Dr Eimear Enright
Senior Lecturer
School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
+61 7 334 69996
Book Chapters
Enright, Eimear (2018). Girls’ presentations of self in physical culture: a consideration of why physical activity is not always the answer. In Rylee A. Dionigi and Michael Gard (Ed.), Sport and physical activity across the lifespan (pp. 135-154) London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48562-5_7
McCuaig, Louise and Enright, Eimear (2017). Effective health and physical education teacher education: a consideration of principled positions. In Catherine D. Ennis (Ed.), Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies (pp. 428-446) United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis.
Fitzpatrick, Katie and Enright, Eimear (2017). Gender-sexuality and physical education. In 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 (Ed.), Routledge handbook of physical education pedagogies (pp. 319-331) London, United Kingdom: Routlege.
McCuaig, Louise A. and Eimear Enright (2017). Effective Physical Education Teacher Education: A principled position perspective. In Ennis, CD (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Physical Education Pedagogies (pp. 428-446) Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge.
McCuaig, Louise A., Enright, Eimear and Macdonald, Doune (2017). Young bodies. In Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe (Ed.), Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies (pp. 167-178) London, United Kingdom: Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group). doi:10.4324/9781315745664
Enright, Eimear and McCuaig, Louise A. (2016). Girls and physical education: new starting points for critical pedagogy. In Daniel B. Robinson and Lynn Randall (Ed.), Social justice in physical education: critical reflections and pedagogies (pp. 83-101) Toronto, ON, Canada: Canadian Scholar's Press.
Enright, Eimear, Johnson, Rebecca, Macdonald, Doune, McCuaig, Louise and Rossi, Anthony (2016). Teachers’ Perspectives on the School-Family-Health Nexus. In Symeon Dagkas and Lisette Burrows (Ed.), Families, Young People, Physical Activity and Health: Critical Perspectives (pp. 165-180) London, UK: Routledge.
Enright, Eimear, Robertson, Jarrod, Hogan, Anna and Stylianou, Michalis (2016). Jarrod: the promise and messy realities of digital technology in physical education. In Ashley Casey, Victoria A. Goodyear and Kathleen M. Armour (Ed.), Digital technologies and learning in physical education (pp. 173-190) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Coll, Leanne, Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2014). The dangers of a single story: Heteronormativity in physical education. In Sara Barnard Flory, Amy Tischler and Stephen Sanders (Ed.), Socialcultural issues in physical education: Case studies for teachers (pp. 101-114) New York, United States: Rowman and Littlefield.
O'Sullivan, Mary, Kinchin, Gary and Enright, Eimear (2014). Cultural Studies Curriculum in Physical Activity and Sport. In Jacalyn Lund and Deborah Tannehill (Ed.), Standards-based physical education curriculum development 3rd ed. (pp. 337-365) Burlington, MA United States: Jones and Bartlett.
Enright, Eimear (2013). Young people as curators of popular physical culture: a metaphor to teach and research by. In Laura Azzarito and David Kirk (Ed.), Pedagogies, Physical Culture, and Visual Methods (pp. 198-211) Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge.
Tindall, Daniel and Enright, Eimear (2013). Rethinking teacher knowledge in physical education: What do physical education teachers need to know?. In Susan Capel and Margaret Whitehead (Ed.), Debates in physical education (pp. 107-119) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Enright, Eimear and O'Sullivan, Mary (2012). Listening to young people’s voices in physical education and youth sport research. In Kathleen Armour and Doune Macdonald (Ed.), Research methods in physical education and youth sport (pp. 120-132) 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. In Mary O'Sulliva and Ann MacPhail (Ed.), Young people's voices in physical education and youth sport (pp. 163-185) Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Journal Articles
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, 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, 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, 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
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
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
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, 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
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 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
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
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.
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
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 (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
Leathwick, Sandra, Matthews, Kelly E., Enright, Eimear and Moni, Karen (2018). Valuing the expertise of underrepresented students in teaching and learning partnerships. In: Higher Education Research & Development Society, Adelaide, SA, Australia, (). 3-6 July 2018.
Matthews, Kelly E., Russell, Stuart, Dwyer, Alexander and Enright, Eimear (2018). Being a good partner: understanding the dynamics of power-sharing partnership practices. In: International Students as Partners Institute, McMaster University, (). 11-14 June 2018.
Enright, Eimear, Dwyer, Alexander, Russell, Stuart and Matthews, Kelly E. (2018). Doing students as partners well: Exploring powerful in-class and extra-curricular practices. In: 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. In: 2018 SHAPE America National Convention and Expo, Nashville, TN, United States, (A96-A97). 20-24 March 2018. doi:10.1080/02701367.2018.1450043