Dr Emma Rich
Profile
My work draws upon the sociology of education, pedagogy, the body and physical culture. The research I undertake in this area explore how learning about and through the body (body pedagogies) take places in relation to different physical cultures , spaces and sites. These include both formal institutions and informal sites of learning such as popular culture.
I am particularly interested in health discourses and the body and draw upon critical perspectives on the body, health and illness in my research. In recent years, research projects have explored issues such as moral panic over obesity, eating disorders and education and surveillance of young people’s bodies.
Much of my research also discusses the relationship between pedagogy, emerging technologies and health (e.g. exergaming, social media, medicalization of cyberspace).
Research interests
- Sport, physical culture and subjectivity
- Pedagogy and the body
- Health, pedagogy and emerging technology
- Gender and education
- Public pedagogy
Teaching
Undergraduate
Postgraduate
Publications
Book/s
Rich, E., Monaghan, L. and Aphramor, L., eds., 2010. Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Miah, A. and Rich, E., 2008. The Medicalization of Cyberspace. London: Routledge.
Evans, J., Rich, E., Davies, B. and Allwood, R., 2008. Education, disordered eating and obesity discourse: fat fabrications. Abingdon: Routledge.
Book Sections
Rich, E., 2012. Forthcoming. Eating disorders. In: Dictionary of International Sports Studies. .
Rich, E., 2012. It’s not for the school to tell us Charlie. Afterall, to us you’re healthy big. In: Dowling, F., Flintoff, A. and Fitzgerald, H., eds. Equity and difference in physical education, youth sport and Health: A Narrative Approach. London: Routledge, pp. 119-123.
Rich, E., 2012. Visual methods in physical culture : Body culture exhibition. In: , K. Y. and Atkinson, M., eds. Qualitative Research on Sport and Physical Culture. Bingley: Emerald Press.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De Pian, L., 2011. Children’s bodies, surveillance and the obesity crisis. In: Rich, E., Monaghan, L. F. and Aphramor, L., eds. Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 139-163.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and Davies, B., 2011. Critical health pedagogy: whose body is it anyway? In: Armour, K., ed. Sport Pedagogy: An Introduction for Teaching and Coaching. Harlow: Prentice Hall.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De-Pian, L., 2010. Childrens’ bodies, surveillance and the obesity crisis. In: Rich, E., Monaghan, L. F. and Aphramor, L., eds. Debating Obesity: Critical Perspectives. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De-Pian, L., 2010. Obesity, body pedagogies and young women’s engagement with exercise. In: Kennedy, E. and Marjula, P., eds. Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 138-158.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Rich, E., 2010. Bernstein, body pedagogies and the corporeal device. In: Ivinson, G., Davies, B. and Fitz, J., eds. Knowledge and Identity: Concepts and Applications in Bernstein’s Sociology. London: Routledge.
Miah, A. and Rich, E., 2010. The bioethics of cybermedicalization. In: Nayar, P. K., ed. The New Media and Cybercultures Anthology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 209-220.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De Pian, L., 2010. Obesity, body pedagogies and young women's engagement with exercise. In: Kennedy, E. and Markula, P., eds. Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism. New York: Routledge.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Davies, B., 2009. Schooling the body in a performative culture. In: Apple, M., Ball, S. and Armand Gandin, L., eds. The Routledge International Handbook of the Sociology of Education. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 200-212.
Rich, E. and Miah, A., 2009. The body, health and illness. In: Albertazzi, D. and Cobley, P., eds. The Media: An Introduction. 3rd ed. Harlow: Pearson, pp. 485-504.
Rich, E., 2009. Socialisation. In: Bartlett, R., Gratton, C. and Rolf, C. G., eds. Encyclopedia of International Sports Studies. Oxon: Routledge.
Rich, E. and Miah, A., 2009. Genetic manipulation, the body and sport. In: Atkinson, M., ed. Battleground: Sport. Westwood: Greenwood Publishing, pp. 185-191.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2008. Performative health in schools: welfare policy, neoliberlism and social regulation? In: Wright, J. and Harwood, V., eds. Biopolitics and the Obesity Epidemic: Governing Bodies. Oxon: Routledge, pp. 157-171.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2007. Learning to be Healthy, Dying to be Thin: The Representation of Weight Via Body Perfection Codes in Schools. In: Riley, S., Burns, M., Frith, H., Wiggins, S. and Markula, P., eds. Critical Bodies: Representations, Practices and Identities of Weight and Body Management. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.
Evans, J., Rich, E., Allwood, R. and Davies, B., 2007. Being ‘able’ in a performative culture. In: Wellard, I., ed. Rethinking Gender and Youth Sport. London: Routledge, pp. 51-67.
Henry, I., Radzi, W., Rich, E., Shelton, C., Theodoraki, E. and White, E., 2007. Le rôle des femmes dans la gouvernance des organisations olympiques : des tensions entre universalisme et multiculturalisme. In: Bayle, E. and Chantelat, P., eds. La Gouvernance des Organisations Sportives. Paris: Editons L'Harmatton.
Sandford, R. and Rich, E., 2006. Learners and Popular Culture. In: Kirk, D., O'Sullivan, M. and Macdonald, D., eds. Handbook of Physical Education. London: Sage, pp. 275-291.
Rich, E., Harjunen, H. and Evans, J., 2006. Normal gone bad: health discourses, schools and the female body. In: Twohig, P. and Kalitzkus, V., eds. Bordering Biomedicine Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Rich, E., Holroyd, R. and Evans, J., 2004. Hungry to Be Noticed: Young Women, Anorexia and Schooling. In: Evans, J., ed. Body Knowledge and Control. London: Routledge, pp. 173-190.
Brown, D. H. and Rich, E., 2002. Gender positioning as pedagogical practice in learning to teach Physical Education. In: Penney, D., ed. Gender and Physical Education. London: Routledge, pp. 80-100.
Rich, E., 1999. Narrative linkages as pedagogical pathways for change: bridging the gap between theory and practice. In: Hodkinson, H., ed. Feminism and Educational Research Methodologies. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, pp. 88-93.
Articles
Evans, J., Davies, B., Rich, E. and De Pian, L., 2013. Understanding policy: why health education policy is important and why it does not appear to work. British Educational Research Journal, 39 (2), pp. 320-337.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Rich, E., 2013. Forthcoming. We/you can tell talk from matter : A conversation with Håkan Larsson and Mikael Quennerstedt. Sport, Education and Society
Rich, E., 2012. Beyond school boundaries : new health imperatives, families and schools. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 33 (5), pp. 635-654.
Wright, J., Burrows, L. and Rich, E., 2012. Health imperatives in primary schools across three countries : intersections of class, culture and subjectivity. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 33 (5), pp. 673-691.
Rich, E., 2012. Beyond the Slogan : There are Many Ways to Inspire a Generation. Culture @ the Olympics, 14 (9), pp. 64-68.
Rich, E., 2011. Exploring the relationship between pedagogy and physical cultural studies: the case of new health imperatives in schools. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (1), pp. 64-84.
Rich, E., 2011. 'I see her being obesed!': Public pedagogy, reality media and the obesity crisis. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 15 (1), pp. 3-21.
Evans, J., De Pian, L., Rich, E. and Davies, B., 2011. Health imperatives, policy and the corporeal device: schools, subjectivity and children’s health. Policy Futures in Education, 9 (3), 328 – 340.
Rich, E., 2011. London 2012 and new legacies of earning : Citizen media as public pedagogy. Culture @ the Olympics, 13 (5), pp. 27-33.
Rich, E. and Perhamus, L. M., 2010. Health surveillance, the body and schooling. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23 (7), pp. 759-764.
Rich, E., 2010. Obesity assemblages and surveillance in schools. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 23 (7), pp. 803-821.
Rich, E., 2010. Body pedagogies, education and health. Sport, Education and Society, 15 (2), pp. 147-150.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Rich, E., 2009. The body made flesh: embodied learning and the corporeal device. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30 (4), pp. 391-406.
Rich, E. and Miah, A., 2009. Prosthetic surveillance: the medical governance of healthy bodies in cyberspace. Surveillance and Society, 6 (2), pp. 163-177.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2009. Now I am NObody, see me for who I am: the paradox of performativity. Gender and Education, 21 (1), pp. 1-16.
Evans, J., Rich, E., Allwood, R. and Davies, B., 2008. Body pedagogies, P/policy, health and gender. British Educational Research Journal, 34 (3), pp. 387-402.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Rich, E., 2008. The class and cultural functions of obesity discourse: our latter day child saving movement. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 18 (2), pp. 117-132.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Davies, B., 2008. Health education or weight management in schools? Physical Education Matters, 3 (1), pp. 28-33.
Rich, E., 2007. Re-reading voice: young women, anorexia and performative education. Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, 9, pp. 39-54.
Rich, E., 2006. Anorexic dis(connection): managing anorexia as an illness and an identity. Sociology of Health & Illness, 28 (3), pp. 284-305.
Miah, A. and Rich, E., 2006. Genetic tests for ability?: talent identification and the value of an open future. Sport, Education and Society, 11 (3), pp. 259-273.
Rich, E., 2005. Young women, feminist identities and neo-liberalism. Women's Studies International Forum, 28 (6), pp. 495-508.
Evans, J., Rich, E., Allwood, R. and Davies, B., 2005. Fat fabrications. The British Journal of Teaching Physical Education, 2005 (Winter).
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2005. Making Sense of Eating Disorders in Schools. Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 26 (2), pp. 247-262.
Evans, J., Rich, E., Davies, B. and Allwood, R., 2005. The embodiment of learning: What the sociology of education doesn't say about 'risk' in going to school. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 15 (2), pp. 129-149.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2005. ‘Fat Ethics’ – the obesity discourse and body politics. Social Theory & Health, 3 (4), pp. 341-358.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Holroyd, R., 2004. Disordered eating and disordered schooling: what schools do to middle class girls. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 25 (2), pp. 123-142.
Rich, E., 2004. Exploring teachers’ biographies and perceptions of girls’ participation in physical education. European Physical Education Review, 10 (2), pp. 215-240.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and Davies, B., 2004. The Emperor’s New Clothes: Fat, Thin and Overweight. The social fabrication of risk and ill-health. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 23 (4), pp. 372-391.
Rich, E., 2003. 'The problem with girls': liberal feminism, ‘equal opportunities’ and gender inequality in physical education. The British Journal of Physical Education, 34 (1), pp. 46-49.
Evans, J., Evans, B. and Rich, E., 2003. ‘The only Problem is, children will like their chips’: education and the discursive production of ill-health. Pedagogy, 11 (2), pp. 215-241.
Evans, J., Evans, B. and Rich, E., 2002. Eating disorders and comprehensive ideals. Forum for Promoting 3-19 Comprehensive Education, 44 (2), pp. 59-65.
Rich, E., 2001. Gender positioning in teacher education in England: New rhetoric, old realities. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 11 (2), pp. 131-156.
Conference or Workshop Items
Rich, E., 2011. Boys experiences of health imperatives. In: An International Symposium Speaks the Unspoken: Masculinities, bodies & body images in health education., 2011-06-07, Ottawa.
Evans, J., Davies, B., Rich, E. and De Pian, L., 2010. Understanding policy: why policy is important and why it does not appear to work. In: Australian Educational Research Association Annual Conference, 2010-11-28 - 2010-12-02, Melbourne.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De Pian, L., 2010. Becoming abject: The circulation and affective presence of ‘the obese body’ in schools. In: ESRC Seminar Abject embodiment: Uneven targets of fat discrimination, 2010-01-14 - 2010-01-15, Durham University.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2010. Young people, class, schooling cultures and anti-obesity education. In: ESRC Seminar: Abject Embodiment – Uneven Targets of Fat Discrimination, 2010-01-14 - 2010-01-15, Durham University.
Evans, J., Davies, B., De Pian, L. and Rich, E., 2009. Health imperatives, policy and the corporeal device: schools, subjectivity and children’s health. In: Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, 2009-12-01, Canberra.
Rich, E., De Pian, L. and Evans, J., 2009. Learning to be a healthy young woman: body burdens and consumer culture. In: ESRC Seminar Series: Young Women in Movement – Sexualities, Vulnerabilities, Needs and Norms., 2009-11-24, Goldsmiths University London.
Evans, J., Rich, E. and De-Pian, L., 2009. Global landscapes, education and cultural reproduction: the conceptual challenges for international, collaborative, comparative research. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2009, 2009-09-02 - 2009-09-05, Manchester.
Rich, E., Evans, J. and De Pian, L., 2009. Local Landscapes, Media Healthscapes and Schooling. In: British Educational Research Association (BERA) Annual Conference 2009, 2009-09-02 - 2009-09-05, Manchester.
De-Pian, L., Evans, J. and Rich, E., 2008. Mediating health? A preliminary analysis of how social class and culture refracted through different forms of schooling are reflected in young people’s actions toward their bodies and their health. In: Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, 2008-11-30 - 2008-12-04, Brisbane.
Burrows, L., Cliff, K., De-Pian, L., Evans, J., Harwood, V., McCormack, J., Rich, E. and Wright, J., 2008. Researching the new health imperatives in schools: Understanding young people’s decision making about health as an embodied social process: stories from the field. In: Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, 2008-11-30 - 2008-12-04, Brisbane.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2008. Performative health, gender and body pedagogies. In: ESRC seminar series: Gender Education and The Body, 2008-09-01, Lancaster University.
Evans, J., Davies, B. and Rich, E., 2008. Body pedaogiges and the corporeal device. In: Fifth International Berstein Symposium, 2008-07-12 - 2008-07-19, Cardiff.
Rich, E. and Evans, J., 2008. Disordered eating, schooling and bio-peadgogies. In: American Education Research Association Annual Conference, 2008-03-01, New York.
Evans, J. and Rich, E., 2008. The rise and rise of the child saving movement. In: International Sociology of Education Conference, 2008-01-02 - 2008-01-05, London.
Rich, E., De Pian, L. and Evans, J., 2008. Mediating Health? A preliminary analysis of how social class and culture refracted through different forms of schooling are reflected in young people’s actions toward their bodies and their health. In: Australian Association for Research in Education Conference, 2008-11-30 - 2008-12-04, Brisbane.

