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Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Michael Hutchison

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Biomarkers
  • Epidemiology
  • Injury prevention
  • Neuropsychology
  • Rehabilitation
  • Sport Concussion
  • Traumatic brain injury

Office: 416-946-5630
Website
Email: michael.hutchison@utoronto.ca
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Peter Donnelly

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Areas of Expertise

  • Application of ‘cultural studies’ theory and research to the study of sport and leisure practices
  • Changing nature of abuse in sports
  • Children in high performance sport
  • High risk sports
  • Policy and politics
  • Social issues in sports
  • Sociology of risk taking
  • Sport
  • Sport and social inequality
  • Sport and space
  • Sport policy and politics
  • Sport subcultures

Office: 416-946-5071
Mobile: 905-617-6020
Email: peter.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bentley

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiovascular control
  • Exercise performance and tolerance
  • Oxygen delivery
  • Phenotypic variability

Office: 416-946-5613
Website
Email: robert.bentley@utoronto.ca

Sandhya Mylabathula

Graduate student

Areas of Expertise

  • Concussion and head injury
  • Health policy
  • Injury prevention
  • Nutrition
  • Science communication
  • Science outreach

Office: 647-378-8468
Mobile: 647-378-8468
Languages: French
Email: s.mylabathula@mail.utoronto.ca
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Sasha Gollish

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Intersection of coaching and teaching
  • Road safety and vulnerable users
  • Sports and Performance Engineering

Office: N/A
Mobile: 416-729-3631
Website
Email: s.gollish@utoronto.ca
Preferred method of contact: Email
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Scott Thomas

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

Scott Thomas

Areas of Expertise

  • Exercise and ageing
  • Exercise and performance
  • Increasing access to cardiovascular health
  • Quantifying the exercise dose/response relation

Office: 416-978-6957
Mobile: 6475196957
Email: scott.thomas@utoronto.ca
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Simon Darnell

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • International development and ‘Sport for Development and Peace’
  • Social movements and activism in sport
  • Sociology of sport and physical activity
  • Sport and public policy
  • Sport and ‘Global Citizenship’
  • Sport, celebrity and consumer culture
  • Sport, race and post-colonialism

Office: (416) 978-0529
Website
Email: simon.darnell@utoronto.ca
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Tim Taha

Associate Professor, Teaching Stream

Areas of Expertise

  • Athlete development
  • Elite athlete training
  • Long term athlete development
  • Mathematical modeling of sport performance
  • Physiology of Sport
  • Rowing; cycling, track and field
  • Theoretical physiology
  • Training and Performance in Sport

Office: 416-978-4881
Languages: German
Website
Email: t.taha@utoronto.ca
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Tim Welsh

Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Cognitive and motor disorders such as Down syndrome and Autism
  • Movement in social contexts
  • Perception of nonhuman animal bodies and actions
  • Planning and control of goal-directed limb and eye movements
  • Selective attention
  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation

Office: +1-416-946-3303
Website
Email: t.welsh@utoronto.ca
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Timothy Burkhart

Assistant Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Finite Element Modelling
  • Injury Prevention, Treatment, and Rehabilitation
  • Lower Extremity Biomechanics
  • Orthopaedic Biomechanics

Office: (416) 978-8255
Email: timothy.burkhart@utoronto.ca

Tricia McGuire-Adams

Associate Professor

Areas of Expertise

  • Diversity and inclusivity (EDI) and amplifying marginalized voices
  • Equity
  • Indigenous peoples’ health knowledge and sovereignties
  • Indigenous women’s wellbeing
  • Indigenous-informed sociocultural aspects of physical activity

Office: N/A
Website
Email: tricia.mcguireadams@utoronto.ca