a FKRM student presenting to a judges about their research

Research Day

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  • Research Day 2024
  • Research Day 2024

    Join us on May 14 for Research Day 2024 , featuring new competitions and exciting guests. With experts leading sessions throughout the day, you can discover more about the cutting edge research happening within our faculty and the impact it's making on the wider community.

    Students can participate in our annual poster competition, and for the first time ever our very own FKRM 3MT competition, showcasing their knowledge and research to a panel of judges

Speakers

  • Headshot of Dr. Heather Gainforth
  • Keynote speaker:

    Dr. Heather Gainforth

    Navigating Currents:  Advancing the Science and Practice of Research Partnerships & Meaningful Engagement

    Research partnerships span diverse research disciplines, identities, locations, and/or contexts with a strong focus on research that serves equity-deserving groups. Despite calls for meaningful engagement in research, concerns about tokenism in research partnerships have been raised. To ensure research is diverse, equitable, inclusive and impactful, research that advances best practices for meaningfully engaging partners throughout the research process must be prioritized. Addressing this call, Dr. Gainforth will summarize the evidence on research partnerships and provide an overview of how the Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) Guiding Principles were co-developed to combat tokenism and support meaningful engagement in spinal cord injury research. Finally, Dr. Gainforth will discuss considerations for supporting, fostering, and maintaining meaningful research partnerships.

     

    Bio:

    Dr. Heather Gainforth is an Associate Professor at UBC Okanagan and is a Principal Investigator in UBC’s Centre for Health Behaviour Change and the International Collaboration on Repair Discoveries.  Heather is interested in supporting research partnerships to work authentically and meaningfully together. Heather’s Applied Behaviour Change Lab aims to conduct and mobilize meaningful research in the areas of knowledge mobilization, behaviour change, and research partnerships. Heather leads an international research partnership that co-developed the first integrated knowledge translation (IKT) guiding principles for conducting spinal cord injury (SCI) research in partnership. This work has been recognized nationally and internationally and entails working in partnership to transform research systems to combat tokenism and to enable meaningful, inclusive, and authentic engagement in research.

     

  • Christine Van Winkle
  • Dr. Christine Van Winkle

    Navigating International Research: Lessons learned from in community data collection

    Alongside a panel of PhD students, Dr. Van Winkle will discuss her ongoing international project, Revelry and Resilience, which explores how festivals contribute (or don’t) to community resilience and recovery after any type of disaster.

    The panel will share their own first hand experiences and explore the opportunities, challenges and lessons to be learned from international research.

     

    Bio:

    Dr. Christine Van Winkle is a Professor with the Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management. Passionate about the role of festivals, parks, museums and interpretative centres in our community, she has dedicated her career as a researcher to exploring visitors' experiences in these tourism and leisure settings. Dr. Van Winkle is one of the primary investigators of the Leisure and Tourism lab, where her work explores the supply and demand of sustainable recreation and tourism and the role events play in communities.

Competition

Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management (FKRM) Research Day competition will include a poster competition and a Three-Minute Thesis (3MT) competition.  Eligibility for each competition is as follows:

• FKRM Undergraduate Students -  Poster Competition only
• FKRM Master’s Students – Poster Competition or 3MT
• FKRM advised AHS PhD Students – Poster Competition or 3MT

Poster competition

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management graduate students (MA, MSc) are invited to participate in a poster competition for Research Day 2024.

Contest Information:

Students are to prepare a 3-5 minute talk about their research. Judges will ask presenters questions, and after their deliberations, they will select the winners based on content, quality of research, originality, and presentation. The competition will be held after lunch, and presenters must be present to stand with their posters.

Prize Categories:
•    First, second and third place awards for Master’s winners
•    First, second and third place awards for PhD winners
•    First place award for FKRM Undergraduate winner

Deadline:

Final deadline to submit is April 30 (free poster printing included).

3MT competition

The Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management Master’s and FKRM Advised AHS PhD students are invited to participate in a 3MT competition for Research Day 2024.

Contest Information:

Students will have three minutes to present their research and its importance in plain language, using only a single slide to illustrate their topic. The competitors will be judged on comprehension, engagement and ease of communication. Depending on the number of entrants in the 3MT competition, there may be heats with a final round occurring prior to the keynote.

See below for full 3MT standard rules.

Deadline:

Final deadline to submit is April 30.

3MT rules

  • A single static PowerPoint slide is permitted, to be shown from the beginning of the presentation. No slide transitions, animations or "movement" of any kind are allowed. The slide must have minimum 0.5" margins for key information.
  • No additional electronic media (e.g., sound and video files, laser pointers) are permitted
  • No note cards or additional props (e.g., costumes, musical instruments, laboratory equipment) are permitted.
  • Presentations are limited to three minutes maximum, and challengers exceeding three minutes are disqualified.
  • Presentations are to be spoken word (e.g., no poems, raps or songs).
  • Presentations are to start from and remain on the stage.
  • Presentations are considered to have begun when a presenter starts their presentation through movement or speech.
  • Presentations must be based on research directly related to the student’s graduate program thesis. Research performed for employment should not be presented.
  • A three-minute clock/timer will be made visible for the students during their presentations.
  • For any images, photos or diagrams used on the slide, if not created by the presenter, the presenter must ensure the source is credited and the use is allowable by the copyright owner. When in doubt that written permission is needed, contact the UM Copyright Office for guidance.
  • The decision of the adjudicating panel is final.

Schedule

Time

Event

Location

Who

9:10 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. 

Welcome

Agora

 

9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Session one

Agora

 

10:15 a.m.– 10:30 a.m.

Break

Agora

 

10:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m.

PhD and Master’s 3MT

Agora

 

12:00 p.m. - 12:45 a.m.

Lunch

3MT deliberation 

Mentorship session

Agora

208 ALC

220 ALC

 

 

Dr. Heather Gainforth

12:45 p.m.– 2:30 p.m.

Graduate and UG poster competition 

Agora

 

2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Deliberation for poster

3MT setup

Agora

 

2:45 p.m. – 3:10 p.m.

3MT Final Heat

Agora

Max of 6 – or top 3 

3:10 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Keynote talk

3MT Deliberations

Agora

Dr. Heather Gainforth

 

4:00 p.m. – 4:20 p.m.

Poster Competition

Awards 

Agora

 

4:20 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Reception

220 ALC

 

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