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Dr Kate Russell

BSc(Hons)(Lanc), SEDA(Coventry), PhD(Coventry), PGCert(Open(UK)), GradCertEdStud(HigherEducation)(Sydney)

Senior Lecturer, Human Movement and Health Education

Program Director Human Movement and Health Education

Email:

Phone: +61 2 9351 7056

Fax: +61 2 9351 2606

Building.Room: A36.310

Research interests

Health and sport

  • Body image and identity

Social structures, inequalities and social justice

  • Gender relations and gender identity
  • Sexuality and sexual identity

Keywords

Gender, body image, sexuality, sport, identity


Professional biography

Kate completed her PhD in 2002, investigating the development of body satisfaction and identity among women who play rugby, cricket and netball,  and the role that context has in its formation.

Subsequently, Kate was awarded a Fellowship of Social Sciences from the NZ–UK Link Foundation (2003), to spend six weeks in New Zealand collecting similar data.

More recently, Kate's research has focused on the development of perceptions of physical attractiveness among young children, and the role of physical education in the development of positive and negative body images.

Kate is also involved in child-protection issues in sport and in evaluating policy implementation in this area. She is an accredited sport and exercise scientist, with the British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, and a chartered psychologist within the British Psychological Society's Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology.

As an instructor, Kate has had extensive experience in delivering motivational-interviewing training to a variety of health professionals and is a member of the International Network of Trainers.

Kate has previously worked at the universities of Gloucestershire and Coventry in the UK, delivering a variety of health, exercise and sport related topics.


Awards

  • Faculty of Education and Social Work Teaching Excellence Award 2008


Professional and community roles

  • Chartered Sport and Exercise Psychologist (C.Psychol), British Psychological Society

  • Member of the International Network of Trainers for Motivational Interviewing 


Current projects

  • International Best Practice for Out of School Services and Activities for 9-12 year old children: A Literature Review Report (2009). Working with Dr Dorothy Bottrell.
  • Teachers’ perception of the culture of Physical Education in Primary schools. Working with a local Sydney Public School on a professional development project to enhance the delivery of Physical Education in a Primary School setting. With Dr Donna O'Connor and Dr Wayne Cotton 2009-2010
  • The use of digital recordings to give verbal feedback in a tertiary education environment. This project explores the perceived value of receiving verbal feedback via digital recordings for students in an UG pre-service teacher education program. With Dr Wayne Cotton, Dr Donna O'Connor, Dr Kellie Burns, Louisa Peralta and Andrew Bennie 2009-2010.
  • A qualitative study of school-based cervical cancer vaccination programs. This study investigates the role schools play in the national funded cervical cancer (Gardasil) vaccination program. Secondary schools are one of the key organisational and administrative sites for the program, with all girls aged 12-18 being voluntarily vaccinated at school. Conducting intensive case studies of two metropolitan secondary schools in NSW, this research explores the types of knowledge girls/young women, their teachers and their parents are receiving about cervical cancer, and more broadly about young women’s sexual and reproductive health. With Dr Kellie Burns 2009-2010.
  • The importance of Physical Education in the primary school: A parent’s perspective. The study investigates parent’s current understanding of their child’s Physical Education (PE) program in a Primary school setting. The project focuses on uncovering parental perceptions on PE as delivered in their child's primary school setting.
  • Investigating pre-service female Personal Development Health & Physical Education teachers’ understanding of femininity and how this may influence their delivery of Physical Education in their classrooms.

Current research students

Project title Degree Research student
A phenomenological study of anti-homophobia practices in schools. PhD Victoria Rawlings

Selected publications

Books

Book chapters

  • Russell. K. M. (2007). Disability and football. In c. Brackenridge, A. Pitchford., K. M. Russell & G. Nutt (Ed.), Child welfare and football: An exploration of children's welfare in the modern game (pp. 148–156), london: routledge.
  • Russell, K. (2007). Disability football and vulnerable people. In Brackenridge, C., Pitchford, A., Russell, K. M. & Nutt, G (Ed.), Child Welfare in Football: An Exploration of Children's Welfare in the Modern Game (Vol. 1, pp. 148–156), Oxon, England: Routledge.
  • Russell, K. (2007). The women’s game. In Brackenridge, C., Pitchford, A., Russell, K. M. & Nutt, G (Ed.), Child Welfare in Football: An Exploration of Children's Welfare in the Modern Game (Vol. 1, pp. 157–169), Oxon, England: Routledge.
  • Russell. K. M. (2007). Gender and Sport: Promoting/preventing health in our schools. In J. Merchant, B. Griffin, and A. Charnock (Eds.), Sport and physical activity: The role of health promotion (pp. 186–202), Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Russell, K. (2007). Gender and Sport: Promoting/preventing health in our schools. In Merchant J, Griffin B, Charnock A (Ed.), Sport and Physical Activity. The Role of Health Promotion (Vol. 1, pp. 186–202), New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
  • Russell, K. (2007). ‘Queers, even in netball?’: Positive and negative interpretations of the lesbian label among sportswomen. In C. Aitchison (Ed.), Sport and gender identities: Masculinities, femininities and sexualities (Vol. 1, pp. 106–121), Abingdon, UK: Routledge (UK).
  • Russell. K. M. (2007). ‘Queers, even in netball?’: Positive and negative interpretations of the lesbian label among sportswomen. In . Aitchison (Ed.), Sport and gender identities: Masculinities, femininities and sexualities (pp. 106–121), London: Routledge.
  • Russell. K. M. (2007). The women’s game. In C. Brackenridge, A. Pitchford., K. M. Russell & G. Nutt (Ed.), Child Welfare and Football: An exploration of children’s welfare in the modern game. (pp. 157–169), London: Routledge.

Journal articles

  • Brackenridge, C., Pawlaczek, Z., Bringer, J. D., Cockburn, C., Nutt, G., Pitchford, A., and Russell, K. M. . (2005). Measuring the impact of child protection through Activation States. Sport, Education and Society, 10(2), 239–256.
  • Brackenridge, C, Pawlaczek, Z, Bringer, J, Cockburn, C, Nutt, G, Pitchford, A, Russell, K. (2005). Measuring the impact of child protection through Activation States. Sport Education and Society, 10(2), 239–256.
  • Russell, K. M. . (2004). On vs Off the pitch: The transiency of body satisfaction among female rugby players, cricketers, and netballers. Sex Roles, 51, 561–574.
  • Pitchford, A., Brackenridge, C., Bringer, J. D, Cockburn, C., Nutt, G., Pawlaczek, Z., and Russell, K. M. . (2004). Children in Football: Seen but not heard. Soccer and Society, 5(1), 43–60.
  • Brackenridge, C., Bringer, J., Cockburn, C., Nutt, G., Pitchford, A., Russell, K. M., and Pawlaczek, Z. . (2004). The Football Association’s Child Protection Research Project 2002-2006: Rationale, Design and First Year Results. Managing leisure: An International journal, 9, 30–46.

Conference papers

  • Russell. K. M. (2002). Perceptions of femininity and the lesbian label: Positive and negative interpretations. . In Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, 2002 Conference proceedings (pp. 109–109). Tucson, Arizona, 30 Oct - 3 Nov 2002.
  • Russell, K. M. . (2001). The impact on self-identity: female participation in cricket. In Journal of Sport Sciences British Association of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Conference communications (19pp. 86–87). Liverpool, 29 Aug - 1 Sept 2000.
  • Russell, K. M. . (2000). Body on the line’: The impact of women’s participation in rugby. In Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology Association for the Advancement of Applied Sport Psychology, 2000 Conference proceedings (pp. 54–55). Nashville, Tennessee, 18 - 22 Oct 2000.

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