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RESEARCH

Shane Sweet - McGill University听

Shane鈥檚 research aims to understand and promote participation and well-being among people with physical disability by co-constructing and co-disseminating the research with the community. He achieves these goals by applying, testing and integrating theory, and developing conceptual models across two steams: Peer support and physical activity.

Phone:听(514) 398-4184 x09903
Fax:听514-398-4186

Email: shanesweet [at] mcgill.ca

Heather Gainforth - University of British Colombia听

Using integrated knowledge translation, Heather鈥檚 research aims to identify,听develop and implement novel strategies to build strong collaborations between researchers and communities. Her research also aims to close the gap between health behaviour change and practice by getting research evidence into the hands of research users.

Kathleen Martin Ginis - University of British Colombia听

Kathleen鈥檚 research program focuses on physical activity participation听in community-dwelling people living with spinal cord injury. In particular, she is interested in how we can use principles. Kathleen works closely听with numerous community-based organizations on research and knowledge听translation projects to advance physical activity and other types of听social participation among Canadians with disabilities.

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Lee Schaefer 鈥� University of Saskatchewan听

Lee鈥檚 research is focused on teacher education, specifically, physical听education teacher education, youth development through wellness and physical activity, the impact of the outdoors on youth physical activity levels. He uses novel qualitative methodologies such as narrative inquiry to explore physical and health education research.

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Vanessa Noonan 鈥� Praxis Spinal Cord Institute, Director, Research & Best Practice Implementation

Using her physical therapist experience, Vanessa practices in, and听researches, aspects of spinal cord injury, in both acute and rehabilitation settings. She has been responsible for both leading translational research and best practice implementation at the Praxis Spinal Cord Institute.听

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Jordan Herbison - Vancouver Island University听

Jordan's research focuses on how group dynamics shapes opportunities and experiences in rehabilitation, sport, and exercise. In the peer mentorship听context, Jordan is examining how mentors' interpersonal听experiences with听their organization and mentees affects their well-being. Jordan is a听professor in the Faculty of Education at Vancouver Island University.

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Rob Shaw 鈥� University of British Colombia听

Rob鈥檚 research focuses on 鈥榙econstructing鈥� the peer support experience for people with spinal cord injury to better understand how specific elements of peer听听support听contribute to its effectiveness. For his Postdoctoral work Rob is aiding in the development of a toolkit that will guide organizations in the implementation of a new evaluation tool that will examine the impact of their peer support services.

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

Haley Flaro 鈥� Ability New Brunswick Inc. Executive Director听

Haley is the passionate executive director of Ability NB with over听20 years of experience in the non-profit sector specifically with health and disability sector organizations. She is a community developer who believes non-profit organizations must actively engage in both direct service delivery and public policy development to impact change.

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Launel Scott - SCI Saskatchewan听

I began my professional career as a Registered Nurse, and in 1985 I joined听the Canadian Paraplegic Association Saskatchewan as a Rehabilitation Counsellor. After varied roles in various health-related organizations, in 2017 I accepted the Executive Director position with Spinal Cord Injury Saskatchewan, thus making a full circle in my career journey. We revamped the way we work with our clientele, specifically to an 鈥渉olistic approach鈥�. Additional priorities included improving our peer initiatives reborn as the 鈥淧eer Mentorship Network鈥� (PMN), SC Saskatchewan recruiting, training and certifying peer mentors from across Saskatchewan.

Christopher McBride - Spinal Cord Injury BC, Executive Director听

With over 20 years experience as a spinal cord injury researcher, research centre executive, volunteer, and now community service leader in the spinal cord injury sector, Chris has a passion for making a difference for people with spinal cord injury, their families and those with related disabilities throughout BC.

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Jocelyn Maffin - Spinal Cord Injury BC, Associate Director Service Delivery

Jocelyn has been involved in several roles using her vast experience working to help those with a SCI, particularly in the areas of peer support and information sharing. In her current role at SCI BC, Jocelyn helps create innovative communities of support to help people with SCI and their families adjust, adapt, and thrive. Growing up with paralysis, Jocelyn thrived because of the peer support she had through parasport, and enjoys contributing to the development of peer support opportunities for others.

TRAINEES

Zhiyang (George) Shi鈥� McGill University听

Zhiyang completed his undergraduate study majoring in Sports听Rehabilitation at Tianjin Medical University (China). Throughout his study, he became strongly interested in people living with mobility impairments partaking in physical activities and exercise. He is working to publish his study looking at Peer Mentoring effects, and completing his PhD under Shane鈥檚 guidance, in the area of developing Peer Mentor Programs.

Olivia Pastore- McGill University听

Olivia鈥檚 research looks at 1) understanding the psychological processes that lead to compassion fatigue among peer mentors with spinal cord injury (SCI) and 2) co-developing and implementing a self-compassion program to reduce compassion fatigue and enhance well-being among SCI peer mentors.

Lily White- McGill University听

Lily is doing her Master's program at the Theories and Intervention in Exercise and Health Psychology lab. Her research seeks to support the implementation of the SCI peer support evaluation tool within Canadian provincial community organizations.听