{"id":311,"date":"2020-12-03T22:40:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/?p=311"},"modified":"2020-12-03T22:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T12:10:26","slug":"closing-2020-a-message-from-professor-tara-brabazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/2020\/12\/03\/closing-2020-a-message-from-professor-tara-brabazon\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing 2020, a message from Professor Tara Brabazon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.flinders.edu.au\/hdr-students\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2020\/12\/Tara-at-Morecambe.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Hello everyone.\u00a0 Tara here.\u00a0 I am so sorry that I do not have a pet to accompanying my image for the final newsletter of the year.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I have moved around too much in my career to ever commit to a pet.\u00a0 Indeed, I struggle to manage the contents of my refrigerator.<\/p>\n<p>Even without a dog or a cat, this photograph is saturated in meaning for me.\u00a0 It captures what we have lost in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>This is a photograph of me in Morecambe, a beautiful seaside town in the north-west of England.\u00a0 Yes \u2013 Eric Morecambe took his stage name from the town.\u00a0 The north-west of England remains my spiritual home for so many reasons.\u00a0 This place matters.\u00a0 These people matter.\u00a0 I have been unable to visit these people and these places that I love so much this year.<\/p>\n<p>This image captures for me a moment of great happiness and freedom and humour and kindness and belonging.\u00a0 It also captures a deep grief, of our lives that could have been, and the moments we could have shared.<\/p>\n<p>This year has been dreadful for so many.\u00a0 We have seen ignorance, greed, nastiness, rudeness, jealousy and a ruthless disregard of kindness.\u00a0 As researchers, such a context makes our research even more difficult.\u00a0 But such a context also makes our research even more important.<\/p>\n<p><strong>As we reach the end of 2020, I have a singular wish.\u00a0 May we hold on to the good, the decent, the kind, and the meaningful.\u00a0 May we believe in expertise.\u00a0 May we support informed thinking and powerful research.\u00a0 May we \u2013 together \u2013 create an evocative, peaceful and caring 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My love to you, your family and your friends for this special time of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>With every best wish<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Tara<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello everyone.\u00a0 Tara here.\u00a0 I am so sorry that I do not have a pet to accompanying my image for the final newsletter of the year.\u00a0 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