School of Kinesiology & Health Studies Graduate Theses
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Exploring Irish Women's Experiences of Social Climate Around Abortion After the Repeal of the Eighth Amendment
This study explores abortion activists’ experience of the shift in social climate around abortion in the context of the campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, which previously prohibited abortion in Ireland. Abortion was ... -
Towards a postneoliberal health promotion: A journey of reifying, resisting, and reimagining health promotion in and through sport
At its core, this dissertation is about confronting, and working toward dismantling the ideology of healthism as a key technology of neoliberalism, and specifically in how it manifests in and through behavioural forms of ... -
CLASSIFICATION IN PARA SPORT: EXPLORING ATHLETES’ AND CLASSIFIERS’ EXPERIENCES WITH AND UNDERSTANDING OF CLASSIFICATION
Classification is a defining feature of Para sport; however, little empirical evidence describes the experience of classification and how it can be improved. To date, the primary focus of research related to classification ... -
Impact of Chest Wall Restriction on Cardiac Output and Exercising Muscle Oxygenation
Restrictive pulmonary diseases (RPD) encompass diseases whereby the lungs are prevented from being able to fully expand. One way that these diseases can manifest is through increased chest wall stiffness. A common symptom ... -
“NÃO ÀS REMOÇÕES: PELO DIREITO À MORADIA”: EXAMINING THE FANTASMA(S) DE REMOÇÃO/GHOSTS OF EVICTION AND THE INSURGENCE OF NETWORKED FAVELA HOUSING ACTIVISM IN RIO DE JANEIRO
Since the turn of the 21st century, favela communities have faced new and unprecedented challenges in the light of renewed eviction threats and displacement connected to real estate development and speculation. The right ... -
Examining the Impact of the Transformational Coaching Workshop on Factors that Influence Behaviour Change
Coach development programs (CDPs) provide an avenue for coaches to learn about the valuable knowledge and skills necessary to facilitate positive athlete outcomes through their behaviours. However, existing evidence-informed, ... -
THE DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF A THREE-DIMENSIONAL VISUAL TARGET ACQUISITION SYSTEM TO ASSESS THE PERFORMANCE EFFECTS OF HEAD SUPPORTED MASS
Rotary-wing aircrew in Canada and abroad experience a myriad of occupational risk factors that contribute to neck pain. Most functional assessment approaches relevant to evaluating aircrew neck pain are too reliant on ... -
Why Are We Settling? Indigenous Cultural Safety Education for Counsellors in Ontario
Indigenous cultural safety education is crucial to achieving greater health equity for Indigenous Peoples (Browne et al., 2016) by helping counsellors recognize the social, historical, political, and economic context of ... -
THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAMS IN ONTARIO
School garden programs offer students opportunities to experience and participate in the processes of nature and agriculture through hands-on learning in a wide variety of outdoor settings. Although the value of school ... -
Exploring First-Year University Students’ Barriers and Facilitators to Meeting the Recommendations of the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adult
The majority of university students do not meet the recommended amounts of physical activity (PA), sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep, which can impact academic success. The forthcoming Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines ... -
Prison and its Afterlives: Haunting and the Emotional Geographies of Formerly Incarcerated People’s Reintegration Experiences in Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Kingston is undeniably a prison town. As the venue for Canada’s first prison and current home to nearly twenty percent of the nation’s federally incarcerated people in seven penitentiaries around the city, prisons undoubtedly ... -
Parenting in Adversity and Individual Perceptions of (In)Access to Health and Social Support Services: A Sensemaker® Study
Having access to services for health and social support has been shown to greatly affect the health and well-being of individuals, communities, and society globally. However, great disparities in accessing services exist ... -
Molecular Regulation of Mitochondrial Biogenesis in Exercised and Fasted Human Skeletal Muscle: an Examination of Emerging Regulatory Protein
The transcriptional co-activator PGC-1alpha is widely accepted as the “master regulator” of mitochondrial biogenesis – an increase in mitochondrial content – and much research has been devoted to understanding PGC-1alpha's ... -
Do Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviours During Adolescence Predict the Development of Type 2 Diabetes During Early Adulthood?
Background: Little is known about whether adolescent physical activity and sedentary behaviour levels predict health in adulthood. The first objective of this thesis was to determine whether participation in moderate-to-vigorous ... -
Reliability of Vasodilation in Response to Passive Leg Movement in Young, Healthy Women
Passive leg movement (PLM) elicits rapid vasodilation and an increase in blood flow, that is dependent on the function of the endothelial cells that line the small arteries in the leg. The increased flow therefore provides ... -
An Exploration and Experimental Test of a Generic Messaging Approach to the Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Adults
Most Canadian adults do not meet current behaviour recommendations for physical activity, sedentary behaviour and sleep. Historically, movement behaviours were presented in isolation from one another, using complex and ... -
Building a Foundation for Equity-focused Intersectoral Practice (EquIP): An exploratory intervention in intersectoral action on housing inadequacy in Owen Sound, Ontario
Equitable access to the social determinants of health, including adequate housing, is essential to the attainment of health equity goals. Concerted intersectoral action involving public health, social services, relevant ... -
Perceiving and Experiencing Subgroups in Sport: A Conceptual and Qualitative Approach
Sport research intimates that the presence of subgroups within a superordinate team can vary from being facilitative to debilitative at both the individual and team levels (e.g., Martin et al., 2015). Interestingly, ... -
Conceptualization of Community Wellness in Three First Nations Communities
Introduction: It is well known, and well documented that Indigenous conceptualizations of wellness differ from Western conceptualizations. Using Western parameters and formulations to appraise Indigenous health and wellness ... -
Investigating Efficiency and Stability of Gait Using a Two Triaxial IMU Sensor System
This work aimed to develop a simple, two-sensor system to measure gait efficiency and stability. The system was tested by measuring the compromised gait pattern of 15 healthy adults (aged 18-30). The gait pattern was altered ...
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