Lucie Lévesque, PhD

PhD (Université Laval)

MSc (Université Laval)

BA (McGill University)


Contact Information

Email:  levesqul@queensu.ca

Office:  KINE 301U

 

Undergraduate Courses

KNPE 365 – Motivational Interviewing for Physical Activity Behaviour Change

HLTH 416 – Program Planning and Evaluation

HLTH 417 – Community Based Programming and Evaluation


Graduate Courses

KHS 830 – Health Promotion Research Seminar

KHS 862 – Physical Activity and Community: Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of Community-Based Physical Activity Interventions


Research Summary

Dr. Lévesque leads the Community-Engaged Heath Promotion Research group in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies.  Her research focuses on program evaluation and implementation science examining community-based physical activity interventions through an ecological approach. A long-time member of the Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project (KSDPP) research team, and frequent collaborator on Indigenous research initiatives, Dr. Lévesque has extensive experience working with Indigenous communities within a CBPR framework.     Her work is founded on community engagement for the production and dissemination of action-oriented knowledge. Dr. Lévesque’s research encompasses both Indigenous and mainstream/Western science approaches and has informed the ways in which respectful and relevant research is conducted with Indigenous communities in Canada (e.g., KSDPP Code of Research Ethics; Canada’s Tri Council Policy Statement 2: Module 9 – Research Involving the First Nations, Inuit and Métis Peoples of Canada). In addition to her research with Indigenous communities, she also collaborates with public health researchers in local communities and in Latin America and the Caribbean to conduct program evaluation and research related to physical activity and health promotion.

 

 

Graduate Student Opportunities

Applications for study at the MSc and PhD level are welcome.

Students will develop expertise in areas related to physical activity promotion, implementation science, community-engaged research with Indigenous peoples and health promotion in LMIC countries. Internal funding is available. Prospective graduate students are encouraged to apply to the Ontario Graduate Scholarship Program, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (www.sshrc.ca), the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (www.cihr.ca), and other agencies that provide support for graduate students.

Interested applicants with a minimum GPA of 3.7/4.3 or minimum 80% course average should send a statement of interest, CV, and most up to date academic transcript to Dr. Lévesque via e-mail (levesqul@queensu.ca).

Indigenous students are invited to self-identify (http://www.queensu.ca/fdasc/self-identification/self-identify).


Current Funding

Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)


Links

Community-Engaged Health Promotion Research Lab

Kahnawake Schools Diabetes Prevention Project

Kingston Gets Active

Indigenous Youth Mentorship Program