February 10, 2026: More-Than-Human Sport and Movement: Relations with the Environment -- In this panel session, scholars reflected on the challenges and opportunities associated with fostering relations, conceptualising, and representing nature in more-than-human research in sport/physical activity/leisure.
November 2026: Healthy Dancer Canada Conference 2026 -- Co-hosted by the BMC Research Group and the Department of Drama. Please check back for more details.
October 2025: Publication of Movement Matters, Vol. 4, No. 1 -- Movement Matters is affiliated with the field of kinesiology and more specifically, its subdiscipline of the socio-cultural studies of physical activity.
March 20, 2026: KSR Faculty Research Day -- an annual event hosted by the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation that highlights the range of research taking place across the Faculty.
BMC Events for the 2024-2025 Academic Year
More-Than-Human Digital Speaker Series
April 3, 2025 - Sport and Movement: A cross-disciplinary panel discussion
July 22, 2025 - Sport and Movement: Methodological considerations
November 21 - BMC Research Talks series, Dr. Zoe Avner (Deakin University). Title of Presentation: Coach development as assemblage: Mobilizing assemblage theory within an endurance-running coach development intravention. Links to papers: Paper 1 & Paper 2
January- Publication of volume 3 of Movement Matters.
BMC Events for the 2023-2024 Academic Year
November 16, 2023 - BMC Research Talks series, Dr. Joseph Mills (current affiliation or affiliation at the time?). Topic: Post-structural pedagogy in a coach development curriculum [<-this is the name of the article discussed, ask if would like to change]
September - Publication of volume 2 of Movement Matters.
BMC Events for the 2022-2023 Academic Year
March 30 - Guest lecture, Professor Richard Pringle (Monash University). Topic: Chinese Immigrants Sport Particpation in New Zealand.
November 3 - Guest lecture, Professor Martin Camire (University of Ottawa). Topic: Assemblage Thinking and Positive Youth Development.
BMC Events for the 2021-2022 Academic Year
May 11 - Guest lecture, Dr. Marianne Clark (University of New South Wales). Topic: Technology and Exercise at Home through the Pandemic.
April 19, 26, & May 4 - Three-part Karen Barad seminar series.
December 10 - Ph.D. Seminar Series (Dallas Ansell, Simrit Deol, Andreea Mohora).
November 12 - Guest lecture, Dr. Allison Jeffrey (University of Alberta). Topic: Practicing Yoga through COVID19.
July - Launch of the inaugural issue of Movement Matters.
June & July - Four part workshop series on an interview analysis technique.
BMC Events for the 2020-2021 Academic Year
March 17, 24, & 31 - Skill Learning Seminar: From Phenomenology to Poststructuralism.
February 10 - Seminar II with University of Malmo, Sweden, Department of Sport Science. Led by their professors and Ph.D. students. Topic: What is Knowledge?
November 20 - Guest lecture, Professor Leanne Norman (Leeds Beckett University, UK). Topic: Women and Coaching: A Critical Feminist Perspective.
October 21 - Seminar I with University of Malmo, Sweden, Department of Sport Science. Led by Drs. Markula and Denison. Topic: Aligning Theory and Methodology.
September 25 - Guest lecture, Dr. Katie Davies (University of Alberta). Topic: How Research can Inform Teaching.
July 27 - Publishing Your Research III, led by Drs. Markula and Denison. Topic: Writing a Literature Review.
July 15 - Publishing Your Research II, led by Drs. Markula and Denison. Topic: Forming a Research Question.
July 3 - Publishing Your Research I, led by Drs. Markula and Denison. Topic: Selecting a Research Topic.