Dr Eimear Enright
Senior Lecturer
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
+61 7 334 69996
Researcher biography
Dr Eimear Enright is a senior lecturer in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences. She teaches, researches and writes primarily about youth voice and young people's participation and learning in health and physical education, and in sport.
Book Chapters
Sperka, Leigh, O'Brien, Rachel and Enright, Eimear (2019). What we talk about when we talk about gender: constructing and deconstructing gender through physical education teacher education. Teaching about social justice issues in physical education. (pp. 133-143) edited by Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette, Sue Sutherland and Joanne Hill. Charlotte, NC, United States: Information Age Publishing.
Enright, Eimear (2018). Girls’ presentations of self in physical culture: a consideration of why physical activity is not always the answer. Sport and physical activity across the lifespan: critical perspectives. (pp. 135-154) edited by Rylee A. Dionigi and Michael Gard. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-48562-5_7
Macdonald, Doune, Enright, Eimear and McCuaig, Louise (2018). Re-visioning the Australian curriculum for health and physical education. Redesigning physical education: an equity agenda in which every child matters. (pp. 196-209) edited by Hal A. Lawson. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429466991-13
McCuaig, Louise A., Enright, Eimear and Macdonald, Doune (2017). Young bodies. Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies. (pp. 167-178) edited by Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315745664-18
Fitzpatrick, Katie and Enright, Eimear (2017). Gender-sexuality and physical education. Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies. (pp. 319-331) edited by Catherine D. Ennis, Kathleen M. Armour, Ang Chen, Alex C. Garn, Eliane Mauerberg-Decastro, Dawn Penney, Stephen J. Silverman, Melinda A. Solomon and Richard Tinning. London, United Kingdom: Routlege.
McCuaig, Louise A. and Eimear Enright (2017). Effective Physical Education Teacher Education: A principled position perspective. Routledge Handbook of Physical Education Pedagogies. (pp. 428-446) edited by Ennis, CD. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge.
Enright, Eimear, Robertson, Jarrod, Hogan, Anna and Stylianou, Michalis (2017). Jarrod: the promise and messy realities of digital technology in physical education. Digital technologies and learning in physical education: Pedagogical cases. (pp. 173-190) edited by Ashley Casey, Victoria A. Goodyear and Kathleen M. Armour. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315670164
McCuaig, Louise and Enright, Eimear (2017). Effective physical education teacher education: a principled position perspective. Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies. (pp. 428-446) edited by Catherine D. Ennis. United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Enright, Eimear, Johnson, Rebecca, Macdonald, Doune, McCuaig, Louise and Rossi, Anthony (2016). Teachers’ Perspectives on the School-Family-Health Nexus. Families, Young People, Physical Activity and Health: Critical Perspectives. (pp. 165-180) edited by Symeon Dagkas and Lisette Burrows. London, UK: Routledge.
Enright, Eimear and McCuaig, Louise A. (2016). Girls and physical education: new starting points for critical pedagogy. Social justice in physical education: critical reflections and pedagogies. (pp. 83-101) edited by Daniel B. Robinson and Lynn Randall. Toronto, ON, Canada: Canadian Scholar's Press.
O'Sullivan, Mary, Kinchin, Gary and Enright, Eimear (2014). Cultural Studies Curriculum in Physical Activity and Sport. Standards-based physical education curriculum development. (pp. 337-365) edited by Jacalyn Lund and Deborah Tannehill. Burlington, MA United States: Jones and Bartlett.
Coll, Leanne, Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2014). The dangers of a single story: Heteronormativity in physical education. Socialcultural issues in physical education: Case studies for teachers. (pp. 101-114) edited by Sara Barnard Flory, Amy Tischler and Stephen Sanders. New York, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.
Enright, Eimear (2013). Young people as curators of popular physical culture: a metaphor to teach and research by. Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods. (pp. 198-211) edited by Laura Azzarito and David Kirk. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203114698
Tindall, Daniel and Enright, Eimear (2013). Rethinking teacher knowledge in physical education: What do physical education teachers need to know?. Debates in physical education. (pp. 107-119) edited by Susan Capel and Margaret Whitehead. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203100189
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2012). Listening to young people’s voices in physical education and youth sport research. Research methods in physical education and youth sport. (pp. 120-132) edited by Kathleen Armour and Doune Macdonald. Oxon, England: Routledge.
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2010). 'Carving a new order of experience' with young people in physical education: Participatory Action Research as a pedagogy of possibility. Young people's voices in physical education and youth sport. (pp. 163-185) edited by Mary O'Sulliva and Ann MacPhail. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780203881897
Journal Articles
Luguetti, Carla, Enright, Eimear, Hynes, Jack and Bishara, Jeffrey Anthony (2022). The (im)possibilities of praxis in online health and physical education teacher education. European Physical Education Review, 28 (1), 57-77. doi: 10.1177/1356336X211016485
Cowan, Jackie, Hogan, Anna and Enright, Eimear (2021). The commercialisation of school administration: one school’s enactment of a student management system in Aotearoa New Zealand. Journal of Educational Administration and History, 54 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/00220620.2021.1988524
Ovens, Alan and Enright, Eimear (2021). Infection or affection: physical literacy and the reterritorialisation of the HPE curriculum. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 12 (2), 96-105. doi: 10.1080/25742981.2021.1936582
Olive, Rebecca and Enright, Eimear (2021). Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis. Sport, Education and Society, 26 (4), 389-402. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1888709
Matthews, Kelly E., Tai, Joanna, Enright, Eimear, Carless, David, Rafferty, Caelan and Winstone, Naomi (2021). Transgressing the boundaries of ‘students as partners’ and ‘feedback’ discourse communities to advance democratic education. Teaching in Higher Education, 1-15. doi: 10.1080/13562517.2021.1903854
Enright, Eimear, Beckman, Emma M., Connick, Mark J., Dutia, Iain Mayank, Macaro, Angelo, Wilson, Paula J., O'Sullivan, Jennifer, Lavalliere, Jean-Michel, Block, Turner, Johnston, Leanne M., Panagoda, Gaj and Tweedy, Sean M. (2020). Competitive sport, therapy, and physical education: voices of young people with cerebral palsy who have high support needs. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 55 (10), bjsports-2020. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2020-102276
Enright, Eimear, Kirk, David and Macdonald, Doune (2020). Expertise, neoliberal governmentality and the outsourcing of health and physical education. Discourse, 41 (2), 1-17. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1722424
Enright, Eimear, Hogan, Anna and Rossi, Tony (2020). The commercial school heterarchy. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 41 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01596306.2020.1722423
Fitzgerald, Hayley, Stride, Annette and Enright, Eimear (2020). Messy methods: making sense of participatory research with young people in PE and sport. European Physical Education Review, 27 (3), 1-15. doi: 10.1177/1356336X20953462
McCuaig, Louise, Rossi, Tony, Enright, Eimear and Shelley, Karen (2019). Schools, student health and family welfare: Exploring teachers’ work as boundary spanners. British Educational Research Journal, 45 (5), 1001-1020. doi: 10.1002/berj.3548
Ellmer, Eva, Rynne, Steven and Enright, Eimear (2019). Learning in action sports: A scoping review. European Physical Education Review, 26 (1), 1356336X1985153-283. doi: 10.1177/1356336X19851535
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2019). And if you can’t hear us?: students as customers of neo-HPE. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (6), 570-583. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2019.1611556
Matthews, Kelly E., Dwyer, Alexander, Russell, Stuart and Enright, Eimear (2018). It is a complicated thing: leaders’ conceptions of students as partners in the neoliberal university. Studies in Higher Education, 44 (12), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/03075079.2018.1482268
Enright, Eimear, Williams, Benjamin, Sperka, Leigh and Peucker, Kate (2018). Pedagogic rights and the acoustics of health and physical education teacher education: whose voices are heard?. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 23 (5), 524-535. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2018.1470616
Coll, Leanne, O’Sullivan, Mary and Enright, Eimear (2017). ‘The Trouble with Normal’: (re)imagining sexuality education with young people. Sex Education, 18 (2), 1-15. doi: 10.1080/14681811.2017.1410699
Sperka, L., Enright, E. and McCuaig, L. (2017). Brokering and bridging knowledge in health and physical education: a critical discourse analysis of one external provider’s curriculum. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 23 (3), 328-343. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2017.1406465
Hogan, Anna, Enright, Eimear, Stylianou, Michalis and McCuaig, Louise (2017). Nuancing the critique of commercialisation in schools: recognising teacher agency. Journal of Education Policy, 33 (5), 617-631. doi: 10.1080/02680939.2017.1394500
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2017). Network ethnography applied: understanding the evolving health and physical education knowledge landscape. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (2), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2017.1338564
Stylianou, Michalis, Hogan, Anna and Enright, Eimear (2017). Youth sport policy: the enactment and possibilities of ‘soft policy’ in schools. Sport, Education and Society, 24 (2), 1-13. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2017.1339685
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2017). The outsourcing of health and physical education: a scoping review. European Physical Education Review, 24 (3), 349-371. doi: 10.1177/1356336X17699430
Enright, Eimear, Alfrey, Laura and Rynne, Steven B. (2017). Being and becoming an academic in the neoliberal university: a necessary conversation. Sport, Education and Society, 22 (1), 1-4. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1259999
Alfrey, Laura, Enright, Eimear and Rynne, Steven (2017). Letters from early career academics: the physical education and sport pedagogy field of play. Sport, Education and Society, 22 (1), 5-21. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1242479
Rynne, Steven B., Enright, Eimear and Alfrey, Laura (2017). Researching up and across in physical education and sport pedagogy: methodological lessons learned from an intergenerational narrative inquiry. Sport, Education and Society, 22 (1), 140-156. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1253554
Enright, Eimear, Rynne, Steven B. and Alfrey, Laura (2017). ‘Letters to an early career academic’: learning from the advice of the physical education and sport pedagogy professoriate. Sport, Education and Society, 22 (1), 22-39. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1257483
Stylianou, Michalis, Enright, Eimear and Hogan, Anna (2017). Learning to be researchers in physical education and sport pedagogy: the perspectives of doctoral students and early career researchers. Sport, Education and Society, 22 (1), 122-139. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2016.1244665
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
McCuaig, Louise, Enright, Eimear, Rossi, Anthony, Macdonald, Doune and Hansen, Scott (2016). An eroding social justice agenda: the case of physical education and health edu-business in schools. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 87 (2), 151-164. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2016.1163978
Enright, Eimear, Coll, Leanne, Ní Chróinín, Deirdre and Fitzpatrick, Mary (2016). Student voice as risky praxis: democratising physical education teacher education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 22 (5), 1-14. doi: 10.1080/17408989.2016.1225031
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
McEvoy, Eileen, Enright, Eimear and Macphail, Ann (2015). Negotiating ‘ethically important moments’ in research with young people: reflections of a novice researcher. Leisure Studies, 36 (2), 170-181. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2015.1119877
McEvoy, Eileen, MacPhail, Ann and Enright, Eimear (2015). Physical activity experiences of young people in an area of disadvantage: 'there's nothing there for big kids, like us'. Sport Education and Society, 21 (8), 1161-1175. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2014.994176
Hill, Joanne, Sandford, Rachel and Enright, Eimear (2015). It has really amazed me what my body can now do’: boundary work and the construction of a body-positive dance community. Sport in Society, 19 (5), 667-679. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2015.1073946
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
Macdonald, Doune and Enright, Eimear (2013). Physical literacy and the Australian health and physical education curriculum. ICSSPE Bulletin, 65, 352-360.
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
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2013). "Now, I'm magazine detective the whole time": Listening and responding to young people's complex experiences of popular physical culture. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 32 (4), 394-418. doi: 10.1123/jtpe.32.4.394
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2012). Physical education in all sorts of corners: Student activists transgressing formal physical education curricular boundaries. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 83 (2), 255-267. doi: 10.5641/027013612800745293
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2012). 'Producing different knowledge and producing knowledge differently': rethinking physical education research and practice through participatory visual methods. Sport Education and Society, 17 (1), 35-55. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2011.607911
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2010). 'Can I do it in my pyjamas?' Negotiating a physical education curriculum with teenage girls. European Physical Education Review, 16 (3), 203-222. doi: 10.1177/1356336X10382967
Conference Papers
Clish, Meg, Enright, Eimear, Sperka, Leigh and Tweedy, Sean (2022). Learning from students with disabilities about their experiences of physical education: a critical narrative review. The International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education World Congress, Brisbane, QLD Australia, 15-18 June 2022.
Matthews, Kelly E., Russell, Stuart, Dwyer, Alexander and Enright, Eimear (2018). Being a good partner: understanding the dynamics of power-sharing partnership practices. International Students as Partners Institute, McMaster University, 11-14 June 2018.
Stylianou, Michalis, Smith, Kaitlin, Enright, Eimear and Kulinna, Pamela Hodges (2018). Parents' perceptions of classroom physical activity integration in two countries. 2018 SHAPE America National Convention and Expo, Nashville, TN, United States, 20-24 March 2018. Philadelphia, PA, United States: Routledge. doi: 10.1080/02701367.2018.1450043
Enright, Eimear, Dwyer, Alexander, Russell, Stuart and Matthews, Kelly E. (2018). Doing students as partners well: Exploring powerful in-class and extra-curricular practices. International Students as Partners Institute, McMaster University, 11-14 June 2018.
Leathwick, Sandra, Matthews, Kelly E., Enright, Eimear and Moni, Karen (2018). Valuing the expertise of underrepresented students in teaching and learning partnerships. Higher Education Research & Development Society, Adelaide, SA, Australia, 3-6 July 2018.
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2017). Recognising, respecting and valuing students’ perspectives on the outsourcing of health and physical education. Australian Association for Research in Education, Canberra, ACT Australia, 27-30 November 2017.
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2017). Are students customers and are they always right?: Considering Australian students’ perspectives on the outsourcing of their health and physical education. British Educational Research Association, Brighton, United Kingdom, 5-7 September 2017.
Sperka, Leigh and Enright, Eimear (2016). Network Ethnography Applied: Understanding the evolving Health and Physical Education knowledge landscape. Australian Association for Research in Education, Melbourne, VIC Australia, 28 November - 1 December 2016.
Enright, Eimear, Macdonald, Doune, Rossi, Tony, McCuaig, Louise, Sperka, Leigh, Hogan, Anna and Hansen, Scott (2015). Comparing the outsourcing of health and physical education in four different countries: Purpose, products and practice. Australian Association for Research in Education, Fremantle, WA Australia, 30 November - 3 December 2015.
Sperka, Leigh, Enright, Eimear, Macdonald, Doune and McCuaig, Louise (2015). Who is knocking on the door?: A critical discourse analysis of an external provider in Health and Physical Education
. Australian Association for Research in Education, Fremantle, WA Australia, 30 November - 3 December 2015.