Associate Professor, Sport Management
I am interested in how community, policy, and social inclusion/exclusion shape experiences in sport, recreation, and physical activity programs. I am particularly interested in the way that policy is implemented by actors in different regions in Canada. In my research, I use partnered approaches and participatory methods to work with community organizers to understand and address local issues, in efforts to improve community health and wellbeing.
- Community sport and recreation
- Sport policy implementation
- Rural and remote communities
- Social Inclusion and exclusion
- Community-based and participatory research methodologies
- European Association for Sport Management
- International Sociology of Sport Association
- North American Society for Sport Management
- North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
- Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand
- Canadian Association for Leisure Studies
- Leisure Studies Association
- Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation
Rich, K. A., Smith, R. & Giles, A. R. (Eds.) (2024). Participatory Research in Sport and Physical Activity. Routledge
Llewellyn, J. & Rich, K. A., (2024). Youth Development in Municipal Recreation Policy: A Case Study of Ontario Canada. International Journal of Sport Pol-icy and Politics, 16(4), 575-591. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2199021
Quinton, J. & Rich, K. A. (2024). Gay men, sport participation, and wellbeing: A phenomenological analysis. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise, and Health, 16(2), 167-180. https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2023.2255202
Rich, K. A., Sharpe, E., Barnes, M., Philips, C., & Romano, E. (2024). Municipal perspectives on collaboration in regional sport event hosting: A Case Study of the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games. Event Management. 28(3), 461-476.
Rich, K. A., Nelson, G., Borgen-Flood, T., & Pegoraro, A. (2024). Regional Policy and Organizational Fields in Multi-level Sport Governance. European Sport Management Quarterly, 24(1), 51-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2023.2257715
Rich, K. A. & Sharpe, E. (2024). Securing hipster leisure: Park policy in gen-trifying neighbourhoods. Submitted to Annals of Leisure Research, 27(1), 144-151. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2022.2077784
Misener, L., Rich, K. A., & Pearson, E. (2022). Tensions and Opportunities in Researching Social Change in Sport Management. Sport Management Review, 25(2), 323-340. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2021.1902123
Rich, K.A., Moore, E., Pegoraro, A., Boggs, J. (2022). Mapping Women’s Community Sport Participation to Inform Sport Development Initiatives: A Case Study of Row Ontario. Submitted to Frontiers: Sports and Active Living. https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2022.836525
Rich, K. A., Nicholson, M., Randle, E., Staley, K., O’Halloran, P., Belski, R., Kappelides, P., & Donaldson, A. (2022). Participant-Centered sport develop-ment: A case study using the leisure constraints of women in regional commu-nities. Leisure Sciences, 44(3), 323-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2018.1553124
Rich, K. A., Hall, H., & Nelson, G. (2021). State of Rural Canada 2021: Opportunities, Recovery, and Resiliency in Changing Times. Canadian Rural Revitalization Foundation. Retrieved from https://sorc.crrf.ca/fullreport2021/
Rich, K. A. (2021). Rural sport spectacles: Ice hockey, mythologies, and meaning-making in rural Canada. Leisure Sciences, 43(6), 617-629 https://doi.org/10.1080/01490400.2020.1870591
- Sport, Recreation and Community
- Sport for Development
- Power, Politics and Policy for Applied Health Sciences
Dr. Rich is available to supervise graduate students. Please reach out via email in advance of applying.
Dr. Rich is available to supervise undergraduate directed studies and thesis research. Please reach out via email to discuss available opportunities.