Researchers

Keeping Girls in Sport: Evaluating the Impact of an Online Coach Education Resource

October 9, 2020

International Day of the Girl is celebrated globally on October 11th, focusing attention on the need to amplify girls’ voices, advocate for their rights, and elevate their position in society. Within the Canadian sport and physical activity sector, International Day...

• Participation
• Professional Development
• Women and Girls

Supporting Leadership Learning: From Classroom to Boardroom to Playing Field

October 4, 2020

There are as many definitions of leadership as there are people writing about it. To me, a leadership learning facilitator and teaching faculty member, leadership is a body of skills and behaviours which enable the positive holistic development of people...

• Coaching
• Leadership and Governance
• Professional Development

Evaluating Impact using the RE-AIM Framework

October 4, 2020

For any organization, the ability to demonstrate impact — to funders, board members, and other stakeholders — is crucial. Demonstrating the value of an organization, project, or service is important to access financial support, engage stakeholders, and achieve organizational objectives...

• Data and Analytics
• Leadership and Governance
• Program Design and Evaluation

Skeletal Muscle Loss

McMaster University researchers studying the mystery of why some weightlifters’ muscles grow much more quickly than others’ have found new answers through a novel experiment in which subjects worked out one leg and immobilized the other. By comparing the genetic...

• Aging
• Health and Wellness
• Training Methods

3D Model for Figure Skating

A new mathematical model developed by researchers at the University of Alberta reveals how figure skaters move across the ice in three dimensions. Their findings could help skaters hone their technique or avoid common injuries like spiral fractures in the...

• Data and Analytics
• High Performance

Sport Canada Research Initiative (SCRI) Conference

October 29-30, 2020
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

Format: The conference will consist of four, 2-hour sessions spread out between the morning and afternoon. Canada's leading sport participation conference, hosted by SIRC. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to connect with Canada’s top researchers, leverage their expertise and create...

• SCRI

Impact of the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games

In many countries, sport participation decreases with age. In Japan, however, participation rates amongst the elderly have increased over the last decade, and are the highest among all Japanese. Research suggests that the high participation rate amongst this demographic group...

• Aging
• Major Games
• Participation

Youth Behaviour Trajectories

Longitudinal studies allow us to observe behavioural changes and identify patterns over time, providing unique insight on how behaviours are affected by life events. New research using data from the Monitoring Activities of Teenagers to Comprehend their Habits (MATCH) study,...

• Data and Analytics
• Health and Wellness
• Life Skills
• Physical Literacy
• Sleep and Recovery
• Youth

Summer 2020 SIRCuit

The 2020 Summer SIRCuit in now available! Browse our newest collection of articles, offering timely and relevant research and insights relating to leadership, athlete development, and high performance sport.

• Athlete Development
• COVID-19
• High Performance
• Leadership and Governance

In Search of Inspiration: Re-thinking the Potential for Demonstration Effects

July 13, 2020

Major sport events in Canada and around the world have been cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 global pandemic. For sport administrators, researchers and policymakers, this pause represents a unique opportunity to reflect on the desired impacts and legacies...

• Community Sport
• Hosting
• Major Games
• Marketing and Communications
• Participation
• Program Design and Evaluation
• Revenue Generation
• Youth