Kathleen Williams博士是北卡罗来那大学（以下简称北卡）Greensboro分校锻炼与运动科学系的主任兼教授。在此之前，她是该校休闲研究和舞蹈系的代理主任。她同时还是该校老年病学研究生项目的负责人。Williams博士在该校获得了身体教育学士学位。她在威斯康星大学-麦迪逊先后获得硕士和博士学位，于1982年毕业。来北卡之前，她曾在俄克拉荷马大学与堪萨斯州立大学任教。她已经发表了有关生命历程的一系列发展问题的40多篇论文和章节，其中包括儿童与成人动的作发展序列。Williams博士的早期研究关注于基本技能（例如投掷动作、抓握动作和前滚翻）的动作发展序列的有效性，并且已经延伸到考察老年人在进行投掷和网球发球时动作的改变。她近期的研究主要关注老年人的平衡力与活动性。Williams博士的这项工作已得到10万余美元的资金支持，这些工作包括上下楼梯时动作协调性与年龄相关的改变。自我效能和其他心理学变量产生的影响与动作协调性和跌倒危险性的相关性已得到检验。低强度平衡干预对自我效能和跌倒危险性的影响已被证实。1998年，Williams博士被美国人体运动学和身体教育科学院选举为院士。她同时也是美国健康、身体教育、休闲与舞蹈联盟的研究会和北卡罗来那州老龄化问题研究所的一名研究员。她还曾担任北美运动与身体活动心理学协会的秘书长、财务主管和主席的职位。她现在是《锻炼与运动研究季刊》的主编。

Dr. Kathleen Williams is Professor and Head of the Department of Exercise and Sport Science at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Previously, she served as Interim Head in the Department of Leisure Studies and the Department of Dance at UNCG. She also served as Director of the Graduate Program in Gerontology at UNCG. Dr. Williams completed her B.S. in physical education at UNCG. She completed her master’s and doctoral degrees at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, graduating in 1982. Prior to coming to UNCG, she held faculty positions at the University of Oklahoma and KansasStateUniversity. She has published over 40 research articles and book chapters examining a range of developmental issues across the life span, including developmental motor sequences in children and adults. Dr. Williams’ early work focused on the validation of developmental motor sequences for fundamental skills like throwing, catching and forward rolling. Some of this work was extended to older adults through examinations of movement changes in throwing and tennis serves in older adults. Her current primary research focus is in balance and mobility in older adults. Dr. Williams has received over $100,000 in support of this work, including investigations of age-related changes in locomotor coordination while walking up and down stairs. Impact of self-efficacy and other psychological variables has been examined in relation to motor coordination and falls risk. Low intensity balance interventions were examined for their impact on self-efficacy and falls risk. In 1998, she was elected a Fellow of the AmericanAcademy of Kinesiology and Physical Education. She is a Fellow of the Research Consortium of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance and a Fellow of the North Carolina Institute on Aging. She also served terms as Secretary-Treasurer and President of the North American Society for the Psychology of Sport and Physical Activity. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of the Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport.