Tara Brabazon
Tara Brabazon (born 3 January 1969) is the Australian 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 20 books, written 250 refereed articles and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts. She was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2019. 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," "Digital Dieting", and the 3Ds (digitization, disintermedation and deterritorialization). Brabazon is also continuing the work of the late Professor Steve Redhead by developing the "claustropolitanism" theory, as a revision of cosmopolitan sociology. While a Professor of Media in the United Kingdom, Brabazon delivered her Inaugural Address titled "Google is White Bread of the Mind." This research was  presented in her book, The University of Google. She explore the development of information literacy in the first year of university degrees. Her professional roles have led to specialisations in aspects of doctoral education, contemporary higher education and leadership. As Dean of Graduate Research, Brabazon developed a weekly vlog series for higher degree students. They currently number 300 videos, most created from requests by students. 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. She married Professor Steve Redhead in 2002. Their relationship was  featured in the Times Higher Education under the title Marital Bliss. After Redhead's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018, Brabazon wrote about their relationship in the second edition of The End of the Century Party. Brabazon is currently married to Professor Jamie Quinton, Professor of Physics and Nanotechnology at Flinders University. Journalism. Brabazon is a columnist for a range of education and cultural publications. She has produced over 150 articles for the Times Higher Education, and has written for the Times Literary Supplement, Times Education Supplement, The Guardian, Arts Hub Australia, Arts Hub UK, and Campus Review, also featuring  on the cover of a 2019 edition. She has been profiled in a range of publications, including The Guardian.