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Concussions and Confidence: Why Mental Readiness Matters in Recovery 

For most of her career, Jen Kish was known as one of the best and most fearless female players in rugby sevens. She captained Canada’s women’s team to an Olympic bronze medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics. And, she also endured more than 30 concussions with only five of them formally diagnosed.  “Your brain health…

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Working together to improve evaluation in the sport sector: Learnings from a research partnership

August 21, 2023
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Brynna Kerr and Veronica Allan
Evaluating programs is crucial for sport organizations. For example, evaluation can be used to demonstrate the impact of programs to funding agencies (like Sport Canada) or inform changes in programming to better serve sport participants. However, many sport organizations lack...

The challenges of shifting to a safer sport culture: High performance coach and administrator perspectives

August 21, 2023
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Eric MacIntosh, Shannon Kerwin and Alison Doherty
Highlights The calls for culture change across sports in Canada are persistent and louder than ever. Through our program of systematic research, we have listened to and shared high performance athletes’ perspectives about what appear to be accepted (or at...

Best practices in Concussion in Sport: Updates from the Amsterdam International Consensus Statement

August 21, 2023
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Kathryn Schneider
Highlights:  Introduction People involved in sport tend to know someone who has had a concussion. Concussions are brain injuries that happen after direct hits to or transmitted indirectly to the head. Concussions lead to many different symptoms reported by the...

Examining interdependence in Canada’s sport system: Community basketball

August 21, 2023
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Laura Cousens
Project Summary The purpose of this research was is to explore and assess the existence of partnerships or network collaborations within the delivery network of basketball providers in one geographic region of Canada: Niagara. Investigators used network analysis to investigate...

The Board, the Chair, and the CEO: Role clarification within sport governance

August 16, 2023
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Rose Mercier
Organizations deserve exemplary governance.  And yet, few boards perform at this level. I believe every board wants to shape a meaningful future for the organization it is governing. If it is do this a board needs to achieve 3 outcomes...

Body-related emotional experiences in sport among adolescent girls: Participation outcomes over time

August 14, 2023
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Catherine Sabiston
Project Summary  In adolescence, girls are less likely to participate in sport, are more likely to drop out of sport, and report more poor sport experiences compared to boys. Concerns related to appearance, body shape, size, and weight disproportionally affect...

Behind the spectacle: Participatory action research, and the impacts of a world-class arena and entertainment district on the urban poor in downtown Edmonton

August 7, 2023
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Jay Scherer
Project summary  The project was designed to explore the impacts of a new, $613.7-million, publicly-financed arena development (Rogers Place, the home of the National Hockey League’s Edmonton Oilers) in downtown Edmonton on inner city community members, many of who are...

Sport organizations must adapt to extreme heat

August 2, 2023
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Cheryl Mallen, Greg Dingle and Scott McRoberts
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2018) has recorded rising temperatures throughout the world. Extreme heat events are causing risks to workers’ health, organizational productivity and infrastructure and the sport sector is being forced to adapt (Glasser, 2020; Heal...

Rural children and their communities leading the way toward the enhancement of sports and recreation

July 31, 2023
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View the summary of this research here. The purpose of the study was to engage rural preadolescent children in the development of research questions that are relevant and meaningful to exploring their participation and commitment to sport and other recreational...

Quality participation in Parasport: A narrative perspective

July 24, 2023
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Veronica Allan
Project summary  The benefits of participation in parasport are widely recognized. In order to achieve these benefits, we need to understand how athletes think about quality experiences in parasport, and how to foster these quality experiences in a parasport context....

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