Her research primarily involves naturalistic inquiry, and revolves around two closely related areas: Service-learning, and teacher-candidates’ and students’ understanding of personal/social responsibility in the movement domain. Service-learning has a clear theoretical link to social responsibility, as well as to research on teaching and learning. Additionally, her research is closely connected to her teaching and to her outreach. Relevance in research is critical, and the teaching and outreach linkage provides such relevance.