Sarah MacIsaac
@SarahLMacIsaac
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Lecturer in Physical Education, University of Edinburgh. Research interests: physical education, health, the body, social media.
Joined December 2012
We are running a suicide awareness event tonight in St. Leonard's Land. The session works around the movie 'Evelyn', and we use this to discuss mental health and to promote destigmatized open discussion on this challenging, emotional topic. @MorayHouse. #SuicideAwareness
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RT @DrJ_Mac: @MorayHouse will be hosting a suicide awareness event to mark WMHD. The event will provide a supportive space to raise awarene….
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RT @tandfsport: New book! ‘Critical Pedagogies in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health’- examining policy and practice in PE, t….
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RT @MJCamachoPE: Really happy to see our paper finally published. I really enjoyed with postfeminism & Bourdieu's work. Great research jour….
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Drawing on the conceptual frameworks of Bourdieu and postfeminism, this article analyses extant tensions between young women’s gendered habitus and the health-related learning spaces of Physical Ed...
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RT @shirley_MHSE: New Edinburgh University PE research blog: Young women, health and physical activity: Tensions between the gendered field….
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A blog by: Maria José Camacho-Miñano, Shirley Gray, Rachel Sandford and Sarah MacIsaac Introduction This blog summarises a paper that we have written which has been recently accepted for publicatio…
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RT @EmCurriculum: In our new episode we talk to @SarahLMacIsaac about *social media* use in adolescents, how does it really impact on rel….
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Education Podcast · Exploring new research which promotes the emotional well-being of children and young people in schools. Dr Sarah Taylor-Whiteway talks to academics about their research and how it...
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RT @runmarycain: This was a long time coming. For years, I felt broken and alone- I waited, yet no one reach out to help. Now I am ok. But….
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Mary Cain’s male coaches were convinced she had to get “thinner, and thinner, and thinner.” Then her body started breaking down.
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I have never seen anything so absolutely heartbreaking as the scenes in @forsamafilm. Join the campaign at to #StopBombingHospitals #ForSama.
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RT @VGoodyear: Starting in 2 weeks - free, online CPD course on how to support young people's uses of social media for their health and wel….
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RT @Mr_StewartPE: Delighted that my dissertation investigating the development of masculine identity in PE has been published in sport, edu….
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This research examines the masculine identities and experiences of males within the subject of PE. Specifically, it examines the masculine identities of two groups of boys in the Scottish secondary...
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RT @MJCamachoPE: Really happy & proud to see my paper published in this special edition in Sport Education and Society, with @SarahLMacIsaa….
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Social media can become a site of public pedagogy (Rich, E., & Miah, A. (2014). Understanding digital health as public pedagogy: A critical framework. Societies, 4(2), 296–315. doi:10.3390/soc40202...
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RT @shirley_MHSE: New Edinburgh University PE blog: Supporting pupils to appreciate their bodies by Dr. Sarah MacIsaac .
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RT @shirley_MHSE: New paper just published: A comparative study of Canadian and Scottish students’ perspectives on health, the body and the….
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Perfectionism is destroying the mental health of my millennial generation | Daisy Buchanan
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It all began at school, with A-star expectations and a horror of failure. Now we’re on social media platforms, locked into a losing game, says the freelance writer Daisy Buchanan
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Young people's uses of social media within a school context - 50 free online copies of our latest article available here:.
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Online social interaction has become integral to contemporary social life, adding new dimensions to how young people learn, interact, and perceive themselves and one another. This paper presents th...
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RT @scotathletics: BREAKING - @scotathletics to stage free education session 'Supporting athletes with an Eating Disorder' Edinburgh on Fri….
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"Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think." Sociocultural students, keep this gem from Einstein in mind.
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