Media Releases

World Cup 2014

June 12, 2014

The fol­low­ing is a list of Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to experts who can com­ment on a vari­ety of issues relat­ed to the World Cup in Brazil.

Sport his­to­ry
Brazil­ian soc­cer
Soc­cer-relat­ed vio­lence
Guil­herme Nothen
Doc­tor­al Stu­dent
Fac­ul­ty of Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
St. George
Cell: 647–829-4846
Email: g.reisnothen@mail.utoronto.ca
Lan­guages: Por­tuguese, Eng­lish, and Span­ish.

Abuse and harass­ment in sport
Psy­cho­log­i­cal aspects of ath­let­ic injury
Psy­cho­log­i­cal aspects of sports, exer­cise and stress
Psy­cho­log­i­cal stress (ath­letes, coach­es and par­ents of ath­letes)
Retire­ment tran­si­tions of elite ath­letes
Gretchen Kerr
Vice Dean, Aca­d­e­m­ic Affairs
St.George Cam­pus
Fac­ul­ty of Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
Office: 416–978-6190
Email: gretchen.kerr@utoronto.ca

Soc­cer and nutri­tion
Exer­cise and envi­ron­men­tal extremes
Exer­cise and per­for­mance
Exer­cise phar­ma­col­o­gy
High inten­si­ty exer­cise
Human skele­tal mus­cle metab­o­lism
Ira Jacobs
Dean and Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Fac­ul­ty of Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
Office: 416–978-5909
Email: dean.kpe@utoronto.ca

Busi­ness law, cor­po­rate law
Gov­er­nance
Sports mar­ket­ing
Richard Pow­ers
Nation­al Aca­d­e­m­ic Direc­tor
Cana­di­an Olympic Com­mit­tee, Gov­er­nance and Ethics Com­mit­tee mem­ber
Direc­tor and Trea­sur­er for Com­mon­wealth Games Cana­da
St.George Cam­pus
Joseph L. Rot­man School of Man­age­ment
Office: 416–946-8610
Email: powers@rotman.utoronto.ca

Ath­letes’ rights in sport
Cana­di­an sport his­to­ry
His­to­ry and pol­i­tics of sport and the Olympics
Human rights in sports
Bruce Kidd
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
War­den, Hart House
Fac­ul­ty of Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
Office: 416–287-7025
Email: bruce.kidd@utoronto.ca

Mega-events as tools of urban­iza­tion
Urban plan­ning
Secu­ri­ty and sur­veil­lance
Social move­ments
Race and racial­iza­tion
Infra­struc­ture, pub­lic-pri­vate part­ner­ships and par­tic­i­pa­to­ry plan­ning
David J Roberts
Lec­tur­er
St. George Cam­pus
Innis Col­lege
Urban Stud­ies Pro­gram
Office: 416–978-7790
D.roberts@utoronto.ca

Social issues relat­ed to sports
Sport, pol­i­cy and pol­i­tics
Peter Don­nel­ly
Pro­fes­sor
St.George Cam­pus
Fac­ul­ty of Kine­si­ol­o­gy and Phys­i­cal Edu­ca­tion
Office: 416–946-5071
Mobile: 905–617-6020
Email: peter.donnelly@utoronto.ca

Sports med­i­cine
Howard A. Win­ston MD, CCFP, FCFP,
Dip. Sport Med. (CASEM)
Med­ical Direc­tor, Cen­tre for Health & Sports Med­i­cine
Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor
Depart­ment of Fam­i­ly & Com­mu­ni­ty Med­i­cine
Office: 416–789-2476
Cell: 647–880-4305
Email: h.winston@rogers.com
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