{"id":63510,"date":"2020-01-27T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T20:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=63510"},"modified":"2021-09-14T10:22:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T14:22:03","slug":"special-fund-recipients-announced-for-canada-games-related-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/01\/special-fund-recipients-announced-for-canada-games-related-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipients announced for Canada Games-related research funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Poling Bork joined the Canada Games Steering Committee, she took the call for Games-related research proposals very seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, the Senior Laboratory Instructor in the Department of Computer Science wondered if and how her computer science expertise could be applied to an athletic event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe brainstormed about how each department could contribute to making the Canada Games a success,\u201d said Bork, adding that she was eager to put her research into action.<\/p>\n<p>Part of Bork\u2019s research focus involves developing serious games \u2014 software apps designed with intended purposes. Last year, she supervised a group of students <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2019\/04\/student-made-app-aims-to-improve-the-lives-of-individuals-with-intellectual-and-developmental-disabilities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">who created an app<\/a> meant to improve the quality of life for people living with intellectual and developmental disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Then it hit her: Why not create an app for athletes participating in the Canada Games?<\/p>\n<p>Bork submitted her proposal to the <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/canada-games\/research-subcommittee\/vpr-grants-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VPR Canada Games Grants<\/a> program, a special fund that enables Brock University researchers and scholars from all across campus to undertake research or a creative activity in any discipline and on any topic that relates to the Canada Games.<\/p>\n<p>Vice-President, Research Tim Kenyon announced that Bork and 10 other researchers and scholars have received up to $7,000 funding for their proposals.<\/p>\n<p>The recipients are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poling Bork, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, \u201cCanada\u00a0Games\u00a0Athlete Village software application (AV app)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Chimera, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, \u201cInjuries and Illnesses across 10 years of\u00a0Canada\u00a0Games\u00a0Competitions: 2009-2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michele Kathryn Donnelly, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, \u201cGender Equality at the\u00a0Canada\u00a0Games: A Historical Perspective<\/li>\n<li>Karen Fricker, Faculty of Humanities, \u201cCircus on the Canal: Exploring the connections between water sports and circus performance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Amy Friend, Faculty of Humanities, \u201cMovements Across the Waterways\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Michael Holmes, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, \u201cDevelopment of an objective video-based athlete assessment tool for performance optimization and injury prevention\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Nicole Luke, Faculty of Social Sciences, \u201cUnderstanding the Impact of Participation in the\u00a0Canada\u00a0Games\u00a0on Individual Ontario Athletes\u201d<\/li>\n<li>William Marshall, Faculty of Mathematics and Science, \u201cUsing Data Science to Predict Golfer Performance\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Catherine Parayre, Faculty of Humanities, \u201cBrock project Lacrosse (Small Walker Press)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Brian Roy, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, \u201cSport Injuries during the\u00a0Canada\u00a0Games: Informing a standardized prospective injury surveillance system\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Younker, Library, \u201cCanada\u00a0Games\u00a0Research Collection\/Support &amp; Digital Storytelling Initiative\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see the creative thought that\u2019s gone into forming these programs, especially from Faculties and research areas that may not have an immediately obvious connect to the Canada Summer Games,\u201d said Kenyon.<\/p>\n<p>Bork\u2019s Canada Games research is aiming to create an app for athletes staying on campus that will provide information on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Campus resources, including interactive maps, pointing athletes and coaches in the direction of cafeterias, medical care and other faculties;<\/li>\n<li>Games information, such as scores and schedules; and<\/li>\n<li>Online social networking, where athletes can communicate with one another<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Her grant includes funding for Master\u2019s student Maysara Al Jumaily, who developed an earlier prototype with a <a href=\"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2020\/01\/match-of-minds-program-launches-into-the-new-decade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Match of Minds grant<\/a> he received last year, alongside volunteer Ayosha Bork who developed the graphics and contributed to the user interface design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing that the Canada Summer Games is coming to Brock,\u201d said Bork. \u201cI\u2019m hopeful that the app we develop could be used over and over again by the Canada Games host society for future Games. Maybe this can leave a legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kenyon said the Canada Summer Games opens up \u201cunprecedented\u201d research opportunities that will benefit Brock, Niagara and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cResearch-wise, we\u2019re\u00a0in a position\u00a0to document and study the process of planning and hosting a major sport event, something that hasn\u2019t been done on such a large scale in the past,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Canada Games is expected to bring more than 5,000 athletes from across the country to Niagara from Aug. 6 to 21, 2021 to compete in 18 sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Poling Bork joined the Canada Games Steering Committee, she took the call for Games-related research proposals very seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":63511,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,3319,4052,37,41,1,4,5,38],"tags":[244,6789,10206,10477,7488,384,348,522,24,3325,5624],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63510"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69417,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63510\/revisions\/69417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}