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Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context (2024)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Downie, V., Follett, L., McCaig, S., & Parsons, J. L. (2024). Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context. British Journal of Sports Medicine, 58(24), 1505-1517. https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2024-108717

Objective: Women remain at increased risk for some sports injuries, such as anterior cruciate ligament rupture and concussion. This study applied a gendered environmental approach to identify modifiable features of women’s sport environments that may... Read More about Gendered environmental pathways to sports injury: insights from retired athletes in the UK high-performance context.

Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article
Wray, A., Martin, G., Ferguson, K. N., Coen, S. E., Seabrook, J. A., & Gilliland, J. (2024). Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities & Health, 8(2), 143-154. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2023.2282850

The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on youth mental health and stress levels warrants urgent attention. In Canada, as elsewhere in the world, public health measures in the early stages of the pandemic dramatically transformed the everyday geographie... Read More about Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments (2023)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Nelson Ferguson, K., Burke, S. M., Dela Cruz, T. J. E., Girum, L., Guisandes Bueno, G. I., Haines-Saah, R., Iwas, T., Kandlakuti, B., Manji, A., Megarajah, P., Soto Canales, R., Spencer, T., Tobin, D., & Gilliland, J. A. (2023). Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health, 4, Article 100367. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmqr.2023.100367

Increasing prevalence of vaping (e-cigarette use) among youth in Canada and elsewhere has become a serious public health concern. The Teens Talk Vaping project sought to co-produce research about teen vaping with teens to generate in-depth qualitativ... Read More about Teens talk vaping: A co-produced participatory study exploring teens’ reflections on vaping experiences and exposures in their everyday environments.

“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project (2023)
Journal Article
Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2023). “It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project. Journal of Adolescent Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584231176992

The inclusion of youth voices in research relating to their own daily environments, wellbeing, and development is increasingly recognized as essential to ensuring rigor and success in mobilizing community change. Few studies have qualitatively examin... Read More about “It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project.

‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program (2022)
Journal Article
Ostermeier, E., Reilly, K., Nelson Ferguson, K., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. (2023). ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(3), 345-363. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2022.2152081

As most Canadian children are not attaining the recommended 60 minutes of daily physical activity, it is imperative that affordable and accessible programs are implemented to help children become more physically active. Specifically, community-based... Read More about ‘Ahhh it was like paradise, but inside’: children’s experiences and perceptions of a free physical activity program.

Cross-Cutting Issues in Human Geography Methodologies (2022)
Book Chapter
Coen, S. E. (2022). Cross-Cutting Issues in Human Geography Methodologies. In S. A. Lovell, S. E. Coen, & M. W. Rosenberg (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography (337-338). Routledge

The Routledge handbook of methodologies in human geography (2022)
Book
Lovell, S., Coen, S., & Rosenberg, M. (Eds.). (2022). The Routledge handbook of methodologies in human geography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003038849

The Routledge Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography is the defining reference for academics and postgraduate students seeking an advanced understanding of the debates, methodological developments and methods transforming research in human geog... Read More about The Routledge handbook of methodologies in human geography.

The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study (2021)
Journal Article
Ferguson, K. N., Coen, S. E., Tobin, D., Martin, G., Seabrook, J. A., & Gilliland, J. A. (2021). The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study. CMAJ Open, 9(4), E1013-E1020. https://doi.org/10.9778/cmajo.20210042

Background: Qualitative research is lacking on the mental well-being of adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of this study was to explore the feelings and emotions adolescents experienced during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic an... Read More about The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study.

“Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities (2021)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E. (2021). “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities. Area, 53(4), 699-707. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12744

This paper is a provocation and reflection on some of the methodological tensions and opportunities I encountered in trying to “get at” gender in my research on the everday gendered geographies of physical activity. Situated in a feminist methodology... Read More about “Ok, gender! Where are you?!”: On the potential of catalytic validity in feminist geographies of everyday inequities.

Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity (2021)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., Cook, S., & Hayes, S. (2021). Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity. In G. Andrews, V. Crooks, J. Pearce, & J. Messina (Eds.), COVID-19 and Similar Futures: Pandemic Geographies (165-172). Springer

Public health measures implemented to control COVID-19 (e.g., lock downs, social distancing) have dramatically changed the geographies of recreational physical activity, closing off traditional exercise places, and pushing people both inside homes an... Read More about Pandemic Geographies of Physical Activity.