Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
Karen is a Senior Lecturer of Health and Physical Education in the Faculty of Education on Monash Peninsula campus. Her research interests lie in gender, sexuality, place, health education, and teaching pedagogies. She gained her PhD from the University of Wollongong in 2006 via an exploration of the ways in which sexual identity and place may be considered mutually constitutive.
Karen is an experienced health and physical education teacher, lecturer and professional presenter having held teaching positions at the University of Sydney, Ottawa University and University of Western Sydney. She has established a strong professional profile in Australia by exploring the ways in which pedagogical change associated with the Australian Curriculum is being taken on board and implemented at all levels of teaching. As a keen pedagogist, environmentalist and creative thinker Karen is eager to explore the ways in which health, bodies and movement education can be sustainable, equitable and socially just.
Research interests
Karen's research interests lie in:
- gender and sexualities studies
- place and sense of place
- qualitative research methods
- poetic forms of representation
- critical theory
- youth health
- mental halth and wellbeing
- embodiment, embodied pedagogies and embodied learning
- HPE and sport
- HPE curriculum policy
- HPE teaching pedagogies
Karen identifies as a queer poststructural feminist theorist and critical pedagogist. Drawing on concepts from policy enactment, feminist geographies and embodied pedagogies she seeks to interrogate hegemonic practices and policies in health, physical education, and sport that discriminate based on gender and/or sexuality. Her work answers big questions like, ‘why does Health and Physical Education (HPE) and sport continue to be a space for the reproduction of discourses of hegemonic masculinity, social exclusion and inequality?’ and ‘how can I challenge the exclusions in HPE and sport through my research and pedagogical innovation?' Through this work Karen promotes herself, her colleagues and the Faculty as Victoria’s leading team for gender and sexuality based sports research that aligns with the Faculty research agenda to enhance health and wellbeing, and educate for diversity and inclusion, and with Focus Monash (2015: 7) mission to ‘meet the (health) challenges of the age’.
Monash teaching commitment
EDF2075 Planning, tecahing and learniing in health and physical education
EDF3091 Health, wellbeing and sustainability in global contexts
EDF3092 Contemporray youth health issues
EDF4096 Senior secondary health education
Community service
Karen is a keen and active volunteer for animals, vegetables and disadvantaged youth. She is currently an SES volunteer in Victoria. Past volunteering experiences in 2008 and 2010 include:
- Botshobelo school and orphange (South Africa)
- Merazonia animal refuge (Equador)
- IntiWari Yasi animal refuge (Bolivia)
- Travellers not Tourists school (Peru)
- WWOOFER (Hawaii, Spain)
- Jhongli English Village (Taiwan)
- Elephant Nature Park (Thailand)
Consulting
Association of Independent Schools NSW (2014, 2018)
Hudson International (2014)
Teacher Training Australia (2013-2015)
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research area keywords
- gender
- sexuality/LGBTIQ
- queer theory
- poetic representation
- Curriculum and Pedagogy
- poststructural feminist theory
- pedagogies in HPE
- gender/sexuality and sport
- embodied pedagogies
- place
- qualitative research methods
- Health and Physical Education
- equity, diversity and inclusion
- mental health and resilience
Network
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Tackle Your Feelings Program Evaluation
O'Connor, J., Jeanes, R., Grove, C. & Lambert, K.
19/03/21 → 31/10/23
Project: Research
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Mental Wellbeing in Sport Evaluation
O'Connor, J., Jeanes, R., Grove, C. & Lambert, K.
4/12/20 → 25/03/22
Project: Research
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Mental Wellbeing in Community Sports Club - Healthway
O'Connor, J., Jeanes, R., Lambert, K. & Grove, C.
30/06/20 → 30/08/20
Project: Research
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Rapid Review: Mental Wellbeing in Community Sports Clubs
O'Connor, J., Jeanes, R., Lambert, K. & Grove, C.
26/05/20 → 31/07/20
Project: Research
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An evaluation of a mental health literacy program for community sport leaders
O'Connor, J., Grove, C., Jeanes, R., Lambert, K. & Bevan, N., Mar 2023, In: Mental Health & Prevention. 29, 8 p., 200259.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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The experiences of psychologists working with transgender young people in school counselling: an Australian sample
Mackie, G., Lambert, K. & Patlamazoglou, L., 2023, In: Counselling Psychology Quarterly. 36, 1, 24 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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What would bell hooks think of the remote teaching and learning in Physical Education during the COVID-19 pandemic? A critical review of the literature
Lambert, K., Hudson, C. & Luguetti, C., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Sport, Education and Society. 17 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › Research › peer-review
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Examining Pride Cups as a health promotion resource to address homophobia in Australian men's sport
O'Connor, J. P., Jeanes, R., Denison, E., Lambert, K. & Bevan, N., Oct 2022, In: Health Promotion International. 37, 5, 11 p., daac093.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Feminists against fad, fizz ed: a poetic commentary exploring the notion of Joe Wicks as physical education
Lambert, K., Luguetti, C. & Lynch, S., 2022, In: Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 22, 6, p. 559-577 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
4 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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2022 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Social and Economic Impact
Jeanes, Ruth (Recipient), O'Connor, Justen (Recipient), Lambert, Karen (Recipient), Denison, Erik (Recipient) & Bevan, Nadia (Recipient), Dec 2022
Prize: Other distinction
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Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion 2021
lisahunter, Lisa (Recipient), Lambert, Karen (Recipient), Jeanes, Ruth (Recipient), Alfrey, Laura (Recipient), O'Connor, Justen (Recipient) & Pringle, Richard (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
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How to find poems in prose
Karen Lambert (Contributor)
2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Progressing the five propositions in HPE – changing practice
Karen Lambert (Contributor)
2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Valuing movement: a case study of the pedagogical potential of embodied learning in physical education
Karen Lambert (Contributor) & Justen O'Connor (Contributor)
2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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‘What does this look like in my classroom?': the role of artefacts in HPE curriculum policy reform
Karen Lambert (Contributor) & Justen O'Connor (Contributor)
2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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The five propositions, what they mean and how they work
Karen Ann Lambert (Contributor) & Justen O'Connor (Contributor)
30 May 2018Activity: Community Talks, Presentations, Exhibitions and Events › Public event
Press/Media
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Universities must do more to support LGBTIQ+ visibility and belonging
Karen Lambert, Lefteris Patlamazoglou & Asher Cameron
11/07/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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Feeling the heat: For an under-fire CFA, the problem is patriarchy
9/04/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Pride Cup tackles homophobia in sport, but discriminatory language is still foul
Ruth Jeanes, Justen O'Connor & Karen Lambert
7/08/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature