Dr Cara Lamb
Teaching Fellow - P.E (Secondary)
海角论坛 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鈥� 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
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- International Perspectives on Physical Education (2026) (2026)
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- International Perspectives on Physical Education (2026) (2026)
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- (2026)
- , Oliver Kimberly, Landi Dillon,
- SERA Conference (2025)
- (2024)
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- Scottish Educational Research Association (SERA) Conference 2024 (2024)
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
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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
- Speaker
- 6/2026
- Recipient
- 15/1/2026
- Peer reviewer
- 2026
- Recipient
- 27/8/2025
- Recipient
- 19/8/2025
- Speaker
- 7/2025
Projects
- Lamb, Cara (Principal Investigator) Kirk, David (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2026
- Fernandez Rio, Javier (Principal Investigator) Lamb, Cara (Visiting Academic) NiChronin, Deirdre (Visiting Academic) Fletcher, Timothy (Visiting Academic)
- 06-Jan-2025
- 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鈥� 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)
海角论坛 Institute of Education
Email: cara.lamb@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8029