• Human Resource Management
• Organizational Behaviour
• Gender Equity

• Senior Associate Editor, Journal of Sport Management
• Research Affiliate, Wasserman Collective Think Tank
• Impact Research Committee, Canadian Women & Sport

Selected Publications

Macintosh, E., Doherty, A., Kerwin, S., Robar, J., & Kantartzi, I. (2026). Internal change agents’ perspectives on unsafe and safe high performance sport. Sport Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14413523.2026.2656079

Lesch, L., Kerwin, S., Lachance, E., & Wicker, P. (2026). Going beyond the check mark: The role of institutional pressures in putting gender DEI policy into HRM practices. Journal of Sport Management. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2025-0212

Wicker, P., & Kerwin, S. (2026). Reducing uncertainty: A synthesis of gender diversity in sport leadership and its associations with workplace outcomes. Sport Business Management: An International Journal. https://doi.org/10.1108/SBM-11-2025-0311

Lachance, E., Lesch, L., Kerwin, S., & Wicker, P. (2026). Empirically linking diversity, equity, and inclusion policy to practice statements and domains. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2026.2633126

Lachance, E., MacCharles, J., & Kerwin, S. (2026). Reliably Unreliable: Exploring the Signals Sent by Non-Profit Sport Organizations’ Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Policies. European Sport Management Quarterly 26(4), 597-617. https://doi.org/10.1080/16184742.2025.2578534

Kerwins, S., Lesch, L., Lachance, E., Wicker, P. (2026). Looking under the glass ceiling: Characteristics of sport governing bodies with and without gender equality policies. International Journal of Sport Management, 27(2), 133-154.

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.

• Teaching: Managing Human Resources in Sport Organizations
• Teaching: Critical Analysis of Sport Management Research
• Teaching: Quantitative Analysis in Sport Management
• Service: Graduate Program Director
• Service: FAHS Anti-Racism Task Force (ART)
• Service: Working Group for National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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 and PhD dissertation students in the area of Human Resource Management.