Estelle graduated from Loughborough University in 2004 with a first-class BSc (Hons) in Sport and Exercise Science. She then went on to complete a master’s degree in the Sociology of Sport, also at Loughborough, and a Post-Graduate Certificate of Education in Physical Education with QTS. On completion of her PGCE in 2006, Estelle took up a post teaching Physical Education in a Leicestershire secondary school before moving, in 2009, to take up the post of Lecturer in Physical Education and Sports Science at Loughborough College where she course led the Higher National Diploma (HND) in Sports Science Programme.
In 2013 Estelle returned to Loughborough University to undertake a PhD in the area of Physical Education and Sports Pedagogy under the Supervision of Dr Lorraine Cale and Professor John Evans completing this in 2020. Her PhD research examined the relationship between teachers’ enactment of curriculum policy and pupils’ conceptualisation of health and ability.
Estelle is currently module leader for the second University-based PGCE PE module and for the first year Fundamentals of Teaching Physical Education module on the Sports Science, Coaching, and Physical Education (SSCaPE) undergraduate programme.
Estelle’s PhD research centres on an exploration of different classroom pedagogies and the ways in which these may, or may not, influence pupils’ conceptualisation of health and ability.
Featured publications
Book Chapters
Stirrup, J., & Damant, E. (2021). Health, Physical Education and the Curriculum. In Critical Pedagogies in Physical Education, Physical Activity and Health (pp. 14-26). Routledge.
Book Reviews
Stirrup, J., and Damant, E., (2014), Critical Pedagogy, Physical Education and Urban Schooling, Sport, Education and Society, 19(5): 687-689
Conferences
Damant, E (2015), “Girls are born to Hula Hoop” an exploration of the construction of health and ability in a secondary school, BERA Early Careers Research Conference 2015 Queens University Belfast