Paul ‘Nazz’ Oldham is Program Director for the Regions and Aboriginal Pathway Program (APP) at UniSA College, well as a Course Coordinator/Lecturer at UniSA College and UniSA Creative (Magill).
Alongside his PD duties, he is currently teaching Communication For Academic Purposes for UniSA College and Popular Music: Industry, Culture & Identity for UniSA Creative. Communication For Academic Purposes is a Foundation Studies literacy course he co-wrote and developed with Ms. Tanya Weiler. Nazz is also a member of UniSA Creative's CP3: Creative People, Products and Places Research Concentration.
His doctorate for the PhD thesis ‘‘Sharpies Were Here’: An Investigation into the 1960s–1980s Melbourne-Based Australian Youth Subculture’ was conferred in 2017. He was the 2011 recipient of the University of South Australia’s Honours Medal – Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences.
Nazz’s research and teaching is focused on Cultural Studies, Popular Music Studies, Media Studies, and more recently, Enabling Education and Enabling Pedagogies space.
He was also a professional journalist (specialising largely on popular culture and the arts) and a performing musician for over 20 years which is where he earned the nickname ‘Nazz’. No one other than his parents and siblings calls him Paul these days.