Olympics
Ashley Stirling
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athlete welfare
- Curriculum development and evaluation
- Emotional abuse in sport
- Experiential Learning and Work-Integrated Learning
- Psychosocial Aspects of High-Performance Athlete Development
Office: 416-978-5835
Languages (in addition to English): English
Website
Email: ashley.stirling@utoronto.ca
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Barbara Brophey
Senior Athletics Instructor, Gymnastics, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
Coach, Gymnastics
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-7381
Email: barb.brophey@utoronto.ca
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Bruce Kidd
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- History and political economy of Canadian sport and physical activity
- Olympic
- Paralympic and Commonwealth Games
- Sport and public policy
- Sport for development and peace
Office: N/A
Home: 416-652-5195
Email: bruce.kidd@utoronto.ca
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Byron MacDonald
Head Coach of Swimming, Athletic Department, Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Coaching Olympic and high performance athletes
- Coaching technique and theory
- Intercollegiate swimming
- Olympic competition and commentary
Office: 416-978-7008
Email: byron.macdonald@utoronto.ca
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Carl Georgevski
Head Coach, Track and Field, Varsity Blues
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-978-2991
Home: 905-477-2340
Mobile: 647-233-2340
Languages (in addition to English): Macedonian
Email: carl.georgevski@utoronto.ca
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Catherine Sabiston
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Body-related emotions
- Exercise and health psychology
- Mental health
- Physical activity and cancer
- Physical activity intervention
- Physical activity measurement
- Physical self
- Psychosocial determinants of health behaviour
Office: 416-978-5837
Languages (in addition to English): French
Website
Email: catherine.sabiston@utoronto.ca
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Daniel Moore
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Exercise and disuse
- Growth and development
- Protein metabolism
- Skeletal muscle remodeling
- Sports nutrition
Office: 416-946-4088
Website
Email: dr.moore@utoronto.ca
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Doug Richards
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Biomechanics of Injury
- Clinical Sport Medicine
- Concussions in Sport
- Health and Lifestyle
- Injury prevention
Office: 416-978-4678
Website
Email: doug.richards@utoronto.ca
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Gretchen Kerr
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Abuse and harassment in sport
- Changing climate in sport and coaching
- Coach Education (coaches and parents of athletes)
- Psychological stress of athletes
- Retirement transitions of elite athletes
- Women in coaching
- Women in sports
Office: 416-978-7710
Mobile: 647-383-9910
Website
Email: gretchen.kerr@utoronto.ca
Joseph Baker
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Application of athlete learning and development to maximize performance in non-elite populations
- Athlete development and skill acquisition
- High-performance sport
- Psychosocial and environmental factors influencing athletic skill development
- Talent identification and performance forecasting
Office: N/A
Email: joseph.baker@utoronto.ca
Katherine Tamminen
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Mental health in sports contexts
- Qualitative research methodology
- Sport psychology
- Stress, coping, and emotion
- Youth sports & adolescent athletes
Office: 416-946-4068
Website
Email: katherine.tamminen@utoronto.ca
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Kristine Drakich
University of Toronto Varsity Blues Women’s Volleyball Head Coach
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Beach volleyball
- Coaching technique and theory
- Volleyball events and techniques
- Women in coaching and sport
- Women in volleyball
Office: 416-978-4677
Mobile: 416-996-2829
Email: kristine.drakich@utoronto.ca
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Luc Tremblay
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Coaching
- Expert performance
- Feedback
- Gender differences
- Handedness
- High performance
- Imagery
- Multisensory integration (vision, proprioception, audition)
- Neuromotor control of voluntary action
- Neuromotor training and rehabilitation
- Online control
- Rehabilitation
- Senses/sensory
- Specificity
- Sport
- training
- Use of sensory information as a function of practice
- Visualization
Office: 416-946-0200
Languages (in addition to English): French
Website
Email: luc.tremblay@utoronto.ca
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Madeleine Orr
Assistant Professor, Sport Ecology
Areas of Expertise
- Climate adaptation and sport
- Climate risks and sport
- Community resilience
- Organizational resilience
- Physical activity
- Sport ecology
- Sport sustainability
Office: N/A
Email: madeleine.orr@utoronto.ca
Margaret MacNeill
Associate Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athletes' rights and relationships with the media
- Critical and cultural studies of sport media
- Critical policy studies of public health
- Cultural studies of sport, fitness and physical activity
- Health and physical literacy
- Health communication
- Olympic television production ethnographies
- Physical cultural studies of gender and health
- Post-structuralist, postcolonial and feminist methodologies
- Social marketing of active healthy living
- Visual media methodologies
- Youth sport and fitness audience studies
Office: 416-978-0598
Website
Email: margaret.macneill@utoronto.ca
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Peter Donnelly
Professor Emeritus/Emerita
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Application of ‘cultural studies’ theory and research to the study of sport and leisure practices
- Changing nature of abuse in sports
- Children in high performance sport
- High risk sports
- Policy and politics
- Social issues in sports
- Sociology of risk taking
- Sport
- Sport and social inequality
- Sport and space
- Sport policy and politics
- Sport subcultures
Office: 416-946-5071
Mobile: 905-617-6020
Email: peter.donnelly@utoronto.ca
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Robert Bentley
Assistant Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
Office: 416-946-5613
Website
Email: robert.bentley@utoronto.ca
Simon Darnell
Professor
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- International development and ‘Sport for Development and Peace’
- Social movements and activism in sport
- Sociology of sport and physical activity
- Sport and public policy
- Sport and ‘Global Citizenship’
- Sport, celebrity and consumer culture
- Sport, race and post-colonialism
Office: (416) 978-0529
Website
Email: simon.darnell@utoronto.ca
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Tim Taha
Associate Professor, Teaching Stream
- Campus
- Faculty
Areas of Expertise
- Athlete development
- Elite athlete training
- Long term athlete development
- Mathematical modeling of sport performance
- Physiology of Sport
- Rowing; cycling, track and field
- Theoretical physiology
- Training and Performance in Sport
Office: 416-978-4881
Languages (in addition to English): German
Website
Email: t.taha@utoronto.ca
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