The Research Forum Organizing Committee is pleased to announce its keynote speaker for the 2025 event!
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Michael Hemphill
Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Towards a Restorative Future for Physical Education
This presentation will highlight current trends in physical education scholarship and practice through the lens of restorative justice. Participants will be encouraged to think about how the “mighty currents” in physical education today can move us toward a restorative future in physical education and teacher education.
Dr. Michael Hemphill joined the Department of Kinesiology at UNC Greensboro in 2016 as an assistant professor and was promoted to associate professor in 2021. His scholarship focuses on social and emotional learning in academic and physical activity contexts. He is co-author of a model called “Restorative Youth Sports” which is an instructional approach to integrated conflict resolution and relationship building skills in physical education curriculum. A hallmark of his scholarship has been a commitment to community engagement which has led to research and programs that are mutually beneficial to the university and the local community in Greensboro, NC. He was recognized for exemplary community engaged scholarship with the receipt of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement in 2020. He is also recognized as a scholar committed to diversity and inclusion. His professional association, the Society of Health and Physical Educators, has recognized him with the Charles D. Henry Award for exemplary service on behalf of ethnic minorities in the profession. Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Greensboro, Dr. Hemphill served as assistant professor of health and human performance at the College of Charleston (Charleston, SC). He earned his PhD in Kinesiology from Purdue University in 2011.
