Mrs Cara Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
Education
Personal statement
I first joined the university in 2015 on a 2-year secondment and have recently (March 2020) returned permanently as a Teaching Fellow in the School of Education. I lead the PGDE Secondary Physical Education course and teach on all aspects of the PGDE course. My main areas of interest are in embedding evidence-based approaches in 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. I am currently in the 'writing up' stage of my PhD. My study is entitled 'Exploring how teachers implement a pedagogy of affect (an activist approach) to teach adolescent girls in physical education'. Using both grounded and activist theories, my work is qualitative in nature and aims to work with participants to challenge conventional narratives. I have further interests in teacher professional learning, innovation in curriculum and pedagogy and gender studies.
Publications
- 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)
- Redesigning physical education in Scotland
- Kirk David, Bardid Farid, Lamb Cara, Millar John, Teraoka Eishin
- Redesigning Physical Education An Equity Agenda in Which Every Child Matters (2018) (2018)
- Balancing prescription with teacher and pupil agency : spaces for manoeuvre within a pedagogical model for working with adolescent girls
- Kirk D, Lamb C A, Oliver K L, Ewing-Day R, Fleming C, Loch A, Smedley V
- Curriculum Journal Vol 29, pp. 219-237 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09585176.2018.1449424
- 'Go for it Girl' adolescent girls’ responses to the implementation of an activist approach in a core physical education programme
- Lamb Cara, Oliver Kimberly, Kirk David
- Sport, Education and Society, pp. 1-13 (2018)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2018.1484724
Professional Activities
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Member
- 2022
- European Physical Education Review (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2022
- Sport, Education and Society (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (Journal)
- Peer reviewer
- 2021
- Education (Organisational unit)
- Chair
- 1/9/2020
- SERA Network - Health and Wellbeing Research in Education (External organisation)
- Member
- 2018
Projects
- 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
Mrs
Cara
Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
Education
Email: cara.lamb@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8187