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Candice Bruton (Advisor - Floyd)
PhD Student/Research Assistant

Candice's research interests lie in understanding the relationship between parks, trails, and other public recreation facilities in the built environment and physical activity. Disparities of quality and condition among parks and trails located in low income and minority communities are of particular interest. She also focuses on the use of GIS and spatial analysis to understand these relationships.

Camilla Hodge (Advisor - Kanters)
PhD Student/Research Assistant

Camilla’s research interests include understanding the relationship between family leisure behaviors and various elements of family life such as the strength of family relationships, communication, and affective involvement. Specifically, Camilla is interested in understanding media-based family relative to active family recreation, and then applying that knowledge to help families optimize their leisure opportunities.

Keith Howard (Advisor - Bocarro)
PhD Student/Research Assistant

Keith's research interests include expanding recreational opportunities for underserved youth and developing more effective ways to administer sport and community recreation opportunties for children and adolescents. Keith was previously a middle school athletic director and currently teaches in the NC State physical education department.

Katharine Kelley (Advisor - Casper)
PhD Student/Research Assistant

Katharine’s research interests include investigating why people, especially minority and/or underserved populations (the most at-risk for not being physically active), choose (not) to participate in sport or recreation activities, what makes people stay committed to participation, and what are any vicarious health benefits for parents and families of youth sport/recreation participants. Katharine spent the last three years working for the Carolina Hurricanes NHL team in Raleigh while she completed her Masters in the PRTM department at NC State.

Kelley McFadden (Advisor - Henderson)
MS Student/Research Assistant

Kelly's research interests lie in understanding extrinsic motivators and inhibitors for adults' engagement in physical activity with a focus on group and outdoor activities. She would like to apply her research to enhance community recreational programming. Kelly currently works as a group fitness instructor and works as an Outward Bound instructor during the summer.

Wei-Lun Tsai (Advisor - Leung)
PhD Student/Research Assistant

Wei-Lun's research interests lie in understanding environmental information relevant to recreational use, utilizing spatial data for practical use in tourism, and finding ways to provide information to tourists. She also focuses on analyzing spatial characteristics for some applications connected to tourism issues (e.g. using trails elevation data to calculate calorie consumption) via GIS or other Geospatial software.