Real-world partnerships

& media mentions 

Dr. Evans partnered with Strava, Imprint Projects, and other team members to produce a public-facing whitepaper focused on running motives.

  • “These building blocks form the core of the Quality Parasport Participation Framework, which outlines 25 evidence-informed strategies to foster positive experiences in disability sport (Evans et al., 2018). Sport programmers can select strategies that target one or more of the six building blocks, thus creating a foundation from which positive experiences can be built. .”

    SIRC research summary, written by Veronica Allan, describing the QP framework.

  • “Good relationships between teammates are essential to a team’s success, but athletes who feel more closely connected to their teammates may also be more likely to be swayed by their fellow players’ behavior..”

    Penn State News Release, describing research led by Alumni Scott Graupensperger.

  • “...a hybrid work environment makes reading the (virtual) room difficult. “If you’re someone who as a leader is person-centred, you rely on input from other people,” Evans says. “There’s certainly evidence that within the new work environment, it’s harder to gain that compassion and empathy between leaders and followers.”"

    Dr. Evans cited in an article by ‘The Kit’, focused around a post-pandemic work phenomenon.

We partnered with Bryce Hastings and Jinger Gottschall at Les Mills international to study group fitness experiences, and this work was published in peer-reviewed outlets as well as communicated through a sleek video!