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Kinesiology

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Faculty Members


Faculty Member Research Interests/Teaching Areas
Supervision Level
Alcock, Greg
  • Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine
  • Clinical Outcome Measures
  • Lower Extremity Injuries
Master's
Barney, Bob
  • History of the Modern Olympic Games
  • History of Olympic Commercialism
  • Canadian "nation-bulding" through the Olympic Games
Master' and PhD
Belfry, Glen
  • Physiology and biochemistry of exercise training
  • Exercise  and testing protocols to enhance body composition in youth
  • Exercise and leisure activity paradigms in native populations
Master's and PhD
Birmingham, Trevor
  • Musculoskeletal rehabilitation
  • Clinical biomechanics
Master's and PhD
Bryant, Dianne
  • Master of Science - Sport Medicine Coordinator
Master's
Buckolz, Eric
  • Cognitive inhibition
  • Inhibition in special population (developmental coordination disorder in children, Parkinson's disease, aging population) and in any health-related problem arising from inhibitory dysfunction
Master's and PhD
Carron, Bert
  • Group dynamics in sport teams
  • Group dynamics in physical activity groups
  • Cohesion effects in sport and exercise
  • Team attributional style
  • Home advantage
Master's and PhD
Croley, Vickie
  • Track and field
Master's Coaching Specialization mentor
Danylchuk, Karen
  • Sport marketing
  • Internationalization in education and sport management
  • Sport management curriculum
  • Intercollegiate athletics
  • Women in sport
Master's and PhD
Dickey, Jim
  • Biomechanics
  • Tissue mechanics
  • Joint mechanics
  • Joint injury
  • In-vitro studies of knee joint mechanics
  • In-vivo studies of whole-body vibration (exercise platforms and occupational exposures)
Master's and PhD
Doherty, Alison
  • Management of non-profit and voluntary sport, particularly at the community level
  • Volunteerism in sport organizations and sport events
  • Group and non-profit sport board dynamics
  • Organizational capacity
Master's and PhD
Doherty, Tim
  • Neuromuscular function in health, disease and aging
  • Rehabilitation of neurological disorders
Master's and PhD
Fischer, Dr. Lisa
  • Concussion - clinical management and education
  • Clinical sport medicine issues
  • Osteoarthritis
N/A
Forsyth, Janice
  • History of the modern Olympic Games
  • Physical cultural practices and health at  Canadian Indian Residential Schools
  • Aboriginal experiences in contemporary Canadian sport
Master's and PhD
Hall, Craig
  • Sport, exercise and rehabilitation psychology
  • Imagery, self-efficacy, motivation, self-presentation and exercise identity
Master's and PhD
Heath, Matthew
  • KIN 1080: Introduction to Psychomotor Behaviour
  • KIN 3480:  Movement Neuroscience
  • KIN 9248:  Cortical Control of Human Movement
Master's and PhD
Heine, Michael
  • Discourse Analysis of Olympic spaces
  • Discourse Analysis of economic processes and commodification in sports
  • Aboriginal Games Documentation in sub-Arctic and Arctic Canada
Master's and PhD
Humphreys, Dave
  • Athletic Injuries
  • Post Concussion Rehabilitation
Master's
Jenkyn, Tom
  • Orthopaedic biomechanics
  • Advanced medical imaging
  • Musculoskeletal computational modeling
  • Injury causation biomechanics
  • Sport science
Master's and PhD
Kowalchuk, John
  • Integrative human physiology
  • Exercise metabolism
  • Cardiovascular, metabolic and respiratory adjustments and their control during exercise
  • Aging and cardiovascular and metabolic responses to exercise
Master's and PhD
LaRose, Bob
  • Coaching Program Coordinator
  • Sport Psychology
Master's
Lemon, Peter
  • Macronutrient (CHO, FAT, PRO) ingestion timing and exercise performance
  • Food supplements and health and/or exercise performance
  • Training and exercise performance
  • Exercise and body composition changes
Master's and PhD
Lowrie, Dean
  • Coaching theory
  • Motor learning
Master's Coaching Specialization mentor (volleyball)
Marsh, Greg
  • Control of Oxidative Metabolism in Skeletal Muscle
  • Muscle Sarcopenia in Ageing
  • Bone Geometry and Osteopenia
  • Application of MRI and MRS in Exercise Physiology
Master's and PhD
Melling, Jamie
  • Roles and mechanisms of intracellular molecular signaling pathways in the development of cardiovascular disease/complications associated with Type II diabetes
  • Neurological influence of adrenergic signaling in the expression of stress-related cardioprotective proteins in the heart and vasculature
  • Alleviation of cardiovascular and metabolic complications associated with Type II diabetes patients
Master's and PhD
Misener, Laura
  • Social impacts of sporting events
  • Sport and events as tools for increasing sport participation
  • Policy analyses and cross-cultural comparative politics of sport and leisure
  • Intersections of sport, physical activity, and health promotion
Master's and PhD
Montero-Odasso, Manuel
  • The relationship between cognition and mobility in the elderly
  • Gait as an early predictor of frailty and dementia
  • Falls prevention in older people with cognitive impairment
Master's and PhD
Morrow, Al

Morrow, Don
  • Sport history; particularly the impact of narrative method/s
  • Sport literature
  • Sport, exercise, health, medicine and the body in Western culture
  • Alternative/complementary health and medicine
  • Health promotion; specifically motivational interviewing/coaching as an intervention for health issues such as weight management, physical inactivity
  • Autoethnography
Master's and PhD
Mottola, Michelle
  • Effects of maternal exercise on carbohydrate metabolism and fetal outcome
  • Effects of nutritional intake and maternal exercise on gestational diabetes
  • Prevention of childhood obesity through early intervention during pregnancy and post delivery
  • Nutrition & Exercise Lifestyle Intervention Program (NELIP) for overweight and obese pregnant women
  • Stroller walking program for postpartum women for safe weight loss after delivery
  • Effects of a bed-rest-exercise intervention on hospitalized high risk pregnant women
Master's and PhD
Noble, Earl
  • Heat shock proteins as transducers of exercise induced protection in skeletal muscle, the myocardium and the brain
  • The impact of exercise on vascular responsiveness to diabetes
  • The effect of ginseng and exercise on inflammation
  • The mechanisms underlying the protective effects of exercise on the nerve
Master's and PhD
Nolte, Volker
  • Biomechanics of high performance sport
  • Coaching
  • Sport engineering
  • Sport equipment
  • Feedback Equipment in Sport Biomechanics
  • Training Techniques
Master's
Paterson, Don
  • Integrative human physiology
  • Cardiorespiratory, cardivascular and metabolic responses to exercise
  • Exercise responses and limitations in older adults
  • The relationships of physical activity and fitness to health and overall well-being of older adults
Master's and PhD
Petrella, Dr. Rob
  • Laboratory and community-based study of the determinants of lifestyle intervention in cardiovascular disease prevention, management and control
Master's and PhD
Prapavessis, Harry
  • Determinants of physical activity
  • Exercise as a therapy to improve health
  • The role of psychological factors in the prediction, prevention and recovery of injury

Master's and PhD

Rice, Charles
  • Human neuromuscular physiology and anatomy
  • Muscle strength, fatigue and exercise
  • Neuromuscular aspects of adult aging
Master's and PhD
Salmoni, Alan
  • Falls in seniors
  • Causes and prevention of falls
  • Factors influencing prevention activities (e.g. safety culture)
  • Bicycle safety in children
Master's and PhD
Schneider, Angela
  • Genetic Doping in Sport
  • Olympic Studies
  • Women and Sport and Embodiment
  • Philosophy of Sport
  • Sport Medicine Ethics
Master's and PhD
Semotiuk, Darwin
  • Issues in International Sport and Physical Activity
  • National Government Involvement in Sport and Physical Activity
  • High Performance Sport
Master's and PhD
Shoemaker, Kevin
  • Neural discharge patterns and their impact on neurotransmitter release and vascular control
  • Reflex cardiovascular control in integrated systems
  • Forebrain modification of autonomic and cardiovascular regulation
  • Regulation of blood flow to nerves
  • Impact of vascular disease on neural (e.g., brain and peripheral nerves) blood flow, structure and function

Master's and PhD

Singer, Clarke Coaching specialization mentor
Takahashi, Ray Master's Coaching Specialization mentor (wrestling)
Vandervoort, Tony
  • Measurement of neuromuscular performance and related muscle contractile properties in older adults
  • Investigating the benefits of high-resistance exercise programs for improving muscular strength and function in this population, which includes sport-specific injury prevention such as for golf
  • Application of these findings to rehabilitation programs for older adults with mobility impairment (muscles of the lower limb are my usual models of investigation for this area of research)
Master's and PhD
Vigars, Bob
  • Qualitative Biomechanics of Sport, Exercise, and Dance
  • Sport Coaching & Competition Administration
  • Sport Training Methods
Master's Coaching Specialization mentor (cross country)
Wamsley, Kevin
  • The Olympic Games - history; politics of hosting; organization of gender
  • Canadian sport history; violence, masculinity, sport and the state
  • Boys' involvement in physical education
  • Curling and rural women's health
Master's and PhD
Watson, Ron
  • Ice hockey and the law
  • Safety in ice hockey
Master's
Weese, Jim
  • Sport leadership
  • Executive leadership
  • Higher education
Master's and PhD

Professors Emeritus

  • Barney, Robert
  • Boydell, Craig
  • Chelladurai, Packianathan
  • Cunningham, David
  • Fairs, Jack
  • Gonser, Gerry
  • Hill, J. Stanley
  • Leyshon, Glynn
  • Meier, Klaus
  • Miller, Doris
  • Peterson, Donna
  • Taylor, Albert
  • Watson, Ron
  • Wearring, George
  • Yuhasz, Mike
  • Zeigler, Earle

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