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Dr Kellie Burns

BSc(PhysEd)(St FX), MPhil(Dub), PhD(Otago)

Lecturer, Health Education and Professional Practice

Research Progress Manager – Division of Doctoral Studies

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9036 7880

Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

Building.Room: A35.

Research interests

Health and sport

  • History and sociology of sport

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

  • Gender relations and gender identity
  • Sexuality and sexual identity

Keywords

gender, sexuality, sexual citizenship, gender/sexuality and sport, sexualities education, pedagogies of health and wellbeing


Professional biography

Kellie joined the Faculty of Education and Social Work in 2009. Her PhD, awarded from the University of Otago, New Zealand, was a case study of the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. It explored the complex and often contradictory relationships between sport, sexualities, citizenship and the increasingly neoliberal mandates of large global sport and tourism events. Her research continues to focus on questions of sexuality and citizenship, focusing on the ways in which these concepts are mediated in popular and schooling contexts.


Awards

  • Faculty of Education and Social Work Teaching Excellence Award, 2010


Current projects

  • A qualitative study of school-based cervical cancer vaccination programs. With Dr. Kate Russell. Research grants awarded: Burns, K., & Russell, K (2010) Faculty Of Education and Social Work Program grant scheme ($20,372). Burns, K., Russell, K., Rail, G. & Fusco, C. (2012). A comparative study of school-based HPV/cervical cancer vaccination programs and HPV-related knowledge in Australia and Canada. International Program Development Fund, The University of Sydney ($6.000).
  • A critical exploration of the ways in which sexual citizenship is mediated across heritage and new media. With Cristyn Davies.
  • 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).

Selected publications

Book chapters

  • Burns, K. & Russell, K . (in press). Producing the self-managing female-citizen in a climate of ‘healthy’ living. In J. O'Dea (Ed.), Current issues and controversies in school and community health, sport and physical education New York: Nova Science Publishers..
  • Burns, K. & Davies, C. . (in press). Producing responsible girl citizens: An analysis of media discourses around the HPV vaccination programs. In Lopez, V., Katsulis, Y., Gillis, G. & Harper, K. (Ed.), Girls, Sexualities and the Media .
  • Davies, C & Burns, K . (in press). Imagining queer community in and beyond The L Word . In D. Heller (Ed.), Loving the L Word: Television Fans and Queer pleasures London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Burns, K. (2011). Lesbian mothers, two-headed monsters and the televisual machine. In K.H. Robinson & C. Davies (Ed.), Queer and subjugated knowledges: Generating subversive imaginaries (pp. 56–73), UAE: Bentham Books.
  • Burns, K . (2011). A critical history of the Gay Games movement. In S. Georgakis & K. Russell (Ed.), Youth sport in Australia (pp. 115–132), Sydney: The University of Sydney Press.
  • Burns, K. (2009). (re)Imagining the global, rethinking gender in education. In Dillabough, J, McLeod, J. & M. Mills (Ed.), Troubling gender and education (pp. 42–56), London: Routledge.
  • Burns, K. (2006). ‘Australian Centre for Gay and Lesbian Research’, ‘drag king’, ‘Federation of Gay Games’, ‘Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby (NSW)’, ‘Gay Games’, ‘intersex’, ‘Mardi Gras’, ‘pink dollar, ‘Sydney’ and ‘Tom Waddell’ . In Gerstner, D. (Ed.), Queer Culture: the Routledge Encyclopaedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Contemporary International Cultures London: Routledge.
  • Burns, K . (2005). Practicing queer theories: Queer image-based texts in the tertiary classroom . In Marsh, C. (Ed.), Curriculum Controversies: Point and Counterpoint 1980–2005 Deakin West, ACT: Australian Curriculum Studies Association.

Journal articles

  • Burns, K. (2012). Cosmopolitan sexual citizenship and the project of queer world-making at the Sydney 2002 Gay Games. Sexualities, 15(3).
  • Peralta, L. & Burns, K. (2012). First off the blocks: professional experience and learning for first- year preservice Physical and Health Education teachers. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 40(2), 127–141.
  • Burns, K., & Davies, C . (2009). Producing cosmopolitanism on The L Word. Journal of Lesbian Studies, 13(2), 174–188.
  • Burns, K . (2009). Book Review: Jayne Caudwell, Sport, sexualities and queer/theory. Sexualities, 12(6), 766–769.
  • Burns, K . (2008). (re)Imagining the global, rethinking gender in education. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 29(3), 343–357.
  • Burns, K. (2007). Giving voice, making change: How PFLAG resources can be useful classroom tools. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 4(2), 107–109.
  • Burns, K. (2006). Community meets classroom: Celebrating families and difference in the early stages of primary education. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Issues in Education, 3(2/3), 159–162.
  • Burns, K . (2005). Practicing queer theories: Queer image-based texts in the tertiary classroom. Curriculum Perspectives, 25(3), 65–68.
  • Burns, K . (2004). Review Essay: Haynes, F. & McKenna, T. Unseen genders: Beyond the binaries. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 25(4), 495–506.
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