Event Category Archives: Seminars

Seminar Series: Rx Exercise: Standard of care for cancer patients – Kinesiology makes a difference!

Dr. Don McKenzie will join our seminar program to talk about a number of issues specific to cancer and exercise, and how the introduction of exercise in the cancer population in BC is, in part, the history of Abreast in A Boat and the global impact the program has had in changing the way society […]

Seminar Series: Mood states and mental health in sport, exercise and life – Dr. Peter Terry

Dr Peter Terry is Dean of the Graduate Research School and Professor of Psychology at the University of Southern Queensland. Dr Terry will join our seminar series to speak about mental health in sport, exercise and life. Learn more.

Seminar Series – Anticipation in sports: Integrating contextual and multisensory information – Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland

Dr. Rouwen Cañal Bruland will join us for our seminar series on Thursday, June 15 from 12:30 – 1:30pm. Topic: Anticipation in sports: Integrating contextual and multisensory information Since its infancy in the early 1980s research on anticipation in sports has witnessed a steep incline in both research interest and output. Given the increasing importance […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology & Health Seminar Series: Dr. Hester Hockin-Boyers

Diasporic Bodies: An exploration of body image and body belonging among first and second generation Chinese Canadian women This research seminar will unpack preliminary findings from a project exploring how body image interacts with diasporic identities and transnational belonging. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 32 first and second generation Chinese Canadian women to explore their […]

Waneek Horn-MillerUBC Exercise, Kinesiology and Health Seminar Series: Waneek Horn-Miller

Building Indigenous Resilience Through Sports Waneek Horn-Miller’s powerful presentations and keynotes are aimed at reconciling relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to create culturally safe spaces. Waneek is an advocate for building Indigenous sport and has worked with the Assembly of First Nations to develop their sport, fitness, and health strategy. Drawing on her athletic […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology & Health Seminar Program: Dr. Dunja Antunovich

Please join us next week for a talk by Dr. Dunja Antunovic, a leading scholar on feminist sports media.This talk is open to all but I would specifically recommend it to graduate students and early career scholars as Dunja will also be speaking to her experiences of working in academia, developing a research agenda, the […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology & Health Seminar Series: Dr. Thomas Curran

The Perfection Trap This talk will be all about the hidden epidemic of perfectionism in the Western world. Dr. Curran will discuss the overzealous, hypercriticality that germinates in a society that always wants more, and how, while perfectionism ostensibly seeks to improve us, it ultimately leads to hugely negative consequences for our personal wellbeing, performances, […]

UBC Exercise, Kinesiology and Health Seminar Series: Dr. Konrad Kording

Liberating Movement Science from the Laboratory Massive progress in machine learning technologies makes it easy and progressively precise to quantify movement in everyday situations. I will discuss how this enables the understanding of wider and wider ranges of behaviors in the real world. This development promises to make our research far more useful for the […]

Don McKenzie Lecture: Dr. Kerry S. Courneya

New Evidence on the Role of Exercise as a Cancer Treatment Exercise is established as a supportive care intervention in oncology to improve health-related fitness, symptoms, and quality of life in cancer patients and survivors. Exercise has also been proposed as a possible cancer treatment; however, there are an infinite number of clinical oncology settings […]

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