Lyndsay Hayhurst

Lyndsay Hayhurst is an Assistant Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. Her research interests include sport for development and peace (SDP); gender-based violence and sexual and reproductive health in/through SDP; SDP in Indigenous communities; Indigenous peoples involvement in physical activity; cultural studies of girlhood; postcolonial feminist theory; global governance; international relations and corporate social responsibility. She is a co-editor (with Tess Kay and Megan Chawansky) of Beyond Sport for Development and Peace: Transnational perspectives on theory, policy and practice, and her publications have appeared in Women’s Studies International Forum; Gender, Place & Culture; Third World Quarterly and Sociology of Sport Journal. She has previously worked for the United Nations Development Programme and Right to Play. In 2017, she was the recipient of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport's Early Career Researcher Award.

Education

• Olympic Academy of Canada (2008 — 2008)
• High School Havergal College
• BAH Queen's University
• Master of Arts The University of British Columbia
• BAH The University of Edinburgh
• Master of Arts University of Lausanne - UNIL
• Postdoctoral Fellow University of Ottawa
• Ph.D. University of Toronto
• Endeavour Research Fellow (Austraining International) University of Wollongong

Companies

• York Research Chair (Tier 2) in Sport, Gender & Development and Digital Participatory Research York University (2021)
• Assistant Professor, Faculty of Health York University (2016)
• Assistant Professor - Department of Child and Youth Studies Brock University (2015 — 2016)
• SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, Liu Institute for Global Issues & School of Kinesiology The University of British Columbia (2013 — 2015)
• Lecturer, School of Kinesiology The University of British Columbia (2015 — 2015)
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Health Sciences & Institute of Women's Studies University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON (2011 — 2013)
• Lecturer, School of Kinesiology and Health Science York University (2013 — 2013)
• Visiting Fellow, Gender Institute The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) (2013 — 2013)
• Doctor of Philosophy University of Toronto, Toronto, ON (2007 — 2011)

Awards

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant (Principal Investigator) – 2021-2026
• E-Alliance Grant – 2021-2023
• Canadian Foundation for Innovation, John R. Evan Leaders Fund Infrastructure Award – 2018-2022
• Ontario Research Fund - Small Infrastructure Award – 2018-2022
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight Grant (Principal Investigator) - 2016
• SSHRC Insight Grant (co-investigator) - 2015
• SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2013
• SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship - 2011