Professor Bodin’s research broadly covers sport event impact and leveraging, focussing on the ways stakeholders use sport events strategically to meet their objectives, and the impact these events have on host community residents. Using qualitative and mixed methods approaches, Professor Bodin investigates event leveraging efforts across event stakeholder groups, including sport organizations, event rights holders and governments. She also investigates the sociopolitical impact of sport events and how event experiences influence residents’ perspectives of, and relationships with, their local government. Her primary interest is to understand how residents’ perspectives of their elected officials may change over the course of event bidding and hosting and how residents can be actively engaged in event-related decision-making.

Before joining the University of Ottawa, Professor Côté had a long and distinguished career at McGill University. Her research focuses on the biomechanics of repetitive movements in sports or at work. It seeks to provide a better understanding of adaptations to fatigue and injury development according to sex, age, capacity and level of expertise. For this work, knowledge users (workers, athletes, coaches, industry) and international partners are serving as funders and collaborators. Professor Côté has published over a hundred scholarly articles and given countless presentations in many different countries.

Professor Dionne received a PhD from McGill University, where her work aimed to better understand academic difficulties in children with developmental coordination disorder, particularly in mathematics. She also led research projects on the role of occupational therapists in supporting these children. Before joining the University of Ottawa, Professor Dionne worked as a pediatric occupational therapist in private practice. Her research program aims to support children’s participation in daily activities that require mathematics, notably those involving concepts of quantity, time, distance and/or money. Her current work focuses on the integration of health-care services in school settings, optimization of service delivery models, and evaluation and intervention involving children presenting with difficulties in mathematics.

Professor Ippersiel’s research examines the interactions between motor control, movement biomechanics and psychosocial influences in musculoskeletal conditions, with an emphasis on low back pain. Grounded in a biopsychosocial framework, his work focuses on how people adapt their movement strategies in response to pain, threats or environmental challenges during real-world and clinically relevant tasks. Professor Ippersiel applies advanced biomechanical analyses, such as inter-joint coordination, co-contraction, and variability measurements using wearable sensors, like inertial measurement units (IMUs) and electromyography (EMG). By capturing movement in both structured and natural environments, Professor Ippersiel aims to improve our understanding of movement adaptations in clinical populations to help inform targeted rehabilitation strategies.

Professor Pacheco-Brousseau’s research aims to advance the science of appropriateness in rehabilitation by following an implementation science approach. Her work focuses on developing and evaluating evidence-based interventions to make rehabilitation care more appropriate. It also aims to establish best practices and advancing the science of shared decision-making (patient engagement) in physiotherapy. Finally, she examines implementation strategies to promote the adoption and sustainability of appropriate rehabilitation care and shared decision-making in practice, research and policy. To enhance the quality, relevance, applicability and impact of her research, Professor Pacheco-Brousseau values close collaboration with individuals with lived experience, as well as with health-care professionals, researchers and decision-makers.

Marianne Sofronas is an assistant professor at the University of Ottawa and the director of research for the Canadian Palliative Care Nursing Association. A nurse, ethicist, and anthropologist, her expertise bridges clinical practice and critical academic inquiry. Her research program primarily focuses on palliative care for populations experiencing vulnerability, and how nurses enact morally significant practice in challenging clinical, organizational and political spaces. Marianne Sofronas’s doctoral work involved an ethnography of neuropalliative care, examined through the lens of personhood. Her post-doctoral research expanded into nursing work environments. Both her research and teaching are grounded in critical theory, poststructuralism, interpretive approaches, feminist and relational ethics, and emancipatory and decolonizing frameworks. She draws on over a decade of clinical practice in critical care nursing and clinical ethics.

Professor Zenone completed his PhD in public health and policy at the University of London (United Kingdom), and his postdoctoral training as a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia. He studies the spread, impact, and political economy of health misinformation and disinformation, examining how patients and the public are misled about treatments, disease causes, and health risks, and how health topics are portrayed across digital platforms. He focuses on the commercial determinants of health, including how profit-driven systems and platform structures amplify misleading or harmful content. His work emphasizes moving away from blaming individuals and toward creating accountable systems that prevent, mitigate, and respond to disinformation.