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Jennings, Jim
Graduating year: 2016, 2022
Degree: HPCTL, MHPCTL
Jim Jennings is presently completing his master’s degree in high-performance coaching and technical leadership and will graduate in May 2022. He is the former Chair of Karate Canada’s Long-Term Development (LTD) Committee and a member of the High-Performance Committee. He runs a Karate club in Bradford, Ontario, which offers recreational and high-performance training for athletes competing at both the Provincial and National level.
Maya Sato-Klemm
Maya Sato-Klemm is a 5th-year Kinesiology student in the interdisciplinary sciences stream, minoring in biology with a focus in neurobiology and serves as a research assistant under Dr. Tania Lam in the Human Locomotion Laboratory, which is situated in UBC’s spinal cord injury research centre, known as the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries (ICORD). Maya […]
Ng, Tobias
Graduating year: 2013, 2020
Degree: BKin, MHPCTL
Tobias was an Olympic athlete in the 2012 Games and is a high-performance coach at the Bellevue Badminton Club in Washington, U.S.A. He currently coaches for the club’s junior badminton program and travels to regional and national competitions with his athletes.
Trainor, Lisa
Lisa Trainor is a 3rd year Ph.D. Kinesiology student focusing on sport and exercise psychology. She conducts qualitative research on “athlete psychological well-being, sport injury, and psychological growth,” including interviews with high-performance athletes who have competed in the Olympic or Paralympic games. […]
Albert, Ueli
Graduating year: 2020
Degree: MHPCTL
In 2004, Ueli received a scholarship from Dalhousie University “to study kinesiology and run for their Varsity track and field team.” He achieved great success as a student-athlete by participating in the World FISU Games and becoming a Canadian Interuniversity Sport (CIS) champion.
Canadian team makeup reflects gender gap at Beijing Paralympic Games
Female athletes at 2022 Games only represent 24 per cent of total competitors Andrea Bundon, an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, studies the Paralympic Games gender gap because of her experience guiding visually-impaired Para-Nordic skiers Courtney Knight (2010) in Whistler and Margarita Gorbounova (2014) in Sochi, Russia. “They had a strong preference […]
“Exploring emotional-modulation of visually evoked postural responses through virtual reality”
Congratulations to Emma Nielsen, Drs. Taylor Cleworth, and Mark Carpenter on their recent publication “Exploring emotional-modulation of visually evoked postural responses through virtual reality”! Read their study at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304394022001434
Limb and Inspiratory Metaboreflex Activation in Healthy Males and Females
Principle Investigator: Dr. Bill Sheel Details: The primary purpose of the study is to observe the blood pressure response to handgrip exercise and respiratory work between healthy males and females. You can participate in this study if; You are a healthy male or female between the ages of 18-35, do not smoke or vape, have […]
Injege, Boaz
Degree: 1st year of Master of Science in Kinesiology (MSc)
Supervisor: Dr. Eli Puterman
Teaching Assistant for KIN 150
Broadly speaking, my research brings together three threads: stress, physical activity, and mental health in Black Canadians. In the U.S, some research studies have found that Black adults experience more stress. However, they report similar or better mental health relative to White adults who experience less stress. […]
Busch, Stephen
Degree: 1st year, Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology
Supervisor: Dr. Bill Sheel
Teaching Assistant for KIN 235
My general research theme focuses on the complex physiological interaction between the human respiratory, nervous, and cardiovascular systems in response to our environment. I’m exploring this theme from the perspective of ambient air pollution produced by human sources, which causes imbalance between all three systems even during short term exposure. […]