$3.75 Million Gift from Daniel and Monica Gold to Establish Centre for Early Childhool Development

A gift to establish a centre for early childhood development at McGill aims to reach more children with learning difficulties.  

Congratulations to Yiyang Chen for successfully defending her dissertation!

Congratulations to Dr. Yiyang Chen on the successful defence of her dissertation on 02 October, 2024!

Topic of her dissertation: "Modern analytical approaches to understand the sex-specific effects of fatigue on multi-dimensional synergies during repetitive whole-limb tasks"

TIE lab presents at SCAPPS 2022 in Montreal

Oct 13~15 2022, TIE lab participated in the SCAPPS (Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology) 2022 Conference in Montreal, Quebec. TIE lab students, Olivia, Gabby, and Nour each presented their research and had great discussions with professors and students from different universities and labs. Dr. Shane Sweet is one of the main organizers, as well as Tayah and George (Zhiyang) volunteered at this conference. 

TIE lab presents at ISCOS 2022 conference in Vancouver

Sep 15~18 2022, TIE lab went to the 61st International Spinal Cord Society Annual Scientific Meeting in Vancouver, BC. TIE lab supervisor, Dr. Shane Sweet and lab member, Jacques Comeau led a discussion on peer support for individuals with spinal cord injury at the pre-conference. TIE lab students, Tayah and Nour delivered their poster presentations, as well as George and Olivia gave their oral presentations on their research projects.

Congrats to TIE lab graduate students Olivia and Nour for completing their thesis proposal

September 6th and 7th, 2022, TIE lab graduate students, Olivia Pastore and Nour Saadawi, each completed their thesis proposals with their committee. 

Olivia's Ph.D. thesis: Understanding and reducing compassion fatigue using the compassion fatigue resilience model and self-compassion in peer mentors of Canadian spinal cord injury community-based organizations.

TIE lab members present their research at ECSEPS 2022 conference

March 25~26, 2022, TIE lab members, Olivia, Tayah, Meaghan, Nour, Lauren, and Georgia presented their research at the Eastern Canada Sport and Exercise Psychology Symposium (ECSEPS) 2022 conference in Ottawa. Each of them did an amazing job giving the oral presentation and having great exchanges with the audience. Click here to see more pictures of TIE lab members at ECSEPS. 

Congrats to TIE lab student Tayah on her new publication

March 12, 2022, TIE lab PhD student Tayah Liska published the research on the Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine. The title of the publication is "Examining long-term motivational and behavioural outcomes of two physical activity interventions".

Dr. Shane Sweet and Jacques Comeau co-presenting at KPE grad seminar

November 18th, 2021, Dr. Shane Sweet and Mr. Jacques Comeau collaboratively presented at the graduate seminar of the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education. They shared their experience in doing community-based research on peer mentorship for people living with spinal cord injuries.

TIE lab had two new publications on Spinal Cord

November 8, 2021, it's so exciting to announce that our lab recently published two papers on Spinal Cord. Both of them came from the study in which our research team collaborated with community partners to interview multiple individuals who have been involved in community-based spinal cord injury (SCI) peer mentorship programs.

Congratulations to Emilie Michalovic on passing her PhD dissertation defense

November 3rd, 2021, TIE lab member Emilie Michalovic successfully completed her PhD dissertation defense. Emilie joined the TIE lab in 2015 and has been an excellent lab member over the past six years. She is Dr. Sweet's first student who completed her PhD degree. Emilie's research focuses on enhancing the social participation and well-being of people living with COPD.

TIE Lab members did excellent presentations at the SCAPPS 2021 online conference

October 20-22, 2021, the Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology 2021 Conference was held online by the Nipissing University. TIE lab members, Jordan Herbison and Emilie Michalovic gave excellent oral presentations on their research. Olivia Pastore and Tayah Liska successfully presented their posters. TIE lab alumni, Dr. Meredith Rocchi, also presented her research at the conference.

Congrats to TIE lab student Olivia Pastore on passing the PhD comprehensive exam

September 24th, 2021, TIE lab student Olivia successfully defended her Ph.D. comprehensive exam. She did an excellent job and received lots of praise from her committee members on both the written and oral components.

In the summer, Olivia spent three months writing the answers to the questions in the topics on physical activity trends, self-compassion conceptualization, and RCT alternative methodologies.

Congrats, Olivia!

Congrats to TIE lab postdoc Jordan on publishing on The Conversation

September 7th, 2021, TIE lab post-doctoral fellow Jordan Herbison published an article titled "After the Paralympics: New initiative to get more Canadians involved in power wheelchair sport" on The Conversation.

TIE lab student Zhiyang (George) presented at the ASIA 2021 conference

July 8th, TIE lab PhD student, Zhiyang (George) virtually presented the research project "Identifying important outcomes of SCI peer mentorship using a Delphi consensus approach" at the American Spinal Injury Association (ASIA) 2021 conference. ASIA is one of the leading Americas organizations in the field of spinal cord injury care, education, and research.

Congrats, George!

Congrats to TIE lab member Meaghan Osborne on receiving Cooke Fellowship in Physical Education

June 10, 2021, TIE lab student Meaghan receives the Cooke Fellowship in Physical Education. This fellowship was established in 2016 by J. Douglas Cooke BSc(PE) 1952 to support outstanding graduate students in the Faculty of Education entering the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education to pursue an MA in Physical and Health Education Pedagogy, Adapted Physical Activity or Sport and Exercise Psychology.