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Dr Wayne Cotton

BEd(UOW), MEd(UOW), MCompStud(UOW), PhD(UOW), GradCertEdStud(Higher Education)(Sydney)

Lecturer, Human Movement and Health Education

Director, Study Abroad

Program Director, Human Movement and Health Education

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 6278

Fax: +61 2 9351 4580

Building.Room: A36.404

Research interests

Health and sport

  • Health promotion
  • Sports performance

Learning sciences; psychology of education

  • Learning technologies and new media

Keywords

experiential education, coaching, physical activity, ICT, learning designs, learning objects, web quests


Professional biography

Born in rural New Zealand, Wayne spent most of his youth exploring the mountains, hills and rivers of the central North Island.

After finishing school, he was ready for new challenges, so he crossed the Tasman, studied education and began his teaching career as outdoor education teacher at The Scots College’s Glengarry campus.

After five years Wayne moved to Victoria to take on the role of head of outdoor education at Geelong Grammar School’s Timbertop Campus.

Immediately prior to taking up his role with the faculty, Wayne was making a living from leading expeditions to remote locations around the globe and working as a consultant in the outdoor industry.


Awards

  • 2009: University of Wollongong Faculty of Education Highly Commended for PhD research and thesis.

  • 2008: The University of Sydney Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education) with Distinction.

  • 2004-2007: University Postgraduate Award


Current projects

  • The Girls in Sport program is an initiative of the Premier's Sporting Challenge. This longitudinal research project will be implemented over three years and commenced in October 2008. The aim of the project is to increase the moderate to vigorous physical activity levels of girls in Years 7-10 in selected NSW secondary schools. The longitudinal research project will test the effectiveness of a coordinated, multi component, school-community approach in addressing issues relating to the decline in participation in sport and physical activity of girls in the middle years. 12 intervention and 12 control school are taking part in the study. Funded by the NSWDET for $300,000
  • Bloomfield, D., Giles, R., Waugh, F., Cotton, W., Markauskaite, L. & Chambers, B. (2011) Developing a sustainable system of online evaluation for professional practice and fieldwork units of study across the Faculty. Funded by a Teaching Inquiry Grant (2011) for $10,000
  • Peralta, L., O'Connor, D., Cotton, W., Bennie, A. & Burns, K. (2012). Increasing Indigenous students in higher education: Is participation in sport associated with academic achievement and higher education aspirations among Indigenous students? Funded by a University of Sydney Widening Participation Grant (2011)($20,900).
  • Peralta, L.R., O'Connor, D., Cotton, W., Evans, J., & Bennie, A. (2012). Partnerships with local Indigenous community agencies: Do service learning opportunities enhance sociocultural understanding and competence of Human Movement Health Education preservice teachers. Funded by a University of Sydney Strategic Teaching Enhancement Project (STEPs) grant for $25,867
  • Peralta, L.R., Cotton, W., Evans, J., O'Connor, D., & Bennie. A. (2011). The acceptability and potential efficacy of a community and school sport-based program designed to enhance Indigenous adolescents’ physical activity levels and life skills. Externally funded through The University of Sydney Centre of Obesity, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Disease for $5,000
  • Community junior sport coaching. O'Connor, D. & Cotton, W. (2009-2010). Funded by NSW communities in partnership with Australian Sports Commission, NSW Rugby League and Australian Rugby Union ($84,500).

Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
TBA (Associate supervisor) MPhil Paul Bentvelzen
'Pathways to Olympic success' PhD Kristy O'Neill
The acceptability and potential efficacy of a community and school sport program designed to enhance Indigenous adolescents’ physical activity levels and life skills. MEd (Research) Benjamin Bowen

Selected publications

Book chapters

Journal articles

  • Dudley, D., Okely, A. D., Cotton, W., Pearson, P., & Caputi, P. (2011). Physical activity levels and movement skill instruction in secondary school physical education. J Sci Med Sport (2011), doi:10.1016/j.jsams.2011.10.005. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport.
  • Dudley, D., Okely, A. D., Pearson, P., & Cotton, W. (2011). A systematic review of the effectiveness of physical education and school sport interventions targeting physical activity, movement skills and enjoyment of physical activity.. European Physical Education Review, 17, 353–378.
  • Lubans, D. R., Okely, A. D., Morgan, P. J., Cotton, W., Puglisi, L., & Miller, J. (2011). Description and evaluation of a social cognitive model of physical activity behaviour tailored for adolescent girls. Health Education Research.. Health Education Research.
  • Okely, A., Cotton, W., Lubans, D., Morgan, P. J., Puglisi, L., Miller, J., Wright, J., Batterham, M. J., Peralta, L. & Perry, J. (2011). A school-based intervention to promote physical activity among adolescent girls: Rationale, design, and baseline data from the Girls in Sport group randomised controlled trial. BMC Public Health, 11, 658–668. DOI:10.1186/1471-2458-11-658
  • Brymer, E., Gray, T. & Cotton, W. (2011). Outdoor experiential training as a medium for the development of today’s leaders. The Journal of Spirituality, Leadership and Management , 5(1), 58–66.
  • Brymer, E., Gray, T., Cotton, W. & Carpenter, C. (2010). Profiling outdoor leadership. Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 2(1), 93–108.

Conference papers

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