Academic roles
Professor of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, 2016 to the present
Trustee – Graduate Women Manawatu Trust, 2024 to the present
Dean of Graduate Studies and Professor of Cultural Studies, Charles Darwin University, Australia 2023-2024
Dean of graduate research and Professor of Cultural Studies, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, 2016 to 2022
Professor of education and head of the School of Teacher Education, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Burlington and Dubbo, Australia, December 2012 to February 2016
Professor of creative media and head of photography and creative media, University of Bolton, Bolton, UK, April 2012 to December 2012
Professor of communication, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Ontario, Canada, July 2011 to April 2012
Professor of media, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK, July 2006 to June 2011
Associate professor of media, communication and cultural studies, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia, January 1997 to July 2006
Lecturer in media and communications, Central Queensland University, Rockhampton, Australia, July 1995 to December 1996
Lecturer in cultural history, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand, June 1994 to July 1995
Teaching awards
Winner, Teaching Excellence Award (for undergraduate and postgraduate education), University of Brighton, 2009, and nominated in 2010 and 2010 (former winners are not permitted to win the award for a second time)
Winner of the Supervisor of the Year, Murdoch University, 2005
Winner of the Teaching Excellence Award, Murdoch University, 2005
Winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Equity (Disabilities) Award, Murdoch University, 2000
Winner of the Australian Award for University Teaching, Federal Government of Australia, 1998
Winner of the Vice Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, Murdoch University, 1997
Writing awards
Dean’s Prize, Masters of Education with Honours, University of New England, April 2007
Digital Dieting nominated for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards, 2014
Thinking Pop and Digital Dieting listed as the Times Higher Education book of the week
Digital Hemlock was nominated and short listed for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards, 2003
“Top twenty five hottest articles for Museum Management and Curatorship,” Science Direct at Elsevier, for the article “Museums and popular culture revisited: Kevin Moore and the politics of pop,” Museum Management and Curatorship, Vol. 21, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 283-301. This article was positioned 13th on the ranking.
Qualifications
Doctor of Philosophy (passed without correction), Murdoch University, 1995
Master of Arts by Research in History (passed with distinction), University of Western Australia, 1992
Master of Letters in Cultural Studies, Central Queensland University, 1995
Master of Education with First Class Honours, University of New England, 2006
Bachelor of Arts with First Class Honours in History, University of Western Australia, 1990
Bachelor of Literature and Communication, Murdoch University, 1992
Bachelor of Education (passed with distinction), Central Queensland University, 1998
Graduate Diploma of Internet Studies (passed with distinction), Curtin University, 2001
Graduate Diploma in Gastronomic Tourism, Southern Cross University, 2016
Research links and profiles
Orcid – https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7619-5372
Academia.edu – https://flinders.academia.edu/TaraBrabazon
Google scholar profile – https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=69K0L5gAAAAJ&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate