The Rebel Movement Blog: Recent Episodes
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Laura is a PhD Candidate at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. She is interested in programming, reproducibility, and open science practices. Her dissertation focuses on the effects of interactions on motor learning and retention, and her MSc thesis from the University of Ottawa investigated observational learning. Laura loves to talk about statistics and research methods and thinks that working with R is super fun!
Rob Mason is a recent graduate from the University of Melbourne (Victoria, Australia). His PhD thesis focused on coach-athlete verbal feedback, with a focus on elite-level team sports. He is particularly interested in the reception of feedback by athletes, and the way that feedback changes based on the context in which it is given. He also works as a coach developer with an Australian Football League team, where he provides support to coaches around their use of feedback and teaching strategies.
Adam is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Human Functioning and Rehabilitation Science at The University of Vermont (UVM). For his Ph.D., Adam is focused on learning more about relationships between perceptive measures, such as the rating of perceived exertion (RPE), and sport-specific performance outcomes in athletes. He also serves as the Sports Science Coordinator at UVM where organizes the collection, interpretation, visualization, and applied integration of physiological data from the Men’s Ice Hockey and Men’s Basketball teams.
Mike is a lecturer in Sport & Exercise Science and Sport Performance courses at Leeds Beckett University in the UK. Currently Mike is completing a PhD on tackle injury mechanisms in elite rugby league and is also a performance analyst for the England Korfball national team. Mike has previously worked as a graduate teaching assistant within Leeds Beckett, a biomechanics research assistant at University of Central Lancashire and a strength and conditioning coach at elite rugby league club.
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Toby Edwards is a 3rd year PhD candidate and sessional tutor at The University of Notre Dame Australia. His PhD research explores the assessment and development of sprint acceleration and horizontal force-velocity-power characteristics in junior Australian football players. Toby is also the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for the South Fremantle Football Club junior development program.
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Kelsey is a 5th year doctoral student in the Biomechanics & Movement Science program at the University of Delaware. She is originally from Winnipeg, Canada (Go Jets Go!) where she completed her Bachelor of Science with Honours in Biopsychology. She then moved on to earn her Masters of Science in Health & Exercise Science in Kelowna, BC, Canada. Kelsey’s research in the concussion world has been pretty broad over the past few years, but she began to realize that most concussion research was on high school, college, or professional athletes and she couldn’t help but think “what about the everyday person?” This led her to what is now her dissertation project – investigating the neurological health of adults with persistent symptoms from a concussion.
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Featured guest, Sean Cochran is a 2nd year Ph.D. student in the department of Kinesiology and Dance at NMSU with an emphasis in motor control and learning. His primary research interests are the effects of virtual reality training on motor and cognitive performance. He received his M.S. in Applied Neuromechanics as well as his B.S. in Sport Medicine from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
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Jason and Harjiv are joined by Nicole Strock, Kinesiology PhD candidate at Penn State studying the effects of energy deficiency on metabolism, reproduction, and bone health in exercising women. She is also the Coalition Coordinator for the Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition, a non-profit organization promoting the health and well-being of athletes and active individuals.
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Kyle Wasserberger, currently a PhD student at Auburn University in Auburn, Alabama, joins Jason and Harjiv to discuss his research in performance enhancement and mechanisms of injury in athletes with an emphasis on baseball and softball players.
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Alex Ehlert is a Ph.D. student in the Human Performance Lab at Old Dominion University. A former collegiate golfer, Alex has two primary research interests; the effects of physical preparation on golf performance (e.g. strength and conditioning, nutrition, warm-ups) and the psychological aspects of gastrointestinal distress in endurance athletes. Within these research areas, Alex has a strong interest in “bridging the gap” between research and practice by conducting research that is relevant to the applied setting and through communication and collaboration with practitioners to help disseminate information to those who can benefit from it.
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This epsodes features a visit from Old Dominion third year PhD student Maryam Moeini. Maryam, with abackground in biomedical engineering, has allowed her to design a prosthesis and has spearheaded her interest in the bio mechanics and physiology of the musculoskeletal system.
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Joining Jason and Harjiv in Episode 8 is 4th year ASU PhD student Boki Wang. Boki is studying neuromodulation of motor learning.
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In this special episode of the PhD Podcast, Harjiv and Jason bring on Dr. Joe Eisenmann to discuss how prospective / current graduate students navigate graduate school. The conversation touches on many relevant topics including the pre-application process, how to “control your own learning environment”, and post-graduate options. Dr. Eisenmann wears many hats, including his role as the head of Sports Science for Volt Athletics and Director of Loper Performance at the University of Nebraska-Kearney.
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Joining Jason and Harjiv for episode 6 is Mac Pierson, a 4th year PhD Candidate at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Mac joins the guys to discuss her research bringing both worlds of Biomechanics and Motor Learning together to evaluate lower extremity movement to negate injury for athletes.
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Joining Harjiv and Jason for Episode 5 is Thomas Gretton. Thomas is a second year sport psychology PhD student at Florida State University where he is studying cognitive performance in elite sport and elite sport performance. Specifically, Thomas has interests in pre-performance routines, psychological rest, and emotionally demanding research
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This episode's featured guess is UNLV student Julia Maietta. Julia is currently a Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology studying the psychometric properties of the ImPACT, a commonly utilized sport concussion assessment.
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Margot Bootsma is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Groningen studying motor learning, healthy aging, and neuroscience. She joins the pod to discuss her research in investigating changes in the brain and subsequent application towards understanding how to better optimize motor learning.
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Joining the guys in episode two is Jeb Struder, doctoral student at UConn. Jeb dives into his new role as a Director of Research and what he's currently working on.
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Harjiv and Jason start episode 1 by giving a brief overview into the origins of the podcast. The guys are then joined by current Ohio University PhD Student, Meredith Chaput as their inaugural guest on the show.
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