Recreation and sport business faculty profiles

Troy D. Glover

Professor; Department Chair

Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor

Research interests: urban recreation, place meanings, social capital development, grassroots organizing, and narrative inquiry

Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor

Research interests: nonprofit management, organizational capacity, community sport organizations, sport and social capital, social responsibility through sport, service-learning

Luke R. Potwarka

Associate Professor

Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor

Research interests: consumer behaviour related to sport events, exploring the role of mega-sport events in the promotion of physical activity and sport participation, exploring commercial and tourism-related responses to mega-sport events, cognitive function and leisure/sport participation

Brendan Riggin

Lecturer

Approved master's and doctoral committee member

Research interests: sport marketing, corporate social responsibility, social impact of sport, consumer behaviour, and program evaluation.

Ryan Snelgrove

Associate Professor

Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor

Research interests: organizational change; organizational theory; social change; social innovation and impact; youth sport; sport development.

Kylie Wasser

Lecturer

Approved master's and doctoral committee member

Research interests: interplay between recreation, sport, events and policy; evidence-based policy making to understand concepts such as inclusion, access, and delivery of sport and recreation programming; sport event bidding and hosting impacts on individuals, communities and the environment; sustainability; interrelated systems and structures that surround sport and recreation locally, nationally, and globally