Greetings,
Faculty: If you know of any students who might be interested in conducting research regarding the influence of social cognitive factors on leisure time physical activity and/or social leisure behaviors in mid to late life, please forward this announcement to them, or consider posting this announcement on your department’s job board.
Students: Research Assistantship in Leisure, Health and Aging…Please read on.
Thank you!
Dr. Julie Son
GRADUATE ASSISTANTSHIP in LEISURE, HEALTH & AGING
Are you interested in the influence of social cognitive factors on leisure, health and well-being in mid to late life? Or, do you have research interests pertaining to age differences in active leisure pursuits? If so, you may be interested in the following research assistantship opportunity.
Dr. Julie Stafford Son, a faculty member in the Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has a 9-month half-time graduate assistantship (20 hrs/wk) available. There is also the possibility of summer funding.
Dr. Son is a faculty co-director of the Laboratory for Leisure, Health, and Wellness. She currently conducts research with other faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates within the Lab, Department, and College. The graduate student chosen for this assistantship will be able to collaborate with Dr. Son on research projects, conference presentations, and manuscripts.
Examples of Dr. Son’s current collaborative research projects include:
· Examining alternative social cognitive models of leisure time physical activity across the lifespan, with particular interest in mid to late life
· Understanding leisure constraint negotiation and its intersection with social cognitive theory
· Investigating the role of age, gender and race/ethnicity on leisure-based health beliefs and behaviors, and the programmatic implications of these relationships
· Investigating the social cognitive process of women’s leisure-based social networks and health outcomes in mid to late life
· Evaluating leisure-based health promotion programs
Application Deadline: February 1st for full consideration for Fall 2008 admittance.
Dr. Son received a B.A. in Psychology from Whitman College, a M.A. in Sociology with a cognate in Social Psychology from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a Ph.D. in Leisure Studies with a minor in Gerontology from The Pennsylvania State University.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Julie Stafford Son, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Recreation, Sport and Tourism
College of Applied Health Sciences
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
104 Huff Hall, 1206 S. Fourth Street
Champaign, IL 61820
Office: (217) 244-9716
Fax: (217) 244-1935
http://www.leisurestudies.uiuc.edu/staff/son.htm
For more information about the M.S. or Ph.D. degree programs in the Department, please refer to the website at http://www.rst.uiuc.edu/, or call 217-333-4410.
