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Supporting active school travel: a qualitative analysis of implementing a regional safe routes to school program (2018)
Journal Article
Buttazzoni, A. N., Coen, S. E., & Gilliland, J. A. (2018). Supporting active school travel: a qualitative analysis of implementing a regional safe routes to school program. Social Science and Medicine, 212, 181-190. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.032

Physical inactivity among children is a significant public health concern. Active school travel (AST) methods, such as walking and wheeling to school, can be a valuable way to increase children's levels of daily physical activity. In Canada, Active a... Read More about Supporting active school travel: a qualitative analysis of implementing a regional safe routes to school program.

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.

Reporting of sex and gender in randomized controlled trials in Canada: a cross-sectional methods study (2017)
Journal Article
Welch, V., Doull, M., Yoganathan, M., Jull, J., Boscoe, M., Coen, S. E., …Tudiver, S. (2017). Reporting of sex and gender in randomized controlled trials in Canada: a cross-sectional methods study. Research Integrity and Peer Review, 2(1), Article 15. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41073-017-0039-6

Background: Accurate reporting on sex and gender in health research is integral to ensuring that health interventions are safe and effective. In Canada and internationally, governments, research organizations, journal editors, and health agencies hav... Read More about Reporting of sex and gender in randomized controlled trials in Canada: a cross-sectional methods study.

What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette? (2016)
Book Chapter
Coen, S. (2016). What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?. In N. E. Fenton, & J. Baxter (Eds.), Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies (131-152). Abingdon, Oxon & New York, NY: Routledge

Deploying participant-generated drawing as a research method presented me with two new challenges. The first is rather personal. Although I am convinced that drawing is a valuable method and stand by what I have written in this chapter, I wrestled wi... Read More about What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography’s qualitative palette?.

Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap? (2016)
Journal Article
Coen, S. E., Subedi, R. P., & Rosenberg, M. W. (2016). Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap?. Canadian Geographer / Géographe canadien, 60(1), 69-81. https://doi.org/10.1111/cag.12255

Globally, boys and men are more physically active than girls and women. Despite geographical variation in physical activity participation and gender differences across types of physical activities, physical activity is frequently assessed at national... Read More about Working out across Canada: Is there a gender gap?.

Development and Evaluation of ‘Briefing Notes’ as a Novel Knowledge Translation Tool to Aid the Implementation of Sex/Gender Analysis in Systematic Reviews: A Pilot Study (2014)
Journal Article
Doull, M., Welch, V., Puil, L., Runnels, V., Coen, S. E., Shea, B., …Boscoe, M. (2014). Development and Evaluation of ‘Briefing Notes’ as a Novel Knowledge Translation Tool to Aid the Implementation of Sex/Gender Analysis in Systematic Reviews: A Pilot Study. PLoS ONE, 9(11), e110786. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0110786

©- 2014 Doull et al. There is increasing recognition of sex/gender differences in health and the importance of identifying differential effects of interventions for men and women. Yet, to whom the research evidence does or does not apply, with regard... Read More about Development and Evaluation of ‘Briefing Notes’ as a Novel Knowledge Translation Tool to Aid the Implementation of Sex/Gender Analysis in Systematic Reviews: A Pilot Study.

Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make? (2012)
Book Chapter
Coen, S., & Banister, E. (2012). Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?. In S. Coen, & E. Banister (Eds.), What a Difference Sex and Gender Make: A Gender, Sex and Health Research Casebook. CIHR Institute of Gender and Health

In this collection, you will find examples from a diversity of disciplines and health foci where accounting for sex and gender in health research has advanced what we know, improved how we do research and made the products of health research more use... Read More about Introduction: What difference do sex and gender make?.