Darren Powell
@darrenapowell
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Associate Professor - University of Auckland | Author: 'Schools, corporations, and the war on childhood obesity' | Views my own
Auckland, New Zealand
Joined June 2009
Back in 2017, Michael Gard asked me if I was interested in co-editing the Routledge Handbook of #CriticalObesityStudies. I’m glad I said yes. It’s been a long, tough slog - but hugely rewarding to finally have this in my hot little hand! https://t.co/A3NApmUZEd
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Officially been given an issue and volume number! Young people’s voices on emotions: a narrative inquiry https://t.co/QfgJCsUmaY Thanks to the coolest co-authors @darrenapowell
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This article presents an innovative narrative inquiry study carried out in a primary school in Aotearoa New Zealand with three young people who provide insights into how they perceive, construct, g...
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The law says that schools must consult their community once every two years about the content of sexuality education classes. Check with your school, when did this last happen?
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Our systematic review & pre-registered meta-analysis of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement https://t.co/3elVhltkvT and our reply to commentaries is now out in Psychological Bulletin. A (long) thread.
psycnet.apa.org
According to mindset theory, students who believe their personal characteristics can change—that is, those who hold a growth mindset—will achieve more than students who believe their characteristics...
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Our article has just gone live! If you work with young people, or are simply interested in hearing how they may talk about about their emotions, then this article is for you! #mentalhealth #wellbeing Co-authors: @darrenapowell
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https://t.co/lT1OxW4CA6
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This is an excellent Ad & very clever.
THIS IS SO GOOD 👏🏼 Really simple yet effective delivery of a campaign by flipping the gender here. A great example of that one team mantra clubs are constantly trying to achieve! https://t.co/mw22Yv9woY
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Important news for critical health education scholars - support the Journal of Critical Public Health.
cphn.net
Press release regarding mass resignation of CPH editorial team and board
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So today is the day I launch my Rutherford interviews about working in our neoliberal universities. If you are interested, please reach out and feel free to pass on the invite to others. 👩🏾🎓🧑🏾🎓👨🏾🎓👩🏾💻🧑🏾💻👩🏾🏫🧑🏾🏫🧑🏾🔬👩🏾🔬
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JRSNZ call for papers: special issue on Feeding New Zealand people better – from farm to fork:
royalsociety.org.nz
This special issue of the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand invites submissions with a focus on a Sustainable Food System in Aotearoa which meets the dietary needs of our population.
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My book chapter about the history of body mass index (BMI), "How body size became a disease" is now available for free to anyone at https://t.co/qz86I5V9yo. Anyone can use the chapter freely, no permission required.
routledge.com
The Routledge Handbook of Critical Obesity Studies is an authoritative and challenging guide to the breadth and depth of critical thinking and theory on obesity. Rather than focusing on obesity as a...
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Inviting readers to resist the current attack on sugar, 'Sugar rush' shows how this actually represents a politics of despair, entrenching rather than disrupting the inequality-riddled status quo. Publishing June 2023, pre-order today: https://t.co/8r29byPuDC
#sugar #dietculture
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Journal of Education Policy now has a twitter handle! Follow us for regular updates on original, critical, theoretically informed research and analysis on policy making and policy worlds https://t.co/1cGHOCDQ6y
tandfonline.com
The Journal of Education Policy publishes research on policymaking, policy implementation and policy impact within formal and informal education on all levels.
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Epic opportunity at the University of Auckland! PhD scholarship for someone interested in researching pedagogies for equity, diversity, inclusion and social justice in physical education. More info at link below & flyer https://t.co/QeT7XbAUE4 See attached flyer for details.
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Join us for this one day event where we will collectively consider Pacific School Health Promotion Futures. We have a great deal to learn from each other as we contemplate our past, present and possible futures. Link to register is on the flyer - it is a hybrid event.
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Our final issue of 2022 also features an editorial farewell from our longstanding Editor - Prof. John Evans - who is stepping down after many (many!) years of leading the journal. Be sure to read John and Jan's reflections as they say farewell to SES 👋⤵️ https://t.co/sYNck9TqvI
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Published in Sport, Education and Society (Vol. 27, No. 9, 2022)
🚨 New issue alert 🚨 Volume 27, issue 9 of @SESJournal is out now! The issue contains 8️⃣ recent articles and you can check it out below ⤵️ https://t.co/U7M9WqFr6W
@tandfsport @educationarena
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We vaccinated almost 100% per cent of our community. We can do the same with feeding them
stuff.co.nz
OPINION: Twenty minutes after a 'free kai' sign went up, all the food had gone. Why such obvious need, in a country with food as plentiful as ours?
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Kia ora, aloha mai kākou, nō Ngāti Awa, Ngāpuhi, Ngāiterangi, nō Aotearoa ahau, e noho ana i O'ahu i tēnei tau.. I'm doing a PhD at Auckland Uni looking at body sovereignty for fat Indigenous wāhine.. I'm hoping to kōrero & talk story with Kānaka 'Ōiwi while I'm here in Hawai'i
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