School of Human Movement Studies
Dr Gabrielle O'flynn
BEd(Hons) PhD Wgong
Position:Lecturer
Telephone:+61 02 6338 4332
Facsimile: +61 02 6338 4065
Email: goflynn@csu.edu.au
Office: Room 2.21, Allen House (N1)
Profile
PhD. (2004). University of Wollongong, NSW.
Thesis title: The Place and Meaning of Health and Physical Activity in the Lives of Young Women.
Bachelor of Education, Physical and Health Education (Honours Class 1)(1999)
University of Wollongong, NSW.
Thesis Title: Subjectivity Construction: A Study of Young, Identical, Female Twins
Awards
- 2007-2006 Faculty of Education, CSU, Seed grant $3000.00
- 2005 CSU, Writing up Award
- 2005 Faculty of Education, Research Management Committee funding for the Faculty
Seminar, titled: ‘Young People: Issues of subjectivity, schooling, gender and the body’.(June 29th – 30th 2005). - 2000- 2004 APA PhD Scholarship
Research
In her research, Gabrielle draws on post-structural theory to critically examine historical and contemporary notions of health and physical activity. Her areas of research and publication include sociological studies of subjectivity in the areas of sport, gender, schooling, physical and health education, and women’s health.
Teaching
- Curriculum Personal Development, Health and Physical Education studies for primary teacher education
- Educational gymnastics
- Games & sports
Publications
Refereed Publications
O’Flynn, G. (2007). Troubling eating (dis)orders. In S. Knipe (ed), Rethinking Adolescents, Frenchs Forest, Pearson, pp:122-136.
O’Flynn, G. & Petersen, E. (2007). The ‘good life’ and the ‘rich portfolio’: Young women, schooling and Neoliberal subjectification. The British Journal of the Sociology of Education, 28 (4), 459-472
Petersen, E., & O’Flynn, G. (2007). Neoliberal technologies of subject formation: A case study of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award scheme. Critical Studies in Education (Special issue on Neo-conservatism/ Neoliberalism) , 48 (2), 197-211.
Wright J., & O'Flynn, G. (2007). Social class, femininity and school sport. In Julie McLeod and Andrea Allard (eds) 'Learning from the margins: young women, risk and education'. London, Routledge, pp: 82-94
Dionigi, R., & O’Flynn, G. (Accepted for Publication 2007 or 2008). Performance Discourses & Old Age: What does it mean to be an older athlete? Sociology of Sport Journal.
Wright, J., O’Flynn, G. & Mcdonald, D. (2006). Being fit and looking healthy: Young women’s and men’s constructions of health and fitness. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research, 54 (9-10), 707-716.
O’Flynn, G. (2004). A Post-structural Reflection on Interviewing Young Women About Health and Physical Activity. In J. Wright (Ed), Researching in Sport, Physical and Health Education, Wollongong: University of Wollongong, pp: 122-142
Presentations
Full Written Conference Papers
Wright, J,, O'Flynn, G Macdonald, D. (2002). Physical activity in the lives of young women and men: embodied identities, AIESEP Conference Proceedings, October 22-25, Spain.
O'Flynn, G (2001). Young women's meanings and everyday experiences of leisure and physical cultural spaces, Women's Studies Network UK Association (WSN) - Gender and Culture: Leisure, consumption and women's everyday lives, July 12-14, Cheltenham, UK.
Recent Refereed Conference Abstracts
O’Flynn, G. (2006). Subjects of physical activity research: Imaging young women and physical activity ‘otherwise.’ AARE, Nov 26th – Nov 30th, Adelaide, Australia.
O’Flynn, G. (2006). ‘Knowing’ health: Imagining young people and health otherwise. Invited Speaker at The King’s School, Leading Learning Conference, October 15th-17th, Parramatta.
O’Flynn, G. (2005). Schooling and social class constructions of ‘at risk’ notions of health. AARE, Nov 27th- Dec 1st, UWS Parramatta.
O'Flynn, G (2004). Young women's complex engagement with health, femininity and physical activity discourses. AARE, 29th November - 2nd December, Melbourne, Australia.
O'Flynn, G (2003). School, the self and the social - Producing classed and gendered selves in relation to school sport, and physical and health education, NZARE , 29th November - 2nd December, Auckland, New Zealand.
Wright, J O'Flynn, G (2003). Using poststructuralist theory in physical education research: what do you do with interviews if they are not 'true speakings?'. The Researching in Sport, Physical and Health Education Conference, The University of Wollongong, 16-18th May.
O'Flynn, G (2002). Working with Foucault to interrogate the embodied rhetoric of 'healthisms' in young women's lives, Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) , December 1-5 2002, Brisbane, Australia.
O'Flynn, G & Wright, J (2002). I should/ I shouldn't: The moral imperatives of healthism discourse, Research committee - Sociology of Sport, Session 4: Sport, exercise and health in a sociological perspective (One), XV World Congress of Sociology, July 7-13, Brisbane, Australia.
O'Flynn, G (2001). Capturing the place and meaning of physical activity and physical culture for you women: The application of participant photography in social research Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) December 2-6, Fremantle, Australia.