Dr Justin A. Haegele
IAS Residential Fellow
Old Dominion University
Justin A. Haegele, PhD, is the Colgate Darden Endowed Professor and the Director of the Center for Movement, Health, & Disability in the Department of Human Movement Studies & Special Education at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA, USA).
Contextualized within the interdisciplinary field of adapted physical activity, his primary research interests centre on exploring how disabled individuals experience physical activity participation, including within school-based physical education contexts. Since joining Old Dominion University in 2015, Dr. Haegele has amassed over 290 peer-reviewed research publications, as well as several edited or authored texts. He currently serves as the director of Project CAPER and the co-director of the MAMC, two adapted physical activity training collaboratives that are funded through the US Department of Education focused on training doctoral scholars in the field of adapted physical activity. He is the immediate past-president of the North American Federation of Adapted Physical Activity, and the editor-in-chief for the peer-reviewed publication Adapted Physical Activity Quarterly (2023-2027).
During their IAS Fellowship, Dr Haegele will be collaborating with Dr Janine Coates from the School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences.