Lisette Burrows Explained

Lisette Burrows
Other Names:	Lisette C. Burrows
Fields:	Physical education
Workplaces:	University of Otago, University of Waikato
Alma Mater:	University of Wollongong
Thesis1 Title:	Developmental discourses in school physical education
Thesis1 Url:	http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/1775/
Thesis1 Year:	1999

Lisette C. Burrows is a New Zealand physical education academic. She is currently a full professor at the University of Waikato.

Academic career

After a 1999 PhD from the University of Wollongong titled 'Developmental discourses in school physical education,' Burrows worked at the University of Otago from 1991,^[1] ^[2] rising to full professor in 2015^[3] before moving to the University of Waikato in 2017.^[4]

In 2014, Burrows received Physical Education New Zealand's (PENZ) Sir Alexander Gillies Medal.^[1]

Wright, Jan, Lisette Burrows, and Doune MacDonald, eds. Critical inquiry and problem-solving in physical education. Psychology Press, 2004.
Burrows, Lisette, and Jan Wright. "Prescribing practices: Shaping healthy children in schools." The International Journal of Children's Rights 15, no. 1 (2007): 83–98.
Wright, Jan, and Lisette Burrows. "Re-conceiving ability in physical education: a social analysis." Sport, Education and Society 11, no. 3 (2006): 275–291.
Burrows, Lisette, Jan Wright, and Justine Jungersen-Smith. "“Measure Your Belly.” New Zealand Children's Constructions of Health and Fitness." Journal of Teaching in Physical Education 22, no. 1 (2002): 39–48.
Wright, Jan, and Lisette Burrows. "“Being healthy”: the discursive construction of health in New Zealand children's responses to the National Education Monitoring Project." 25, no. 2 (2004): 211–230.
WRIGHT, JAN, and LISETTE BURROWS. "The discursive production of childhood, identity and health." In Body knowledge and control, pp. 107–119. Routledge, 2004.