Teaching and outreach
Mentoring and experiential learning
I provide mentorship and experiential learning opportunities for our majors, which help to customize and distinguish their degrees as they approach graduation.
In particular, I seek to mentor and provide opportunities for future exercise professionals (kinesiologists, personal trainers, strength & conditioning coaches, exercise physiologists) in evidence-based practice and applied research, because these skills are challenging to master through coursework alone.
I supervise directed studies courses for undergraduate (BPK 496, 498) and graduate students (BPK 805). Please follow the instructions listed here to apply.
I have supervised several directed studies within each of my research themes, many of which were community-based and co-supervised by working exercise professionals or sport scientists.
| Evidence-based exercise programming | Exercise-responsive cell signaling | Sports analytics |
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Association between training-induced adaptations in thresholds and VO2peak |
Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 signaling |
Performance analysis of ski cross, co-supervised by Samantha Ebata, performance analyst with the Canadian Sport Institute Pacific |
Principles of exercise programming (progressive overload, specificity) |
Mathematical modeling of focal adhesion kinase signaling |
Load and wellness monitoring in soccer, collaboration with SFU Men's Soccer Team |
| Time course of recovery | Mechanotransduction in electrically stimulated myotubes |
Dynamic modeling of fatigue in soccer, co-supervised by Dr. Aaron Danielson, SFU Statistics and Actuarial Science |
| Clinic-based directed studies in knee osteoarthritis, co-supervised by Dr. Jason Crookham, sport physician, formerly at Fortius Sport & Health | Oxygen measurements in cultured cells | |
| Evidence-based shoulder assessments, co-supervised by Naomi Gilligan, kinesiologist Mountainview Health and Wellness) | ||
| Evidence-based exercise programming: Cardiac rehabilitation case |
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| Evidence-based exercise adherence |
We have also been fortunate to have developed an opportunity for students to conduct research in clinical exercise physiology, in a project co-supervised by Astrid De Souza, exercise physiologist at BC Children's Hospital.