Shrehan Lynch profile

Dr Shrehan Lynch

Senior Lecturer

Physical education, teacher education

Department of Applied Sport & Exercise Sciences , School Of Education And Communities

Dr Shrehan Lynch is the course leader for the Sports Foundation Degree and teaches across the undergraduate provision in Applied Sport & Exercise Sciences. Shrehan is the former Subject Leader of our Initial Teacher Education Programme in Physical Education in Education & Communities. Her research interests are teacher education, physical education, youth sport, and social justice.

 

Qualifications

  • National Teaching Fellow (2022)
  • SFHEA
  • PhD
  • PGCE
  • BSc(Hons)

Areas Of Interest

  • Sociocultural issues in physical education
  • Teaching for social good in public schools
  • Critical/transformative pedagogical approaches in higher education
  • Qualitative research methods such as visual inquiry, digital ethnography, narrative inquiry, and action based research
Shrehan Lynch profile

OVERIVEW

In 2019, Dr Shrehan Lynch became a Senior Lecturer in Initial Teacher Education at the University of East London (UEL). Shrehan's current role includes working in the Department of Education and Communities and focuses on training future teachers through the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), School Direct, and Apprenticeship routes.

For the last decade, Shrehan Lynch has been committed to working with young people and adults in education. She began her career as a secondary school physical education teacher. In 2015, she was awarded a Ph.D. tuition scholarship at the University of Alabama (UA). Since then, alongside her doctoral studies (sport pedagogy), she has worked as an academic and teaching fellow.

PUBLICATIONS

Recently published

Pedagogies of Social Justice in Physical Education and Youth Sport (By Shrehan Lynch, Jennifer L. Walton-Fisette, Carla Luguetti). 

For a full list see: https://repository.uel.ac.uk/researcher/83q2q/dr-shrehan-lynch

Recent publications

  • Lynch, S., Simon, M. & Maher, A. (2023) Critical pedagogies for community building: Challenging ableism in higher education physical education in the US. Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives Journal, 28(1),195-210.
  • Lynch, S. Davies, L. Ahmed, D., & McBean, L. (2023) “Complicity, trauma, love: an exploration of the experiences of LGBTQIA+ members from physical education spaces”. Sport Education & Society.
  • Lynch, S. & Davies, L. (Online First, 2022). The WonderBread Factory: Re-reading transformative data through poetic eyes as early career researchers, a poetic representation. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education.
  • Invited: Lynch, S. & Ahmed, D. (Online First, 2021). What are you reading: ‘It’s Not About the Burqa’: Book Review. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education.
  • Sargent, J. & Lynch, S. (Online First, 2021) “None of my other teachers know my face/emotions/thoughts”: Digital technology and democratic assessment practices in higher education physical education. Technology, Pedagogy, and Education.
  • Lambert, K., Luguetti, C. & Lynch, S. (Online First, 2021) Feminists against fad, fizz ed: A poetic commentary exploring the notion of Joe Wicks as Physical Education. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy.
  • Lynch, S. & Hill, J. (2021) “I had to pop a wheelie and pay extra attention in order not to fall:” The embodied experiences of two wheelchair tennis athletes transgressing ableist and gendered norms in disability sport and university Spaces. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health,13 (3), 507-520. Doi: 10.1080/2159676X.2020.1731575.
  • Invited Article: Lynch, S., Schleider, J., & Mcbean, L. (2020) Restorative practice in health and physical education: Shifting the norm from punitive to reparative. The Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 91(9), 41-47. Made into Ted-Style talk.
  • Lynch, S. & Sargent, J. (2020). “Using the meaningful physical education features as a lens to view student experiences of democratic pedagogy in higher education". Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 25(6), 629-642.
  • Invited Open Access Article: Landi, D., Lynch, S., & Walton-Fisette, J (2020) The A-Z of social justice physical education: Part 2. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 91(5), 20-27. Doi:10.1080/07303084.2020.1739433.
  • Invited Open Access Article: Lynch, S., Sutherland, S., & Walton-Fisette, J. (2020) The A-Z of social justice physical education: Part 1. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, 91(4), 8-13. Doi: 10.1080/07303084.2020.1724500.
  • Lynch, S. (2020) Gender in physical culture: Crossing boundaries-reconstituting cultures: Book review. Sport Education and Society, 25(1), 124-126. Doi: 10.1080/13573322.2019.1690225 Lynch, S. & Curtner-Smith, M. D. (2020) U.S faculty members engaging in transformative PETE: A feminist perspective. Sport Education & Society, 25(1), 45-56. Doi: 10.1080/13573322.2018.1560255.
  • Lynch, S. & Curtner-Smith, M. D. (2019) Influence of a sociocultural foundation class on the perspectives & practices of future physical education teachers. The Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 38(4), 377-387.

Awarded PESP Paper of the Year

  • Lynch, S. & Curtner-Smith, M. D. (2019) "“You have to find your slant, your groove:” One Physical Education Teacher’s Efforts to Employ Transformative Pedagogy." Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy. 24(4), 359-372. Doi: 10.1080/17408989.2019.1592146. Invited podcast discussion on paper. Invited: Lynch, S. (2019) Juggling teaching and PhD studies – GROWing Tips. Ze-phir - Informationen für den sportwissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs (Information for the young sport scientist, special issue: Teaching during your PhD, 26(1) 4-5.
  • Lynch, S. & Kuntz, A.M. (2019) A critical autoethnography of a doctoral students’ research journey: Learning to take risks in the academy. Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education, 10(2) 156-171. Doi: 10.1080/25742981.2019.1588762
  • Lu, J. Mumba, M. N., Lynch, S., Li, C., Hua, C., & Allen, R. S. (2019) Trait mindfulness and nursing students’ psychological stress: A regression and mediation analysis. Nurse Education Today, 75, 41-46.
  • Lynch, S. Richards, K.A.R., & Pennington, C. (2018) “What’s the middle ground? Am I ever going to be the perfect teacher?:” Self-study of a Doctoral Student’s Acculturation Process. Studying Teacher Education: A Journal of Self-Study of Teacher Education Practice, 14(2), 194-211. Doi:10.1080/17425964.2018.1462154.
  • Lynch, S. & McLoughlin, G. (2018) Optimizing the learning environment for students in physical education: Integrating theories of motivation. Active & Healthy Journal, 25(1).
  • Lynch, S. & Ottaway, S. (2018). Back to school netball style: An emerging highly inclusive game for physical education or sport. Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, 89(4), 54-57. Doi:10.1080/07303084.2018.1431469.
  • Richards, K.A.R., Lynch, S., & Sinelnikov, O. (2017). Doctoral students as teaching mentors for preservice physical education teachers. International Council for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, Sport, and Dance, 9(1).