professor Steve Redhead in 2002.[4] Their relationship was featured in the Times Higher Education under the title Marital Bliss.[5] After Redhead's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018,[6] Brabazon wrote about their relationship in the second edition of The End of the Century Party.[7]

Brabazon is currently married to Professor Jamie Quinton, Professor of Physics and Nanotechnology at Flinders University.[8]

She received some media and online coverage for 'banning' students on her courses from using Google and Wikipedia in their first year of study.[9]

Major publications
  • 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.

References
  1. https://brabazon.net
  2. 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
  3. Brabazon, Tara (2005). Liverpool of the South Seas: Perth and Its Popular Music. ISBN 9781920694302.
  4. "Interview: Tara Brabazon". 22 January 2008.
  5. "Marital bliss". 30 July 2009.
  6. 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.
  7. Redhead, Steve (2019). The end-of-the-century party. Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526142757. JSTOR j.ctv12sdv4c.
  8. "The Marriage of Jamie Scott Quinton and Tara Michelle Brabazon".
  9. Andrea L. Foster (17 January 2008). "The Wired Campus". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 4 June 2008.
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