Seminar focuses on psychological components in physical activity in the elderly

The next installment of the popular FKRM’s Health, Leisure, and Human Performance Research Institute’s (HLHPRI) Seminar Series takes place Friday, January 22 with Everyday physical activity in late life: The role of psychological mindsets.

We will have the privilege of hearing a presentation from Dr. Judith Chipperfield’s internationally known research group on their their ground-breaking and important work on the psychological components involved in physical activity in the elderly.

What: HLHP Research Institute Seminar Series — ‘Everyday physical activity in late life: The role of psychological mindsets’
Who: Judith Chipperfield, PhD & Jeremy Hamm, PhD
When: Friday, Jan 22, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
Where: Room 136, Frank Kennedy Centre, University of Manitoba

The Seminar Series is HLHPRI flagship program, intended to foster the dissemination and discussion of the highly relevant and ever-evolving knowledge on health, leisure, and human performance, and the interaction of this knowledge across disciplines.

Future topics and dates include:

• Joanne Parsons, PhD, University of Manitoba, February 5, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
  Preventing sports injuries in young athletes
• Luc Tremblay, PhD, University of Toronto, February 12, 2016 2:30 p.m.
  How you grab your cup of coffee
• Mary Jung, PhD, University of British Columbia Okanagan, March 4, 2016 2:30 p.m.
  HIIT it or HATE it? The Affective, Social Cognitive, and Adherence responses to HIIT, and implications for health and diseased populations
• Moss Norman, PhD; Michael Hart, PhD; LeAnne Petherick, PhD, & Heather McRae PhD, University of Manitoba, March 11, 2016 2:30 p.m.
  Looking back while moving forward: Preliminary findings from an intergenerational examination of Cree physical cultures and masculinities

For more information, visit umanitoba.ca/faculties/kinrec/hlhpri/seminar.html

Garrick Kozier