Congratulations to the recipients of the 2022-2023 Abuse-Free Sport Research Grant Program! A total of nine research projects will be funded through this program for the 2022-2023 year.
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Research Project Title |
Danielle Cyr
Royal Roads University
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More than Medals: Challenging Organizational Cultures That Inhibit Social and Leadership Development in Performance Sport
Research project objectives:
- Understand what aspects of organizational culture inhibit or support coaches for social and leadership development. Provide recommendations to remove or lessen barriers and enhance supports;
- Develop a framework to support repurposing and transforming organizational culture factors that facilitate and perpetuate non accidental violence and abuse;
- Provide a transformative process for performance coaches and athletes to question the inherited ideologies and values of the Canadian performance sport system;
- Develop a framework to identify key areas of the Canadian performance sport system that need to change, adapt or enhance to better support performance sport for social and leadership development.
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Simon Darnell
University of Toronto
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Fostering a Positive, Safe and Brave Culture for Youth in Sport
Research project objectives:
- Inform the development of policies, methodologies, and strategies aimed at fostering trust-based cultures and creating positive environments that acknowledge the intersecting diversity of young individuals in the realm of sport.
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Guylaine Demers
Université Laval
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Inclusive and safe sport environments for LGBTQ2+ coaches and referees: identification of barriers and potential solutions*
Research project objectives:
- Identify lived experiences and barriers encountered by coaches and officials who are part of the sexual and gender diversity;
- Identify best practices to include coaches and officials who are part of the sexual and gender diversity;
- Develop tools used in knowledge transfer to equip the Canadian sport community when faced with LGBTQ2+ challenges.
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Curtis Fogel
Brock University
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Digital Violence in Canadian Sport
Research project objectives:
- Determine the forms, characteristics, prevalence, and harms of digital violence in sport in Canada.
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Janice Forsyth
University of British Columbia
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Addressing the Silent: Understanding Safe Sport for Indigenous Participants in Canada
Research project objectives:
- Inform our understanding of why indigenous athletes and coaches believe silence is their best option for addressing the abuse they experience;
- Provide clear insight on the critical constraints that need to be addressed in working towards safe sport for indigenous participants;
- Provide recommendations on how to make the Abuse-Free Sport program in Canada safe for Indigenous participants.
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Joseph Gurgis
Ontario Tech
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Investigating Equity-Denied Sport Stakeholders’ Perspectives on the Barriers and Facilitators to Experiencing Safe Sport
Research project objectives:
- Explore the barriers and facilitators to experiencing safe sport among equity-denied sport stakeholders;
- Identify recommendations to advance safe sport for equity-denied sport stakeholders.
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Katie Misener
University of Waterloo
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A National Investigation of Safe Sport Practices and Decision-Making in Community Sport Organizations in Canada
Research project objectives:
- Understand current community sport organizations (CSO) safe sport practices and assess if it is in alignment with recommended/mandated practices from governing bodies;
- Explore aspects of CSOs organizational capacity and leaders’ abilities to manage safe sport (e.g., practices and policies).
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Sylvie Parent
Université Laval
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Analysis of the training needs of stakeholders working with athletes about maltreatment in sports environment*
Research project objectives:
- Analyze training needs for the integrated support team and sport administrators (stakeholders) regarding athlete maltreatment;
- Describe the attitudes, beliefs, knowledge and behaviors of different categories of stakeholders regarding athlete maltreatment;
- Evaluate stakeholders’ readiness for change regarding athlete maltreatment.
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Tracy Vaillancourt
University of Ottawa
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A Tolerated Intolerable: A Longitudinal Examination of Soccer Referee Abuse in Canada and its Impact on Health
Research project objectives:
- Explore the prevalence and the health impacts of referee abuse in soccer in Canada;
- Examine the short- and long-term impact of exposure to workplace violence on physical and mental health;
- Examine the interaction effects of individual and contextual factors on the relation between violence, exposure and health;
- Examine the indirect effects or multiple reciprocal processes on physical and mental health in relation to workplace violence.
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*Translated from the original French title.
All final reports will be translated into both official languages.
