KIN Alumnus, Glen Mulcahy, BPE 91, was recently awarded the Alumni Builder Award by the School and Alumni UBC for his contribution to the Mentorship Program and to the UBC Kinesiology community. See the full list of recipients here. As founder of Paradigm Sports, Glen invites those interested in putting the love of the game back in Youth Sports to sign up for the 2018 Winter Youth Sports Digital 3-Day Summit, December 14-16, 2018.
Nov. 28, 2018 – New paper out by Mark Duncan and Dr. Guy Faulkner assessing the validity of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) in measuring sitting time among individuals with schizophrenia. Read it here!
Nov. 28, 2018 – New paper in BMC Public Health by Dr. Lira Yun and Dr. Guy Faulkner examining the social climate of physical (in)activity in Canada. This study is the first known attempt to assess social climate at a national level, addressing an important gap in knowledge related to advocating for and implementing population-level physical activity interventions. Read it here!
“Exercise as Medicine”, published in The Province, discusses the importance of exercise in the treatment regime of cancer patients.
Don McKenzie, UBC School of Kinesiology Sports Medicine professor, exercise physiologist, and director of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Clinic, is quoted in the article.
Don says of exercise, “Physical activity has been overlooked and underutilized in the management of patients with cancer. Fortunately exercise is gaining some traction in the health care professions; physical activity should be standard of care.”
Nov. 15, 2018 – New scoping review out by Krista Glowacki, Katie Weatherson, and Dr. Guy Faulkner on the barriers and facilitators to health care providers’ promotion of physical activity for individuals with mental illness. Read it here.
Nov. 7, 2018 – Congrats to PhD student Krista Glowacki who successfully completed her comps.
Dr. Jordan Guenette, has won the very prestigious Young Investigator’s Award from the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology. Dr. Guenette received his BHK (2004), MSc (2006) and PhD (2010) in Exercise and Respiratory Physiology in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia. He is now an associate professor in UBC Physiotherapy and works at the Centre for Heart Lung Innovation in St Paul’s hospital.
The CSEP Young Investigator Award (YIA) is presented annually to an outstanding CSEP member who received the PhD or MD degree within the past 10 years. Any parental leave(s) taken since receiving their degree will not count towards the time limit. The individual must be acknowledged to have an excellent reputation throughout Canada and to have achieved notable international recognition. The recipient is acknowledged at the CSEP AGM and will make a special 30-minute presentation of his/her award-winning research.
Congratulations to Dr. Shannon Bredin, Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology, for being awarded a $45,300 SSHRC Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation Connection Grant. This grant will support a series of community-led, co-created activities designed to gain understanding of how we can help shape and transform the teaching and learning of Indigenous knowledges, perspectives, and pedagogies within higher education settings, with the goal of contributing to the transformation of higher education curriculum and teaching approaches. The findings from this work will result in a position paper to be shared at a national dialogue event scheduled for March 2019 supported by the Tri-Council funding agencies (SSHRC, NSERC, and CIHR).
Team: Bredin, Shannon (PI); Warburton, Darren (Co-PI), Hare, Jan (Co-PI), Miles, Rosalin (Co-I), Norman, Moss (Co-I), Oh, Paul (Co-I), Rhodes, Ryan (Co-I), Foulds, Heather (Co-I), Mihalynuk, Tanis (Co-I), Webster, Janet (Collaborator), Sparrow, Gail (Collaborator), Kyba, Georgia (Collaborator), & Johnson, Suzanne (Collaborator).
Doug Staveley, BPE’68, was recently inducted into the Richmond Sports Wall of Fame.
Staveley flaunts an impressive career in both athletics and coaching. As an undergraduate student, he played for UBC Thunderbirds’ rugby and football teams, while volunteering as an assistant football coach at Steveston High.
Hired by Steveston High after his graduation, Staveley was appointed co-head coach in 1972. Staveley led the Steveston Packers football team to become one of the top football programs in BC. He also had a hand in coaching the Steveston boys intermediate and girls senior basketball teams and in 1984 and 1993 had a part in two of the biggest, championship-producing victories in Steveston High history.
Staveley continues coaching football since his retirement.
Congratulations to Doug on this momentous achievement.
Alumni,, physical educators and kinesiologists more generally will be sad to hear that 
, PhD, LLD, D.Sc, died September 29, 2018 at age 99. Following his leadership in Kinesiology at the University of Western Ontario he retired to Richmond, BC where he continued to contribute vibrantly to the field of physical education and kinesiology. Zeigler earned a BA from Bates College and a MA and PhD from Yale University. He taught, researched and administered at Yale 1943-49, and the University of Connecticut 1944-49, Michigan 1956-63, Illinois (C-U) 1963-71 and the University of Western Ontario 1949-56 and 1971-89. An unparalleled leader in his field over 78 years, he was a pioneer in introducing socio-cultural dimensions to the study of sport and physical activity and wrote extensively on North American human values, ethics and personal decision making. After receiving the highest recognition (Honour Award) of the Canadian Association for HPERD in 1975, he received the top three awards in his field from the US (Alliance Scholar-of-the-Year, AAHPERD, 1977; Hetherington Award, AAKPE, 1989; and the Gulick Medal, AAHPERD, 1990). In 2008 the North American Society for Sport History awarded him its “Contributions to Sport History” award. He received three honorary doctorates (LLD 1975 U. of Windsor; DSc 1997 U. of Lethbridge; and LLD 2008 U. of Western Ontario). Students will find his many books and articles on the state of physical education and kinesiology in North America enlightening.