Faculty Members and Areas of Research

Frederick I. Bell, EdD (North Carolina-Greensboro)

Teaching effectiveness in physical education, games teaching, assessment in games and gymnastics.

Catherine A. Gaul, PhD (Victoria)

Exercise physiology, pediatric sport performance, women and exercise, health benefits of exercise in cancer patients, occupational physiology, fitness and testing.

Sandra L. Gibbons, PhD (Oregon)

Team building through physical education, gender equity in physical education, affective domain in physical education, teaching effectiveness, classroom assessment in physical education.

Timothy F. Hopper, PhD (Alberta)

School integrated teaching education, teacher games for understanding and electronic portfolios. Action research and qualitative research genres. Social constructivism and complexity therories.

Sandra R. Hundza, PhD (Victoria)

Neural control of human movement; motor rehabilitation after injury (e.g. neurotrauma) and with disease and aging. Neural control of balance during walking and coordination of limbs and trunk during rhythmic movement (e.g., walking or cycling); assistive devices and technologies related to mobility.

Marc Klimstra, PhD (Victoria)

Biomechanics and motor control of human movement in sport, exercise and rehabilitation.

Lara Lauzon, PhD (Victoria)

Teacher wellness, college and university student health and wellness, organizational and workplace wellness, leadership, active health, and media and body image.

John Meldrum, PhD (Waterloo)

Management, marketing, and service quality. Understanding human relationships and the attachment to people, places and activities in a health, leisure, sport or community context.

Patti-Jean Naylor, PhD (Victoria)

Socio-ecological and setting-based approaches to health promotion, obesity and chronic disease prevention, dissemination, knowledge translation/exchange, implementation and organizational capacity.

Douglas R. Nichols, PhD (Oregon)

Outdoor recreation and leisure for special populations, recreation administration, environmental interpretation.

Ryan Rhodes, PhD (Alberta)

Behavioural medicine, psychology of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, social cognitive and personality theories of health behaviour, research methods, and psychometrics.

Lynneth A. Stuart-Hill, PhD (British Columbia)

Exercise hematology and immunology, occupational physiology, development of pre-employment physical abilities tests, children and exercise, exercise prescription.

Viviene A. Temple, PhD (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Physical activity for people with disabilities and disadvantaged groups; inclusive pedagogy, movement skills of children.

Geraldine H. Van Gyn, PhD (Alberta)

Skill acquisition and practice characteristics, cognitive factors in skilled behaviour.

S. Joan Wharf Higgins, PhD (British Columbia)

Health literacy; community-based research; health promotion policy and practice; qualitative research design and methodology; social marketing; determinants of population health.

E. Paul Zehr, PhD (Alberta)

Neural control of human movement; neural mechanisms of arm and leg coordination during rhythmic movement; neuromuscular plasticity associated with training and rehabilitation.