Dr Sarah MacIsaac
Lecturer in Physical Education
- Moray House School of Education and Sport, ISPEHS
- University of Edinburgh
Contact details
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 6683
- Email: Sarah.MacIsaac@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, SL 4.28
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Undergraduate teaching
- Health and Wellbeing 2
- Health and Wellbeing 3: sociological and philosophical perspectives
- Physical Education 4B: Sociocultural
- Education Studies 4 Research
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Current PhD students supervised
Lisa Thomson - PE teachers' personal and professional experiences of eating disorders and supporting adolescents with eating disorders within the PE context (PhD commenced 2024)
Vincent Coleman - Trauma Aware Pedagogies (PhD commenced 2022)
Chenqi Wang - Health and body-related cultures and engagements with mobile apps among Chinese female students in UK universities (PhD Commenced 2020)
Graham Condie - Experiencing and living with cerebral palsy and finding meaning in recreation and disability sport (PhD commenced 2017).
Research summary
My main research interests lie within the sociology of health, the body and Physical Education. My current research explores young people's engagements with digital health technologies.
Research areas include:
- Healthism and ideal body discourses
- Social media, wearable devices, and the body
- Social power relations and the body
- Embodied identities
- Young people's experiences of, and engagement with, the Physical Education environment
- Ethnographic research methods
- Critical pedagogy
Current project grants
Una Europa funding - DigihealthPE project
The aim of this project is to co-develop and evaluate innovative pedagogical ideas relating to critical digital health in schools, and specifically in Physical Education (PE).
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Being an early-career teacher-researcher in physical education: A narrative inquiry
In:
Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/25742981.2021.1990779
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Young People's health-related engagements with/in digital spaces
(13 pages)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003003991
Research output: › Chapter (Published) -
Young women, health and physical activity: Tensions between the gendered fields of Physical Education and Instagram
In:
Sport, Education and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2021.1932455
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Investigating the development of masculine identities in physical education
In:
Sport, Education and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1654447
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Postfeminist biopedagogies of Instagram: young women learning about bodies, health and fitness
(15 pages)
In:
Sport, Education and Society, vol. 24, pp. 651-664
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2019.1613975
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
School Pupils Negotiating the Blurred Boundaries Between Online and Offline Social Contexts: Implications for Bodily Perceptions and Practices
Research output: › Paper (Published) -
‘She has like 4000 followers!’: The celebrification of self within school social networks
(20 pages)
In:
Journal of Youth Studies, vol. 21, pp. 816-835
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13676261.2017.1420764
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Inclusive and exclusive masculinities in physical education: A Scottish case study
In:
Sport, Education and Society, vol. 23, pp. 216-228
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2016.1167680
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
A comparative study of Canadian and Scottish students'' perspectives on health, the body and the physical education curriculum: The challenge of ‘doing’ critical
In:
Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, vol. 9, pp. 22-42
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/18377122.2017.1418179
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
'We are the selfie generation!': An ethnographic study of contemporary bodily culture within a Scottish school and physical education context
Research output: › Doctoral Thesis (Published) -
Teaching ‘Health’ in Physical Education in a ‘Healthy’ Way
(8 pages)
In:
RETOS: Nuevas tendenies en Educacion Fisica Deportes y Recreacion, vol. 28, pp. 165-172
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
‘I want to look like that’: healthism, the ideal body and physical education in a Scottish secondary school
(17 pages)
In:
Discourse, vol. 34, pp. 457-473
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01596306.2012.717196
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)