• Mindfulness Matters 

  Symington, Rosemary (2022-05-31)

  Feelings of stress and anxiety have increased in children during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lockdown and subsequent months of uncertainty have changed the way people interact. Social distancing, mask-wearing, and the ...
• Perspectives on Exercise Among Individuals with Metastatic Bone Disease and Multiple Myeloma: A Qualitative Interview Study 

  Miller, Cara (2022-05-05)

  Background: Individuals with metastatic bone disease (MBD) and multiple myeloma (MM) are commonly excluded from exercise oncology research due to safety concerns regarding potential skeletal complications including the ...
• The responsibilities of Linguistics programs: preparing and supporting Linguistics students in collaborative, revitalization-oriented work 

  Demson, Deirdre (2022-05-02)

  The Linguistics field has encountered many incisive critiques of its fieldwork and documentation practices regarding Indigenous languages in recent years, yet, for this most part, this important scholarly work seems to ...
• Smartphone addiction and well-being in adolescents: testing the mediating role of self-regulation and attention 

  Roehrich, Alyssa (2022-04-29)

  Background: Smartphone addiction can have negative consequences such as anxiety, depression, insomnia, and a loss of social connectivity. Understanding smartphone addiction is still in its early stages, but self-regulation ...
• COVID-19 stress and middle school students’ engagement and school aversion: examining the mediational roles of emotion regulation and perceptions of school climate 

  Hood, Moira (2022-04-25)

  Learning during the COVID-19 pandemic has included disruption, uncertainty, and additional stress for students. Adverse learning outcomes are a growing concern especially for vulnerable groups, such as middle school students. ...
• nutsamaat uy’skwuluwun: Coast Salish pedagogy in higher education 

  Jones, Collette F. (2022-04-01)

  This study explores Coast Salish s’ulxwe:n (Elders)-in-residence and Coast Salish xwulmuxw (First Nation) Professors’ application of xwulmuxw (First Nation) pedagogy specifically from southeast Vancouver Island, Coast ...
• Finger tapping to different styles of music and changes in cortical oscillations 

  Stegemöller, Elizabeth L.; Ferguson, Thomas D.; Zaman, Andrew; Hibbing, Paul; Izbicki, Patricia; Krigolson, Olave E. (Brain and Behavior, 2021)

  Music has been a therapeutic strategy proposed to improve impaired movement performance, but there remains a lack of understanding of how music impacts motor cortical activity. Thus, the purpose of this study is to use a ...
• Physical activity promotion in children using a novel smartphone game: a pilot randomized controlled trial 

  Lapusniak, Sam (2022-03-16)

  Background: Regular physical activity (PA) is critical for children’s health and wellbeing. Despite the numerous health benefits, most Canadian children do not meet the Canadian PA guidelines. The emergence of the COVID-19 ...
• Ontological play: reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the posthuman era 

  Wainwright, Richard (2022-02-23)

  In an era characterized by unprecedented ecological and technological change, Ontological Play: Reinventing (Machinic) Arts-Based Research in the Posthuman Era attempts to seed creative processes for educators, researchers, ...
• The COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns impacted the sleep and performance of rowers and triathletes 

  Filice, Peter (2022-02-15)

  In early 2020, many businesses (including gyms) were instructed to shut down for an unspecified period of time as a response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus (Casagrande et al., 2020, p.1; Erskine, M., 2020, para.1; O’Brien, 2020, ...
• Detecting differences in gait initiation between older adult fallers and non-fallers through time-series principal component analysis (PCA) 

  Yoshida, Kaya (2022-01-04)

  Gait initiation (GI) is an important locomotor transition task that includes anticipatory postural adjustments and the joint propulsion necessary for the first step of walking. Metrics associated with this task are known ...
• The lived experience of playfulness in the workplace 

  Allan, Jacqueline (2022-01-04)

  Even though playing and playfulness can make us feel happy and joyful, for some adults, it might not feel comfortable to be playful at work, especially if it is not perceived as contributing to productivity. Evidence exists, ...
• Youth mental health in the digital age: youth perspectives on the relationship between digital technology and their mental health 

  Boothroyd, Sydney J.H. (2022-01-04)

  New generations of youth are coming of age at a time when digital technology is omnipresent, where devices are our constant companions, extensions of ourselves. It is not yet fully known what effect this mass consumption ...
• Professional Development and the Reggio Emilia Approach: The British Columbia Context 

  Jensen, Emma (2022-01-04)

  The theories and pedagogies that constitute the Reggio Emilia approach to early childhood education have been the focus of research and inspiring change in the field for over forty years; however, much remains unknown about ...
• Pushing privileged pillars in Canadian universities 

  Laberge, Elaine J. (2021-12-23)

  Canadian federal discrimination legislation excludes social class which leaves poverty, or “social condition” (MacKay & Kim, 2009), out of universities’ equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) mandates. By refusing to widen ...
• Investigating the predictors of exercise identity formation in new exercisers 

  Paziraei, Sara (2021-12-20)

  Background: While the physical and mental health advantages of regular physical activity are evident, 68% of adult Canadians are not meeting PA guidelines. Over the last thirty years, exercise behaviour has been mostly ...
• Examining how major stakeholders within one school district in British Columbia are implementing the sexual health curriculum 

  Wright, Tara (2021-12-09)

  Sexual health education (SHE) in Canadian schools is a controversial subject. Thirty years have passed since the government mandated that SHE be taught in Canadian schools, yet the subject still struggles to secure its ...
• ʔəx̌ʔex̌stamas k̓ak̓adəxʷsila λuw̓ən?: Q̓aq̓uƛ̓ən x̌a k̓ak̓adəxʷsila lax̌a Bak̓ʷəmgala 

  Dobler, Kirsten (2021-12-08)

  Through the lens of narrative inquiry, my project reflects on my experiences as an Indigenous language teacher leading to the creation of early literacy resources that support learning to read in Bak̓ʷəmgala – Kʷak̓ʷala, ...
• Exploring factors that influence beginning teachers’ self-efficacy to teach in diverse classrooms 

  Haider, Fizza (2021-12-01)

  Teacher self-efficacy for teaching in diverse classrooms is an important factor in the successful implementation of inclusion. Quantitative examinations of teacher self-efficacy have found the construct to be correlated ...
• A case study of PETE teacher candidates' learning to teach physical education: an application of occupational socialization theory 

  Khalifah, Eman (2021-11-18)

  The mechanism of how physical education teacher education (PETE) students learn to teach physical education (PE) has been considered as a missing link in a comprehensive curriculum of PETE research. Previous studies found ...

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