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.
Congratulations Krista Glowacki!
Nov. 7, 2018 – Congrats to PhD student Krista Glowacki who successfully completed her comps.
Congratulations to Dr. Jordan Guenette, the recipient of Young Investigator’s Award
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.
About the CSEP Young Investigator Award
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 Dr. Shannon Bredin and team on the SSHRC Indigenous Research Capacity and Reconciliation Connection Grant
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).
KIN alum Doug Staveley inducted into Richmond Sports Wall of Fame
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.
In Memoriam – Earle F. Zeigler
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.
Dr. Nicola Hodges on the value of effortful practice
“Basically, I study practice,” says Dr. Nicola Hodges, professor and researcher at the School of Kinesiology, as we open up our conversation about her work here. “I’ve been studying how people learn new skills and how to optimize this for better performance for the last 25 years.”
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The video for the “Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years” research , has been awarded a Gold W3 Award
About the research:
UBC’s Dr. Guy Faulkner, in the School of Kinesiology, was a research contributor to the new movement guidelines on sleep, physical activity, and sedentary behavior for children under five years of age, and is playing a key role in promoting their implementation.
The 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years (0-4 years) embrace the natural and intuitive integration of movement behaviors across the whole day. They were developed through the collaboration of various national, provincial and non-profit organizations, an international research team and extensive stakeholder consultation.
In order to ensure wide and effective dissemination and adoption of these guidelines, Faulkner also led a study with PhD student Negin Riazi to examine perceptions about the new guidelines and different methods for sharing them. As a result, Faulkner and his team, Riazi and Dr. Erica Lau, developed a knowledge translation tool in the form of animated videos.
A video was produced by UBC Studios with support from the Jacqueline Farquhar Endowment for Children’s Mental Health, to increase awareness of the guidelines among early childhood educators and parents, and highlight the benefits of movement to promote children’s mental health and well-being.
This video has been awarded a Gold W3 Award in the category of Social Video – Public Service.
About the W³ Awards:
The W³ Awards celebrates digital excellence by honoring outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide. In honoring the best of the Web, the W³ Awards is the first major web competition to be accessible to the biggest agencies, the smallest firms, and everyone in between. Small firms are as likely to win as Fortune 500 companies and international agencies.
Animated video wins 2018 W3 Gold Award
Oct. 23, 2018 – The animated video, Canadian 24 Hour Movement Guidelines for the Early Years, has been awarded the 2018 W3 Gold Award for Social Video-Public Service & Activism! The W3 Awards celebrate digital excellence by honoring outstanding Websites, Web Marketing, Video, Mobile Sites/Apps & Social content created by some of the best interactive agencies, designers, and creators worldwide.
Kinesiology’s newly designed 2016 – 2020 Strategic Plan Brochure
The School of Kinesiology’s newly designed Strategic Plan is now available on our website. This plan includes our mission, vision, values, and covers our four strategic pillars and priorities over four years.