School of Human Kinetics

June 29, 2018

Paige Johnston and Sarah Roy have receive student leadership awards from Physical and Health Education Canada. Each year, PHE Canada recognizes nominees from universities across Canada for their leadership in pedagogy and teaching of physical activity and health in the community.

Ms. Johnston received remarkably high praise for her pedagogical internship at Earl of March Secondary School in Kanata, and was one of the top students in our third-year pedagogy course.

Ms. Roy particularly impressed during her teaching internship at Collège Saint-Alexandre de la Gatineau. She also stood out achieving the highest grade in our entire internship program among the 180 graduating students who completed this experience.

June 25, 2018

The Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Ottawa is pleased to announce that Audrey R. Giles, professor at the School of Human Kinetics, has been named Fulbright Arctic Research Chair for 2018–2019. This fall, Giles will research and lecture at the Institute for Arctic Studies, Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, as part of the Fulbright Arctic Initiative. Her research project is entitled Community Resilience and Adaptation: Injury Prevention in a Changing Climate.

Giles is an applied cultural anthropologist who conducts research with Indigenous communities, primarily in the Arctic and Subarctic. She has authored over 100 publications.

“I am thrilled to be the Fulbright Arctic Research Chair at Dartmouth College for the fall term. I’m grateful to have the opportunity to use my sabbatical from uOttawa Human Kinetics in such an exciting way.”

Giles will receive funding of USD $25,000 for the duration of the program. This allowance is intended to support travel to program meetings, travel and maintenance for the exchange visit, and research materials.

The Fulbright chair is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA).

June 21, 2018

The School of Human Kinetics of the University of Ottawa partners with community organizations to offer internship opportunities and work-integrated learning experiences for its students. Our network has recently expanded to include over 150 esteemed venues in the National Capital Region, offering opportunities for students in English and in French, in fields related to human kinetics and kinesiology.

Our internship program is the preferred destination for community partners seeking student-interns in these fields.

Our undergraduate students are benefiting from high-quality community placements in APA 4111 / 4511, where they can transfer their knowledge into applied competencies in a supervised environment. During the 2017-2018 academic year, 170 undergraduate students completed a 3-credit, 100-hour internship in clinical kinesiology, athletic therapy, high performance training, ergonomics, teaching physical education, coaching, health promotion, or sport management. They worked with a wide range of populations, from youth to the elderly, and from competitive athletes to individuals with chronic health conditions.

Our internship program is a capstone experience for Human Kinetics students.

The growth of the internship program represents the School’s commitment to providing each of our fourth-year students a possible internship with integrity that sets them on a career-related path in their area of study. Students entering our undergraduate programs in the fall of 2018 will be able to pursue a 6-credit internship in their fourth year of studies (2021/2022). In light of this, preparations are underway to further enrich the internship experience and provide our graduates with more practical experience, as well as strategies for the marketing of professional competencies and career networking.