Winter Olympics

Bruce Kidd

Professor Emeritus/Emerita

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

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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Gretchen Kerr

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

• Coach Education
• Maltreatment in sport
• 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

Ira Jacobs

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

Areas of Expertise

• Exercise pharmacology
• Exercise physiology
• Human skeletal muscle metabolism
• Nutritional and/or pharmacological interventions affecting exercise performance
• Physiological adaptations to acute short-term, high intensity exercise
• Physiological responses and adaptations to environmental extremes

Office: 416-978-5909
Languages (in addition to English): Swedish, French, Hebrew
Email: ira.jacobs@utoronto.ca
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Joseph Baker

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

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

Simon Darnell

Professor

• Campus
  • St. George
• Faculty
  • Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education

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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