Audrey Giles, associate professor in the University of Ottawa’s School of Human Kinetics, will deliver a free public lecture entitled “Why Culture Matters in Sport and Recreation: Applied Examples from Research with Aboriginal Communities,” at noon Friday, January 25, in room 145, Human Kinetics Building.

Dr. Giles is co-editor of the 2012 book Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada: Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues, which uses sport as a lens through which to examine issues such as individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency.

Her lecture Friday is part of the Human Kinetics Speakers Series.