Staff Profile
Dr . lisahunter
Position: Senior Research Officer
Phone: 3365 5547
Fax: +61 7 3365 6699
Email: lisahunter@uq.edu.au
Location: 410
Building: Public Health Building
Centre or Group: Nutrition Unit
Biography:
Dr lisahunter is currently employed across three projects within the faculty. Her .4 appointment in the School of Population Health is in research for the HPQ funded 'Eat Well Be Active' Evaluation. Her .3 and .2 appointment in the School of Human Movement Studies is in research for the 'Teacher Professional Development: Becoming a teacher in secondary HPE' ARC funded project and the 'Active Kids Active Minds' project funded through DETA. lisahunter draws from several theoretical areas including feminist, critical and queer theories to understand the construction of young people, particularly in relation to embodiment, subjectivities, movement, health and physical activity. Ongoing research and service interests in middle schooling, research methods with young people, primary-secondary school transition and boarding sports are reflected in her participation and initiation of research symposiums and publications. Her previous work prior to taking up contract work with the faculty was in middle years teacher education, and preservice health and physical education teacher education across a number of universities. She worked as a teacher in secondary and primary schools in Qld, England and Scotland prior to returning to university for doctoral work. She flies with the Sunshine Coast Helicopter Rescue Service as a Rescue Crew and plays with a surfboard or snowboard whenever the possibility arises.Qualifications:
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Doctor of Philosophy (2002)
The University of Queensland
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Master of Education (1995)
Deakin University
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Bachelor of Arts (1990)
The University of Queensland
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Graduate Diploma in Teaching (1984)
Queensland University of Technology
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Bachelor of Human Movement Studies (1983)
The University of Queensland
Research Interests:
- Health Behaviour Interventions
- Physical Activity
- Social Determinants of Health
- Sociology
- Women's Health
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- lisahunter. Should kids be seen and not heard?: asking where are the students in HPE curriculum. In: Dinan-Thompson MT, editor. Health and physical education and curriculum study: contemporary issues in Australia and New Zealand. Oxford. Oxford University Press; ;
- Rossi T, Tinning R, McCuaig L, Sirna K, lisahunter. With the best of intentions: A Critical Discourse Analysis of physical education curriculum materials. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education. 2009; 28(1):75-89.
- Marks G, lisahunter, Ziviani J, Macdonald D, Abbott R. Community Nutrition & Physical Activity promotion (NPAP) - Mapping actors & relationships in a major urban centre. In: Population Health Congress; 2008, July Brisbane.
- Tuovinen J, Aspland T, Allen B, Crosswell L, lisahunter. Advantage through structured flexibility: Operations of Schooling Review. Brisbane: Eidos. Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts; ;
- Tuovinen J, Aspland T, Allen B, Crosswell L, lisahunter, (2008) Advantage through structured flexibility: Operations of Schooling Review prepared for Queensland Department of Education Training and the Arts January 2008 Brisbane: Eidos. Advantage through structured flexibility: Operations of Schooling Review. Brisbane. Queensland Department of Education, Training and the Arts; January;
- Rossi T, Tinning R, Macdonald D, lisahunter. Initial Teacher Education, Professional Learning and the Culture of the Secondary School Subject Department: The Case of Health and Physical Education. In: Australian Association of Research in Education; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4 Brisbane, Australia.
- lisahunter. Young people, research, and education: intersection tensions. In: Australian Association of Research in Education Brisbane; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4
- lisahunter. Symposium: Advancing the research climate for a sustainable future in middle years education. In: Australian Association of Research in Education Brisbane; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4
- lisahunter. Positioning young people in/with/for/of research. In: Australian Association of Research in Education Brisbane; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4
- lisahunter. The cows are grazing: Chewing the cud in the field of middle years of schooling in Australia. In: Australian Association of Research in Education Brisbane; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4
- lisahunter. Classpace not classrooms: room for fluid spaces or stagnant places for young people and learning. In: Australian Association of Research in Education Brisbane; 2008 Nov 30-Dec 4
- lisahunter. Teachers embodying middle schooling and the middle years of schooling. In: Australian Teacher Education Association Conference; 2008 July 8-11 Twin Waters, Mudjimba.
- lisahunter. Symposium. Machinations in middle years teacher education research: working up an agenda. In: Australian Teacher Education Association Conference; 2008 July 8-11 Twin Waters, Mudjimba.
- lisahunter, Austin H. Pedagogy of the surfing magazine. In: Learning to be female, Hawaii International Conference on Social Sciences; 2008 28-31 May Waikiki, Hawaii.
- lisahunter, Austin H. Re-imag(in)ing surfers: learning to be female. In: Association Internationale des Ecoles Superieures d'Education Physique (International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education); 2008 21-24 January Sapporo, Japan.
- Stevens L P, lisahunter, Pendergast D, Carrington V, Bahr N, Mitchell J, et al. ReConceptualizing adolescence: Deconstruction and reconstruction. Australian Educational Researcher. 2007; 33(3):107-28.
- Stevens LP, Hunter L, Pendergast D, Carrington V, Bahr N, Kapitzke C, et al. ReConceptualizing the possible narratives of adolescence. Australian Educational Researcher. 2007; 34(2):107-127. View Publication
- Macdonald D, Hunter L, Tinning R. Curriculum construction: A critical analysis of rich tasks in the recontextualisation field. Australian Journal of Education. 2007; 51(2):112-128. View Publication
- lisahunter, . Machinations in the middle. Special edition - middle years of schooling. The Australian Educational Researcher. 2007; 34(2):1-6..
- Tinning R, McCuaig L, lisahunter. Teaching physical education in Australian schools. Frenchs Forest. Pearson Education Australia; ;
