Lisa Kihl, PhD, professor of sport management in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), assistant professors of sport management Landy Lu, PhD, and Mitch McSweeney, PhD, sport management lecturer Vicki Schull, PhD, and sport management doctoral and master students traveled to the North American Society of Sport Management (NASSM) Annual Conference in Montreal, Canada held on May 31-June 3 to give several presentations.

Landy Lu and Leila Riley, PhD candidate in the School of Kinesiology, were also respectively recognized at the NASSM Conference as this year’s recipients of the NASSM Janet B. Parks Research Grant and NASSM Doctoral Research Grant.

Oral presentations given at the conference include:

1. Understanding the concept of sport integrity in ACT coalition of major participaton sports clubs Presenters: Lisa Kihl, Jingyi Kang and Joung Hwa Son (sport management doctoral students in School of Kinesiology)

2. “When we meet, we play football, it reminds me of home”: Emotions, institutional work, and sport-for-development and peace
Presenters: Mitch McSweeney and Landy Lu

3. Gendered mentoring relationships in the professional sport industry
Presenter: Leila Riley
Advisors: Lisa Kihl and Vicki Schull

4. Examining the evolution of network governance of an event leveraging collective
Presenter: Landy Lu
Other authors: Ran Zhou (Nanjing University of Finance & Economics), Guangzhou Chen (University of New Hampshire), and Laura Misener (Western University)

5. Examining network governance strategies of a sport for development organization: The case of Common Goal
Presenters: Joung Hwa Son & Matt Hilna (sport management master student in School of Kinesiology) Other authors: Michael Jonas (sport management doctoral student in School of Kinesiology) and Landy Lu (advisor)