Health & Physical Education
Through interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to foster a vibrant intellectual community focused on the advancement of health and physical education (HPE) pedagogy and practice.
Our research interests transcend disciplinary borders but are typically located within the fields of:
- Critical health and physical education
- Wellbeing in education
- Curriculum based learning and teaching in the context of Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Movement pedagogies
- HPE teacher identity and practice
- Student voice
- Social and emotional learning in HPE
- Gender studies in HPE
- HPE curriculum and policy development
- Body discourses
- Physical activity and pedagogy with older adults
- Serious leisure studies
Our activities
- Adrian Farnham (Lead) - HPE teacher identity in Australian and New Zealand Schools
- Kylie Thompson (Lead) - Place, potential and pedagogies of social and emotional learning in Physical Education Aotearoa, New Zealand
- Denise Atkins (Evaluation Lead) - Health Futures: Re-envisaging health professional education in Aotearoa New Zealand
- Kylie Thompson and Toni Ingram (Co-leads) - Girl's emotions in physical education
- Kath Godber (Lead) Denise Atkins, Jennifer Nikolai - Student voice in higher education sport studies
- Jennifer Nikolai (Lead) – Intergenerational Storytelling through games and play
- Denise Atkins (Collaborator) - Pou te Hau: High intensity interval training (HIIT) and mental health in adolescents
- Kylie Thompson (Collaborator) - Returning to learn: Managing concussions in NZ secondary schools