Dr Michael Gard
Honorary Associate Professor
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Books
Gard, Michael and Pluim, Carolyn (2014). Schools and public health: past, present, future. Lanham, MD, USA: Lexington Books.
Gard, Michael (2011). The end of the obesity epidemic. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203881194
Gard, Michael (2010). The end of the obesity epidemic. Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. doi: 10.4324/9780203881194
Gard, Michael (2006). Men who dance: aesthetics, athletics and the art of masculinity. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang Publishing.
Gard, Michael and Wright, Jan (2005). The obesity epidemic: science, morality, and ideology. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Book Chapters
Powell, Darren, Tenorio, José and Gard, Michael (2021). The worlds of critical obesity studies. Routledge handbook of critical obesity studies. (pp. 2-8) edited by Michael Gard, Darren Powell, and José Tenorio. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429344824-2
Gard, Michael, Dewberry, Rebekah and Setchell, Jenny (2021). Using Deleuze: language, dysphasia, and physiotherapy. Mobilizing knowledge in physiotherapy: critical reflections on foundations and practices. (pp. 182-196) edited by David A. Nicholls, Karen Synne Groven, Elizabeth Anne Kinsella and Rani Lill Anjum. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780367855338-14
Powell, Darren and Gard, Michael (2018). Schools, corporations and promotion of physical activity to fight obesity. Routledge handbook of physical activity policy and practice. (pp. 383-395) edited by Joe Piggin, Louise Mansfield and Mike Weed. Abingdon, Oxon United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315672779-27
Gard, Michael, Dionigi, Rylee A. and Dionigi, Claudio (2018). From a lucky few to the reluctant many: interrogating the politics of sport for all. Sport and physical activity across the lifespan: critical perspectives. (pp. 67-89) edited by Rylee A. Dionigi and Michael Gard. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-48562-5_4
Dionigi, Rylee A. and Gard, Michael (2018). Sport for All Ages? Weighing the Evidence. Sport and Physical Activity across the Lifespan. (pp. 1-20) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-48562-5_1
Gard, Michael and Lupton, Deborah (2017). Digital health goes to school: implications of digitising children's bodies. Surveillance futures: social and ethical implications of new technologies for children and young people. (pp. 36-49) edited by Emmeline Taylor and Tonya Rooney. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315611402
Gard, Michael (2017). Fat bodies. Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies. (pp. 228-236) edited by Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315745664-24
Gard, Michael (2016). Hearing noises and noticing silence: towards a critical engagement with Canadian body weight statistics. Obesity in Canada: critical perspectives. (pp. 31-55) edited by Jenny Ellison, Deborah McPhail and Wendy Mitchinson. Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
Gard, Michael (2016). Navigating morality, politics and reason: towards scientifically literate and intellectually ethical fat pedagogies. The fat pedagogy reader: challenging weight-based oppression through critical education. (pp. 241-250) edited by Eric Cameron and Constance Russell. New York, NY, United States: Peter Lang.
Pluim, Carolyn and Gard, Michael (2016). Parents as pawns in Fitnessgram's war on obesity. Families, young people, physical activity and health: Critical perspectives. (pp. 71-83) edited by Symeon Dagkas and Lisette Burrows. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Gard, Michael (2016). Everyday distortions: youth sport and body images. Routledge handbook of youth sport. (pp. 441-450) edited by Andy Smith and Ken Green. Abington, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203795002-46
Gard, Michael (2015). Dance, masculinity and physical education: an international perspective. Embodied masculinities in global sport. (pp. 111-128) edited by Jorge Knijnik and Daryl Adair. Morgantown, WV, United States: FiT Publishers.
Gard, Michael and Vander Schee, Carolyn (2014). Schools, the state and public health: some historical and contemporary insights. Health education: critical perspectives. (pp. 61-74) edited by Katie Fitzpatrick and Richard Tinning. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203387993-12
Gard, Michael (2013). Dance in physical education: exegetical commentary & Dialogue. Contextualized practices in arts education : an international dialogue on Singapore. (pp. 133-138) edited by Chee-Hoo Lum. Singapore: Springer.
Gard, Michael (2013). Danza, masculinidad y educación física: una perspectiva internacional. Género, Masculinidades y Diversidad: Educación Física, Deporte e Identidades Masculinas. (pp. 59-77) edited by Joaquín Piedra de la Cuadra. Barcelona: Ediciones Octaedro.
Gard, Michael and Risner, Doug (2012). Dance and social inclusion: possibilities and challenges. Inclusion and Exclusion Through Youth Sport. (pp. 246-259) edited by Symeon Dagkas and Kathleen Armour. Abbingdon, Oxon, U.K.: Routledge.
Gard, Michael (2011). Between alarmists and sceptics: on the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public policy. Alcohol, tobacco and obesity : morality, mortality, and the new public health. (pp. 59-72) edited by Kirsten Bell, Darlene McNaughton and Amy Salmon. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203822159
Gard, Michael (2011). Neo-liberalism, the ‘obesity epidemic’ and the challenge to theory. Ethical Consumption: A Critical Introduction. (pp. 71-84) edited by Tania Lewis and Emily Potter. London: Routldege.
Gard, Michael (2010). Boys, girls and the prejudices of obesity research. Boys’ Bodies: Speaking the Unspoken. (pp. 3-20) edited by Michael Kehler and Michael Atkinson. New York: Peter Lang.
Gard, Michael and Leahy, Deana (2009). Dicing with death: tensions, contradictions and awkward positions in school health education. Health and Physical Education: Contemporary Issues for Curriculum in Australia and New Zealand. (pp. 183-197) edited by Maree Dinan-Thompson. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Gard, Michael (2009). Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research. Biopolitics and the Obesity Epidemic: Governing Bodies. (pp. 31-44) edited by J. Wright and V. Harwood. New York United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203882061
Gard, Michael (2009). Understanding obesity by understanding desire. Critical Feminist Approaches to Eating Dis/Orders. (pp. 35-45) edited by Helen Malson and Maree Burns. London: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203876442
Gard, Michael (2008). ‘Couch potatoes’ and ‘wind-up dolls’? A critical assessment of the ethics of youth physical activity research. Youth physical activity and sedentary behavior: challenges and solutions. (pp. 115-138) edited by Alan L. Smith and Stuart J. H. Biddle. Champaign, IL, United States: Human Kinetics.
Gard, Michael (2006). More art than science? Boys, masculinities and physical education research. Handbook of Physical Education. (pp. 784-795) 1 Oliver's Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP United Kingdom : SAGE Publications Inc.. doi: 10.4135/9781848608009.n44
Gard, Michael (2006). More art than science? Boys, masculinities and physical education. The handbook of physical education. (pp. 775-786) edited by David Kirk, Doune Macdonald and Mary O'Sullivan. Thousand Oaks, CA United States: Sage.
Gard, Michael (2006). HPE and the ‘obesity epidemic’. Teaching health and physical education in Australian schools. (pp. 78-87) edited by Richard Tinning, Louise McCuaig and Lisa Hunter. French's Forest, NSW Australia: Prentice Hall.
Pickering, Sharon and Gard, Michael (2004). Everybody’s business: the privatisation of women’s imprisonment. Global issues, women, and justice. (pp. 259-280) edited by Sharon Pickering and Caroline Lambert. Sydney, NSW Australia: Sydney Institute of Criminology.
Gard, Michael (2004). Movement, art and culture: problem solving and critical thinking in dance. Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education. (pp. 93-104) edited by Jan Wright, Lisette Burrows and Doune Macdonald. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Gard, Michael (2004). Desperately seeking certainty: statistics, physical activity and critical inquiry. Critical Inquiry and Problem Solving in Physical Education. (pp. 171-182) edited by Jan Wright, Lisette Burrows and Doune Macdonald. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Gard, Michael (2004). An elephant in the room and a bridge too far, or physical education and the ‘obesity epidemic’. Body knowledge and control : studies in the sociology of physical education and health. (pp. 68-82) London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Gard, Michael (2002). What do we do in physical education?. Getting ready for Benjamin : preparing teachers for sexual diversity in the classroom. (pp. 43-58) edited by Rita Kissen. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.
Gard, Michael (2001). ‘I like smashing people, and I like getting smashed myself’: addressing issues of masculinity in physical education and sport. What About the Boys?: Issues of Masculinity in Schools. (pp. 222-235) edited by Wayne Martino and Robert Meyenn. Buckingham, United Kingdom: Open University Press.
Journal Articles
Hannah, Sally A., Johnston, Leanne M., Cairney, John and Gard, Michael (2024). Classroom coping strategies of children with motor difficulties : The effects of motor development in the classroom. Education 3-13, 1-16. doi: 10.1080/03004279.2024.2364614
Welch, Rosie, Taylor, Nicole and Gard, Michael (2023). Environmental attunement continued: people, place, land and water in health education, sport and physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 28 (6), 609-613. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2023.2224666
Welch, Rosie, Taylor, Nicole and Gard, Michael (2021). Environmental attunement in the health and physical education canon: emplaced connection to embodiment, community and 'nature'. Sport Education and Society, 26 (4), 349-362. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1890572
Gard, Michael (2021). Environment, technology and animals: looking backwards and the future of physical education. Sport Education and Society, 26 (4), 429-438. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2020.1845134
Welch, Rosie, Taylor, Nicole and Gard, Michael (2021). Environmental attunement in health, sport and physical education. Sport Education and Society, 26 (4), 339-348. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1890009
Horton, Sean, Dionigi, Rylee A., Gard, Michael, Baker, Joseph, Weir, Patti and Deneau, Jordan (2019). “You Can Sit in the Middle or Be One of the Outliers”: older male athletes and the complexities of social comparison. Frontiers in Psychology, 10 2617, 1-14. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02617
Horton, Sean, Dionigi, Rylee A., Gard, Michael, Baker, Joseph and Weir, Patricia (2018). “Don’t sit back with the geraniums, get out”: The complexity of older women’s stories of sport participation. Journal of Amateur Sport, 4 (1), 24-51. doi: 10.17161/jas.v4i1.6627
Alfrey, Laura and Gard, Michael (2017). Figuring out the prevalence of fitness testing in physical education: a figurational analysis. European Physical Education Review, 25 (1), 1-16. doi: 10.1177/1356336X17715361
Gard, Michael and Pluim, Carolyn (2017). Why is there so little critical physical education scholarship in the United States? The case of Fitnessgram. Sport Education and Society, 22 (5), 602-617. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1213716
Setchell, J., Gard, M., Jones, L. and Watson, B. M. (2017). Addressing weight stigma in physiotherapy: development of a theory-driven approach to (re) thinking weight-related interactions. Physiotherapy Theory and Practice, 33 (8), 597-610. doi: 10.1080/09593985.2017.1328718
Gard, Michael, Dionigi, Rylee A., Horton, Sean, Baker, Joseph, Weir, Patricia and Dionigi, Claudio (2017). The normalization of sport for older people?. Annals of Leisure Research, 20 (3), 253-272. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2016.1250646
Gard, Michael and Enright, Eimear (2016). Computer says no: an analysis of three digital food education resources. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 7 (3), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/18377122.2016.1222238
Pluim, Carolyn and Gard, Michael (2016). Physical education’s grand convergence: Fitnessgram, big-data and the digital commerce of children’s bodies. Critical Studies in Education, 59 (3), 1-18. doi: 10.1080/17508487.2016.1194303
Setchell, Jenny, Watson, Bernadette M., Gard, Michael and Jones, Liz (2016). Physical therapists' ways of talking about overweight and obesity: clinical implications. Physical Therapy, 96 (6), 865-875. doi: 10.2522/ptj.20150286
Enright, Eimear and Gard, Michael (2016). Media, digital technology and learning in sport: a critical response to Hodkinson, Biesta and James. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 21 (1), 40-54. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2015.1043258
Gard, Michael and Dionigi, Rylee A. (2016). The world turned upside down: sport, policy and ageing. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 8 (4), 1-7. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2016.1186719
Setchell, Jenny, Watson, Bernadette, Jones, Liz and Gard, Michael (2015). Weight stigma in physiotherapy practice: patient perceptions ofinteractions with physiotherapists. Manual Therapy, 20 (6), 835-841. doi: 10.1016/j.math.2015.04.001
Gard, Michael (2015). ‘They know they’re getting the best knowledge possible’: locating the academic in changing knowledge economies. Sport, Education and Society, 20 (1), 107-121. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2014.957177
Powell, Darren and Gard, Michael (2015). The governmentality of childhood obesity: Coca-Cola, public health and primary schools. Discourse: studies in the cultural politics of education, 36 (6), 854-867. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2014.905045
Setchell, Jenny, Watson, Bernadette, Jones, Liz, Gard, Michael and Briffa, Kathy (2014). Physiotherapists demonstrate weight stigma: a cross-sectional survey of Australian physiotherapists. Journal of Physiotherapy, 60 (3), 157-162. doi: 10.1016/j.jphys.2014.06.020
Orlando, Joanne and Gard, Michael (2014). Playing and (not?) understanding the game: ECRs and university support. International Journal for Researcher Development, 5 (1), 2-15. doi: 10.1108/IJRD-10-2013-0016
Gard, Michael (2014). On the myth of the crisis of representation: a response to Gilbourne, Jones and Jordan. Sport, Education and Society, 19 (1), 93-98. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2011.633772
Gard, Michael (2014). Research forum introduction: eHPE. Sport, Education and Society, 19 (6), 824-826. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2014.938037
Gard, Michael and Wright, Jan (2014). Schools and critical public health: towards dialogue, collaboration and action. Critical Public Health, 24 (2), 109-114. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2014.888872
Enright, Eimear, Hill, Joanne, Sandford, Rachel and Gard, Michael (2014). Looking beyond what’s broken: towards an appreciative research agenda for physical education and sport pedagogy. Sport, Education and Society, 19 (7), 912-926. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2013.854764
Alfrey, Laura and Gard, Michael (2014). A crack where the light gets in: a study of Health and Physical Education teachers’ perspectives on fitness testing as a context for learning about health. Asia-Pacific Journal of Health, Sport and Physical Education, 5 (1), 3-18. doi: 10.1080/18377122.2014.867790
Vander Schee, Carolyn and Gard, Michael (2014). Healthy, happy and ready to teach, or why kids can't learn from fat teachers: the discursive politics of school reform and teacher health. Critical Public Health, 24 (2), 210-225. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2013.828152
Gard, Michael (2014). eHPE: a history of the future. Sport Education and Society, 19 (6), 827-845. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2014.938036
Gard, Michael (2013). Disagreement, not misrecognition: A reply to Monaghan. Social Theory and Health, 11 (1), 106-115. doi: 10.1057/sth.2012.20
Gard, Michael, Hickey-Moodey, Anna and Enright, Eimear (2013). Youth culture, physical education and the question of relevance: after 20 years, a reply to Tinning and Fitzclarence. Sport Education and Society, 18 (1), 97-114. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2012.690341
Vander Schee, Carolyn and Gard, Michael (2011). Politics, pedagogy and practice in school health policy. Policy Futures in Education, 9 (3), 307-314. doi: 10.2304/pfie.2011.9.3.307
Marino, F. E., Gard, M. and Drinkwater, E. J. (2011). The limits to exercise performance and the future of fatigue research. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 45 (1), 65-67. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2009.067611
Gard, Michael (2011). A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific debates, including theso-called 'obesity epidemic' and. Sport, Education and Society, 16 (3), 399-412. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2011.565970
Gard, Michael (2011). Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy. Critical Public Health, 21 (1), 37-48. doi: 10.1080/09581596.2010.529421
Gard, Michael (2008). Producing little decision makers and goal setters in the age of the obesity crisis. Quest, 60 (4), 488-502. doi: 10.1080/00336297.2008.10483594
Zanker, Cathy and Gard, Michael (2008). Fatness, fitness, and the moral universe of sport and physical activity. Sociology of Sport Journal, 25 (1), 48-65. doi: 10.1123/ssj.25.1.48
Aguila, Cornelio, Sicilia-Camacho, Alvaro, Rojas Tejada, Antonio J., Delgado-Noguera, Miguel A. and Gard, Michael (2008). Postmodern values and leisure in young Spanish university students: An exploratory study. Leisure Sciences, 30 (4), 275-292. doi: 10.1080/01490400802165032
Gard, Michael (2008). When a boy's gotta dance: New masculinities, old pleasures. Sport, Education and Society, 13 (2), 181-193. doi: 10.1080/13573320801957087
Gard, Michael and Fitzgerald, Hayley (2008). Tackling Murderball: masculinity, disability and the big screen. Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, 2 (2), 126-141. doi: 10.1080/17511320802222008
Gard, Michael (2007). Is the war on obesity also a war on children?. Childrenz Issues, 11 (2), 20-24.
Gard, Michael and Kirk, David (2007). Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology. Utbildning och Demokrati, 16 (2), 17-36.
Gard, Michael (2006). Neither flower child nor artiste be: aesthetics, ability and physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 11 (3), 231-241. doi: 10.1080/13573320600813382
Gard, Michael (2005). What does ‘relevant’ physical education mean?. Journal of Physical Education New Zealand, 38 (1), 30-40.
Gard, Michael (2005). A reply to Hancox: the problem with medical and scientific thinking about obesity. Childrenz Issues, 9 (1), 37-39.
Gard, Michael (2004). Mashing the ‘couch potato’. Childrenz Issues, 8 (1), 17-21.
Gard, Michael (2003). Being someone else: using dance in anti-oppressive teaching. Educational Review, 55 (2), 211-223. doi: 10.1080/0013191032000072236
Gard, Michael (2003). Moving and belonging: dance, sport and sexuality. Sex Education, 3 (2), 105-118. doi: 10.1080/14681810309037
Gard, Michael and Wright, Jan (2001). Managing uncertainty: obesity discourses and physical education in a risk society. Studies in Philosophy and Education, 20 (6), 535-549. doi: 10.1023/A:1012238617836
Gard, Michael (2001). Sport, physical education and country towns: diverse enough?. Education in Rural Australia, 11 (2), 19-26.
Gard, Michael (2001). Dancing around the 'problem' of boys and dance. Discourse, 22 (2), 213-225. doi: 10.1080/01596300120072383
Micalos, PS, Marino, FE, Tarpenning, K, Kay, D and Gard, M (2001). Ammonia and lactate responses to isokinetic arm and leg exercise. Isokinetics and Exercise Science, 9 (2-3), 143-149.
Gard, Michael and Bradley, Benjamin S. (2000). Getting away with rape: erasure of the psyche in evolutionary psychology. Psychology, Evolution and Gender, 2 (3), 313-319. doi: 10.1080/14616660010024616
Gard, Michael and Meyenn, Robert (2000). Boys, bodies, pleasure and pain: interrogating contact sports in schools. Sport, Education and Society, 5 (1), 19-34. doi: 10.1080/135733200114415
Conference Paper
Dionigi, Rylee A., Gard, Michael, Horton, Sean, Baker, Joseph and Weir, Patricia (2016). Sport as Social Policy Across the Lifespan. 2016 World Congress on Active Ageing (WCAA), Melbourne Vic Australia, 28 June - 1 July 2016. Champaign, IL United States: Human Kinetics. doi: 10.1123/japa.24.s1.s48