Dr Dillon Landi
Lecturer
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
Researcher biography
Dillon Landi joined the University of Queensland in 2024 as a Lecturer in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. He received his PhD from the University of Auckland (Aotearoa New Zealand) and two postgraduate degrees from Columbia University (New York, USA). He has held previous academic appointments at the University of Auckland, Towson University (Maryland, USA), and the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, UK) in health, wellbeing, and education. Dillon conducts research and teaches courses related to health and wellbeing, research methods, and education. He has a particular focus on research topics related to equity and diversity in school-based health education, physical education, and sex education.
Book Chapters
Landi, Dillon (2024). Thinking qualitatively: paradigms and design in qualitative research. Qualitative research and evaluation in physical education and sport pedagogy. (pp. 31-47) edited by Kevin Andrew Richards, Michael A. Hemphill and Paul M. Wright. Burlington, MA United States: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Pringle, Richard and Landi, Dillon (2023). Queering school sport and physical education. Queer studies and education. (pp. 217-233) edited by Nelson M. Rodriguez, Robert C. Mizzi, Louisa Allen and Rob Cover. New York, NY United States: Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/oso/9780197687000.003.0012
Alfrey, Laura and Landi, Dillon (2022). Fitness testing as a debated and contested PE-for-health practice. Physical education pedagogies for health. (pp. 33-47) edited by Lorraine Cale and Jo Harris. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003225904-3
Landi, Dillon, Walton-Fisette, Jennifer L. and Sutherland, Sue (2021). Physical education in the US: Policy, curriculum and pedagogy. Critical pedagogies in physical education, physical activity and health. (pp. 40-52) edited by Julie Stirrup and Oliver Hooper. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003003991-3
Ressler, James D., Culp, Brian, Landi, Dillon and Bainbridge, Jeff (2021). Social justice and SEL: Case examples of promising practices. Teaching social and emotional learning in physical education. (pp. 250-263) edited by Paul M. Wright and K. Andrew R. Richards. Burlington, MA United States: Jones and Bartlett Learning.
Landi, Dillon (2021). Outside the box LGTBQ-inclusive physical activity programs. Before and after school physical activity programs: Frameworks, critical issues and underserved populations. (pp. 154-165) edited by Risto Marttinen, Erin E. Centeio and Thomas Quarmby. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003051909-13
Dyson, Ben, Landi, Dillon and Gordon, Barrie (2018). Redesign of PE in Aotearoa New Zealand. Redesigning physical education: an equity agenda in which every child matters. (pp. 182-195) edited by Hal A. Lawson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429466991-12
Journal Articles
Landi, Dillon and Sutherland, Sue (2024). Social justice and physical education in the United States: the need for new maps. Kinesiology Review, 1-11. doi: 10.1123/kr.2024-0012
Landi, Dillon, Flory, Sara and Storr, Ryan (2023). LGBTQIA plus topics in physical education: an introduction. Sport Education and Society, 28 (9), 1011-1020. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2023.2254670
Landi, Dillon (2023). Precarity, fitness testing and critical pedagogy: a response-able approach. Motrivivência, 35 (66), 1-15. doi: 10.5007/2175-8042.2023.e95538
Castro-García, Marina, Landi, Dillon and Kirk, David (2023). deportigualízate: enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2023.2284927
Wood, Caroline, Yu, Zuojin, Sealy, Diadrey-Anne, Moss, Ian, Zigbuo-Wenzler, Enia, McFadden, Carrie, Landi, Dillon and Brace, Andrea M. (2022). Mental health impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on college students. Journal of American College Health, 72 (2), 463-468. doi: 10.1080/07448481.2022.2040515
Safron, Carrie and Landi, Dillon (2021). Beyond the BEEPs: affect, FitnessGram®, and diverse youth. Sport Education and Society, 27 (9), 1020-1034. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1953978
Landi, Dillon, Blackshear, Tara B. and McFadden, Carrie (2021). SHAPE America and physical literacy: an event horizon?. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 12 (2), 106-122. doi: 10.1080/25742981.2021.1908835
Landi, Dillon, Walton-Fisette, Jennifer L. and Sutherland, Sue (2021). Physical education policy research in the United States: Setting a new orientation. Quest, 73 (1), 45-62. doi: 10.1080/00336297.2020.1866042
Marttinen, Risto, Landi, Dillon, Novak, Dario and Silverman, Stephen (2020). A systematic analysis of research on teaching in physical education: two decades of progress. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 39 (4), 545-554. doi: 10.1123/jtpe.2019-0106
Landi, Dillon and Safron, Carrie (2020). Feminist posthumanisms, new materialisms and education. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 11 (2), 180-184. doi: 10.1080/25742981.2020.1774400
Flory, Sara B. and Landi, Dillon (2020). Equity and diversity in health, physical activity, and education: connecting the past, mapping the present, and exploring the future. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 25 (3), 213-224. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2020.1741539
Landi, Dillon, Flory, Sara B., Safron, Carrie and Marttinen, Risto (2020). LGBTQ research in physical education: a rising tide?. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 25 (3), 259-273. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2020.1741534
Marttinen, Risto, Landi, Dillon, Fredrick, Ray N. and Silverman, Stephen (2020). Wearable digital technology in PE: Advantage barriers, and teachers' ideologies. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 39 (2), 227-235. doi: 10.1123/jtpe.2018-0240
Landi, Dillon, Lynch, Shrehan and Walton-Fisette, Jennifer (2020). The A-Z of social justice physical education: part 2. Journal of Physical Education Recreation and Dance, 91 (5), 20-27. doi: 10.1080/07303084.2020.1739433
Landi, Dillon (2019). Queer men, affect, and physical education. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11 (2), 168-187. doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2018.1504230
Landi, Dillon (2018). Toward a queer inclusive physical education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 23 (1), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2017.1341478
Pringle, Richard and Landi, Dillon (2017). Re-reading Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Annals of Leisure Research, 20 (1), 117-122. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2016.1204138
Landi, Dillon, Fitzpatrick, Katie and McGlashan, Hayley (2016). Models based practices in physical education: a sociocritical reflection. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 35 (4), 400-412. doi: 10.1123/jtpe.2016-0117
Thesis
Landi, Dillon (2019). LGBTQ youth, physical education, and sexuality education: Affect, curriculum, and (new) materialism. PhD Thesis, Faculty of Education and Social Work, The University of Auckland.