Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Sport Management
Dr. Kerwin teaches and conducts research in the areas of organizational behaviour and human resource management in sports. Specifically, Dr. Kerwin has looked at how personal and organizational values align to enhance important organizational outcomes and safe sports culture, how HRM practices align to produce (or stall) equitable practice, and the role of conflict in the effectiveness of volunteer boards of directors. She has recently co-authored the 3rd edition (2025) of “Managing People in Sport Organizations”.
- Human Resource Management
- Organizational Behaviour
- Gender Equity
- Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Sport Management
- Research Affiliate, Wasserman Collective Think Tank
Selected Publications
Lachance, E., MacCharles, J., & Kerwin, S. (in press, 2024). Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies in Canadian Non-Profit Sport Organizations: A Management-By-Values Approach. Journal of Sport Management, accepted on October 1, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2024-0064
Lesch, L., Lachance, E., Kerwin, S., & Wicker, P. (in press, 2024). From gender policies and practices to organizational performance of sport governing bodies. European Sport Management Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2024.2404439
Schuetz, L., Oja, B. D., Zvosec, C. C., Kim, M., & Kerwin, S. (2024). Autonomy in design: reconciling sport employee experiences with forced job design alterations. Managing Sport and Leisure, 29(5), 736–750. https://doi.org/10.1080/23750472.2022.2092539
Kerwin, S., Trussell, D., Cheevers, R., Ritondo, T., & McClean, C. (2024) Critical Examination of How Experiences Shape Governance at the Community Level of Sport. Sport Management Review, 27, 197-212. http://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2023.2259148
Strode, J., Parker, H., & Kerwin, S. (2024). Organizational-Level Factors That Influence Women Coaches’ Experiences. Journal of Sport Management, 38, 110-121. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2022-0077
Trussell, D. E., Kerwin, S., Lyn, A., & Lozinski, L. (2024). An Integrative Review and Critical Analysis of the State of Research on Gender and Women and Girls’ Sport Participation (2000–2020). Quest, 76, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00336297.2023.2206577
Piché, M., Lachance, E., & Kerwin, S. (2023). Developing a community sport organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion policy. Case Studies in Sport Management, 12, 27-30. https://doi.org/10.1123/cssm.2023-0016
Kerwin, S., & Leberman, S. (2023). Exploring the complicated and complex factors of evaluating a structured gender equity programme. European Sport Management Quarterly, 23(6), 1781-1799. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2022.2067207.
- Managing Human Resources in Sport Organizations
- Critical Analysis of Sport Management Research
- Quantitative Analysis in Sport Management
Dr. Kerwin is open to supervising SPMA 4P99 and SPMA 3P99 in research focused independent study projects.
Dr. Kerwin is open to supervising MA thesis students in the area of Human Resource Management.
