August 2020 Faculty Awards and Accolades
Congratulations to the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation alumni, faculty, staff and students on your achievements for August 2020!
Faculty Recognition
Shintaro Kono - New edited book published from Palgrave entitled "Positive Sociology of Leisure: Contemporary Perspectives". This edited collection explores Positive Sociology of Leisure (PSL) as a subfield relating to leisure studies, sociology of leisure, and sociology of happiness. Defined as an area of research that examines social aspects of leisure life with a focus on the optimal functioning of relationship, group, community, organization, and other social units, PSL differs from more critical forms of sociology in that its starting point is social positives. The contributions draw on a range of diverse disciplinary backgrounds to consider various meanings of leisure across themes such as: ageing; sex, sexuality and family; community, youth, and education; and arts and creativity.
Four KSR Professors have successfully been awarded a 2020 SSHRC Insight Development Grant. These grants support research in its early stages. They enable the development of new research questions, as well as experimentation with new methods, theoretical approaches or ideas.
Tara-Leigh McHugh - Revisioning Fitness Through Non-Normative Embodiment
Tanya Berry - Exercise-related cognitive errors and believability of exercise information
Margie Davenport - Sport policy for pregnant and postpartum athletes
John Spence - Acceptance of autonomous vehicles and potential impact on active transport
Staff Recognition
Corey Chevraux- Recognized by the Office of the Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Information Services & Technology) for the 2020 IT Awards. Corey Chevraux works as an IT supervisor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport and Recreation. Having worked at the university for over twenty years, he’s seen and been involved in a gamut of IT change, from the initial adoption of firewalls, to running Zoom meetings for faculty.
Student Recognition
Rachel Skow (PhD candidate) - Opportunity to present at/ participate in the 2020 virtual Canadian Student Health Research Forum. Graduate students in health sciences (defined as broadly as the CIHR mandate) are selected for participation on the nominations received from graduate student administrators at Canadian universities.
Athletics Recognition
Brody Clarke: Bears Basketball. Signed with Romerstrom Gladiators in Trier, Germany. German ProA League. Brody also won the CEBL Summer Series title with the Edmonton Stingers
Kory White: Pandas Volleyball. Signed with Szent Benedek RA in Hungary
Goerge Hobern: Golden Bears Volleyball. Signed with UVC Weberzeile Ried in Austria