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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
Wray, A., Martin, G., Ferguson, K. N., Coen, S. E., Seabrook, J. A., & Gilliland, J. (2023). Neighbourhood influences on youth mental health and stress levels during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities & Health, 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., …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.

The Routledge handbook of methodologies in human geography (2022)
Book
Lovell, S., Coen, S., & Rosenberg, M. (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.

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 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.

Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review (2021)
Journal Article
Schlund, A., Reimers, A. K., Bucksch, J., Brindley, C., Schulze, C., Puil, L., …Demetriou, Y. (2021). Do Intervention Studies to Promote Physical Activity and Reduce Sedentary Behavior in Children and Adolescents Take Sex/Gender Into Account? A Systematic Review. Journal of Physical Activity and Health, 18(4), 461-468. https://doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0666

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
Medeiros, A., Buttazzoni, A., Coen, S. E., Clark, A. F., Wilson, K., & Gilliland, J. (2021). Review of gender, socioeconomic status, and ethnic background considerations reported in active school travel intervention studies. Journal of Transport and Health, 21, Article 101035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jth.2021.101035

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.

Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach (2021)
Journal Article
Parsons, J. L., Coen, S. E., & Bekker, S. (2021). Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach. British Journal of Sports Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-103173

Background: The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury rate for girls/women has not changed in over 20 years, and they remain 3-6 times more likely to experience injury compared with boys/men. To date, ACL injury prevention and management has been a... Read More about Anterior cruciate ligament injury: Towards a gendered environmental approach.

A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review (2020)
Journal Article
Schulze, C., Demetriou, Y., Emmerling, S., Schlund, A., Phillips, S. P., Puil, L., …Reimers, A. K. (2020). A sex/gender perspective on interventions to promote children's and adolescents' overall physical activity: Results from genEffects systematic review. BMC Pediatrics, 20(1), Article 473. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-020-02370-9

© 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.

‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender (2020)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2021). ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13(4), 537-553. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2020.1748897

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This paper develops a visceral feminist geography of the gym to expand our understanding of how everyday physical activity environments are implicated in the gendered context of physical... Read More about ‘Where is the space for continuum?’ Gyms and the visceral "stickiness" of binary gender.

Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment (2019)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Davidson, J., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2020). Towards a critical geography of physical activity: Emotions and the gendered boundary-making of an everyday exercise environment. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 45(2), 313-330. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12347

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)
Journal Article
Demetriou, Y., Vondung, C., Bucksch, J., Schlund, A., Schulze, C., Knapp, G., …Reimers, A. K. (2019). Interventions on children’s and adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary behaviour: protocol for a systematic review from a sex/gender perspective. Systematic Reviews, 8(1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13643-019-0963-2

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)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Mitchell, C. A., Tillmann, S., & Gilliland, J. A. (2019). ‘I like the “outernet” stuff:’ girls’ perspectives on physical activity and their environments. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 11(5), 599-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676x.2018.1561500

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
Coen, S. E., Tillmann, S., Ergler, C. R., McGuire, C., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Playing with Poetry: Poetic Representation of Research in Children’s Geographies of Nature and Adventurous Play. Geohumanities, 4(2), 557-575. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2018.1516956

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)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E. (2018). Connecting qualitative research on exercise and environment to public health agendas requires an equity lens. Health and Place, 53, 264-267. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthplace.2017.09.005

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)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Rosenberg, M. W., & Davidson, J. (2018). “It's gym, like g-y-m not J-i-m”: Exploring the role of place in the gendering of physical activity. Social Science and Medicine, 196, 29-36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.10.036

© 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.