Lisahunter
Biographic Data
| ID | 4106221 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisahunter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lisahunter |
| SIGNATURE | LISAHUNTER |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6426-4158 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Normativity and oppression
This paper reports on the discrimination faced by transgender adults in Spain during their childhood, specifically in physical education (PE) classes, and compares it with cisgender students. An initial sample of 1,659 Spanish participants aged 18–74 was narrowed to 393, including transgender and cisgender individuals. Data were gathered via a LimeSurvey questionnaire distributed through LGBT Spanish associations and social media. Key variables i…
Educational Experiences and Outcomes of Students With Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics in Educational Settings
Current literature highlights the need for educational settings to be safe, inclusive, and affirming learning environments for learners with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSCs) to ensure optimal educational experiences and outcomes; however, the research metasynthesizing the existing limited research is lacking. This scoping review brings together existing literature and highlights recommended IVSC-inclusive interventions, support me…
The Experiences and Outcomes of Students with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics in Health and Physical Education
Introduction Students with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC; also known as intersex variations) encounter significant challenges within health and physical education (HPE) in school settings negatively impacting their educational outcomes. The scarcity of comprehensive synthesis of existing empirical literature underscores the urgent need for focused inquiry to inform IVSC-inclusive HPE education policies, curricula, and practices. …
How is intersectionality being represented by Australian sports organisations? A content analysis
In the realm of critical social theory, the application of intersectionality is crucial for addressing social inequalities and advocating for social justice. Our research focuses on the growing integration of intersectionality in Australian sport systems, a development observed in government documents and sports organisations’ operational procedures. Despite this trend, challenges persist in effectively implementing intersectionality due to the c…
Intersex awareness and education
It is well-documented that schools fail to adequately engage with contemporary content about intersex awareness and education or inclusion of people with intersex variations. Where sexuality and relationships education are the remit of Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum in countries such as Australia, the learning area shows little obligation/response-ability towards the needs of students with intersex variations. It also fails to pay…
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia
This paper reports findings from five recent studies related to gender and sexuality in Australian sport. It offers a challenge to widespread claims that exclusionary practices such as homo/bi/transphobia have been reduced or eliminated within sport settings. We suggest there remains much to be done towards 'inclusion', and that the concept itself is perhaps an illusion. Drawing on 'diversity work' theory we suggest inclusion is yet to be fully r…
Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations
It is well documented that the most effective sexuality education programmes employ a whole-school learning approach. More specifically, when schools and their leaders and teachers embrace such an approach, they view student learning in the context of the whole experience of being at school – from the classroom, to the home and the partnerships schools form with the local community. In parallel to this, people born with intersex variations report…
Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing
Bluespace, where water people immerse themselves for thrills, therapy, or thalassography, is constantly fluctuating, influenced by materials, nature, and discourse. Drawing on onto-epistemological aspects of embodied theory-method, we report entangled prototype 'cyborg' in situ strategies (mobile, sensory [auto]ethnography, and self-interview) to notice, record, and ultimately create human-water relations, from the perspective of a surfer. Audio/…
Coeducación y deportes colectivos. La participación de las alumnas en entredicho (Coeducation and team sports. Girls’ participation in question)
La llegada de la escolarizacin mixta ha puesto encima de la mesa los problemas para conseguir una coeducacin que atienda las necesidades de las alumnas. La Educacin Fsica, en este sentido, juega un papel determinante en la reproduccin o transformacin de los estereotipos de gnero. En su desarrollo prctico, los deportes colectivos son un contenido recurrente en las programaciones de aula de Educacin Fsica. Sin embargo, a pesar de su planteamiento m…
Schooling and sexualities
While there have been significant shifts in relation to schooling and sexualities over the last two decades, some conversations are remarkably reminiscent. This special issue of Sex Education aims to capture some of the shifts and gaps emerging in a trio of decennial collaborations\nheld in Australia, known as the Schooling and Sexualities Conferences. In this introduction, we describe the history of the conferences, the papers in this collection…
Keeping abreast of gendering practices in health and physical education and physical culture
At an embodied and personal level this paper plays with what Evans, J., & Davies, B. (2011. New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment. Sport, Education & Society, 16(3), 263–278) suggests are ‘the complexity and nuances of biology in culture and the influence of body pedagogies in the production of social inequalities and hierarchies.’ (p. 263). Despite extensive attention to gender order, sexualization, sexual subjec…
What a queer space is HPE, or is it yet? Queer theory, sexualities and pedagogy
Physical education, or HPE, is arguably a very queer space not only in the daily practices between students and teachers in schools but also in the broader field. This paper explores theoretical interactions with the HPE field in terms of the development and employment of queer theory, and links between associated sexualities and pedagogy research in HPE. I begin by (not) defining queer theory, its emergence and development. In short, I argue tha…
Entering the field
Little is known about beginning teachers’ political positioning experiences of the staffroom. This paper employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital to explore beginning health and physical education teachers’ positioning experiences and learning in staffrooms, the place in which teachers spend the majority of their non-teaching school time. From an Australian context, we present beginning (or emerging) teachers’ stories fro…
Sensory narratives
Narrative research has been employed by many researchers in the field of physical culture (including movement, play, dance, sport, leisure, physical pursuits, physical activity, physical education and health). From our storied worlds, narrative research reveals complex embodied and emplaced social phenomena within this field. However, there are still many questions about how we might begin to take more seriously the lived body, the phenomenologic…
Narrative inquiry in physical education research
At a recent international education conference, current life history and narrative research within Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) was criticised for its seeming inability to ‘produce anything new’ and for lacking ‘rigour’. This paper aims to respond to the criticism and to reassert the strengths of narrative inquiry in the current moment. It maps out narrative and life history research (published in English) carried out in PETE, illu…
Surfing life
Mark Stranger’s first words of his book Surfing Life dedicate the work to his father saying ‘He started this whole thing with the sea for me’. Flicking through the book to get the flavour of ‘this thing with the sea’, I was struck by the appendices*one listing Australian surfing places I know*such as Torquay in Victoria and Lennox Heads in New South Wales and another listing people involved in his extensive empirical material that included a year…
Sport, technology and the body
This article reviews the book: “Sport, technology and the body: the nature of performance”, edited by T. Tara Magdalinski
Primary teachers, policy, and physical education
This article focuses on the challenges arising for primary school teachers who have responsibility for teaching physical education (PE) and who are working in particularly complex and contestable policy contexts. In New Zealand provision of physical education is identified as occurring amidst multiple, and not necessarily compatible, sets of expectations, associated with government priorities, initiatives focusing on children’s health, sport, and…
Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse
This book reviews the book, “Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: fat fabrications”, edited by J. Evans, E. Rich, B. Davies & R. Allwood
Re-embodying (preservice middle years) teachers? An attempt to reposition the body and its presence in teaching and learning
Dis)Abling the (health and) physical in education
In this short discursive paper our aim is to introduce issues which have underpinned and are pursued in this special issue of Sport, Education and Society. In important respects the development of the special issue represented a challenge to make some inroads into the sustained silence surrounding ‘ability’ in physical education that Evans (2004) identified as having profound implications for teachers and learners in physical education. Evans (20…
Please Mr Hay, what are my poss(abilities)?’
This paper provides two vignettes that draw on data from projects that interrogate how a student can be positioned by practices within physical education (PE) and directed by the PE teacher in relation to their valued or legitimated ability. Through the use of Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital we investigate the complex legitimation processes that shape student poss(abilities) and that are situated in the space of t…
Sensory narratives
Narrative research has been employed by many researchers in the field of physical culture (including movement, play, dance, sport, leisure, physical pursuits, physical activity, physical education and health). From our storied worlds, narrative research reveals complex embodied and emplaced social phenomena within this field. However, there are still many questions about how we might begin to take more seriously the lived body, the phenomenologic…
Please Mr Hay, what are my poss(abilities)?’
This paper provides two vignettes that draw on data from projects that interrogate how a student can be positioned by practices within physical education (PE) and directed by the PE teacher in relation to their valued or legitimated ability. Through the use of Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital we investigate the complex legitimation processes that shape student poss(abilities) and that are situated in the space of t…
Narrative inquiry in physical education research
At a recent international education conference, current life history and narrative research within Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) was criticised for its seeming inability to ‘produce anything new’ and for lacking ‘rigour’. This paper aims to respond to the criticism and to reassert the strengths of narrative inquiry in the current moment. It maps out narrative and life history research (published in English) carried out in PETE, illu…
Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing
Bluespace, where water people immerse themselves for thrills, therapy, or thalassography, is constantly fluctuating, influenced by materials, nature, and discourse. Drawing on onto-epistemological aspects of embodied theory-method, we report entangled prototype 'cyborg' in situ strategies (mobile, sensory [auto]ethnography, and self-interview) to notice, record, and ultimately create human-water relations, from the perspective of a surfer. Audio/…
What a queer space is HPE, or is it yet? Queer theory, sexualities and pedagogy
Physical education, or HPE, is arguably a very queer space not only in the daily practices between students and teachers in schools but also in the broader field. This paper explores theoretical interactions with the HPE field in terms of the development and employment of queer theory, and links between associated sexualities and pedagogy research in HPE. I begin by (not) defining queer theory, its emergence and development. In short, I argue tha…
Primary teachers, policy, and physical education
This article focuses on the challenges arising for primary school teachers who have responsibility for teaching physical education (PE) and who are working in particularly complex and contestable policy contexts. In New Zealand provision of physical education is identified as occurring amidst multiple, and not necessarily compatible, sets of expectations, associated with government priorities, initiatives focusing on children’s health, sport, and…
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia
This paper reports findings from five recent studies related to gender and sexuality in Australian sport. It offers a challenge to widespread claims that exclusionary practices such as homo/bi/transphobia have been reduced or eliminated within sport settings. We suggest there remains much to be done towards 'inclusion', and that the concept itself is perhaps an illusion. Drawing on 'diversity work' theory we suggest inclusion is yet to be fully r…
Intersex awareness and education
It is well-documented that schools fail to adequately engage with contemporary content about intersex awareness and education or inclusion of people with intersex variations. Where sexuality and relationships education are the remit of Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum in countries such as Australia, the learning area shows little obligation/response-ability towards the needs of students with intersex variations. It also fails to pay…
Dis)Abling the (health and) physical in education
In this short discursive paper our aim is to introduce issues which have underpinned and are pursued in this special issue of Sport, Education and Society. In important respects the development of the special issue represented a challenge to make some inroads into the sustained silence surrounding ‘ability’ in physical education that Evans (2004) identified as having profound implications for teachers and learners in physical education. Evans (20…
Re-embodying (preservice middle years) teachers? An attempt to reposition the body and its presence in teaching and learning
How is intersectionality being represented by Australian sports organisations? A content analysis
In the realm of critical social theory, the application of intersectionality is crucial for addressing social inequalities and advocating for social justice. Our research focuses on the growing integration of intersectionality in Australian sport systems, a development observed in government documents and sports organisations’ operational procedures. Despite this trend, challenges persist in effectively implementing intersectionality due to the c…
Dis)Abling the (health and) physical in education
In this short discursive paper our aim is to introduce issues which have underpinned and are pursued in this special issue of Sport, Education and Society. In important respects the development of the special issue represented a challenge to make some inroads into the sustained silence surrounding ‘ability’ in physical education that Evans (2004) identified as having profound implications for teachers and learners in physical education. Evans (20…
Please Mr Hay, what are my poss(abilities)?’
This paper provides two vignettes that draw on data from projects that interrogate how a student can be positioned by practices within physical education (PE) and directed by the PE teacher in relation to their valued or legitimated ability. Through the use of Pierre Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital we investigate the complex legitimation processes that shape student poss(abilities) and that are situated in the space of t…
Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse
This book reviews the book, “Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: fat fabrications”, edited by J. Evans, E. Rich, B. Davies & R. Allwood
Re-embodying (preservice middle years) teachers? An attempt to reposition the body and its presence in teaching and learning
Sport, technology and the body
This article reviews the book: “Sport, technology and the body: the nature of performance”, edited by T. Tara Magdalinski
Primary teachers, policy, and physical education
This article focuses on the challenges arising for primary school teachers who have responsibility for teaching physical education (PE) and who are working in particularly complex and contestable policy contexts. In New Zealand provision of physical education is identified as occurring amidst multiple, and not necessarily compatible, sets of expectations, associated with government priorities, initiatives focusing on children’s health, sport, and…
Surfing life
Mark Stranger’s first words of his book Surfing Life dedicate the work to his father saying ‘He started this whole thing with the sea for me’. Flicking through the book to get the flavour of ‘this thing with the sea’, I was struck by the appendices*one listing Australian surfing places I know*such as Torquay in Victoria and Lennox Heads in New South Wales and another listing people involved in his extensive empirical material that included a year…
Narrative inquiry in physical education research
At a recent international education conference, current life history and narrative research within Physical Education Teacher Education (PETE) was criticised for its seeming inability to ‘produce anything new’ and for lacking ‘rigour’. This paper aims to respond to the criticism and to reassert the strengths of narrative inquiry in the current moment. It maps out narrative and life history research (published in English) carried out in PETE, illu…
Sensory narratives
Narrative research has been employed by many researchers in the field of physical culture (including movement, play, dance, sport, leisure, physical pursuits, physical activity, physical education and health). From our storied worlds, narrative research reveals complex embodied and emplaced social phenomena within this field. However, there are still many questions about how we might begin to take more seriously the lived body, the phenomenologic…
Entering the field
Little is known about beginning teachers’ political positioning experiences of the staffroom. This paper employs Bourdieu's conceptual tools of field, habitus and capital to explore beginning health and physical education teachers’ positioning experiences and learning in staffrooms, the place in which teachers spend the majority of their non-teaching school time. From an Australian context, we present beginning (or emerging) teachers’ stories fro…
What a queer space is HPE, or is it yet? Queer theory, sexualities and pedagogy
Physical education, or HPE, is arguably a very queer space not only in the daily practices between students and teachers in schools but also in the broader field. This paper explores theoretical interactions with the HPE field in terms of the development and employment of queer theory, and links between associated sexualities and pedagogy research in HPE. I begin by (not) defining queer theory, its emergence and development. In short, I argue tha…
Schooling and sexualities
While there have been significant shifts in relation to schooling and sexualities over the last two decades, some conversations are remarkably reminiscent. This special issue of Sex Education aims to capture some of the shifts and gaps emerging in a trio of decennial collaborations\nheld in Australia, known as the Schooling and Sexualities Conferences. In this introduction, we describe the history of the conferences, the papers in this collection…
Keeping abreast of gendering practices in health and physical education and physical culture
At an embodied and personal level this paper plays with what Evans, J., & Davies, B. (2011. New directions, new questions? Social theory, education and embodiment. Sport, Education & Society, 16(3), 263–278) suggests are ‘the complexity and nuances of biology in culture and the influence of body pedagogies in the production of social inequalities and hierarchies.’ (p. 263). Despite extensive attention to gender order, sexualization, sexual subjec…
Coeducación y deportes colectivos. La participación de las alumnas en entredicho (Coeducation and team sports. Girls’ participation in question)
La llegada de la escolarizacin mixta ha puesto encima de la mesa los problemas para conseguir una coeducacin que atienda las necesidades de las alumnas. La Educacin Fsica, en este sentido, juega un papel determinante en la reproduccin o transformacin de los estereotipos de gnero. En su desarrollo prctico, los deportes colectivos son un contenido recurrente en las programaciones de aula de Educacin Fsica. Sin embargo, a pesar de su planteamiento m…
Towards a whole-school approach for sexuality education in supporting and upholding the rights and health of students with intersex variations
It is well documented that the most effective sexuality education programmes employ a whole-school learning approach. More specifically, when schools and their leaders and teachers embrace such an approach, they view student learning in the context of the whole experience of being at school – from the classroom, to the home and the partnerships schools form with the local community. In parallel to this, people born with intersex variations report…
Bluespace, Senses, Wellbeing, and Surfing
Bluespace, where water people immerse themselves for thrills, therapy, or thalassography, is constantly fluctuating, influenced by materials, nature, and discourse. Drawing on onto-epistemological aspects of embodied theory-method, we report entangled prototype 'cyborg' in situ strategies (mobile, sensory [auto]ethnography, and self-interview) to notice, record, and ultimately create human-water relations, from the perspective of a surfer. Audio/…
Intersex awareness and education
It is well-documented that schools fail to adequately engage with contemporary content about intersex awareness and education or inclusion of people with intersex variations. Where sexuality and relationships education are the remit of Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum in countries such as Australia, the learning area shows little obligation/response-ability towards the needs of students with intersex variations. It also fails to pay…
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia
This paper reports findings from five recent studies related to gender and sexuality in Australian sport. It offers a challenge to widespread claims that exclusionary practices such as homo/bi/transphobia have been reduced or eliminated within sport settings. We suggest there remains much to be done towards 'inclusion', and that the concept itself is perhaps an illusion. Drawing on 'diversity work' theory we suggest inclusion is yet to be fully r…
How is intersectionality being represented by Australian sports organisations? A content analysis
In the realm of critical social theory, the application of intersectionality is crucial for addressing social inequalities and advocating for social justice. Our research focuses on the growing integration of intersectionality in Australian sport systems, a development observed in government documents and sports organisations’ operational procedures. Despite this trend, challenges persist in effectively implementing intersectionality due to the c…
Normativity and oppression
This paper reports on the discrimination faced by transgender adults in Spain during their childhood, specifically in physical education (PE) classes, and compares it with cisgender students. An initial sample of 1,659 Spanish participants aged 18–74 was narrowed to 393, including transgender and cisgender individuals. Data were gathered via a LimeSurvey questionnaire distributed through LGBT Spanish associations and social media. Key variables i…
Educational Experiences and Outcomes of Students With Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics in Educational Settings
Current literature highlights the need for educational settings to be safe, inclusive, and affirming learning environments for learners with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSCs) to ensure optimal educational experiences and outcomes; however, the research metasynthesizing the existing limited research is lacking. This scoping review brings together existing literature and highlights recommended IVSC-inclusive interventions, support me…
The Experiences and Outcomes of Students with Innate Variations of Sex Characteristics in Health and Physical Education
Introduction Students with innate variations of sex characteristics (IVSC; also known as intersex variations) encounter significant challenges within health and physical education (HPE) in school settings negatively impacting their educational outcomes. The scarcity of comprehensive synthesis of existing empirical literature underscores the urgent need for focused inquiry to inform IVSC-inclusive HPE education policies, curricula, and practices. …
Sociology (18 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (11 works) · Pedagogy (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (7 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works)