Jennifer Copeland

Research

Assisted Living Healthy Ageing Residential Care Sedentary Behaviour Sitting Aboriginal Health Allostatic Load Enculturation

Latest papers

"It's Good. It's Really Good.": Perspectives of Older Adults, Exercise/Recreation Professionals, and Primary Care Providers on Designing a Movement Behavior Intervention Using the Staircase Approach.
Journal of aging and physical activity · 2026

All 1 publications

Latest funding

Stand When You Can: Feasibility of a multi-level intervention to modify sedentary behaviour among older adults in assisted living.
CIHR · 2019 · Nominated PI
$91,262
What Social Determinants Contribute to High Allostatic Load among Aboriginal Adults?
CIHR · 2013 · Principal investigator
$195,404

All 2 grants and awards

1 publications.

01

"It's Good. It's Really Good.": Perspectives of Older Adults, Exercise/Recreation Professionals, and Primary Care Providers on Designing a Movement Behavior Intervention Using the Staircase Approach.

Katsoulis K, Bouchard DR, Andrawes RR, Kapralos B, Dunstan D, Copeland J, Horton S, Dogra S

Journal of aging and physical activity2026

DOI: 10.1123/japa.2024-0175 PMID: 40316257

Stand When You Can: Feasibility of a multi-level intervention to modify sedentary behaviour among older adults in assisted living.

Nominated PICIHR2019Catalyst Gr: Disease Prev./Risk Factor Modification - Non-communicable diseases

Principal investigators: Copeland, Jennifer L; Wagg, Adrian S; Bouchard, Danielle; Dogra, Shilpa; Pope, Jacquelyn P

Keywords: Assisted Living; Healthy Ageing; Residential Care; Sedentary Behaviour; Sitting

$91,262

What Social Determinants Contribute to High Allostatic Load among Aboriginal Adults?

Principal investigatorCIHR2013Operating Grant - Priority Announcement: Aboriginal Ways of Knowing

Principal investigators: Currie, Cheryl L; Copeland, Jennifer L; Metz, Gerlinde

Keywords: Aboriginal Health; Allostatic Load; Enculturation; Physical Activity; Social Determinants Of Health; Stress Biology

$195,404

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Shilpa Dogra

Kinesiology

1 shared papers, latest 2026

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: Assisted Living Dear Professor Copeland, 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 ""It's Good. It's Really Good.": Perspectives of Older Adults, Exercise/Recreation Professionals, and Primary Care Providers on Designing a Movement Behavior Intervention Using the Staircase Approach." (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 "Stand When You Can: Feasibility of a multi-level intervention to modify sedentary behaviour among older adults in assisted living." (2019), 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]