About
Dr Bridie Kean is a Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Program Coordinator of the Master of Health Promotion suite of programs UniSC. She provides leadership in curriculum design, course coordination, and quality assurance across the health promotion programs, ensuring graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills required to address complex public health challenges.
Bridie's research spans disability, sport, and health, focussing on creating equitable opportunities for people with disability to participate in and benefit from sport and physical activity. Drawing on her lived experience of physical disability and a public health perspective, she examines how social, environmental, and organisational systems can be transformed to improve inclusion, health, wellbeing, and performance outcomes across community to high performance sport settings.
Bridie leads an applied program of research, and has held partnerships with organisations including Paralympics Australia, the Queensland Academy of Sport, Basketball Australia, and UniSport Australia. Her research has contributed to evidence-informed policy and practice across para-sport, athlete development, and disability inclusion, with a particular focus on creating equitable opportunities for participation and success in sport.
Bridie is particularly interested in the legacy of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games and the opportunity to create lasting systems change that improves access to sport and physical activity for people with disability. Through research, teaching, and industry engagement, she seeks to advance inclusive environments that enable all people to participate, thrive, and realise the benefits of sport and physical activity.