Our Mission
To advance the science and practice of research partnerships, through meaningful involvement of researchers and knowledge users in the sport sector
Our Goals
Throughout our work we seek to support the advancement of these impacts across the sport sector:
- Beliefs: To build more awareness of and value for intentionally engaging in meaningful research partnerships.
- Connections: To build more connections between researchers and knowledge users (e.g., sport administrators and decision-makers, practitioners, athletes, etc.) in the sport sector.
- Education and resources: To gather, synthesize, and/or generate tools, approaches, frameworks, and educational opportunities to help partners create, maintain, meaningfully engage in, and sustain research partnerships.
Our Team
Our current leadership is comprised of researchers and knowledge users in the sport sector:
- Majidullah Shaikh, The University of British Columbia – Okanagan
- Heather Gainforth, The University of British Columbia – Okanagan
- Karl Erickson, York University
- Kim Gurtler, Sport Information Resource Centre
- Veronica Allan, Sport Information Resource Centre
We also have been collaborating and connecting with several researchers and knowledge users across the sector. We are looking to expand both our leadership and collaborating partners. In pursuing this expansion, it was important for us to conceptualize the SPC’s domains of work – that is, how we plan to do what we want to do.
What we have done so far
- Developed a growing network of researchers and knowledge users in sport interested in this topic.
- Held multiple events to get researchers and knowledge users in sport to connect with one another, exchange knowledge, and learn about the latest evidence in research partnerships.
- Solicited insights from the sector of what capacity and supports are needed for advancing research partnerships.
- Co-developed a research and action agenda as a call for the SPC and other interested parties in the sector to address our shared mission.
Publications
Sport Partnership Collective, Shaikh, M., Gainforth, H., & Erickson, K. (2023). Advancing Youth Sport Research Partnerships : Report from SCAPPS 2022 Session http://doi.org/10.14288/1.0432034
