The CRC-Application Review Committee invites campus community members to attend a research seminar by Dr. Devra Waldman, candidate for the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Equity in Nutrition, Physical Activity, or Health. Dr. Waldman will describe what her research program at UPEI may look like in the context of her past research.

Dr. Waldman has a PhD in Kinesiology from the University of British Columbia (2020) and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. Dr. Waldman's research program is comprised of three lines of socio-cultural inquiry in sport, physical culture, and health: 1) the local and global postcolonial politics and implications of sport and health focused 'new city' developments in the Global South; 2) sport, international development, and gendered/racialized inequalities; and 3) global ethnography as a qualitative research methodology, relations of power in research settings, and the politics of knowledge production. These three lines of inquiry come together to address questions about how colonialism shape sport-led urban and regional land development, the politics of inclusion/exclusion in urban planning, and sustainable community development in the Global South.

Research seminar: 

• Date/Time: Thursday, June 12, 2025, 9:45 - 10:30 am
• Location: Health Sciences Building 104
• Teams Virtual link

The research seminar will also be recorded and available after the session. Those interested in the recording may contact mlsteele@upei.ca.