Dr. Aish Ravi
Welcome
Dr. Ravi, a pioneer for women’s leadership and gender equality in sport. She is passionate about the importance of inclusion, diversity and implementing best practice.
She is the founder of the Women’s Coaching Association and an educator with has a passion for creating inclusive spaces in sport. Aish also co-founded “Lead Between The Lines”, an organisation aimed at educating local councils and sporting clubs on ways to foster gender equality and inclusive practices in organisations. Her current research focuses on the lived experiences of women football coaches, racial literacy and developing effective anti-racism approaches in community sport with a focus on how to create more inclusive environments in community sport.
As a football coach and educator, she is actively researching the lived experience of women football coaches. She is passionate about making sport a more inclusive space for all. She is also a qualified business and economics teacher and plays cricket, football, golf, and coaches soccer.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (Coach Education)
Monash University
2023
Masters of Teaching (Secondary) (Business and Economics)
Monash University
2016
Bachelor of Business & Commerce (Economics, Management & Marketing)
Monash University
2012
Teaching
I am a qualified Victorian Certificate of Education and International Baccalaureate Teacher. I am currently employed as a Lecturer at Monash University.
Subjects taught:
- Working in education: An introduction to the profession (Bachelor of education)
- Approaches to Teaching and Learning (Bachelor of education)
- Assessing teaching and learning
- Introduction to teaching
- Business Management Education in the Secondary Years (Master of Teaching)
- Economics Education in the Secondary Years (Master of Teaching)
- Games based approaches to Health & Physical Education (Bachelor of education)
- Inclusion and Diversity in Health and Physical Education (Bachelor of education)
Research area
- Coach education
- Gender and sports
- Racism and sports
Research focus
- Women’s experiences in coach education
- Exploring racial literacy and anti-racism within university campus sport
- Developing effective anti-racism approaches for women and girls in community sport