Dr Cindy Forbes

Originally from Nova Scotia, Canada, I completed my Bachelor of Science in Human Kinetics at St Franicis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and continued my graduate training at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Alberta. After completing my PhD in 2015 in Exercise Oncology, I worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at in the Faculty of Medicine at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In 2017, I was awarded a Visiting Research Fellowship with the University of Adelaide in Adelaide, Australia that was awarded as part of the Australian Government’s Endeavour Scholar program. In 2019, I was awarded a place as an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (ESPRC) funded GetAMoveOn Fellowship. The GetAMoveOn Network aimed to transform health through enabling mobility with the help of digital technologies.

MyTRANSFORM Career Development Research Fellowship looked at how physical activity can help improve quality of life and cancer-related outcomes in people living with and beyond cancer, and how digital technology can help support and maintain activity behaviours. My Senior Lecturership in HYMS is continuing this line of research whilst adding nutrition behaviour, equally important when considering benefit for physical function among people diagnosed with cancer.