Every three months, the PHE Canada Research Council selects one of its members to profile as Featured Researcher. Whether it's a university level teacher, academic, or graduate student, the Council wants to highlight people who are advancing research centered on topics and issues in physical and health education.
Do you know a PHE Canada Research Council member whose professional ideals and service strengthen the physical and health education sector? Whose research and writing drives change forward? Who has commitment and dedication to the field?
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Featured Researcher
Megan Tomyn is a second-year PhD student in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia (UBC) studying with Dr. Janice Forsyth. Before attending UBC, she completed her Bachelor (2023) and Master of Science (2025) at the University of Saskatchewan with Dr. Lee Schaefer and has recently published her masters work titled Beyond underrepresentation: Narratives of identity and healing among Indigenous post-secondary student-athletes. At UBC, her doctoral research investigates the absence of Indigenous enrollment data in Canadian post-secondary sport. This is an absence that perpetuates the erasure of Indigenous presence in collegiate sport and reflects broader patterns of settler colonial governance. Her work at UBC critiques how institutional control over Indigenous data reproduces colonial practices of silence and advocates for Indigenous data sovereignty as a foundation for equity and accountability.
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Past Featured Researcher Profiles