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St. Catharines MP Chris Bittle visited the Brock Research and Innovation Centre Friday.<\/p><\/div>\n
To commemorate the funding, Badawey and Bittle visited Gammage\u2019s lab at the Brock Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC) and also spoke with Goodman.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s always great as a government that has really invested in science and research to see the rubber meeting the road and to see the work that\u2019s being done, to see the students and faculty that are involved and how it benefits the community and beyond,\u201d says Bittle.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a pleasure to visit Brock, experiencing first hand their leadership in the area of social science and research. In today\u2019s case specifically to health, also recognizing that the Canada summer jobs program is serving its purpose to prepare Brock students for their future,” Badawey says.<\/span><\/p>\n Gammage, who is an associate professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, will be studying how people of all age groups can use physical activity as a tool to love and respect their physiques.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of the body image research focuses on younger women and women specifically. It\u2019s nice to reach out to older populations as well as men and women,\u201d says student Sarah Galway, who will be starting her master\u2019s in September under Gammage.<\/p>\n \u201cThe research in this area generally focuses on the negative,\u201d says Galway, who received a SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (master\u2019s). \u201cIt\u2019s great to take a more positive approach.\u201d<\/p>\n Goodman, who is assistant professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences, is studying how online and telephone voting impacts voter turnout, the composition of the voting population and residents\u2019 attitudes towards local political institutions and representatives.<\/p>\n \u201cOnline voting is becoming more commonplace: people are using it, and we know little about the effects,\u201d says Goodman. \u201cNobody knows what happens when you make elections fully electronic. This research will give academics and government officials a sense of what types of effects this policy change could have.\u201d<\/p>\n Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon says he\u2019s \u201cdelighted\u201d by the visit of the Members of Parliament.<\/p>\n \u201cIt shows that there is a real commitment and awareness on the part of our elected representatives to show the role that public funding plays in supporting research,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n