Casey Murphy

BA (Environ Sci & Geography)

Casey.Murphy1@my.nd.edu.au

• Biography

  Casey graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Science and Geography from Notre Dame in 2009.
  
  She has a passion for teaching and educating guests about the history and the environment and has done so around the world. She has experience teaching children in an outdoor learning environment in the USA and volunteered for six months at Borneo Eco tours. Currently she works as a tour guide in Perth and Rottnest Island.
  
  The aim of her research project is to examine the relative importance parents place on active play compared to organised physical activity for their primary school aged children. Their responses will be compared to the actual level and type of physical activity undertaken by their child/children each week and to their own physical activity level.
  
  MPhil thesis title: The importance of active play and organised physical activity for young children: The parents’ perspective

  Supervisors: Prof Beth Hands, Duncan Picknoll
  Enrolled part-time through the School of Health Sciences