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Creating Champions: Spotlight on the Professional Masters in High Performance Coaching
Presented by UBC School of Kinesiology; Canadian Sport Institute, Pacific; and UBC Athletics. Podcast recording by Clark’s Audio Visual.
The UBC School of Kinesiology gathered a panel of expert coaches together for an evening of discussion and insight into the Professional Masters of High Performance Coaching and Technical Leadership (MHPCTL) and the general state of professional coaching today.
Learn how the MHPCTL program is developing the next generation of coaches and technical leaders for Canada, and how it aims to raise the standard of sport as a safe, inclusive and performance-oriented pathway for Canada’s upcoming athletes.
Running Free: Children’s Independent Mobility
On September 18, 2019, the school presented the premiere screening of Running Free: Children’s Independent Mobility, produced by Professor Guy Faulkner of the School of Kinesiology. Told through the eyes of three families, this 26-minute documentary explores the concept of children’s independent mobility, the benefits for children’s mental health, and challenges viewers to consider solutions to this issue. Following the screening there was a panel discussion about the film’s themes.
Watch the film here.
Caitlin Geary (BKIN ’19), lead author of article published in prestigious Journal of Physiology
UBC KIN undergrad Caitlin Geary, BKIN 2019 published in prestigious Journal of Physiology Caitlin Geary is an Indigenous alumnus who graduated with her BKIN in May, 2019. While she was an undergraduate, she started to work in Professor Bill Sheel’s Health and Integrative Physiology Lab the summer before her fourth year, after receiving an NSERC […]
Eatmon, Rebekah
Graduating year: 2009
Degree: BHK
Rebekah is currently a Family Medicine Resident at UBC in the Vancouver Indigenous site. Her program is a small distributed program, with strong ties to Indigenous communities. “I am learning how our preceptors help to build strength at a community level by building up individuals. As a multitude of our patients have experienced trauma, building safe spaces in health care is of utmost importance,” she says.
Aaron Rodriguez-Correa
Future Alumni Committee Lead 2019/20 Aaron is an active student leader in the final year of his studies at UBC’s School of Kinesiology. As a transfer student, he found new connections and communities within the School, and is grateful for the opportunities that KIN has provided him. He has served in a work-learn position for […]
Nikol Grishin
KUS President 2019-2020 Nikol is in her final undergraduate year of a health science stream in the School of Kinesiology. She is the current KUS president and works with the first all-female KUS council in 10 years. When she initially applied to UBC, she planned to enter science with the vision of pursuing medicine in […]
Distinguished Speaker Series: Challenges, Complexities & Compromises – Australian Aboriginal Sport History
Murray Phillips
Professor of Sport History, School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences
University of Queensland
Dr. Phillips discusses his involvement in collaborating, researching and writing about Aboriginal Sport History. Describing his research as one of the most challenging, and rewarding, opportunities of his scholastic career.
The challenges involve making meaningful contributions to Aboriginal communities though history making. He describes how it involves appropriate recognition of, and involvement with, Aboriginal people. It involves writing history with his Aboriginal partners that employs appropriate theoretical and conceptual lenses, and strength-based approaches to history, that contribute to building strong and resilient communities, empowering them in the present and into the future.
New “Exercise and Depression Toolkit” integrates exercise into mental healthcare delivery in Canada
Graduate student Krista Glowacki has developed an innovative Exercise and Depression Toolkit for Canadian healthcare providers who work with adults with depression. The kit is designed to support healthcare professionals in exploring exercise as a treatment option for depression in collaboration with their patients. As a Kinesiology PhD candidate and registered occupational therapist who worked […]
Carswell, Lindsay
Graduating year: 1995
Degree: BHK
As director of the Ride to Conquer Cancer at the BC Cancer Foundation, Lindsay Carswell has had the privilege of building a career which enables him to make a lasting difference in the lives of others. By overseeing BC’s largest mass participation fundraising event for the past five years, Lindsay has had the opportunity to promote cycling to thousands of British Columbians looking to make a difference in the fight against cancer.
