Rosie Welch

Rosie is a Lecturer in health education. Her work has explored the formations of biography, popular culture, curriculum, social media and places of learning in teachers' and young peoples' meanings of health, the body, food and wellbeing. 

Rosie brings a socio-critical perspective to enactments of school health and physical education in response to the current climate of childhood health imperatives and health inequalities. Current work includes a particular interest in interdisciplinary approaches and intersections of social media, health education with food and nutrition, design, media and the arts.

Prior to joining Monash Rosie's work included teaching and research in health education, youth transitions, social geography, sexuality education and educational sociology at the University of Wollongong and Sydney University. Rosie was also a secondary teacher and primary HPE specialist in schools and taught yoga and creative movement in youth and community settings as well as held cultural and social planning roles in local government.

Research areas:

• Health Education teacher education
• Food studies in education
• Sociology of health and the body
• Curriculum and pedagogy
• Social media practices and pedagogies
• Post-structural and socio-material theory

Rosie is a member of the Learning with New Media (LNM) Research Group. 

 Related Links:

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• Google Scholar profile

• EDF5036 - Art, Design and Wellbeing in the Primary School
• EDF3173 - Food, Health and Wellbeing
• EDF5035 - Health and Physical Education in the Primary School
• EDF2210 - Child and Adolescent Development
• EDF4024 - Health and Physical Education for Wellbeing in the Primary Curriculum
• EDF4268 - Health and Physical Education