Kinesiology
Master of High Performance Coaching and Technical Leadership
School of Kinesiology
The School of Kinesiology continues to attract top students to its highly regarded graduate program where we offer studies at both the masters and doctoral level. The School has excellent research facilities and graduate students are mentored by some of the top professors and researchers in the field of Kinesiology. We offer graduate students original investigations (MA, MSc, PhD) and advanced study (MKin) in biological, behavioural, and socio-cultural research in Kinesiology.
We are proud to be part of a leading global university that is committed to providing an exceptional learning environment and to fostering global citizenship, a civil and sustainable society, and outstanding research.
Graduate Degree Programs
Research Supervisors
| Name | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| Beauchamp, Mark | Social Determinants of Health; Health Promotion; Quality of Life and Aging; Mental Health and Society; Physical Activity; Health Psychology; Exercise Psychology; Sport Psychology; Group Processes; Leadership; Intervention; Social Cognition; Older Adults; Children |
| Blouin, Jean-Sebastien | Sensorimotor Integration; Motor System; Robotics and Automation; Trauma / Injuries; Physiology; Sensorimotor physiology; Standing balance; Balance robot; Sensory virtualisation; Computational approaches; Head and neck; Whiplash injuries |
| Boushel, Robert | Kinesiology |
| Bredin, Shannon | human motor learning, expertise and development, physical education, teacher preparation and effectiveness, Human motor behaviour (motor learning, development, and expertise), life span physical activity and health, physical and health literacy, health knowledge, health-related physical fitness, interactive gaming, telehealth, psychomotor markers of performance |
| Bundon, Andrea | Social Contexts; disability; sport; Paralympics; sociology; critical disability studies; social media |
| Carpenter, Mark | neural control of movement, fear of falling, Neural control of movement, postural control, fears of falling, balance disorders, Parkinson's disease |
| Chua, Romeo | Human perceptual-motor control, vision and action, perceptual-motor compatibility, coordination |
| Crocker, Peter | self-esteem and spirit/exercise; body image; stress and coping in sport and exercise; health related behaviour (dieting, smoking, physical activity) related to the construction of the physical self in adolescent girls, Sport & exercise psychology - stress, coping and emotion, physical self, perfectionism |
| Faulkner, Guy | Community Health / Public Health; physical activity and public health; mental health; physical activity interventions; Exercise Psychology; behavioral medicine |
| Hodges, Nicola | Sport and exercise psychology; Natural sciences; action anticipation and observation; coaching and motor skill expertise; skill acquisition; Motor learning; observational learning and instruction |
| Hurd, Laura | Social sciences; Aging; health; Gender; body image; embodiment or embodied experience; disability; chronic illness or chronic conditions; Assistive technology; sexuality; gender identity; sexual orientation; Physical Activity; qualitative methods; LGBTQ older adults; media representation; ageism; heterosexism; ableism; sociology of aging; social gerontology |
| Inglis, J Timothy | Exercise science, neurophysiology, biomechanics, stance and balance control, human microneurography, physical therapy and rehabilitation, vestibular system |
| Koehle, Michael | Physiology; Environmental Health; Health Promotion; Environment and Respiratory Diseases; Respiratory System; Exercise physiology, environmental physiology, sport and exercise medicine; air pollution; Sport and Exercise Medicine; Environmental Physiology; Altitude |
| Lam, Tania | Sensorimotor physiology; Kinesiology; Physical therapy; Neurological disorders (except neuromuscular diseases); gait rehabilitation; exercise; neurorecovery; urogenital function; urologic rehabilitation |
| Miran-Khan, Karim | Exercise is Medicine; Health promotion via Exercise; Type 2 DM prevention |
| Mitchell, Cameron | Aging; molecular biology; Muscle hypertrophy; Nutrition; Physical performance; Protein metabolism; Resistance training; Sarcopenia |
| Norman, Moss | Indigenous Studies in Kinesiology; Socio-Cultural Studies; Community and public health; Critical weight studies; Indigenous physical cultures; Masculinities |
| Puterman, Eli | Health Psychology; Stress physiology; Acute exercise; Exercise interventions; Physical Activity; Physical literacy; cellular aging; telomeres; chronic stress |
| Sheel, William | exercise science, Exercise science, exercise physiology, respiratory and cardiovascular physiology, athletic performance, cardiovascular |
| Vertinsky, Patricia | social and cultural history of the body, gender relations, health, sport and exercise, social history of women and health, social/cultural aspects of sport and physical activity, health education, promotion and policy, Social and cultural history of sport and physical activity, gender, race, aging and disability, modern olympics |
| Warburton, Darren | cardiovascular physiology, clinical exercise rehabilitation, interactive video games, , Sport cardiology and clinical exercise rehabilitation, elite athletic performance, childhood health, treatments for patients with chronic disease, cardiac rehabilitation |
| Wilson, Brian | Cultural studies and sociology with focus on media, consumer culture, youth, social inequality, social movements, the environment, qualitative methods, and sport and leisure studies |
