Post-Doctoral Fellow
Canadian Diabetes Association Post-Doctoral Fellow
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research Post-Doctoral Fellow
About
Dr. Sean Locke is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the School of Health and Exercise Sciences. He completed his PhD in Kinesiology at the College of Kinesiology at the University of Saskatchewan.
Sean enjoys mentoring undergraduate and graduate student research. He holds a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to support his ongoing research program in addition to his two Post-Doctoral Fellowships.
Research
Sean’s research broadly focuses on health behaviour change with the ultimate objective of modifying exercise cognitions and behaviours to prevent or manage chronic disease. His research seeks to understand how and why some individuals engage in health-promoting behaviours, like exercise, while others find it incredibly challenging.
More specifically, Sean’s research examines a one-sided thinking style called cognitive errors. Cognitive errors represent a biased and negative lens through which individuals view certain situations, like exercise. This biased lens makes deciding to exercise more difficult and can ultimately lead to the decision not to exercise. Faced with deciding whether or not to exercise, some people might exaggerate their situation and think, “there’s just no time to exercise”, and decide against exercise without thinking through the decision. His research seeks to develop a counselling technique, called reframing, to help individuals to modify their biased exercise thoughts.
Sean is a trainer in our Small Steps for Big Changes program. For more information please visit https://ok-smallsteps.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
Publications
For a current list of Sean’s publications, please visit:
- Google Scholar: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sean_Locke2
Contact
Email: sean.locke@ubc.ca
Office: UCH 105c – 1238 Discovery Ave, Kelowna, BC
Twitter: @theloctor