Research
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Latest papers
Observing children's outdoor loose parts play, fundamental movement skills, and physical activity in after-school programs through a behavioral mapping approach.
AIMS public health · 2026
Promoting health and equity in schools: environmental scan of outdoor learning spaces in Nova Scotia
Health Promotion International · 2025
Redefining Body-Self Relationships Through Outdoor Physical Activity: Experiences of Women Navigating Illness, Injury, and Disability.
Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025 · senior author
Latest funding
- $78,628
Constraints to everyday moments of leisure in public spaces for equity-owed people
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
7 publications.
Observing children's outdoor loose parts play, fundamental movement skills, and physical activity in after-school programs through a behavioral mapping approach.
Joshi N, Truong S, Loebach J, Rainham D, Feicht B, Stone M
Promoting health and equity in schools: environmental scan of outdoor learning spaces in Nova Scotia
Julie E. Campbell, Michelle R. Stone, Steve Machat, Hilary A. T. Caldwell, Daniel G. C. Rainham, Son Truong, Sarah A. Moore
Redefining Body-Self Relationships Through Outdoor Physical Activity: Experiences of Women Navigating Illness, Injury, and Disability.
Breault-Hood J, Gray T, Ullman J, Truong S
Does growth in the outdoors stay in the outdoors? The impact of an extended residential and outdoor learning experience on student motivation, engagement and 21st century capabilities.
Mann J, Gray T, Truong S
Connecting to nature through community engaged scholarship: Community gardens as sites for collaborative relationships, psychological, and physiological wellbeing.
Ward KS, Truong S, Gray T
Getting Out of the Classroom and Into Nature: A Systematic Review of Nature-Specific Outdoor Learning on School Children's Learning and Development.
Mann J, Gray T, Truong S, Brymer E, Passy R, Ho S, Sahlberg P, Ward K, Bentsen P, Curry C, Cowper R
A Systematic Review Protocol to Identify the Key Benefits and Efficacy of Nature-Based Learning in Outdoor Educational Settings.
Mann J, Gray T, Truong S, Sahlberg P, Bentsen P, Passy R, Ho S, Ward K, Cowper R
Constraints to everyday moments of leisure in public spaces for equity-owed people
Principal investigators: Gallant, Karen A.
From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.
Frequent collaborators
- Daniel Rainham and Michelle Stone: 8 shared papers
- Sarah Moore and Michelle Stone: 5 shared papers
- Daniel Rainham and Son Truong: 2 shared papers
- Michelle Stone and Son Truong: 2 shared papers
- Michelle Stone and Becky Feicht: 2 shared papers
- Daniel Rainham and Sarah Moore: 1 shared paper
- Daniel Rainham and Becky Feicht: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Moore and Son Truong: 1 shared paper
- Sarah Moore and Becky Feicht: 1 shared paper
- Son Truong and Becky Feicht: 1 shared paper
- Health Promotion
- Kinesiology
- Leisure Studies
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