Lisette is a Professor in Community Health at Te Huataki Waiora, School of Health, University of Waikato. She is co chief-editor of Sport, Education and Society, associate editor of Health Education Journal and past-President of Physical Education New Zealand (PENZ). Her teaching is largely centred around socio-cultural perspectives on health and bodies. Her research includes projects that centre young people's meanings for health and physical culture, food across family-school divides, and analyses of health and physical education curricula in schools.