Nazz Oldham

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Dr Nazz Oldham

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AU Pathways and Participation

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Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD (as Co-Supervisor) - email supervisor to discuss availability.

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.

Currently working on papers and articles in the enabling education and widening participation space.

Year Citation
2025 Oldham, P. N. (2025). 'First blood': the 1960s origins of the Australian sharpie youth culture. Journal Of Australian Studies, 49(1), 76-90.
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2023 Oldham, P. N. (2023). 'Go sharp or go home': the competitive subcultural practices of historical Australian youth culture known as 'sharpies'. Continuum, 37(4), 465-479.
DOI Scopus2
2013 Oldham, P. (2013). 'Suck more piss': how the confluence of key Melbourne-based audiences, musicians, and iconic scene spaces informed the Oz rock identity. Perfect beat, 14(2), 120-139.
DOI Scopus18 WoS10
2013 Oldham, P. (2013). One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television. MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA, (147), 163.
2012 Oldham, P. (2012). Lobby Loyde: the G.O.D. father of Australian rock. Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, 109(1), 44-63.
DOI Scopus12 WoS8
2011 Oldham, P. (2011). Australian Documentary: History, Practices and Genres. MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA, (140), 175.
2011 Oldham, P. (2011). Not Quite White. CULTURAL STUDIES REVIEW, 17(1), 382-388.
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Year Citation
2024 Hattam, S., Hattam, R., Weiler, T., King, S., Abi Abdallah, M., Bilic, S., . . . Wilson, N. (2024). Toward a theory of critical enabling pedagogy for Australian higher education. In S. Hattam, R. Hattam, T. Weiler, & S. King (Eds.), Source details - Title: Enabling pedagogy and action research in higher education (pp. 285-317). US: DIO Press Inc.
2024 Oldham, P. N. (2024). 'Yes, I'm listening': using 'rainy day' student queries and errors to improve the language of instruction. In S. Hattam, R. Hattam, T. Weiler, & S. King (Eds.), Source details - Title: Enabling Pedagogy and Action Research in Higher Education (pp. 141-165). US: DIO Press.
2020 Oldham, P. N. (2020). Coloured Balls: Ball Power (1973). In J. Stratton, J. Dale, & T. Mitchell (Eds.), Source details - Title: An Anthology of Australian Albums: Critical Engagements (pp. 39-52). US: Bloomsbury Academic.
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2020 Oldham, P. (2020). Coloured Balls, Ball Power (1973). In An Anthology of Australian Albums Critical Engagements (pp. 39-52). Bloomsbury Publishing Inc.
DOI Scopus1
2019 Oldham, P. N. (2019). Heavy metal kids: a historiographical exploration of Australian proto-heavy metal in the 1960s-1970s. In C. Hoad (Ed.), Source details - Title: Australian metal music: identities, scenes, and cultures (pp. 19-35). UK: Emerald.
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2016 Oldham, P. (2016). Drongoes in the dress-up box: glam rock in Australia. In I. Chapman, & H. Johnson (Eds.), Source details - Title: Global glam and popular music : style and spectacle from the 1970s to the 2000s (pp. 258-271). US: Routledge.
DOI Scopus4

Courses I teach

  • COMM 1069 Communication for Academic Purposes (OC) (2025)
  • COMM 1085 Writing for Academic Purposes (2025)
  • EDUC 1093 University Studies (OC) (2025)
  • HUMS 1056 Aboriginal Knowledges, Narratives and Experiences (OC) (2025)
  • COMM 1069 Communication for Academic Purposes (OC) (2024)
  • COMM 1085 Writing for Academic Purposes (2024)

Date Role Research Topic Program Degree Type Student Load Student Name
2024 Co-Supervisor Turn up your radio: a cultural history of popular music in Adelaide (1960 – 2010) Doctor of Philosophy Doctorate Full Time Mr Victor Marshall

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