Dr Lee McGowan | UniSC | University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Dr Lee McGowan is a researcher, writer and teacher. His primary research interests are in the intersections of sport, culture and community engagement. He’s currently working on two books, Women’s Soccer in Oceania (Routledge 2023) and Beach Soccer Histories (Routledge 2023), with support from ACPIR. He’s also co-editing an anthology on Intersections of Creative Writing and Sport (Springer 2023) with Kasey Symons (Swinburne University). In 2019, he published two books, Football in Fiction: a history (Routledge) and Never Say Die: The Hundred Year Overnight Success of Australian Women’s Football (New South).

As a practitioner researcher, Lee has a keen interest in community stories, in their telling and their presentation. He regularly attracts grant funding and produces traditional and non-traditional research outputs with his publications including journal articles, book chapters, a digital history, an exhibition, fiction, creative non-fiction and locative literature.

Lee is a Senior Fellow (HEA) and teaches Creative Writing and Publishing within UniSC’s School of Business and Creative Industries. He has designed, delivered and coordinated programs and courses in higher degree research, postgraduate coursework and undergraduate programs. He has accumulated 18 HDR completions to date (including two at UniSC).

Lee is a core member of ACPIR, currently working on community capacity building and interdisciplinary creative practice research projects with the Creative Team and their partners in the UniSC Maker Space.