7. JACQUELINE TYRER ♀
Information acquired: 2025
JACQUELINE TYRER is an academic who published a paper in 2022 entitled An ,,ssessment of UBC Women's Only Fitness Hours Group 11 Project F. JACQUELINE TYRER published this work as part of a team: Keshavarzi, Sheida. Here is a description of this work: The,,University of British Columbia (UBC) Recreation aims to provide equity for students who self-identify as a woman by providing Women's Only Fitness Hours (WOFH). These predetermined hours each week allow self-identifying women to enjoy private exercising times in the ARC Lower-Level Studio. In collaboration with campus partners such as UBC Rec and UBC's Social Ecological Economic Development Studies (SEEDS), the study aimed to analyze UBC's WOFH. After conducting an in-depth literature review on barriers to women in co-ed gyms and past SEEDS research on WOFH, it was clear barriers such as confidence, gender coding, and education were apparent. As well, there was an overall lack of awareness of UBC's WOFH. For this reason, the purpose of this study was to 1) assess student awareness of UBC's WOFH and how this can be improved, and 2) propose strategi.