The School of Physical Education and Athletics research
efforts have focused on muscle
adaptations with training and disuse, equity issues related to
outdoor education, physical
education pedagogy, performance enhancement and youth sport analysis,
and adapted
physical education.
BEHM, David Assistant professor
Keywords
• Neuromuscular adaptations; training effects; muscle activation;
EMG; fatigue; hyperbaric
Research specialty
• Neuromuscular adaptations associated with acute and chronic
training and disuse
Current research
• Effect of shallow to intermediate hyperbaric pressures
on neuromuscular function
• Effect of delayed onset muscle soreness on neuromuscular
functions
• Effect of high-intensity resistance training on muscle
activation
Past research
• Mechanisms underlying the velocity specificity of resistance
training
• The effects of immobilization on neuromuscular properties
and fatigue
• The ineffectiveness of nasal dilator strips
Potential research
• Effectiveness of Swiss ball training for resistance training
• Effect of magnetic therapy on muscle pain and recovery
• Effect of saturation dives on neuromuscular function
HIGGS, Colin Professor
Keywords
• Biomechanics of sport for people with disabilities; sport
and international development
Current research
• Biomechanics of sit-skiing
• Use of sport in advancement of people with disabilities
in developing countries
Past research
• Biomechanics of wheelchair racing
KAVANAGH, Basil Associate professor
Keywords
• Performance enhancement; exercise adherence; arousal regulation;
self-confidence; group and team dynamics; group cohesion
Current research
• Exercise adherence in rural cardiac rehabilitation patients
• Performance enhancement
Past research
• Performance enhancement in elite sport
• Role of social support in determining elite sport status
• Fair play and ethics in sport competitions
Potential research
• Intervention programs to increase and exercise adherence
• Rights and obligations of sport governing bodies in team
selection
• Exercise adherence promotion
KUESTER, Vivienne M. Associate professor
Keywords
• Persons with disabilities; community inclusion; physical
activity; recreation participation; inclusion; rights of people
with disabilities (human rights); attitudes
Current research
• Attitudes of teachers in Newfoundland schools regarding
the inclusion of students with disabilities (elementary schools)
in regular physical education classrooms, 10-year comparison study
(with one undertaken in 1989)
• Attitudes of teachers in Guyana schools to the inclusion
of students with disabilities in regular classrooms
• Community inclusion, including the Right Futures Project
(advocate and guardian for a man whose human rights case is currently
before the court)
Past research
• Attitudes of teachers in Newfoundland regarding the inclusion
of students with disabilities (elementary schools); Physical education
LOEFFLER, T.A. Associate professor
Keywords
• Gender; outdoor education; women; sport; physical activity;
experimental education
Current research
• Impact of single gender and mixed gender groupings in outdoor
leadership
• Why women play hockey
Past research
• Factors that influence a woman's career development in
outdoor leadership
• Developing a woman's competence in outdoor recreation
• Sexual harassment in outdoor education
Potential research
• Gender and the development of on-ice officials in hockey
REHMAN, Laurene Assistant professor
Keywords
• Recreation; leisure; women; small business; housing; entrepreneurship;
home-based business
Current research
• Housing issues and practices facing women of low income
• Examination and exploration of issues facing home-based
business owners in St. John's, Nfld
Past research
• Issues facing women entrepreneurs in the fitness and sport
industry
Potential research
• An exploration of issues facing small-business owners such
as managing work, family and leisure
• Exploration of recreation practices among women in low-income
communities
TIRONE, Susan Assistant professor
Keywords
• Leisure; poverty; unemployment; persons with disabilities;
ethnicity; community development
Current research
• Nature of leisure experience for people living in low-income
housing
• Youth at risk in rural Newfoundland
Past research
• Gender, Race, and Cultural Sustentation: South Asian Teens
in Canada
• What leisure means to recent immigrants to Canada
Potential research
• Critical histories of social and leisure organizations
in Newfoundland
• Community development strategies, application and effectiveness
in the delivery of leisure services
Special equipment or facilities
• Qualitative research software, recording devices
WHEELER, Ralph Assistant professor
Keywords
• Aquatic skills; co-op programs
Current research
• Conceptualizing aquatic skills
• Co-operative learning in physical education
Past research
• Student perceptions of co-op programs in physical education
WHITE, Matthew D. Assistant professor
Keywords
• Environmental physiology; control of human ventilation
in hyperthermia; physiological responses in cold or warm environments;
human energy expenditure by whole-body, indirect
calorimetry; human limb cooling and performance
Current research
• Respiratory control center outputs in hyperthermia
• Effects of hyperbaric conditions on human performance
• Nature and mechanisms of exercise hyperpnea
Past research
• Human, whole-body cooling and physique
• Fatty acid oxidation in premenopausal women
• Hyperthermia, ethanol and orthostatic intolerance
Potential research
• Human responses to extreme environments
Special equipment or facilities
• Environmental chamber
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