[1] She has previously held academic positions in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada, won six teaching awards, published 20 books, and written 250 refereed articles[1] and contributed essays and opinion pieces on higher education and the arts.
[5][6] Brabazon is also continuing the work of the late Professor Steve Redhead by developing the "claustropolitanism" theory, as a revision of cosmopolitan sociology.
[7] While a Professor of Media in the United Kingdom, Brabazon delivered her Inaugural Address titled "Google is White Bread of the Mind.
[12][13] Tara Brabazon was born in Perth, Western Australia, going on to write a book about its music in Liverpool of the South Seas.
[18] After Redhead's death from pancreatic cancer in 2018,[19] Brabazon wrote about their relationship in the second edition of The End of the Century Party.