May 26, 2023 PhD candidates from around the world came to Western for a two-week Event Rights program discussing ways to make large sporting events safer and more beneficial for all.
May 23, 2023 Western's School of Physical Therapy professor Pavlos Bobos' research explores the power of exercise-based interventions to combat chronic conditions.
May 18, 2023 Kinesiology professor David Howe and graduate student Karmen Mohindru are studying the harms and protections in place for athletes in para sports, and how effective those safeguarding practices truly are.
May 11, 2023 Heather Gillis, a lecturer in Western University’s School of Physical Therapy, recently received a pair of prestigious awards in recognition of her outstanding contributions to teaching, leadership and advancing the practice of musculoskeletal physiotherapy in Canada.
April 24, 2023 An assistant professor in Western’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, Saleema Allana is exploring the need for healthcare services to be unique and specific to immigrant populations through the lens of intersectionality.
April 18, 2023 Led by Nursing professor Abe Oudshoorn, the Making Permanent Supportive Housing Work for Vulnerable Populations research project explores housing practices that support people experiencing chronic homelessness and other vulnerable people.
April 18, 2023 Kinesiology PhD candidate Denise Kamyuka researches social entrepreneurship for women in sport, in Botswana. Learn more about her work from her contribution to the Western Libraries Inspiring Minds Showcase.
April 14, 2023 Nursing professor Abe Oudshoorn is part of a team of researchers at Western that have partnered with startup company SCATR Inc. to pilot and research the effectiveness of drug checking technology at safe consumption sites.
April 13, 2023 Angela Roberts, an assistant professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders who holds a joint appointment in the Department of Computer Science, is studying ‘SuperAgers’ to help unlock mysteries around the human brain and its aging processes.
April 12, 2023 A new article in The Conversation coauthored by Kinesiology professor Angela Schneider discusses the International Olympic Committee recommendation that individual athletes from Russia and Belarus be allowed to participate as “neutral athletes” while their nations remained barred from competing.
April 11, 2023 Ivy Osei plans to use her current research on the standardization of traditional folk games to grow SportDrive, a non-governmental organization she co-founded in Ghana focused on developing traditional games into standardized sports.
April 10, 2023 Glorieuse Uwizeye survived the genocide against Rwanda's Tutsi people. Her research promotes global health equity and gives voice to those carrying effects of 1994 massacre.
April 05, 2023 Article in The Conversation co-authored by Kinesiology professor David Howe describes new study looking to understand parents' experience supporting their children’s sport participation and parasport pathways.
March 15, 2023 Health Studies professor Jennifer Irwin's research on the impact of kindness on university campuses gives her a unique perspective to assess Western's new Making Kindness Count campaign.
March 10, 2023 Health Studies professor Anuskha Ataullahjan is a critical qualitative researcher who draws on a variety of disciplines in her work, including anthropology, demography, and public health. Much of her work has taken place within Pakistan (and particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), where she’s studied issues like polio vaccination and family planning.
February 27, 2023 Physical Therapy professor Laura Brunton is one of two Western University researchers sharing in nearly $1.5 million in federal funding to improve health care for Canadians experiencing transitions in care.
February 15, 2023 Kinesiology professors Laura Misener and Angela Schneider argue that the Canadian government's inaction in regard to launching an inquiry into abuse in Canadian sport highlights enduring gender and racial inequities.
February 13, 2023 Occupational Therapy professor Gail Teachman says that most of the focus in children’s rehabilitation tends to be on addressing impairment in an effort to help kids with disabilities be as ‘normal’ as possible. But what is ‘normal’? And should the focus be on ‘fixing’ something that isn't ‘broken’? The research shows that, though well-intentioned, rehabilitation in this form can actually be detrimental to a child with disabilities.
February 08, 2023 Traditional gyms still sell weight loss and a change in one’s body appearance – leading to improved self-esteem – as the desired outcomes to potential customers. Those reasons are why many people engage in physical activity in the first place. But are they the right ones? If the goal is to achieve a healthier body image, the answer is certainly not, according to Eva Pila, an assistant professor and researcher in Western’s School of Kinesiology.
February 03, 2023 Conditions of employment under Canada’s temporary foreign worker program can cause challenges to workers’ health, rights, and survival
January 30, 2023 A new Western study shows that university students who were regularly vaping wanted to cut back after learning about the threat the habit could pose to their health.
January 25, 2023 In collaboration with the Child and Youth Network, OT professor Trish Tucker, MScOT/PhD student Leah Taylor and a team from Western’s Child Health & Physical Activity Laboratory produced a practical, online resource to support physical activity participation for families of children with disabilities in London, Ontario: Everyone Can Play.
January 16, 2023 Kinesiology professor Eva Pila discusses the social issues related to the use of the diabetes drug Ozempic as a rapid weight loss drug on CBC Radio: The Current,
January 08, 2023 Announced as a recipient of an inaugural Canadian Hearing Services Global Partnerships for Research & Innovation Grant, Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Marlene Bagatto's new research study, “Mapping the Social Determinants of Infant Hearing Health Care in Canada”, will examine hearing health care inequity across regions in Canada and determine the costs when infant hearing issues go unidentified.
November 17, 2022 School of Health Studies professor Tarun Katapally engages citizens using mobile technology to solve societal problems, address inequities.
November 17, 2022 Dr. Peter John Fowler, MD’64, visionary sports medicine pioneer, and co-founder of the Fowler Kennedy Sport Medicine Clinic, passed away on Nov. 16. He was 84.
November 04, 2022 Nursing program implements shorter RPN to RN pathway and immersive one-on-one clinical placements in order to address increased demand for more practice ready registered nurses.
November 04, 2022 Companies like Puma continue to sponsor the Israeli Football Association despite some of its teams operating in Palestinian territory, according to a publication in The Conversation co-authored by kinesiology professor Macintosh Ross.
October 26, 2022 A community collaboration led by researchers from Western University’s Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing will bring critical supports to Indigenous youth who are transitioning from homelessness to housed.
October 24, 2022 Health & Rehabilitation Sciences PhD graduate Brianne Bruijns, supervised by Occupational Therapy professor Trish Tucker, has received a 2022 Governor General’s Gold Medal, awarded for academic excellence at the graduate level.
October 20, 2022 In The Conversation, Kinesiology director and professor Laura Misener and PhD candidate Erin Pearson write about the need for a shift in hockey toward equitable treatment and a focus on women’s and para hockey.
October 19, 2022 Health Studies professor Treena Orchard is a co-author of a Conversation article that journalists' reporting on two women leading the male-dominated online dating industry and compared with how the CEOs represented themselves on social media.
October 18, 2022 A new study conducted by Western University’s School of Occupational Therapy and Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing — in collaboration with service providers and organizational leaders (SPOL), policy makers and persons with lived experience of homelessness — addresses the question: What is needed to enable thriving following homelessness?
September 21, 2022 Western researchers have been awarded a total of $1.6 million from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to tackle national and global research challenges.
September 21, 2022 Team from Western and UBC launch the EQUIP Equity Action Kit. Project co-lead Nadine Wathen, professor at the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing at Western, says these tools support efforts by organizations and systems to improve social and health outcomes on a large scale.
September 19, 2022 Study results are the first to demonstrate that the sedentary behaviour mindset within the framework of social comparison impacts psychological stress.
August 31, 2022 Communication Sciences and Disorders professor Lisa Archibald has launched a podcast in partnership with Speech-Language and Audiology Canada that examines school-based speech-language pathology.
August 25, 2022 The project is led by Marilyn Ford-Gilboe, women’s health research chair in rural health and a professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing.
August 12, 2022 Whether it’s creating community access to reputable concussion information or moving the research bar forward, much has been accomplished over the decade-long See the Line initiative.
August 04, 2022 A new study by Kinesiology graduate students from Western has found passive exercise leads to increased cerebral blood flow and improved executive function, providing the same cognitive benefits as active exercise.
July 20, 2022 School of Physical Therapy professor Joy MacDermid was honoured with a 2022 International Federation of Societies for Hand Therapy (IFSHT) Lifetime Achievement Award presented at the 2022 IFSSH, IFSHT & FESSH Combined Congress. The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of hand therapy on an international scale.
July 20, 2022 A new study co-authored by Faculty of Health Sciences researchers found Ontario adults experienced poor sleep quality during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
July 19, 2022 Gray Centre for Mobility and Activity recently announced the winners of the 2022 Catalyst Grant Competition, including Physical Therapy professor Janelle Unger's project designed to identify the strengths and challenges of the mobility and activity programming at Parkwood Institute.
July 18, 2022 Kinesiology professor, MacIntosh Ross, discusses how hockey's history of violence has become a national dilemma as Canada's love for the sport continues.
July 14, 2022 Housing conditions for migrant farm workers hired through the Temporary Foreign Worker Program are often inconsistent, overcrowded and sometimes substandard, according to a publication from Nursing professor C. Susana Caxaj.
July 13, 2022 New publication coauthored by Kinesiology professor MacIntosh Ross examines how U.S. anti-trans laws have led to children being denied the opportunity to participate in sport on the basis of their gender identities.
July 10, 2022 While Canada now has jobs available for newcomers, and the immigration policies needed to fill those job vacancies, immigrants and migrants are still struggling with finding places to live, according to coauthors Fawziah Rabiah-Mohammed, PhD Candidate, and Abe Oudshoorn, Associate Professor, both from the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, at Western University.
July 07, 2022 Positive representations of higher-weight women exercising can counter the idealization of thin bodies that is common on social media while promoting exercise behaviour, according to Kinesiology professor Eva Pila in her recent article published in The Conversation.
July 06, 2022 Master's of nursing candidate, Rachel Radyk, is exploring how to better serve #Indigenous homeless youth, working with Youth Opportunities London on a 10-week Office of Indigenous Initiatives Head and Heart fellowship.
July 05, 2022 Nursing professor Anna Garnett, co-author in this feature article, writes about her research on supporting family and friend caregivers, who provide nearly all post-hospital care when a loved one suffers a stroke.
June 15, 2022 The Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario Leadership Award in Nursing Education (Academic) is awarded to the RN or NP who practises excellence as a nursing educator in a college or university setting.
June 07, 2022 Learn more about research from MA Candidate in Kinesiology, Babac Salmani, The Effectiveness of the Protection Motivation Theory in Reducing Vaping Behaviour in a Student Population in the Inspiring Minds Showcase. Babac is supervised by Harry Prapavessis.
May 19, 2022 Led by Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) adjunct research professor Olivia Daub and co-authored by CSD professors Marlene Bagatto and Janis Cardy, a new study published in the Journal of Communication Disorders addresses the needs of Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs) when assessing the vocal development of CDHH younger than 22 months.
May 18, 2022 FHS professors Marnie Wedlake, Jennifer Irwin and Shauna Burke challenge the notion that we should not expect to give or receive honest answers to the question, "How are you?", in a newly published article in The Conversation.
May 17, 2022 Health Sciences professor Tara Mantler and Kim Jackson, professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, lead new research citing need for inclusive policy, social services to protect at-risk populations.
May 13, 2022 A new project led by Marie Y. Savundranayagam, a professor in the School of Health Studies and director of the Sam Katz Community Health and Aging Research Unit at Western, has received a $1-million innovation grant from Future Skills Centre to develop a unique virtual-reality training program to help caregivers communicate better with people living with dementia.
May 11, 2022 Siobhan Schabrun, the new William and Lynne Gray Endowed Research Chair in Mobility and Activity, and School of Physical Therapy professor, has made it her life’s work to study pressing challenge of chronic pain.
May 10, 2022 As part of Western’s new community-focused hub at 450 Talbot, our Western Living Lab (WeLL) will bring a community teaching, training and research space centred on human health and well-being to London’s downtown.
May 03, 2022 Led by Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing professor Anna Garnett and published in BMC Health Services Research, a new study highlights some significant barriers caregivers face when accessing support. These barriers include financial factors, lack of transportation, and lack of awareness about available services.
April 26, 2022 A research team from Western's National Centre for Audiology has won a Governor General's Innovation Award for developing the world's first pediatric hearing aid prescription software.
April 13, 2022 Health Sciences professor Trish Tucker and PhD candidate Monika Szpunar write about how children stayed physically active during the pandemic.
April 11, 2022 Leisure engagement helps older adults cope with life transitions by maintaining identity, according to a integrative review from PhD candidate in Health and Aging, Kristin Prentice, her supervisor, Carri Hand, School of Occupational Therapy, and advisory committee members, professor Laura Misener, School of Kinesiology, and professor Jeff Hopkins, Department of Geography, at Western University.
April 08, 2022 Professors Shauna Burke, School of Health Studies, Julie Theurer, School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, Anita Cramp, School of Health Studies and Trevor Birmingham, School of Physical Therapy, are announced as four out nine recipients of the 2021-2022 Western Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The awards recognize instructors who actively engage and inspire students.
April 07, 2022 School of Physical Therapy (Musculoskeletal Health) PhD Candidate Stephanie Reischl's research is featured in Western Libraries' Inspiring Minds Showcase.
April 06, 2022 Pilot study of TEACH (Training EArly Childhood Educators) e-Learning course in physical activity and sedentary behaviour was well-received by both pre-service and in-service early childhood educators in new research from Trish Tucker, Associate Professor in the School of Occupational Therapy and team.
April 05, 2022 As actor Bruce Willis announced his retirement due to a diagnosis of aphasia, School of Communications Sciences and Disorders Professor Laura Murray and Director, J.B. Orange, explain that despite a typically low profile in media, aphasia is far more common than most people think.
April 04, 2022 Former elite gymnast and professor of kinesiology, Laura Misener, writes about the need to end toxic culture in sports such as gymnastics.
March 28, 2022 Cheryl Forchuk, Distinguished University Professor in the Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing, at Western University, discusses the need to recognize homelessness as a national problem, and the corresponding need for bold national strategies and significant resources in an article she wrote for the Globe and Mail.
March 28, 2022 Explore Health and Rehabilitation Sciences MSc candidate Jakara Stampp's contribution to the Western Libraries Inspiring Minds Showcase.
March 22, 2022 A supporter of the university and the Faculty of Health Sciences, Sonia Labatt's legacy is marked with her commitment to make ‘a healthier, more equitable and more just place'.
March 18, 2022 Two faculty members from the Faculty of Health Sciences are among a group 17 newly named faculty scholars from across campus who are being recognized for their outstanding scholarly achievement and contributions to the institution.
March 11, 2022 New study from researchers, including Arthur Labatt Family School of Nursing professors, finds that people with a recent experience of housing insecurity had a lower uptake of COVID-19 vaccine than the general adult population of Ontario for both first and second doses.
January 27, 2022 Health Studies professor Elysée Nouvet is helping bring together faculty members and students from across campus to examine issues related to global health.
January 24, 2022 Angela Schneider, Kinesiology professor and Director of the International Centre for Olympic Studies, joined The Sunday Magazine on CBC Radio to discuss how global politics can impact athletes.
January 17, 2022 Western is helping solve a health-care shortage by creating a shorter pathway for registered practical nurses (RPNs) to obtain earn a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
January 11, 2022 Nursing professor Marilyn Ford-Gilboe and her research team will be leading the way in developing the first free, Canada-wide app to help survivors of domestic violence find a path to safety and health.
January 11, 2022 A Western Nursing student is helping fill a health-information void with a new website that invites Ontarians to input results of their COVID-19 rapid tests.
January 05, 2022 During the week of January 3-7, 2022, Western and the Faculty of Health Sciences said goodbye to a pair of emeritus professors with the sudden passing of both Darwin Semotiuk and Larry Haylor.
May 26, 2023 The iconic building’s beautifully renovated interior was purposely designed to cultivate collaboration and facilitate learning and research in specialized areas of study – all while incorporating the School of Kinesiology’s core values of wellness, equity and accessibility.
May 26, 2023 A new study by kinesiology graduate students from Western has found passive exercise leads to increased cerebral blood flow and improved executive function, providing the same cognitive benefits as active exercise.
