Projects per year
Personal profile
Biography
lisahunter (PhD, pronoun-it, non-identifying) has researched, taught and published in areas of pedagogy, diversity, movement, health, gender and sexuality, teacher education, physical culture and sport, and qualitative methodologies. Its research, consultations and evaluations have contributed to a broad range of programs and organisations in education, health, and sport and recreation. lisahunter's leadership style is reflected in building and supporting interdisciplinary research collaborations and facilitating the ongoing academic development of others. Strong elements of its work include creating research links with community and service/industry sectors, facilitating academic writing and publication, and accelerating early career academic trajectories. lisahunter has recently been developing experience in Indigenous knowledges and Creative Industries for their efficacy in critical analysis and social transformation.
Research interests
Pedagogy: formal, digital, informal, and public
Social and more-than-human practices and relationships
Sex/es, gender/s and sexuality/ies
Indigenous and ancient knowledges
Planetary health and wellbeing
First Nations - colonial settler relationships
Creative industries esp documentary
Health practices and relationships
Sensory methodologies
Multimodal research dissemination
Physical cultures: Health & Physical Education, sport, outdoor studies, leisure, recreation
Social positioning: exclusion, (mis)recognition, intersectionality
Moving meditation
Surfing history, culture, practices and people
Intersex, queer, lesbian, gender non binary, gender fluid, transgender
LGBTQIA+
Supervision interests
Students wishing to pursue research higher degree topics in any of my research interest areas are welcome to discuss their projects to determine advisory relationships.
Monash teaching commitment
Health Education
Masters supervision
PhD supervision
Consulting
Gender and sexuality policy and workplace practices
Gender and sexuality sports and recreation policy and practice
Middle schooling
Health & Physical Education curriculum, pedagogy and assessment
Workplace social health
Redundancy
Community service
Surf Lifesaving
Helicopter Rescue
Outdoor Education
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
- Pedagogy
- Health Education
- Indigenous knowledges
- Gender Studies
- Sexuality Education
- Sport, social inclusion, social policy, diversity
- Respect for First Nations
- Movement Education
- Sensory methodologies
- Narrative Inquiry
- Meditation Practices
- Teacher Education
- Embodiment
- Feminist theory
- Queer theory
- Ethnography
- Surf Studies
- Middle Schooling
- Participatory Action Research
- Sensory methods
- Social Justice
- Inclusion
- Surfing
- Narrative theory
- Field theory
- Bodies
- Self and society
- Wellbeing
- Outdoor research
- Documentary and pedagogy
- Critical Theory
- Health and Physical Education
- Digital Story Telling
- Non-indigenous
- Queer
- Bluespace
- Social Change
- Social space
- Participatory Activist Research
- Post-identity
- Reconciliation
- Planetary Health & Wellbeing
- LGBTIQ-inclusive education
- LGBTIQA+
- Colonialism
- equity, diversity and inclusion
- Anti-oppression
Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Mitho Miskawawin: Moving well together to enhance Indigenous girls sport and physical activity opportunities
Schaefer, L., Lassard, S., Storey, K., Ferguson, L., Torrance, B. & lisahunter, L.
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
25/03/22 → 24/03/25
Project: Research
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Research Evaluation: Raising Rarity School Program
Welch, R., Couper, R., Reid, A., Kidman, G. & lisahunter, L.
Royal Botanic Gardens Board (RBG) (trading as Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria)
15/05/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Uncharted waters: Bluespace connection initiatives for wellbeing, education and planetary health
lisahunter, L., Burke, G., Humberstone, B. & Sumartojo, S.
24/09/20 → 30/09/21
Project: Research
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Evaluation of a Pilot Radical Care Kit: Report for Sydney Children’s Hospitals Foundation by Monash Arts Creativity Education Faculty Research and Scholarship Group, Faculty of Education, Monash University
Ludecke, M., Burke, G., Crawford, R., Grimmett, H., lisahunter & Welch, R., 29 Feb 2024, Melbourne Vic Australia: Monash University. 102 p.Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned Report › Research
Open AccessFile -
Navigating queer spaces in Australian tertiary STEM education: a retrospective autoethnopoetic exploration
Kairns, P., lisahunter & Lambert, K., 2024, In: Ethnography and Education. 19, 2, p. 114-134 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
Negotiating ethical tensions alongside indigenous youth
Schaefer, L., Lessard, S., Ferguson, L., lisahunter, Storey, K., Wasyliw, D. & Torrance, B., 2024, Research with Children and Young People in Physical Education and Youth Sport. Chambers, F. C., Sandford, R., Hooper, O. & Schaefer, L. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon UK: Routledge, p. 164-181 18 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus) -
Intersex awareness and education: what part can health and physical education bodies of learning and teaching play?
lisahunter, Zavros-Orr, A., Brömdal, A., Hand, K. & Hart, B., 2023, In: Sport, Education and Society. 28, 9, p. 1047-1067 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
3 Citations (Scopus) -
Are we there yet? (Illusions of) Inclusion in sport for LGBT+ communities in Australia
Storr, R., Jeanes, R., Rossi, T. & lisahunter, Feb 2022, In: International Review for the Sociology of Sport. 57, 1, p. 92-111 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
29 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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Vice Chancellor's Excellence Award for Diversity and Inclusion 2021
lisahunter, lisahunter (Recipient), Lambert, Karen (Recipient), Jeanes, Ruth (Recipient), Alfrey, Laura (Recipient), O'Connor, Justen (Recipient) & Pringle, Richard (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Other distinction
Activities
- 1 Consultancy
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Motivation Project (trading as the Women’s Spirit Project) (External organisation)
lisahunter (Contributor), Elke Emerald (Contributor) & Ruth Jeanes (Contributor)
Feb 2023 → Feb 2024Activity: Industry, Government and Philanthropy Engagement and Partnerships › Consultancy
Press/Media
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What ‘straight sport’ can learn from the Gay Games
lisahunter lisahunter & Richard Pringle
13/11/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature
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Menstrual hygiene: Period poverty, and the undermining of gender equality and human rights for school students, Monash Lens, 28 May 2021
Robyn Mansfield, Naomi Francis, Becky Batagol, Heli Askola, Megan Adams, Tania Penovic & Lisa Hunter lisahunter
28/05/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Article/Feature