Lorraine Cale BSc MSc PhD
Senior Lecturer
Contact details
Room: JB.1.09b
Phone: +44 (0)1509 226354
Fax: +44 (0)1509 226301
Email: L.A.Cale@lboro.ac.uk
Background
Lorraine Cale completed a BSc in Physical Education and Sports Science and Post-Graduate Certificate in Education in Physical Education at Loughborough University (1984 -1988). She continued her post-graduate study in the United States where she completed an MSc in Physical Education at California State University (Pomona) and at the same time taught physical education in a local school. On returning from the United States Lorraine taught in a high school in Leicestershire before taking a position as a Research Assistant (with teaching responsibilities) at Loughborough (1990-1993). During this time she completed her PhD.
She took her first lecturing post in the Division of Sport, Health and Exercise at Staffordshire University (1993-1996), before returning to Loughborough in January 1996. She also completed a Diploma in Public Health and Health Promotion at the University of Manchester in 1996. Lorraine is the school's Quality Enhancement Director, supporting the development and enhancement of learning and teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. She also contributes to the PGCE/MSc in Education with QTS (PE) programme, and to undergraduate and post-graduate modules in the areas of pedagogy and exercise and health.
Research Interests
Lorraine Cale's research interests lie in the area of the promotion of healthy, active lifestyles in young people, both within and beyond the curriculum.
Research work carried out with the aid of grants
Research project to establish general 'success' criteria for teaching and learning that will lead to 'high quality' pupil outcomes in PE. £17,861 from Wheldon Specialist Sports College; April 2005-March 2008.
A PE ITT English as an Additional Language Project. Two successive Innovation grants of £3,000 each from the Training and Development Agency for schools (TDA) and the Physical Education Association of the UK (PEAUK)/Association for Physical Education (afPE); August 2005-July 2006 and August 2006-July 2007.
Research project to determine the feasibility of fitness testing Welsh children. Research grant of £13,000 from the National Assembly for Wales; October 2003-March 2004.
Research project to evaluate the impact of the TOPs Programmes on the teaching and learning of PE and school sport in primary schools in England. Research grant of £87,128 from the Youth Sport Trust; 2003-March 2007.
Selected Publications
Cale, L., & Harris, J. (2009). Ofsted: 'Brief encounters of a second kind?'. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 14 (1): 41-58.
Cale, L., & Harris, J. (2009). Fitness testing in physical education - a misdirected effort in promoting healthy lifestyles and physical activity?. Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy, 14 (1): 89-108.
Cale, L., & Duncombe, R. (2008). Achieving 'high quality' physical education: an intervention in a city school. Education and Health, 26(2):28-29.
Cale, L., Harris, J. & Ming Hung Chen (2007). More than 10 years after "The horse is dead...": Surely it must be time to "dismount"?! Pediatric Exercise Science, 19(2): 115-131.
Harris, J., & Cale, L. (2007). Children's fitness testing: A feasibility study. Health Education Journal, 66(2): 153-172.
You can view a fuller publications list on the University Publications Database.
External Activities
Member of the editorial board for the Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy Journal, 2001 to date.
Member of the editorial for the British Journal of Teaching Physical Education (responsible for the peer reviewed section of the journal), 2001-2006.
Elected member of the Management Board of the Association for Physical
Education, July 2006 to date.
Invited Conferences and Keynote Speaker Presentations
Invited keynote speaker for a National Physical Education Conference on 'Assessment in Physical Education' at Hacettepe University, Turkey, January 2009. Lecture title: 'Does fitness testing in PE have a role to play in promoting healthy, active lifestyles?'
Invited keynote speaker for an International Conference on 'Physical Activity and Health Promotion', National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan, November 2007.
Invited Chair for the topic of 'Health' for the British Educational Research Association's (BERA) Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy (special interest group) Critical Reading Group. BERA Conference Invisible College, Roehampton University, London, September 2007.
Health-based Physical Education - promoting and integrating health and fitness into the curriculum. Invited keynote lecture at the Shropshire Physical Education Conference, Lilleshall National Sports Centre, February, 2005.