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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.

Catherine A. Gaul, Associate Professor, PhD (Victoria)
2008 UVic Legacy Award for Teaching; 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, Professor, PhD (Oregon)
Team building through physical education, gender equity in physical education, affective domain in physical education, teaching effectiveness.

Timothy F. Hopper, Associate Professor, PhD (Alberta)
School integrated teaching education, teacher games for understanding and electronic portfolios.  Action research and qualitative research genres.  Social construtivism and personal construct psychology.

Sandra R. Hundza, Assistant Professor, PhD (Victoria)

Neural control of human movement; motor rehabilitation after injury (e.g. neurotrauma) and with disease and aging. Neural coordination of limbs and trunk during rhythmic movement (e.g., walking or cycling) and implications for balance control during walking; assistive technologies for those with disability.

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

John Meldrum, Assistant Professor, MBA (Manitoba)
Management, marketing, and service quality. Understanding human relationships and the attachment to people, places and activities in a health, leisure, sport or community context.

Patti-Jean Naylor, Assistant Professor PhD (Victoria)

Socio-ecological and setting-based approaches to health promotion, obesity and chronic disease prevention, dissemination, knowledge translation/exchange, implementation and organizational capacity.

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.

Lynneth A. Stuart-Hill, Assistant Professor, PhD (British Columbia)

(formerly Wolski) Exercise hematology and immunology, occupational physiology, development of pre-employment physical abilities tests, children and exercise, exercise prescription.

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)
2008 Dr. Graham Branton Research Award (Cdn Assoc for Cooperative Education); 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.

E. Paul Zehr, 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.