Dr Cara Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
Education
Personal statement
I first joined the university in 2015 on a 2-year secondment and have returned permanently in 2020 as a Teaching Fellow in Physical Education. As well as the coordinator for the PGDE Physical Education course, I am also the module leader for Professional Practice and Curriculum & Pedagogy for all Secondary PGDE and Teaching Degrees. My main areas of interest are in applying evidence-based approaches to teaching physical education, specifically models-based practice. Prior to joining the university I was a physical education teacher in Glasgow schools for 15 years. I also held extended principal teacher posts at both curricular and pastoral level. My doctoral studies were completed in 2024. My thesis is entitled: Becoming - activist : the journeys of two teachers in their enactment of an activist approach in girls’ physical education. My work is qualitative in nature within the critical transformative paradigm and aims to work with participants to challenge conventional narratives, focusing on gender issues in physical education. I have further interests in teacher professional learning, innovation in curriculum and pedagogy and gender studies. I supervise at undergraduate and Masters' level. Currently, I am co-supervising doctoral studies which are looking at enacting an Activist Approach for girls physical education in both China and Pakistan.
Publications
- Becoming-Activist : The Journeys of Two Teachers in their Enactment of any Activist Approach in Girls' Physical Education
- Lamb Cara
- (2024)
- Lessons learned about school-based teacher professional learning in the context of becoming-activist
- Lamb Cara, Landi Dillon, Kirk David, Oliver Kimberly
- Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) Conference 2024 (2024)
- Becoming-activist : a teacher's journey of engaging with the activist approach in school-based physical education
- Lamb Cara, Landi Dillon, Oliver Kimberly L, Kirk David
- ECER 2023 (2023)
- Pupils' motivational and emotional responses to pedagogies of affect in physical education in Scottish secondary schools
- Lamb Cara A, Teraoka Eishin, Oliver Kimberly L, Kirk David
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Vol 18 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18105183
- Exploring and developing pedagogies of affect in Scottish secondary schools
- Lamb Cara, Kirk David, Teraoka Eishin
- Reconnecting EERA (2020)
- Redesigning physical education in Scotland
- Kirk David, Bardid Farid, Lamb Cara, Millar John, Teraoka Eishin
- Redesigning Physical Education An Equity Agenda in Which Every Child Matters (2018) (2018)
Professional Activities
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 2022
- European Physical Education Review (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2022
- Sport, Education and Society (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Chair
- 1/9/2020
- SERA Network - Health and Wellbeing Research in Education (External organisation)
- Member
- 2018
Projects
- Analysing Data in Qualitative Inquiry: From Analysing to Writing Up your Research
- Sims, Rebekah (Principal Investigator) Landi, Dillon (Co-investigator) Lamb, Cara (Post Grad Student)
- This six-session, interactive seminar focusses on qualitative data analysis approaches. We take a hands-on approach to developing qualitative data analysis skills for doctoral students. Our seminar is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Social Sciences and the Scottish Graduate School for the Arts & Humanities
Our learning objectives are:
1. To develop participants’ abilities to understand and discuss the goals, strengths and weaknesses of theoretical frameworks and research methods.
2. To increase participant familiarity with a variety of approaches, methods and analysis tools that are referred to as qualitative.
3. To learn how to write up a data analysis and results section to a qualitative research report. - 17-Jan-2022 - 21-Jan-2022
Contact
Dr
Cara
Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
Education
Email: cara.lamb@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8029