Dr Cara Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
Strathclyde Institute of 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
- (Re)-imagining health and wellbeing curriculum : transforming physical education through an Activist Approach for girls.
- Lamb Cara, Oliver Kimberly, Landi Dillon, Kirk David
- SERA Conference (2025)
- 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)
Teaching
PGDE
Member of PGDE Course Management Team
X3567 - Curriculum and Pedagogy Physical Education - Lead
X7460 - Professionl Skills; Professional Practice - Module Leader
X9574 - Professional Learning Through Enquiry - Tutor
X9573 - Education Studies, Professional Values - Marker
Undergraduate
X7450 - Professional Specialisation - Teaching PE in Primary Schools - Lead
X7453 - Dissertation - Supervisor
PGT / PGR
X3815 - Dissertation - Supervisor
PGR Doctoral Support Session and Supervisor
Research Interests
Social justice and inclusion in physical education
Activist approaches
Pedagogical models and models-based practice in physcial education
Teacher professional learning
Community-based learning
Professional Activities
- Structuring Your Dissertation
- Speaker
- 6/2026
- Engaged Scholarship: Adult Learning Hub - Royston Then and Now
- Recipient
- 15/1/2026
- Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2026
- Engaged Scholarship: Royston Children's Learning Hub
- Recipient
- 27/8/2025
- Engaged Scholarship: Adult Learning Hub - Early Years Learning Event for Royston Early Years Centre
- Recipient
- 19/8/2025
- The Activist Approach: A student-centred, inclusive approach to physical education
- Speaker
- 7/2025
Projects
- From PETE to practice: exploring the sustained use of pedagogical models in physical education
- Lamb, Cara (Principal Investigator) Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2026
- SoJustPE. Impact of a physical education program based on activist and participative methodologies in vulnerable youngsters’ wellbeing (physical, social and emotional) (JUSTpe)"
- Fernandez Rio, Javier (Principal Investigator) Lamb, Cara (Visiting Academic) NiChronin, Deirdre (Visiting Academic) Fletcher, Timothy (Visiting Academic)
- 06-Jan-2025
- 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)
Strathclyde Institute of Education
Email: cara.lamb@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8029