Faculty and Staff Directories

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Faculty and Areas of Research

Frederick I. Bell, Associate Professor, EdD (North Carolina-Greensboro)
Teaching effectiveness in physical education, games teaching, assessment in games and gymnastics

David Docherty, Professor, PhD (Oregon)
Neuromuscular responses and adaptations to resistance training; bona fide occupational fitness testing

Catherine A. Gaul, Associate Professor, PhD (Victoria)
Course Director, Foundations of Medicine, Island Medical Program; pediatric exercise physiology; women and exercise, health benefits of exercise in cancer patients, bona fide occupational fitness

Sandra L. Gibbons, Associate Professor, PhD (Oregon)
Moral development through sport/physical education, gender equity in physical education, affective domain in physical education, teaching effectiveness

Timothy F. Hopper, Assistant Professor, PhD (Alberta)
Action research, teacher education in physical education, personal construct psychology,social constructivism and teaching, qualitative research software, field-based teacher education

Lara Lauzon, Assistant Professor, PhD (Victoria)
Teacher wellness, organizational and workplace wellness, leadership, active health, and media and body image

John Meldrum, Lecturer, MBA (Manitoba)
Management, organizational behaviour, and service quality in sport and leisure organizations. Understanding human relationships and the attachment to people, places and or things in a health, leisure or sport context.

Patti-Jean Naylor, Assistant Professor PhD (Victoria)

Socio-ecological approaches to health promotion, obesity and chronic disease prevention

Douglas R. Nichols, Professor, PhD (Oregon),
Director of the School of Exercise Science, Physical & Health Education; outdoor recreation and leisure for special populations, recreation administration, environmental interpretation

Ryan Rhodes, Associate Professor, PhD (Alberta)
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar; Canadian Institutes of Health Research New Investigator; behavioural medicine, psychology of physical activity and sedentary behaviour, social cognitive and personality theories of health behaviour, research methods, and psychometrics

Viviene A. Temple, Associate Professor, PhD (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)
Physical activity for people with disabilities and disadvantaged groups; inclusive pedagogy, movement skills of children

Geraldine H. Van Gyn, Professor, PhD (Alberta)
Skill acquisition and practice characteristics, cognitive factors in skilled behaviour

Howard A. Wenger, Professor, PhD (Alberta)
Physiological and performance adaptations to acute and chronic maximal exercise, application of physiological principles to elite sport

S. Joan Wharf Higgins, Professor, PhD (British Columbia)
Canada Research Chair in Health and Society; health literacy community-based research; health promotion policy and practice; qualitative research design and methodology; social marketing; determinants of population health

Lynneth A. Wolski, Assistant Professor, PhD (British Columbia)

Exercise hematology and immunology, occupational physiology, development of pre-employment physical abilities tests, children and exercise, exercise prescription

E. Paul Zehr, Associate Professor, PhD (Alberta)
Director, Centre for Biomedical Research, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Scholar; neural control of human movement; neural mechanisms of interlimb coordination; reflex control of rhythmic movement; neuromuscular plasticity; motor recovery after neurotrama; mechanisms underlying motor skill acquisition in developmental delay; rehabilitation