Title: “Coping with the Emotional Experience of Multiple Concussions in Varsity Sport” Supervisor: Dr. Peter Crocker (Kinesiology) Committee Members: Dr. Michael Koehle (Kinesiology), Dr. Andrea Bundon (Kinesiology) Abstract: Sport-related concussions are emerging as a growing health concern, with the documented occurrence doubling over the last decade (Mrazik et al., 2016). Susceptibility to more severe subsequent concussions […]
Title: “Investigating the central and peripheral contributions to tactile gating during goal-directed movement” Supervisor: Dr. Romeo Chua (Kinesiology) Committee Members: Dr. Tim Inglis (Kinesiology), Dr. Ian Franks (Kinesiology) Abstract: The current thesis proposal will focus on the facilitation and downregulation of sensory information during goal-directed movement. Specifically, the presence or absence of tactile gating, in which humans […]
Title: “Understanding the perspectives of Syrian refugee women toward their health and physical activity needs as they become integrated into Canadian society” Supervisor: Dr. Patricia Vertinsky (Kinesiology) Committee Members: Dr. Andrea Bundon (Kinesiology), Dr. Wendy Frisby (Kinesiology), Dr. Deirdre Kelly (Education) Abstract: Canada has played a significant role in one of the world’s worst humanitarian […]
Exercising for stress reduction: Implications for biological and psychological wellbeing. A presentation by Dr. Eli Puterman.
Presented by UBC School of Kinesiology, UBC Wellbeing and MoveUBC.
Join us on Friday, March 10 from 12:30-2:30pm for our 2017 Lab Crawl! Our Lab Crawl Series provides Kinesiology students with an opportunity to visit labs, talk to professors, researchers and graduate students about their work and interact with cutting edge equipment and technologies in the field of Kinesiology. Past Lab Crawls have included visits […]
Fri, 10 March 2017 1:00 PM – 6:00 PM Life Sciences Institute Explore Exercise, Omics and Health with leading experts, featuring presentations and an all presenter panel: Exercise and health promotion Personalized medicine Nutrigenomics and Health Exercise, myokines and health Exercise, metabolomics / fluxomics Exercise omics models for health promotion Big data and the cloud […]
Guest Speaker: Dr. Chris McNeil , Assistant Professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBCO Host: Dr. Tim Inglis Dr. Chris McNeil has been an Assistant Professor in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences at UBCO since 2012. Prior to that, he completed a PhD at The University of Western Ontario […]
Title: “The effects of early pain management on neurological recovery following acute spinal cord injury” Supervisor: Dr. John Kramer (Kinesiology) Committee Members: Dr. Tania Lam (Kinesiology), Dr. Helen Tremlett (SPPH), Dr. David Whitehurst (SFU) Abstract: For individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI), parts of the body that were once connected to the brain become isolated, […]
Title: “The Effects of Knowledge Translation through Peers vs. Non-Peer Students on Exercise Self-Efficacy and Physical Activity Levels in People with Spinal Cord Injury” Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Tania Lam (Kinesiology) Committee members: Dr. Guy Faulkner (Kinesiology), Dr. Chris McBride (Executive Director of Spinal Cord Injury-BC) Chair: Dr. Jean-Sebastien Blouin (Kinesiology) Abstract: A spinal cord injury (SCI), […]
Exercising for stress reduction: Implications for biological and psychological wellbeing