The Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport at the University of Minnesota is continuing the 25th-anniversary celebration by announcing the addition of six new Affiliated Scholars. Tucker Center Affiliated Scholars are people with substantive interests in the research and programmatic interests of the Tucker Center. The following scholars have accepted the invitation to amplify and extend the mission and work of the Tucker Center:
Guylaine Demers is a professor at Laval University in Canada. She takes particular interest in issues of women in sport, coach education and homophobia in sport. She currently serves as Chair of Egale-Action, Quebec’s Association for the Advancement of Women in Sport and Physical Activity.
Caroline Heffernan is an assistant professor at Temple University in the School of Sport, Tourism and Hospitality Management. Her work pertains to gender allyship in sport organizations.
Vikki Krane is a professor of teaching excellence and graduate coordinator in the School of Human Movement, Sport, and Leisure Studies at Bowling Green State University. She is a sport psychologist whose scholarship and praxis focus on sex, gender, and sexuality in sport.
Nancy Lough of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas is a nationally recognized expert on sport marketing, leadership development and creating gender equity within sport organizations. She currently specializes in research focused on marketing and media coverage of women athletes and women’s sport, social marketing in sport and the health benefits of sport participation.
Leanne Norman is a Reader in Sports Coaching within the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK. Her work is driven towards improving the participation, performance, and leadership pathways for diverse social groups, principally, different groups of women.
Etsuko Ogasawara is the founder and Executive Director of the Japanese Association for Women in Sport (JWS). Currently, she is a professor of sport management at Juntendo University in Japan. She has published many research papers on swimming, job satisfaction in coaching, and women and sport issues.
To learn more about all the Tucker Center’s Affiliated Scholars visit our website: www.TuckerCenter.org
