School of Education

• Dr Valeria Varea
• Dr David Aldous
• Dr Eibhlish O’Hara
• Dr Serap Sevimli-Celik
• Dr Maria Gamble
• Mr Robert Lund

• More sport, Their way! Promoting women's informal sport participation in WA, Healthway (WA Health Promotion Foundation), Health Promotion Research - Exploratory Research Grants, 2024 ‑ 2025, $88,154.
• Optimising the implementation of an evidence-based school program to engage adolescents in muscle-strengthening activities consistent with national guidelines, National Health and Medical Research Council, Partnership Projects, 2022 ‑ 2024, $50,695.
• Shame on you too! Exploring skinny-shaming in masculinity-connoted sports, Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, Social sciences, 2022-2023, SEK 392,680.
• Educational clash or educational potential? School aged asylum seekers’ encounters with Swedish health education, Swedish Research Council, Educational call, 2021-2023, SEK 4,356,000.
• Shame on you! Exploring fat-shaming in coaching practice, Swedish Research Council for Sport Science, Social sciences, 2021-2022, SEK 266,000.
• Informal sport as a health and social resource for diverse young people, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (Projects), 2019 ‑ 2024, $249,421.

Book Chapters

• Piedra, J., Varea, V. (2023). Sexual diversity and sport in Ibero-America and the Caribbean: review. Mujer, Educación Física y Deporte en Iberoamérica [Women, Physical Education and Sport in IberoAmerica] Armenia, Quindío: Kinesis. (129-156). Kinesis.

Journal Articles

• Fjellner, R., Varea, V., Barker, D. (2024). How physical education teachers are positioned in models scholarship: a scoping review. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 29(4), 329-345. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2022.2083098.
• Varea, V., Caldeborg, A., Barker, D., Quennerstedt, M. (2024). Health education in Swedish schools – what’s on offer?. Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 2024(Article in press), 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2024.2360905.
• Spaaij, R., Magee, J., Jeanes, R., Penney, D., O'Connor, J. (2023). Informal sport and (non)belonging among Hazara migrants in Australia. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 49(17), 4352-4371. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369183X.2023.2206002.
• Wilkinson, S., Penney, D. (2023). A national survey of gendered grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023(Article in press), -. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2023.2236642.
• Wilkinson, SD., Penney, D. (2023). A national survey of ability grouping practices in secondary school physical education in England. Research Papers in Education, 2023(Article in press), 20 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2023.2217819.
• Hogan, J., Penney, D., O'Hara, E., Scott, J. (2023). Stakeholder perceptions of the feasibility of e-portfolio-based assessment of physical literacy in primary health and physical education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 2023(Article in press), 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2023.2287523.
• Barwood, D., O'Rourke, J., Penney, D., Jones, A., Thomas, J. (2023). Professional teaching standards and inclusion in teacher education: insights from a hearing-impaired Health and Physical Education pre-service teacher’s professional experience. Sport, Education and Society, 28(2), 173-187. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.2004394.
• Ives, B., Penney, D., O'Gorman, J., Nichol, AJ., Potrac, P., Nelson, L. (2023). Investigating policy enactment in community sport coaching: directions for future research. Sports Coaching Review, 2023(Article in press), 20 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2023.2291253.
• Pill, S., Penney, D., Williams, J., Cruickshank, V., Hyndman, B. (2023). A Figurational Perspective on the Influence of the Sport Education Model in Australia. Quest, 75(1), 50-62. https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2022.2124183.
• Varea, V., Öhman, M. (2023). ‘Break the rules or quit the job’: physical education teachers’ experiences of physical contact in their teaching practice. Sport, Education and Society, 28(4), 395-406. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2036119.
• Barker-Ruchti, N., Varea, V. (2023). Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics: ‘It's beautiful, because had I stayed in the past, I wouldn’t have evolved as a person’. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2023(Article in press), 19 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/10126902231218180.
• Barker, D., Varea, V., Bergentoft, H., Schubring, A. (2023). Body image in physical education: a narrative review. Sport, Education and Society, 28(7), 824-841. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2076665.
• González-Calvo, G., Varea, V., García-Monge, A. (2023). Children’s Experiences of Lockdown and Social Distancing in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Journal of Family Issues, 44(9), 2422-2445. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X221094038.
• González-Calvo, G., Varea, V. (2023). Lesbian, anorexic, disabled, and big: other ways of being a female physical education teacher. Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2023(Article in press), 16 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/13540602.2023.2277380.
• Alfrey, L., Lambert, K., Aldous, D., Marttinen, R. (2023). The problematization of the (im)possible subject: an analysis of Health and Physical Education policy from Australia, USA and Wales. Sport, Education and Society, 28(4), 353-368. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.2016682.
• Stirrup, J., Aldous, D., Gray, S., Sandford, R., Hooper, O., Hardley, S., Bryant, AS., Carse, NR. (2023). Exploring the re-legitimisation of messages for health and physical education within contemporary English and Welsh curricula reform. Sport, Education and Society, 2023(Article in press), 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2023.2240822.
• Aldous, D., Evans, V., Penney, D. (2022). Curriculum reform in Wales: Physical education teacher educators' negotiation of policy positions. Curriculum Journal, 33(3), 495-514. https://doi.org/10.1002/curj.149.
• Gray, S., Hooper, O., Hardley, S., Sandford, R., Aldous, D., Stirrup, J., Carse, N., Bryant, A. (2022). A health(y) subject? Examining discourses of health in physical education curricula across the UK. British Educational Research Journal, 48(6), 1161-1182. https://doi.org/10.1002/berj.3820.
• Gray, S., Sandford, R., Stirrup, J., Aldous, D., Hardley, S., Carse, N., Hooper, O., Bryant, A. (2022). A comparative analysis of discourses shaping physical education provision within and across the UK. European Physical Education Review, 28(3), 575-593. https://doi.org/10.1177/1356336X211059440.

Podcasts

• Podcast – Threshold Concepts – Fiona Chambers, David Aldous, Anna Bryant. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/emma-tom-talk-teaching/id1428879037?i=1000509777789
• Podcast -  In Beyond the Club – The Joy of Just Playing, explores why and how should clubs promote informal sport participation? – Dawn Penney. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3tFDIsYVWcs2h8AbnCgm1A
• ABC – Instagram – Is club sport becoming too expensive? https://www.instagram.com/abcperth/reel/C59ol9iP5hU/

• Dr Joseph Scott

• Ingvild Berg - PhD Thesis: Culturally and Racially Marginalised (CARM) girls’ participation in sport.
• Steven Connelly - PhD Thesis: Exploring Pedagogy and Inclusion in Health and Physical Education in Western Australia: A Social Justice Approach.
• Victoria Evans - PhD Thesis: An ethnographic study of Initial Teacher Education professionals' embodied policy work in Health and Physical Education in Western Australia and Wales.
• Jeffrey Giles - PhD Thesis: Wayfinding in PE: Exploring ability, inclusion and teaching practices in lower secondary PE in WA.
• Robert Lund - PhD Thesis: Changing assessment in senior secondary Physical Education: An investigation of pedagogical impact and possibilities.
• Janeen Thomsett - PhD Thesis: ‘Meeting Standards’: Initial teacher education and preparation of generalist Pre-Service Teachers to teach Health and Physical Education.
• Jaxon Hogan - MBR Thesis: The Feasibility of E-Portfolio-based Assessment of Physical Literacy in Primary Health and Physical Education: An Exploratory Study in Western Australia.
• Kate McCreery - MBR Thesis: Social Capital, Children’s Sport Participation, and Physical Literacy Development in Rural Western Australia. (See McCreery, K., Penney, D., Jeanes, R. (2024). Mothers, social capital and children’s physical literacy journeys in rural Australia. Sport, Education and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2353248.)
• Chris Clark - MBR Thesis: Exploring teachers' use of physical activity in Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) senior secondary physical education. (See Clark, C., Penney, D., Whittle, R., Jones, A. (2023). Gendered pedagogy in senior secondary physical education curriculum enactment. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/25742981.2023.2252798.)

ECU_AIESEP Specialist Seminar 2025: Body Politics in and through Movement

This specialist seminar promises engaging and informative professional development and networking for researchers and professionals working in a range of settings and roles where bodies and movement are in focus! This includes Health and Physical Education, Teacher Education, Coach Education, Outdoor Education, Health and Fitness, and Dance Education.

The ECU_AIESEP specialist seminar highlights how perceptions of which bodies are welcomed, valued, desired, or marginalised significantly influence participation and learning opportunities in movement across the lifespan, both in formal education and in community settings. The seminar will provide informative research insights, stimulating debate, and learnings that delegates can apply in their professional and personal lives to enhance the reach, quality and impact of movement experiences they are providers of and participants in.

The 3-day program will include keynote presentations from national and international leaders, delegates’ research presentations, interactive workshop activities, networking and social events, and a concluding Masterclass.

We invite your presentation: ECU_AIESEP Specialist Seminar Call for Papers now open!

For more information about the specialist seminar, check out the AIESEPConnect: Body Politics in and through Movement video.