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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
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.
Dr. Saleem's research mainly focuses on deciphering the extracellular signalling as mediated through extracellular vesicles, which regulates the interplay between host tissue and imposed challenges. These challenges can be physiological, metabolic, environmental or developmental.
Dr. Schellenber's research explores sport psychology with a research focus on understanding how people can engage in their favourite activities in a way that produces the most benefits (e.g., high levels of performance and well-being), while avoiding potential costs (e.g., conflict, burnout). Other topics of study include savouring, self-compassion, coping, and perfectionism.
Dr. Rice explores qualitative land-based education with a focus on Indigenous community building.
Dr. Glazebrook's research program seeks to understand how the nervous system integrates information from different senses to perform precise movements. Particularly interested in understanding the processes of multisensory-motor integration to develop an understanding of perceptual-motor performance in individuals with developmental disorders as well as neurological disorders and injuries.
Dr. Van Winkle's research is interested in visitors’ experiences at events and attractions, understanding visitor learning in free-choice environments, exploring the effects of technology on the visitor’s experience at attractions.
Dr. Henhawk researches multiple conceptualizations of leisure and the socio-cultural study of sport and recreation. Specifically interested in how understandings and meanings of leisure are changing in relation to understandings of work. Focused on Indigenous notions of decolonization, indigenization, sovereignty and self-determination.
Dr. Brown's research explores the origins of the Modern Olympic Games, early Canadian Mountaineering and winter sports. Explores themes such as identity, ethnicity and human agency within sport as well as the aesthetics or poetics of sport participation.
Dr. Ready's research is interested in physical health and functional benefits of physical activity in older adults. Explores the impact of age-friendly neighbourhoods on physical activity and health.
Dr. Turelli's research explores connections between theory and practice regarding Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI), and focusing on mainly ethnographic qualitative research. Seeking to adapt and conciliate this method with collaborative-work, in the manner of participatory action research.
Dr. Litwiller's research focuses on recreation for social inclusion and well-being. Uses participatory action research methods to cultivate understandings on how to create welcoming and inclusive recreation environments for individuals with mental illness. Researches drag performance with LGBTQ youth to explore gender, in particular, gender identity and gender expression.
Dr. Giesbrecht studies human responses to exercise/work in extreme environments. Conducts cold-water immersion studies that have provided valuable information about cold stress physiology and pre-hospital care for human hypothermia. Other research interests include human physical and mental performance in other stresses such as altitude and diving.
Dr. Lawson's research explores classification in parasport, quality participation of persons with disabilities in physical activity sport and exercise psychology and physical activity behaviour changes.
Dr. johnson explores the role of climate change on our physical experiences. Investigates how Indigenous youth experience the built environment and outdoor adventure-based education. Examines gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and homophobia in team initiation rituals.
Dr. Singer's research works to advance knowledge of the specific neuromechanical mechanisms by which humans maintain stability, and understand why clinical populations, such as older adults and stroke survivors, experience challenges with stability control.
Dr. Strachan's research focuses on positive youth development in sport. Specifically interested in examining the experiences and various outcomes of children and youth in recreational to high performance sport programs.
Dr. Baker's research explores the emotional demands (emotion work), people skills (Affective Abilities) required, and organizational contexts (power-relations) in people-centric service work. She explores these concepts in organized outdoor experiences, youth and community development, recreation, and leisure contexts, and, progressively, in health service provision including clinical practice.
Dr. Alexander's research interests focus primarily on sport biomechanics, or the analysis of athletes using filming techniques and computerized analysis programs.
Dr. Porter's research is Interested in research pertaining to older adults. Themes include mobility, age-friendly environments, and physical activity.
Dr. Gardiner is interested in the adaptations that occurs in the nervous and neuromuscular systems as a result of increased and decreased physical activity, aging, spinal cord injury, stroke, obesity and type 2 diabetes. Adaptations that are of interest include electrophysiology, morphology, and gene expression.
Dr. Field examines the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity. Focused on the lived experience of sport participants, the desire to separate organizational rhetoric from local remains and the integration of oral history with archival sources as a methodological approach. Interested in the cultural representations of sport and physical activity found in both narrative and documentary films.
Dr. Villar's research focuses on determining the underlying mechanisms involved in the cardiovascular, respiratory, and muscular integrative regulation to physiological challenges. Uses postural changes and exercise as a framework to elucidate the role of perfusion pressure, O2 availability, and vascular conductance/resistance in the regulation of blood flow and O2 uptake and the implications for the muscular system especially the muscle pump.
Dr. Teetzel's research looks at applied ethical issues in sport with emphasis on the intersection of rules and values. Areas of expertise include the Olympics, doping and drug testing in sport and gender issues in sport.
Dr. Strachan's primary objective is to promote health through adherence to physical activity. Research centers on self-related variables and the role of these construct in the self-regulation of exercise.
Dr. Chesser's research explores the intersection of leisure, aging, health and well-being. She is particularly interested in ways we can create more inclusive communities for people to live, work, study and recreate in. Within her research, she uses qualitative methods grounded in reciprocity, respect, and the centring of participant perspectives.
Dr. Cornish focuses on exercise and nutritional immunology. Concerned with the effects that exercise and nutritional interventions can have in ameliorating chronic low-grade inflammation that is observed in many cases of chronic disease.
Dr. Passmore utilizes a theoretical and applied background in perceptual motor behaviour to explore performance-based outcome measures in an attempt to objectively determine population characteristics, movement outcomes and sustainability of interventions.
Dr. Duhamel's research examines the role of physical activity for the prevention, as well as treatment, of cardiovascular disease. Utilizes exercise physiology as a tool to identify novel therapeutic targets and signaling pathways that regulate cardiovascular and skeletal muscle health.
Dr. Scribban's research focuses on understanding the neuromuscular mechanisms that control of force production and movement of the upper extremity, with a particular emphasis on the role of scapular position and movement in shoulder and scapulothoracic mechanics/pathomechanics.
Dr. Silva's research program is dedicated to understanding the determinants of successful mobility in naturally challenging conditions with a focus on the visual perception and executive mechanisms underlying the control of posture and locomotion.
Our collaborations reach far and wide, providing our graduate students with extensive research opportunities and experiences.
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.
