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Carolyn Emery

ResearcherPsychologyUniversity of Calgary

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Carolyn Emery

Researcher

Psychology

Health Sciences

University of Calgary

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Supervision signals

Has led research grants, which requires an independent research appointment. Ask their department whether they supervise graduate students.
26 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 9 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.
Principal investigator on 7 research grants (7 CIHR), most recently in 2025.
Supervised 10 trainees who won CIHR awards, most recently in 2025.

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Publications

229

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Grants

Publications by year

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Research

Concussion Injury Prevention Youth Sport Epidemiology Collaboration Mixed-Methods

Latest papers

Parents' and guardians' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours towards injury and injury prevention within adolescent female rugby union in England.
BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026
Who Is Keeping Score: The Effect of a Mercy Rule on Head Impact Rates in Canadian High School Tackle Football Games.
Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine · 2026 · senior author
Emergency department visits for concussion in children and youth by age, sex and material deprivation in Ontario, Canada, 2010-2020: a population-based study.
Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention · 2025

All 62 publications

Latest funding

You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions
CIHR · 2025 · Nominated PI
$1,500,000
Examining sleep, activity and exercise intolerance on the recovery of neural processing deficits in adolescents following sport-related concussion
CIHR · 2025 · Supervisor
$120,000
Integrating Pluralism into Transdisciplinary Scholarship: Harmonizing Collaboration Across Diverse Disciplines Aiming to Solve Complex Societal Challenges
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$118,800

All 28 grants and awards

62 publications.

Parents' and guardians' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours towards injury and injury prevention within adolescent female rugby union in England.

Knight G, Colbert L, Heyward O, Jones B, Emery C, Roberts S, Stokes K, West SW

BMJ open sport & exercise medicine2026

DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2026-003332 PMID: 42602803

Who Is Keeping Score: The Effect of a Mercy Rule on Head Impact Rates in Canadian High School Tackle Football Games.

Pankow MP, Syrydiuk R, Kolstad AT, Dennison CR, Mrazik M, Hagel BE, Emery C

Clinical journal of sport medicine : official journal of the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1097/jsm.0000000000001345 PMID: 40099916

Emergency department visits for concussion in children and youth by age, sex and material deprivation in Ontario, Canada, 2010-2020: a population-based study.

Macpherson AK, Harkins J, Sergio LE, Sadrmanesh O, Emery C, Rothman L

Injury prevention : journal of the International Society for Child and Adolescent Injury Prevention2025

DOI: 10.1136/ip-2024-045556 PMID: 40645644

The road to consensus: lessons learned from FAIR and recommendations for future consensus activities.

Crossley KM, Schulz J, Patterson B, Bullock GS, Heming EE, Ross AG, Shill IJ, Schneider KJ, Dijkstra HP, Whittaker JL, Emery C

British journal of sports medicine2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-111060 PMID: 41330630

Prevention strategies for lower extremity injury: a systematic review and meta-analyses for the Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus.

Bullock GS, Räisänen AM, Martin C, Martin M, Galarneau JM, Whittaker JL, Losciale JM, Bizzini M, Bourne MN, Dijkstra HP, Dubé MO, Hayden A, Girdwood M, Hägglund M, McLeod S, Mkumbuzi NS, Mosler AB, Murphy MC, Myklebust G, Møller M, Ocarino JM, Owoeye OBA, Palmer D, Pasanen K, Rio EK, Thorborg K, van Middelkoop M, Verhagen E, Warden SJ, Whalan M, Crossley KM, Emery C

British journal of sports medicine2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-109910 PMID: 40645751

Exercise intolerance and time to medical clearance to return to sport following sport-related concussion in adolescents.

Neill MG, Miutz LN, Chadder MK, Galarneau JM, Burkart JJ, Smirl JD, Emery C

BMJ open sport & exercise medicine2025Senior author

DOI: 10.1136/bmjsem-2025-002806 PMID: 41210609

Return-to-Play With R2Play: Protocol for Evaluating Cross-Site Feasibility, Face Validity, and Content Validity of a Multidomain Concussion Assessment Tool for Youth.

Scratch S, Shore J, DuPlessis D, Lovell A, Hickling A, Gill P, Mallory K, Lam E, Hotze F, Zemek R, Emery C, Schneider K, Hutchison M, Gagnon I, Caron J, Reed N, Biddiss E

Journal of sport rehabilitation2025

DOI: 10.1123/jsr.2024-0106 PMID: 39515307

Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) practical recommendations: International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025

Crossley KM, Whittaker JL, Patterson B, Shill IJ, Heming EE, Bullock GS, Dijkstra HP, Donaldson A, McKay CD, Mountjoy M

British Journal of Sports Medicine202524 citationsSenior author

DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-110889

Road to FAIR: where are all the female, woman and girl athletes?

Whittaker JL, Emery C, Møller M, Mountjoy M, Palmer D, Schulz JM, Crossley KM

British Journal of Sports Medicine20259 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bjsports-2025-111050

TRANSCENDENT (Transforming Research by Assessing Neuroinformatics across the Spectrum of Concussion by Embedding iNterdisciplinary Data-collection to Enable Novel Treatments): protocol for a prospective observational cohort study of concussion patients with embedded comparative effectiveness research within a network of learning health system concussion clinics in Canada

Zemek R, Albrecht LM, Johnston S, Leddy J, Ledoux A-A, Reed N, Silverberg N, Yeates K, Lamoureux M, Anderson C

BMJ Open20254 citations

DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-095292

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Concussion Dear Professor Emery, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Parents' and guardians' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours towards injury and injury prevention within adolescent female rugby union in England." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your CIHR-funded project "You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions" (2025), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]

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Carolyn Emery

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Parents' and guardians' attitudes, beliefs and behaviours towards injury and injury prevention within adolescent female rugby union in England.

Who Is Keeping Score: The Effect of a Mercy Rule on Head Impact Rates in Canadian High School Tackle Football Games.

Emergency department visits for concussion in children and youth by age, sex and material deprivation in Ontario, Canada, 2010-2020: a population-based study.

The road to consensus: lessons learned from FAIR and recommendations for future consensus activities.

Prevention strategies for lower extremity injury: a systematic review and meta-analyses for the Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) consensus.

Exercise intolerance and time to medical clearance to return to sport following sport-related concussion in adolescents.

Return-to-Play With R2Play: Protocol for Evaluating Cross-Site Feasibility, Face Validity, and Content Validity of a Multidomain Concussion Assessment Tool for Youth.

Female, woman and/or girl Athlete Injury pRevention (FAIR) practical recommendations: International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus meeting held in Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025

Road to FAIR: where are all the female, woman and girl athletes?

You-CAN (Youth Concussion Awareness Network) SHRed Concussions (Surveillance in High School and Community Sport to Reduce Concussions and their Consequences): Canadian Youth Informing Best Practice and Policy in the Prevention of Sport-related Concussions

Examining sleep, activity and exercise intolerance on the recovery of neural processing deficits in adolescents following sport-related concussion

Integrating Pluralism into Transdisciplinary Scholarship: Harmonizing Collaboration Across Diverse Disciplines Aiming to Solve Complex Societal Challenges

Making rugby tackling safer for Canadian girls' adolescent rugby players: Co-creating and evaluating innovations to reduce tackle-related concussions

Nutrition and Precision Health Equity for Black People in Canada

Building a Pan-Canadian Community of Practice: The Creating Opportunities through Physical Literacy for All Newcomer children and Youth (CO-PLAY) Network

Examining Protective Equipment and Potential Risk Compensating Behaviours during England Youth and Professional Rugby Matches: A video analysis study

Predicting concussion recovery: Examining the impact of cervical, vestibulo-ocular, oculomotor, and balance performance acutely post-concussion on time to recovery in adolescent sport participants

A multi-disciplinary approach for assessing risk-factors of concussion in youth sports: Concussion injury identification with use of instrumented mouthguards, injury surveillance, video observation, and neuroimaging techniques

Canadian Disability Participation Project 2.0: Developing, Implementing and Evaluating Quality Sport, Exercise and Play Experiences for Canadians with Disabilities

Frequent collaborators

Willem Meeuwisse

Brent Hagel

Kathryn Schneider

Shelina Babul

Sean Dukelow

Reed Ferber

Roger Zemek

Nick Reed

Keith Yeates

Isabelle Gagnon

Araba Chintoh

Margo Mountjoy

Geoff Schneider

Mathieu Dehaes

Tavis Campbell

Quynh Doan

Pamela Fuselli

Ashley Harris

Angelo Mikrogianakis

Noah Silverberg

Lianne Tomfohr-Madsen

Sharon Johnston

Linda Rothman

Ian Shrier

Alison Macpherson

Michael Hutchison

Cheryl Wellington

Carlos Lalonde

Angelo Mikrogianakis