1993 …2025

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Research Biography

Tara Brabazon is the Professor of Cultural Studies at Flinders, Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA) and Director of the Popular Culture Collective. She has worked in ten universities in four countries, holding research professorships in media, creative media, communication and education. She is the author of 21 books and over 350 refereed articles and book chapters, and is a columnist for the Times Higher Education. Her best known books include the Digital Hemlock trilogy (Digital Hemlock: internet education and the poisoning of teaching, The University of Google and Digital Dieting), Enabling University: (dis)ability, impairment and higher education, Thinking Popular Culture: war, writing and terrorism, Unique Urbanity: renewal, regeneration and decay, and From Revolution to Revelation: Generation X, popular memory, cultural studies.

Tara has won six teaching awards, including the National Teaching Award for the Humanities, along with other awards for disability education, cultural studies and doctoral supervision. In recognition of community engagement, Tara was a finalist for Australian of the Year and Telstra Businesswoman of the Year in 2005. In 2019, she was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).  An awarded speaker, she had delivered hundreds of speeches around the world to business leaders, professional organizations and community groups.

Her research interests include city imaging, creative industries, cultural studies, physical cultural studies, digitization and higher education studies. 

Research Interests

Tara's research interests cluster around cities and regional development, movement cultures, digitization and information literacy, and popular cultural studies. Tara has published and supervised in all these areas, publishing 21 monographs and over 350 refereed articles and book chapters in these fields.  She has also published 9 audiobooks, with a strong interest in NTROs (Non Traditional Research Outputs) and research dissemination.

RHD research supervision

Tara is an international expert in doctoral education and has conducted PhD surgeries for the Times Higher Education. Tara has supervised over 200 Doctoral and Masters theses to completion. She supervises an array of higher degree doctoral genres, including the creative-led doctorate, composed of an artefact and exegesis.  She is also a specialist in the PhD by Prior Publication.  

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 1 - No Poverty
  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 4 - Quality Education
  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
  • SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Education/Academic qualification

Master, Master of Leadership, Deakin University

2020 → …

Award Date: 21 Dec 2021

Diploma, Graduate Diploma in Gastronomic Tourism, Southern Cross University

Award Date: 24 Jun 2016

Master, Master of Education with First Class Honours (Passed with Distinction), University of New England

Award Date: 21 Dec 2006

Diploma, Graduate Diploma of Internet Studies (passed with distinction), Curtin University

Award Date: 21 Dec 2001

Bachelor, Bachelor of Education (passed with distinction), Central Queensland University

Award Date: 26 Jun 1998

Master, Master of Letters in Cultural Studies, Central Queensland University

Award Date: 30 Jun 1995

PhD, From Revolution to Revelation: Post-youth culture in Thatcher's Britain, Murdoch University

1993 → …

Award Date: 1 Jun 1995

Master of Arts, Framed Pretty Little Eloi: Framing the iconography of the Beatles, University of Western Australia

1991 → …

Award Date: 24 Dec 1992

Bachelor, Bachelor of Literature and Communication, Murdoch University

Award Date: 20 Nov 1992

Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History, University of Western Australia

Award Date: 6 Dec 1991

Research Areas

  • Sociology

Supervisory Interests

  • Creative industries
  • City imaging
  • Regional development
  • Deterritorialization
  • Sport
  • Fitness
  • Physical cultural studies
  • Popular music
  • Quantified self
  • Food studies
  • Popular cultural studies
  • Fandom
  • Higher education studies
  • Information literacy
  • Online learning
  • Enabling university
  • Digitisation
  • Disintermediation
  • Media studies
  • Cultural studies
  • Communication studies
  • Urban regeneration
  • Wine studies
  • New media
  • Social media
  • Information management
  • Tourism studies
  • Screen cultures
  • Sonic media
  • Auditory cultures
  • Science fiction
  • Dr Who studies
  • Star Trek
  • Feminism
  • Men's studies
  • Postcolonialism
  • Education cities
  • University cities

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