Knowledge Nuggets Summer 2021 SIRCuit The Summer 2021 SIRCuit is now available! The SIRCuit is designed to highlight important research and insights to advance the Canadian sport system. With the summer Olympic and Paralympic Games...
Blog - SIRCuit Tokyo, Beijing and a global pandemic: How 4 sports are advancing Safe Sport July 19, 2021 Highlights In recent years, national sport organizations have been hard at work on Safe Sport policies and initiatives. They’re designed to ensure the safety and well-being of sport communities, from...
Knowledge Nuggets Independent Safe Sport Mechanism The Government of Canada announced that the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) has been selected to establish and deliver a new Independent Safe Sport Mechanism. Thank you to...
Knowledge Nuggets Academic legacies from the 2022 Canada Games The Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games are inspiring cross-disciplinary research at Brock University. Projects range from an examination of the incidence of injury and illness experienced by Games athletes, to...
Knowledge Nuggets National Indigenous Peoples Day 2021 June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day. Strategies to reduce barriers to physical activity and build capacity in the Canadian sport system are just one part of the Truth and Reconciliation...
Knowledge Nuggets Sustainable Development Goals in sport “The Sustainable Development Goals, and the global movement to use them to measure the impacts of sport, can help governments and sport organizations better understand the impacts of their current...
Knowledge Nuggets Pandemic curling “This is just one huge exercise in risk management… the health risks, financial risk, reputation risk, and compliance risk. It’s sort of risk management on steroids.” In the SIRCuit, Curling...
Page Safe Sport June 10, 2021 There’s a shift happening, for sure, and you can see it around key decisions. As athletes, we’re being taken more seriously and senior leaders are asking for our opinions –...
Knowledge Nuggets Coping with climate change In recent years, extreme weather conditions have affected a range of sport events, including tennis’s 2020 Australian Open (heat and smoke), the 2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan (Typhoon Hagibis),...
Knowledge Nuggets The Operationalizing Intersectionality Framework The Operationalizing Intersectionality (OI) Framework provides guidance for putting intersectional approaches into practice. Visualized as a wheel, the OI Framework identifies four points of traction: (1) Learning, (2) Harm Reduction,...