Professor David Kirk
Education
Personal statement
I am currently Professor of Education and former Head of the School of Education (2014-17) at the University of Strathclyde. I am an educational researcher with teaching and research interests in educational innovation, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy. I am founding editor of the peer reviewed journal Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Routledge) and editor of Routledge Studies in Physical Education and Youth Sport. I have held academic appointments previously in universities in England, Australia, Ireland and Belgium and am currently Honorary Professor of Human Movement Studies at the University of Queensland. My most recent single-authored book Precarity, Critical Pedagogy and Physical Education was published by Routledge in 2020. My most recent co-authored book with Professor Ash Casey, Applying Models-based Practice in Physical Education, was published by Routledge in 2024.
Area of Expertise
- Curriculum historian
- Qualitative researcher
- Curriculum designer
- School-based intervention designer
- Physical education teacher educator
Prize And Awards
- Best Paper Award by the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group in Research on Instruction and Learning in Physical Education 2017
- Recipient
- 27/4/2017
- Fritz Duras Memorial Lecture
- Recipient
- 22/11/2013
- International Fellow
- Recipient
- 1/9/2012
- Fellow
- Recipient
- 1/7/2010
- Fellow
- Recipient
- 1/7/2005
Publications
- Psychometric validation of the tactical assessment instrument in football for use in physical education and with youth sport teams
- Barquero-Ruiz Carmen, Kirk David, Meroño Lourdes, Arias-Estero José L
- Perceptual and Motor Skills Vol 131, pp. 589-611 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00315125231225579
- "We could perform much better if we had specific training for girls" : impacts of the embodiment of tradition for elite-level karateka women
- Turelli Fabiana, Kirk David, Fernandez Vaz Alexandre
- Retos Vol 55, pp. 47-56 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.47197/retos.v55.102364
- If 'the medium is the message', what do students learn to do in NLP and GBAs within physical education?
- Barquero-Ruiz Carmen, Kirk David
- Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education Vol 15, pp. 40-57 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/25742981.2023.2216188
- deportigualízate : enacting critical intersectional feminist pedagogy in Spanish PESTE
- Castro-García Marina, Landi Dillon, Kirk David
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/17408989.2023.2284927
- Critical reflexivity and positionality on the scholar–practitioner continuum : researching women’s embodied subjectivities in sport
- Turelli Fabiana Cristina, Vaz Alexandre Fernandez, Kirk David
- Sports Vol 11 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/sports11100206
- 'I've always fought a little against the tide to get where I want to be'-construction of women's embodied subjectivity in the contested terrain of high-level karate
- Turelli Fabiana Cristina, Vaz Alexandre Fernandez, Kirk David
- Social Sciences Vol 12 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100538
Teaching
- Physical education and sport pedagogy
- Curriculum change, including curriculum history
- Curriculum design
Research Interests
Professor Kirk has research interests in curriculum innovation and change, curriculum history, and physical education and sport pedagogy.
Professional Activities
- L’utilisation des méthodes mixtes dans un paradigme socio-constructiviste de recherche en éducation physique et pédagogie du sport
- Speaker
- 25/2/2020
- Promouvoir une éducation physique de qualité en intégrant la théorie de l'activité: inviter l'élève à devenir agent de son apprentissage au 21 ème siècle
- Contributor
- 25/2/2020
- SERA Network - Health and Wellbeing Research in Education (External organisation)
- Member
- 2018
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Journal)
- Editor
- 1/7/2004
Projects
- Literacies for Health and Life Skills
- Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
- Literacies for Health and Life Skills
- Kirk, David (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 31-Jan-2023
- Female Sports Fandom in the North East: A Historical study of Female Fandom & the Critical Intersections Between Sports Spectatorship and Participation (Mentor for Stacey Pope)
- Kirk, David (Principal Investigator)
- Female Sports Fandom in the North East: A Historical study of Female Fandom & the Critical Intersections Between Sports Spectatorship and Participation (Mentor for Stacey Pope)
- 31-Jan-2016 - 28-Jan-2021
- Autism Network Scotland - Scottish Strategy for Scotland administration of National Governance Group, consultation forum and sub group activity and coordination activity
- Christie, Donald (Co-investigator) Hanley, Emma Mairi (Co-investigator) Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
- 15-Jan-2014 - 31-Jan-2021