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Principal Investigator: Lucie Lévesque
Research of public health interventions focusing on physical activity and positive development in youth and on preventing and treating chronic diseases such as Type 2 Diabetes.
Principal Investigator: Elijah Bisung, PhD and Joseph Kangmennaang, PhD
We are an interdisciplinary health research lab housed within the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University. Our mission is to conduct quality, rigorous global health research that benefits and achieves the goals of communities within and outside of Canada through equitable research partnerships.
Researchers in our lab pursue diverse interdisciplinary research interests. Lab members use quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods in our work, and draw on theories and methodologies from the fields of geography, environmental science, health promotion, anthropology, and sociology.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Michael Tschakovsky
Basic Science Research in our laboratory is aimed at finding answers to the fundamental questions:
- How is matching oxygen delivery to demand in the exercising muscle achieved?
- Are there important differences between individuals in the mechanisms involved in this matching and in their effectiveness?
- Can these mechanisms be improved by exercise training, and if so, does the type of exercise training matter?
Principal Investigator: Dr. Samantha King
The King Research Group seeks to foster a dynamic and supportive intellectual space where scholars conduct critical, theoretical, and politically relevant research on sport, health, and the body. Graduate students are encouraged to pursue whatever projects interest them within the qualitative research tradition. Although we tend to work in single-author mode, we meet regularly to talk about our scholarship and undertake occasional collaborative projects.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Robert Ross
Our research work is focused on the characterization and management of obesity and related co-morbidities in adults. In recent years we have conducted a number of randomized controlled trials to determine the efficacy and effectiveness of lifestyle-based interventions designed to manage abdominal obesity and related health risk. Our objective is to continue this type of research for the foreseeable future.
Principal Investigator: Pouya Amiri
Development of data-driven neuro-musculoskeletal models for the study of biomechanics and control of movement. We use an inter-disciplinary approach, where we combine experimental biomechanics with computational approaches from system identification, machine learning, and robotics.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Brendon Gurd
Dr. Brendon Gurd's research aim is to understand the mechanisms by which both different intensities and different types of exercise improve mitochondrial function. In addition, He is interested in the impact that these improvements in mitochondrial function have in both health and disease. His research is currently has 3 main goals. First, to quantify the intensities of various different types of exercise across a range of skill and fitness levels. Second, to examine changes in both whole body fitness and mitochondrial function following exercise training of differing types and intensities and how these changes differ between active, sedentary, and overweight/obese young adults. Third, to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying exercise induced mitochondrial biogenesis, specifically, to explore post-translational regulation of PGC-1alpha following exercise. It is hoped that this research will help increase our understanding of the mechanisms by which exercise can improve health and the optimal intensities and types of exercise to activate these mechanisms.
https://www.queensu.ca/qmpl-nmrg/muscle-physiology-lab
Principal Investigator: Dr. Chris McGlory
Dr. Chris McGlory's research program is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to nutrition, exercise training, and immobilization. He specializes in the use of stable isotopic tracers to track skeletal muscle protein turnover combined with a variety of molecular biology techniques for measurement of enzyme activity, protein expression, and post-translational modification.
Principal Investigator: Jessica Selinger
Our group explores the fundamental neuromechanical principles that underlie the control of locomotion and applies these principles to the development of novel rehabilitation strategies and wearable robotic technologies to improve human mobility. We adopt a multidisciplinary approach, using both experimental and computational methods to understand how biomechanics, energetics, and neural control shape human movement and behaviour.
Principal Investigator: Dr. Ian Janssen
Dr. Ian Janssen's research focuses on understanding how movement behaviours (i.e., physical activity, sedentary behaviour, and sleep) influence the health and well-being of children, youth, and adults. We are also interested in understanding how a person’s social and physical environment influences their movement.
Principal Investigator: Gerome Manson
Our research focuses on exploring the planning, control, and learning processes of skilled movement in both neurologically-healthy and neurologically-impaired populations, such as spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and spinal muscle atrophy. We conduct interdisciplinary scientific work at the intersection of kinesiology, psychology, engineering, systems neuroscience, and rehabilitation.
https://neuromech.notion.site/Sensorimotor-Exploration-Lab-487a7fd544e8452195702c07fffce5ff
Principal Investigators: Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung and Dr. Jennifer Tomasone
The Revved Up Research Group operates out of the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. We are co-led by Dr. Amy Latimer-Cheung, an associate professor and Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Physical Activity Promotion and Disability, and Dr. Jennifer Tomasone, an assistant professor at in Health Studies at Queen’s University and the Knowledge Translation Lead of the Canadian 24-hour Movement Guidelines.
Mission:
To critically interrogate the social, cultural, economical, and political forces that shape the body, sport, health, and physical activity, and to contest the effects that social forces like class inequality, ableism, racialization, sizeism, sexual regulation, and gender have on embodies existence.
Goals:
- to offer an interdisciplinary, critical, and interpretive focus to the study of social phenomena
- To uphold a commitment to progressive politics and social change
- To recognize the tremendous potential of bodily practices such as sex, eating and physical activity bring pleasure and meaning to individuals and communities
Faculty
- cultural studies of sport, health, and the body
- feminist, queer, critical race theory
militarism and professional sport; breast cancer philanthropy; popular culture under neoliberalism
- sociologies of food, health, and consumption
- where sport and/or physical cultures can be used to address issues of injustice.
- https://cszto.wordpress.com/
Principal Investigators: Dr. Jean Côté, Dr. Luc Martin
The Performance Lab for the Advancement of Youth in Sport (PLAYS) is located in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies and is home to Dr. Jean Côté, Dr. Luc Martin, and an active group of graduate and undergraduate students. Our research lies in the general field of positive youth development through sport.
https://www.queensu.ca/sportpsych/