Gerry Rafferty is best known for one song:  "Baker Street."  Tara shows that his career captured the darkness and disappointments of popular music and celebrity.  Coming from Scotland, the ability to emerge from a small nation and gain international success remains an important legacy of Rafferty's career.

Digital storytelling offers a great way to organize and express personal stories.  Yet Tara shows that digital storytelling has a powerful function in education.  Making abstract knowledge applicable knowledge, digital storytelling brings the world to the classroom, and the classroom to the world.

Tara talks with Mick Winter, her former graduate student, to explore the challenges and provide tips for publishing research in academic journals.

Too often, research students underestimate the time involved in editing their thesis or dissertation for submission to examiners. Tara asks her research students about editing: how they do it, why they do it, or why they choose not to do it.

Tara asks her undergraduate research students about their fears as they enter the examination process for their theses.

Tara investigates city imaging and how an understanding of geosocial networking can enhance the social, economic and cultural development of second and third tier cities

Tara explores the impact of speed on popular culture and our daily lives. Using the examples of fast food and slow food, she asks how injustice and inequality are managed, moderated or reinforced when we speed up or slow down our eating.

Tara explores the role of desire and sexuality in the configuration of popular culture.  As examples, she explores textual poaching and slash fiction.

Tara and Steve Redhead have a conversation about how to gain a high mark for a research project. They discuss the key characteristics of outstanding student work.

Assisting students through to the submission of a major research project is difficult. To help them, Tara asked students to take on the role of an examiner and discuss the way in which they would assess an assignment.