Aaron Hipp
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Bio
Education
University of California, Irvine. Ph.D. 2009
- Social Ecology
Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. B.S. 2000
- Biology
Current Research Interests
- How, where, and why our public built environments impact health behaviors such as physical activity and recreation.
- Use of emerging technologies and crowdsourcing to study the interaction between built environments and community health behaviors.
- Understanding and improving spatial uncertainty in built environment and physical activity research.
- Assessing the health benefits and opportunities for time spent outdoors and in nature.
Recent Courses Taught
- PRT 504: Data Management and Evaluation in Parks, Recreation Tourism & Sport
- IPGE/PRT 211: Nature, Health, and Wellness
- PRT 380: Evidence-based Decision Making in Recreation, Sport, Tourism, and Event Management
Publications
- Scaling up natural experimental studies: harnessing emerging technologies to transform physical activity and built environment research , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY (2025)
- Adult Sports Participation and Physical Activity: How About Curling? , Journal of Healthy Eating and Active Living (2024)
- Adult sport participation and physical activity: What about curling? , Active Living Conference (2024)
- Advancing PA Action Plans in 10 Rural NC Counties: Perceptions of Key Stakeholders , American Public Health Association Annual Meeting (2024)
- Assessing the impact of community collaboration: A two-year study on staff wellbeing in an intervention school with YMCA partnership amid the COVID-19 pandemic , Active Living Conference (2024)
- Birdwatching linked to increased psychological well-being on college campuses: A pilot-scale experimental study , JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY (2024)
- Child’s Play: What can we learn from AI-based clustering algorithms? , International Society of Physical Activity and Health Congress (2024)
- Contact with nature, nature prescriptions, and loneliness: Evidence from an international survey of adults in Australia, India, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States , HEALTH & PLACE (2024)
- Defining Data , (2024)
- Determining Your Capacity for Evaluation , (2024)
Groups
- Center for Geospatial Analytics
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Faculty
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Graduate Faculty
- Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management: PRTM Online Masters Degree Faculty