Professional Summary
Edgar
(Ed) W. Shields, Jr., Ph.D. is a “Tar Heel” by birth and life-long
resident of NC. His hometown is the small community of High Falls, near
Robbins and Pinehurst-Southern Pines, and he received AB, MAT and PhD
degrees from UNC-Chapel Hill. His experiences as a professional in the
field of education are broad. While a high school teacher of health,
physical education and mathematics, he concomitantly coached track and
field, football, basketball and baseball teams. For five years he was
on the faculty of Mars Hill College, where he taught every course in his
department’s curriculum at least once, while also serving as the
Director of Intramural Sports and Director of the Required Physical
Education Program. As a member of the college-wide Sub-Committee on
Curriculum Development, he was a significant contributor to the
implementation of a new and innovative liberal arts curriculum for all
students. Chair of the Faculty Athletic Committee and Faculty
Representative to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA), as well as other responsibilities to the Athletic Department,
were other noteworthy positions held while at Mars Hill College. Ed has
been a member of the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1974, where he
holds his current positions in the Department of Exercise & Sport
Science (EXSS). Administratively his Carolina experiences have been
quite diverse, ranging from Director of Intramural-Recreational Sports
to Supervisor of Student Teachers to Associate Department Chair to
Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Graduate Admissions.
Currently holding the latter two positions, he directs Master of Arts
degree programs in exercise physiology, sport administration and sport
medicine. During his first two decades at Carolina he taught many
different courses across several areas. Since the early to mid-1990s
his teaching responsibilities have been in the area of Applied
Statistics and Applied Research Methodology in the Master of Arts
program, although he also continues to teach personal health, golf and
alpine skiing in the undergraduate program during summers and the winter
break. For over a decade he was chair of the department’s Human
Subjects in Research Committee and the department’s Affirmative Action
Officer, the latter a post he continues to hold. Ed is currently a
member of the University’s Biomedical Institutional Review Board, as
well as a member of the Faculty Council, the Administrative Board of the
Graduate School and the Graduate School Fellowship Committee. Annually
serving on a very large number of thesis committees Ed provides many
individual consultations in the areas of research design and statistical
analysis for students and some faculty as well. Holding Fellow
status in the Research Consortium of AAHPERD, his research, publication
and presentation record is as wide-ranging and extensive as his
administrative and teaching positions. His research, publications and
presentations range from motor learning to curriculum to
measurement-evaluation to high school sports to intercollegiate sports,
and other specific topics too numerous to list, but all within the
broader areas of sport administration, sport medicine and exercise
physiology. Ed’s primary area of scholarship, and the area in which he
has made the greatest contribution, is best characterized by
collaboration with both student and faculty researchers across
disciplines – routinely collaborating with others in the planning,
implementation, analysis and communication of research projects across
the many sub-areas of EXSS. Subsequently he is author or co-author of
publications in diverse journals. Examples include: The North Carolina
Journal, Journal of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance,
Research Quarterly of AAHPERD, Sports Marketing Quarterly, Clinical
Journal of Sports Medicine, Neurosurgery, Journal of Strength and
Conditioning, Revista Paulista de Medicini, Brazilian Journal of
Biological Sciences, Brazilian Journal of Physical Education and Sport,
Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, Journal of
Athletic Training, Adolescence, Journal of Sport Rehabilitation, Journal
of Alcohol and Drug Education, Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical
Therapy, Physical Therapy, Physician and Sportsmedicine, and the
International Journal of Neuroscience. He is also author or coauthor of
several book chapters. Ed has also made presentations at numerous
professional conferences across the United States and in Europe.
Invited lectures were given at the ESSEC Business School in
Cergy-Pointoise, France, and the University of Paris-Dauphine. At a
2005 national conference he presented a paper that received the highest
rating in the area of Sport Management. Ed also served as editor of the
North Carolina Journal for five years, the professional journal for the
NC Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance, and
has been a member of editorial boards of other journals. He has
received the Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina High
School Athletic Association and an “Outstanding Faculty Award” from the
UNC Alumni Association and Division of Student Affairs. |
