Dr. Nancy Spencer-Cavaliere 
Office (780) 492-9615      
email: ncavalie@ualberta.ca

• Vulnerable children, play and physical activitySpecific interests in children who are neglected, materially deprived and/or have disability
• Psycho-social and environmental aspects of activity engagement for vulnerable children
• Adapted Physical Activity
• Issues related to inclusion and competence in physical activity, recreation and sport for children with disabilities; disability sport

Dr. Nick Holt (see also Sport Psychology)

Dr. Marcel Bouffard (Dr. Bouffard is not accepting graduate students.)
Office (780) 492-3566      
email: marcel.bouffard@ualberta.ca

• Movement skill acquisition of mentally handicapped and physically awkward children,
• Methodological issues in adapted physical activity 

Dr. Janice Causgrove Dunn, Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs
Office (780) 492-0580      
email: janice.causgrovedunn@ualberta.ca

• Motivational aspects of participation in physical activities and recreation by children with disabilities.

Dr. Donna Goodwin 
Office  (780) 492-4397      
email: donna.goodwin@ualberta.ca

• Issues related to disability and physical well-being
• Current research explores the notion of disability as a social construction and the resulting impact of societal attitudes on participating in physical activity as it applies to persons with disabilities.
• Methodological issues unique to capturing the experiences of persons with disabilities in physical activity settings as well as research into professional practice
• Dr. Goodwin's curriculum vitae (abbreviated) (PDF) 

Dr. Kelvin Jones 
Office (780) 492-0650   
email: kelvin.jones@ualberta.ca

• Mathematical models of neuromuscular physiology
• Multi-sensory integration for production and learning of movement
• Electro-diagnostic methods for assessing health of the neuromuscular system

Dr. Nancy Spencer Cavaliere (see also Active, Healthy Children)

Dr. Pierre Baudin
Office (780) 492-1381      
email: pierre.baudin@ualberta.ca

Discipline of biomechanics specifically:

• sports biomechanics,
• computer simulation of human movement, and
• biomechanics pedagogy

• Understanding human movements as the observable component of complex human cognition
• Analyzing reaching behaviour to reveal how we select an object for action when it is in a complex environment with many other objects
• Examining the neural and behavioural signature of objects that are not selected for action, e.g. obstacle avoidance
• Dr. Chapman's curriculum vitae (PDF)

Dr. Loren Chiu 
Office (780) 248-1263      
email: loren.chiu@ualberta.ca

• Analysis and optimization of multi-segmental motor skills
• Acute responses and chronic adaptations to resistance training
• Transfer of training to motor skill performance
• Physiology and mechanics of muscular strength
• Dr. Chiu's website

• Neural control of human movement
• Spinal and supraspinal mechanisms
• Reflex modulation
• Proprioception
• Kinaesthesia
• Human muscle
• Motorneurons
• Plateau potentials
• Functional electrical stimulation
• Spinal cord injury
• Dr. Collins' web site 

• Perceptual motor behaviour with two specific foci:
  - the organization of locomotion across the life span (special emphasis on stair-climbing gait)
  - perceptual motor behaviour in persons with Down Syndrome, examining optimal motor learning strategies and the onset of motor skills for this population
• Dr. Maraj's website

Exercise and health psychology

• Why physical activity promotion messages are largely ineffectual
• Designing better physical activity promotion messages
• Automatic processes that underlie activity behaviour  (e.g. attentional bias and stereotype activation)

Dr. Berry's website

• Relationship between physical activity, sedentary behaviour, obesity, and other health outcomes
• Determinants of physical activity and sedentary behaviour
• Objective measurement of physical activity and sedentary behaviour
• Dr. Carson's curriculum vitae (PDF)

• The role of physical activity in cancer control including primary prevention, coping with treatments,rehabilitation after treatments, and secondary prevention and survival
• the outcomes of physical activity (e.g., physical functioning, fatigue, quality of life, disease endpoints)
• the determinants of physical activity (e.g., social cognitive models, disease factors)
• and behaviour change interventions to promote physical activity (e.g., print materials, internet)
• Dr. Courneya's CV (PDF) 
• Behavioural Medicine Laboratory

• Background in kinesiology, with an interest in physical activity and health psychology
• Research focus:
  • Body image, physical activity, and health of Aboriginal peoples
  • Qualitative, feminist, and participatory action research approaches
  • Dr. McHugh's CV (PDF)

• Health-related physical activity
• Community-based physical activity promotion
• Web-based interventions to promote physical activity in general and clinical populations
• Dr. Mummery's CV (PDF)

• Social psychology of exercise, health and lifestyle behaviour
• Theoretical and practical issues of program initiation and maintenance  

• Background in psychology and behavioural medicine. Focus of research is in the exercise and health psychology domain
• Research focus on the determinants and benefits of physical activity participation, changes in affect and self in relation to exercise participation in both the laboratory and community settings
• Dr. Spence's biography (PDF)

• Physiological and cellular adaptations to physical training, especially cardio-respiratory and skeletal muscle properties, with an interest in the effects of spinal cord injury and space flight on muscle metabolism and morphology.
• Physiological assessment and prescription for fitness and health-related development.
• Dr. Bell's abbreviated CV (PDF) 
• Dr. Bell is associated with the Sport and Health Assessment Centre and the Physical Activity and Diabetes Laboratory 

• Factors modulating the relationship between adiposity and insulin resistance
• Physical activity and type 2 diabetes
• Physical activity and obesity
• Dr. Boulé's CV (PDF) 
• Dr. Boulé is associated with the Physical Activity and Diabetes Laboratory

• Investigating the mechanisms of maternal-fetal transmission of chronic disease risk
• Exploring the effect of exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period on maternal/fetal health
• Understanding the long-term effect of pre-natal exercise on infant health
• Specific interest in the maternal/fetal cardiovascular and metabolic adaptations to exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period
• Dr. Davenport's curriculum vitae (PDF)

• Cardiorespiratory physiology and muscle metabolism in response to exercise
• Control of skeletal muscle vascular tone and blood flow at rest and during exercise 
• Specific interest in the effects of advancing age, gender and physical training 
• The research program utilizes both human and animal approaches
• Dr. DeLorey's curriculum vitae (PDF) 

• Hormonal and metabolic adaptations to acute and chronic exercise,
• Investigating independent and interactive effects of energy intake and energy expenditure on the reproductive axis, the endocrine system and body composition (skeletal muscle, bone and adipose tissue),
• Predisposing factors and mechanisms underlying reproductive dysfunction in active women.
• Canadian Sport for Life: The Female Athlete Perspective (PDF)

• Lung inflammation and lung function in athletes
• Assessment of performance in endurance sports including pacing strategies and influence of fatigue 
• Fatigue, health and fitness factors that affect illness, injury and performance in athletes
• Coordinated regulation of the cardio-respiratory system during exercise

Dr. Stewart Petersen, Associate Dean, Graduate Programs (Dr. Petersen is not accepting graduate students at this time.)
Office (780) 492-0996      
email: stewart.petersen@ualberta.ca

• Work physiology with emphasis on problems related to emergency response occupations. 
• Cardio-pulmonary limitations to exercise in health and disease.
• Development of fitness standards for physically demanding occupations.
• Dr. Petersen is associated with the Work Physiology laboratory

• Neuromuscular cell biology
• The lab group investigates, in basic rodent models, the cellular and molecular mechanisms directing muscle fibre transformation in response to acute and chronic increases in muscle contraction
• Special emphasis is placed on satellite cell activity and the control of myosin heavy chain gene expression
• Neuromuscular adaptation is also studied in transgenic murine models of degenerative neuromuscular disease

• Regulation of the sympathetic nervous system as it relates to cardiovascular control
• Reflex physiology associated with baroreflex and chemoreflex mechanims
• The plasticity of these systems in response to exercise, training, and treatment
• Specific interest in neurovascular and cardiovascular control in response activities, environments, and diseases associated with low oxygen (hypoxia)
• Dr. Steinback's curriculum vitae (PDF)

• Advanced conditioning methodologies in resistance training,
• Use of nutritional supplements as an ergogenic aid,
• Applied sport training programs for elite athletes.
• Use of "non-banned training nutritional adjuncts" or supplementation with training.
• Training phenomena that can directly benefit the athlete and/or coach.
• Dr. Syrotuik's curriculum vitae (PDF) 

• Critical and indigenous perspectives about theories of leisures. 
• Specific projects include:
• Youth-driven leisure initiatives
• Urban Aboriginal youth and hip hop
• Native Hawaiian critiques and perspectives of leisure,
• Participatory, arts-informed and indigenous research methodologies
• Ethical outdoor leadership,
• Leisure research and praxis

Dr. Tom Hinch, Associate Dean, Community and International Engagement
Office (780) 492-2759      
email: tom.hinch@ualberta.ca; see also Sport and Leisure Organisations

• Sustainable tourism in destination communities, with an emphasis on:
  - sport tourism,
  - tourism and indigenous people,
  - tourism seasonality
  - casino-based tourism.
• Exploration of "place" as understood by hosts and guests within specified tourism destinations.
• Dr. Hinch's CV (abbreviated) - PDF format

• Park and protected areas management
• Tourism, especially nature-based
• Visitor experience
• Park tourism; nature-based tourism; agro-tourism; marine tourism
• Environmental attitudes and behaviours
• Volunteerism
• Outdoor recreation
• Sense of place and place attachment
• Marketing theory and consumer behaviour

• Canadian history and cultural studies of recreation, sport, leisure, and tourism
• People, parks, and politics
• National parks, mountaineering, travel, art, literature, education, children's play, health
• Social reform and community movements
• Environmental history, public history, gender history
• Cultural resource management and historic sites
• Dr. Reichwein's website

• Leisure behaviour, particularly motivations for, constraints to, and experiences during leisure
• Cross-cultural similarities and differences in leisure behaviour especially among Canadians, Chinese and Chinese-Canadians
• Outdoor recreation
• Dr. Walker's CV (PDF) - abbreviated 

Dr. Judy Davidson 
Office (780) 492-1024      
email: judy.davidson@ualberta.ca 

• Feminist/sexuality studies, particularly post-foundational critiques in sport studies
• Foucaultian discourse analysis, particularly concerning the production of sport/leisure identities
• Queer theory and its intersections with sport and leisure.
• More information on Dr. Davidson's graduate supervision and research interests (PDF).

• Coaching "knowledges" and practices
• Coach education
• Foucauldian perspectives
• Socio-cultural aspects of performance enhancement
• Dr. Denison's selected publications (PDF) 

• Poststructuralist theory, fitness and health
• Feminism, body, physical activity and dance
• Ethnography, autoethnography and performance ethnography
• Dr. Markula's curriculum vitae (abbreviated) - PDF

• Sociology of the body and embodiment in the areas of physical activity and sport
• Gender studies, women, children
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Dr. McDermott's abbreviated curriculum vitae (PDF) 

• Canadian alpine history (mountaineering, skiing, parks, tourism)
• Western Canadian environmental history
• Rocky and Columbia mountains
• Travel literature and postcolonialism
• Tourism, globalization, and indigeneity
• Dr. Robinson is associated with the Mountain Studies Initiative 

• Cultural studies of sport
• Globalization, sport, and public policy
• Qualitative research methodologies
• Dr. Jay Scherer's curriculum vitae (abbreviated) - PDF 

• Sport management,
• Sport commerce and culture,
• Agency theory,
• Stakeholder theory,
• Historical and legal aspects of sport and leisure.
• Dr. Mason's CV (PDF) 

• International sport system and its relationship with the Canadian sport system,
• Canadian sport system and the role played by universities in that system,
• Alberta sport system and the performance of sport and recreation organizations,
• The management of sport, recreation and physical activity and the role management plays in increasing participation in sport and physical activity.

• Perfectionism in sport
• Emotions in sport
• Team-building
• Social goals
• Psychometrics and scale construction
• Performance psychology
• Dr. Dunn's website
• Dr. Dunn's curriculum vitae (PDF)

• Psychosocial dimensions of youth sport, physical activity,
  and physical education
• Treatment preferences of overweight children and their families
• Emphasis on positive youth development, coping, motivation, and pedagogy in youth sport
• Qualitative research methods
• Dr. Holt's CV (PDF) 
• Dr. Holt's Child and Adolescent Sport and Activity lab website

• Professional practice issues in applied sport psychology
• Somatic and ontological approaches to performance enhancement
• Play, games, and fun - especially in physical activity instruction.
• Dr. Strean's curriculum vitae (PDF) 
• Dr. Strean's website