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Miss Joanne Ragen

BA MM PhD Candidate
Postgraduate Fellow

C43J - J Block Cumberland Campus
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9351 9807
Fax +61 2 9351 9197

Website wishboneday
Popping the Bubble Wrap

Biographical details

Jo Ragen has experience working in community, allied health and educational settings. She supervises undergraduate and postgraduate students and teaches in
 undergraduate and postgraduate health science programs. Jo’s 
interests include strategic management, innovation and education, participation in every day life – childhood and disability, perceptions of risk and risk management. Current research projects include children and play; parent and teacher perceptions of risk, developing risk attitudes and their effect on practice; perceptions of everyday risk for children and young adults with disability

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Selected publications

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Book Chapters

  • Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Sandseter, E., Naughton, G., Little, H., Bundy, A., Ragen, J., Engelen, L. (2012). Places to Play Outdoors: Sedentary and Safe or Active and Risky? In Peter Whiteman, Katey De Gioia (Eds.), Children and Childhoods 1: Perspectives, Places and Practices, (pp. 85-107). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Journals

  • Niehues, A., Bundy, A., Broom, A., Tranter, P., Ragen, J., Engelen, L. (2013). Everyday uncertainties: Reframing adults’ perceptions of risk in children’s outdoor free play. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
  • Engelen, L., Bundy, A., Naughton, G., Simpson, J., Bauman, A., Ragen, J., Baur, L., Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Niehues, A., Jessup, G., et al (2013). Increasing physical activity in young primary school children - it's child's play: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Preventive Medicine, 56(5), 319-325.
  • Bundy, A., Naughton, G., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., Baur, L., Schiller, W., Bauman, A., Engelen, L., Ragen, J., Luckett, T., Niehues, A., Stewart, G., Jessup, G., Brentnall, J. (2011). The Sydney Playground Project: Popping the bubblewrap - unleashing the power of play: A cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary school playground-based intervention aiming to increase children's physical activity and social skills. BMC Public Health, 11, 680-1-680-9.
  • Bundy, A., Luckett, T., Tranter, P., Naughton, G., Wyver, S., Ragen, J., Spies, G. (2009). The risk is that there is 'no risk': a simple, innovative intervention to increase children's activity levels. International Journal of Early Years Education, 17(1), 33-45.
  • Bundy, A., Luckett, T., Naughton, G., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., Ragen, J., Singleton, E., Spies, G. (2008). Playful Interaction: Occupational Therapy for All children on the School Playground. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62(5), 522-527.

2013

  • Niehues, A., Bundy, A., Broom, A., Tranter, P., Ragen, J., Engelen, L. (2013). Everyday uncertainties: Reframing adults’ perceptions of risk in children’s outdoor free play. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning. Journal of Adventure Education and Outdoor Learning.
  • Engelen, L., Bundy, A., Naughton, G., Simpson, J., Bauman, A., Ragen, J., Baur, L., Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Niehues, A., Jessup, G., et al (2013). Increasing physical activity in young primary school children - it's child's play: a cluster randomised controlled trial. Preventive Medicine, 56(5), 319-325.

2012

  • Wyver, S., Tranter, P., Sandseter, E., Naughton, G., Little, H., Bundy, A., Ragen, J., Engelen, L. (2012). Places to Play Outdoors: Sedentary and Safe or Active and Risky? In Peter Whiteman, Katey De Gioia (Eds.), Children and Childhoods 1: Perspectives, Places and Practices, (pp. 85-107). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

2011

  • Bundy, A., Naughton, G., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., Baur, L., Schiller, W., Bauman, A., Engelen, L., Ragen, J., Luckett, T., Niehues, A., Stewart, G., Jessup, G., Brentnall, J. (2011). The Sydney Playground Project: Popping the bubblewrap - unleashing the power of play: A cluster randomized controlled trial of a primary school playground-based intervention aiming to increase children's physical activity and social skills. BMC Public Health, 11, 680-1-680-9.

2009

  • Bundy, A., Luckett, T., Tranter, P., Naughton, G., Wyver, S., Ragen, J., Spies, G. (2009). The risk is that there is 'no risk': a simple, innovative intervention to increase children's activity levels. International Journal of Early Years Education, 17(1), 33-45.

2008

  • Bundy, A., Luckett, T., Naughton, G., Tranter, P., Wyver, S., Ragen, J., Singleton, E., Spies, G. (2008). Playful Interaction: Occupational Therapy for All children on the School Playground. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 62(5), 522-527.
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