Ben Schellenberg, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Sport and exercise psychology
- Social and personality psychology
Researchers
Based on the themes set forth in the University of Manitoba's Strategic Research Plan, FKRM research is categorized into themes of culture, creative works and integrative research in health and well-being.
FKRM research is funded by local, national and international funding agencies. Researchers are funded by all three of the Tri-Council Agencies (Canadian Institute of Health Research, Natural Science and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council), as well as by other funding agencies such as the Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Manitoba Health Research Council, Manitoba Medical Services Foundation, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada.
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Our researchers
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Cheryl Glazebrook, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Movement and neurodiversity
- Nervous system integration of senses to perform precise
- Multisensory-motor integration
- Perceptual-motor performance in individuals with developmental disorders, neurological disorders and injuries
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Christine Van Winkle, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Visitors’ experiences at events and attractions
- Impacts and Outcomes of festivals and events
- Information and communication technology at events
- Emergency management at festivals and events
- Festivals and community disaster recovery
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Dan Henhawk, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Conceptualizations of leisure
- Socio-cultural study of sport and recreation.
- Leisure relation to our understanding of work
- Indigenous notions of decolonization, indigenization, sovereignty and self-determination
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Douglas Brown, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Origins of the Modern Olympic Games
- Early Canadian mountaineering and winter sports.
- Identity, ethnicity and human agency within sport
- Aesthetics and poetics of sport participation.
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Elizabeth Ready, PhD
Senior Scholar
Areas of focus
- Physical health
- Functional benefits of physical activity in older adults
- Impact of age-friendly neighbourhoods on physical activity and health.
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Fabiana Turelli, PhD
Assistant Professor
Areas of focus
- Sociology of sport
- Critical theory
- Intersectionality
- Gender in martial arts and combat sports
- Embodiment
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Fenton Litwiller, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Queer experiences and expressions
- Navigation of identities
- Mental health, social inclusion and wellbeing in recreation and leisure
- Experiences in and the construction of wilderness and outdoor recreation
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Gordon Giesbrecht, PhD
Senior scholar
Areas of focus
- Human responses to exercise and work in extreme environments
- Cold-water immersion
- Cold stress physiology
- Pre-hospital care for human hypothermia
- Human physical and mental performance under enviromental stresses
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Janet Lawson, PhD
Assistant Professor
Areas of focus
- Classification in parasport
- Quality participation of persons with disabilities in physical activity
- Novel methods of co-producing qualitative research
- Sport/exercise psychology
- Physical activity behaviour change
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jay johnson, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Climate change on our physical experiences
- Indigenous youth experience
- Built environment and outdoor adventure-based education
- Gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and homophobia in team initiation rituals
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Jonathan Singer, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Biomechanics
- Neuromechanics
- Ageing
- Postural Control
- Dynamic Stability
- Human Locomotion
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Leisha Strachan, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Positive youth development
- Sport psychology
- Coaching
- Parents
- Youth sport
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Mandi Baker, PhD
Assistant Professor
Areas of focus
- Emotional labour of service providers
- Power relations with organisations and workplaces
- Leisure sociology
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and social justice of outdoor leisure activities
- Young adult development and summer camp
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Marion Alexander, PhD
Senior Scholar
Areas of focus
- Sport biomechanics
- Athlete analysis
- Documentation filming techniques and computerized analysis programs
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Michelle Porter, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Ageism
- Mobility and aging
- Driving and aging
- Age-friendly environments
- Physical activity and aging
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Phillip Gardiner, PhD
Professor Emeritus
Areas of focus
- Nervous and neuromuscular systems adaptations relating to increased and decreased physical activity
- Aging, spinal cord injury, stroke, obesity and type 2 diabetes
- Electrophysiology, morphology and gene expression
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Russell Field, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity
- Lived experience of sport participants
- Separatation of organizational rhetoric from local remains
- Integration of oral history with archival sources as a methodological approach.
- Cultural representations of sport and physical activity
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Rodrigo Villar, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Integrative regulation to physiological challenges
- Postural changes and exercise
- The role of perfusion pressure, O2 availability and vascular resistance in blood flow
- O2 uptake and the implications for the muscular system
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Sarah Teetzel, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Sport ethics
- Olympic studies
- Doping and drug testing in sport
- Gender in sport
- Physical literacy
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Shaelyn Strachan, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Self-compassion and health behaviours
- Health identities, possible selves and other self-perceptions
- Affect and self-regulation
- The application of psychological theories to health behaviours
- Physical activity counselling
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Stephanie Chesser, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Therapeutic recreation
- Social aspects of aging
- Family-friendly communities
- Age-Friendly communities and universities
- Qualitative research
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Stephen Cornish, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Skeletal muscle
- Resistance-exercise
- Aging
- Cytokine
- Myokine
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Steven Passmore, PhD
Associate professor
Areas of focus
- Perceptual motor behaviour
- Performance-based outcomes to determine population characteristics, movement outcomes and sustainability of interventions
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Todd Duhamel, PhD
Professor
Areas of focus
- Exercise physiology and health.
- Physical activity as health interventions
- Cardiovascular disease and frailty
- Frailty
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Trisha Scribbans, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Rehabilitation
- Exercise Physiology
- Muscle Physiology
- Anatomical and physiological factors underlying motor variability and performance
- Skeletal muscle and neurological adaptations to exercise training
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Veronica Silva, PhD
Assistant professor
Areas of focus
- Motor Control
- Human Locomotion and Balance
- Visual Perception
- Mobility and Falls
- Aging
Adjunct and cross-appointments
Our collaborations reach far and wide, providing our graduate students with extensive research opportunities and experiences.
- Allison Dart
- Amanda Johnson
- Andre Bussieres
- Anna Chudyk
- Corliss Bean
- Dan Ogborn
- David Legg
- David Telles-Langdon
- Heather McRae
- Jason Peeler
- Jeff Leiter
- Jon McGavock
- Kyoung June (David) Yi
- Katherine Sibley
- Leah Ferguson
- Melanie Gregg
- Michelle Fortier
- Nathan Nickel
- Navdeep Tangri
- Natalie Richer
- Rakesh Arora
- Robert Pryce
- Sheila O'Keefe
- Thomas Beltrame
- Timothy Nelson Skuce
- Yannick Molgat-Seon
Undergraduate Research Awards
Undergraduate Research Awards provide a number of unique learning opportunities for undergraduate students in all fields and ranges of research. The Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management is proud to participate in these programs.
Please explore the list of researchers below who are currently accepting URA student applications.