School of KIN research team wins grant to help hard-to-reach populations
KIN professors, Drs. Guy Faulkner, Mark Beauchamp and Eli Puterman have received the John R. Evans Leaders Fund grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, with a complementary match by the BC Knowledge Development Fund. The $1.53 million award will fund the development of the RESPECT Collaboratory, a facility that is designed for building, assessing, […]
KIN student, Lynda Li, wins prestigious award at Global Undergraduate Summit
Lynda Li, 4th year undergraduate BKIN student is one of the 25 winners selected in the 2022 Global Undergraduate Awards competition. There were over 2500 submissions received worldwide. “Each year thousands of students from around the world submit their undergraduate research projects to The Global Undergraduate Awards (GUA), the world’s leading pan-discipline, undergraduate research awards […]
Congratulations Lynda Li, 2022 Global Undergraduate Award Winner!
Congratulations to BKin student Lynda Li for winning the 2022 Global Undergraduate Award for the Social Science: Sociology & Social Policy category! She will receive the award at The Global Undergraduate Awards’ annual Summit in Dublin on November 8, 2022. Each year, thousands of students from around the world submit their undergraduate research projects to […]
New Primary Care Teaching Clinic Is Set To Open In 2024!
A new UBC Team-based Primary Care Teaching Clinic is moving forward and will be housed in the new Gateway Health Building, which was recently approved as part of the UBC Budget 2022/23. The clinic proposal has been developed by a number of individuals from health professional programs across UBC, including medicine, family practice, kinesiology, midwifery, […]
KIN Students Integrate Business and Kinesiology for Future Careers
Business creation in the health and wellness space, and within the broad scope of Kinesiology, is a growing area of focus for KIN students. Today’s job market is extremely competitive. Consequently, it is important to foster innovation, resilience, and versatility. UBC Kinesiology students are so aware of these important attributes that last year, KIN students […]
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 […]