Dr Eimear Enright

Featured projects	Duration
Healthy School Architecture: Towards Participatory Design, Policy and Research Agendas
The Social, Cultural and Political Uses of the Sporting Role-Model
Transformative Approaches to Student Voice in Higher Education (Institute for Teaching and Innovation Fellowship)
External provision of the school curriculum: Local needs to global networks in Health and Physical Education

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

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 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.

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

Matthews, Kelly E, Sherwood, Catherine, Enright, Eimear and Cook-Sather, Alison (2023). What do students and teachers talk about when they talk together about feedback and assessment? Expanding notions of feedback literacy through pedagogical partnership. Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/02602938.2023.2170977

Clish, Meg, Enright, Eimear, Sperka, Leigh and Tweedy, Sean (2022). Engaging young people with disabilities in research about their experiences of physical education and sport: a scoping review of methodologies and methods. European Physical Education Review, 1356336X2211415. doi: 10.1177/1356336x221141598

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, 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

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

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, 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

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.

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