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Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic (2023)
Journal Article

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

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)
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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)
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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.

The mental well-being and coping strategies of Canadian adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative, cross-sectional study (2021)
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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)
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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.

Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review (2021)
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Background: Physical inactivity is often reported in youth and differs among boys and girls. The aim of this study is to assess sex/gender considerations in intervention studies promoting physical activity and reducing sedentary behavior in youth usi... Read More about Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review.

Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies (2021)
Journal Article

Introduction: Trends over the last half century have shown that fewer children today are engaging in active modes of travel to and from school than in previous generations. Interventions promoting active school travel (AST) can be effective at revers... Read More about Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies.

A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review (2020)
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© 2020 The Author(s). Background: To evaluate the effects of interventions on children's and adolescents' overall physical activity (PA) for boys and girls separately and to appraise the extent to which the studies haven taken sex/gender into account... Read More about A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review.

Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment (2019)
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The information, practices and views in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) In th... Read More about Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment.

Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective (2019)
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Background Low levels of physical activity (PA) and high levels of sedentary behaviour (SB) have been observed in young people. Both behaviours are detrimental for health with patterns tending to continue into adulthood. There is sustained value i... Read More about Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective.

‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments (2018)
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Physical activity in Canada mirrors the gender gap observed globally, with boys more likely than girls to meet recommended guidelines. While a growing body of research has examined the relationships between environmental factors and children’s physic... Read More about ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments.

Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play (2018)
Journal Article

In this article, we undertake a methodological and creative exploration of poetic representation in children’s geographies. Drawing on qualitative approaches to poetry as a method, we consider how poetic techniques have the potential to bring us into... Read More about Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play.

Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens (2017)
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In this commentary, I respond to the special section in Health & Place (vol. 46) on “Exercise and environment: new qualitative work to link popular practice and public health” edited by Hitchings and Latham. I argue that if qualitative research is to... Read More about Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens.

“It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity (2017)
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© 2017 Elsevier Ltd Physical activity is a highly gendered health behaviour, with women less likely than men to meet internationally accepted physical activity guidelines. In this article, we take up recent arguments on the potential of indoor spaces... Read More about “It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity.