Courtney Szto
Canadian assistant professor
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Courtney Leigh Szto is a Canadian assistant professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University at Kingston. Early life and education Szto was born and raised in North Delta, British Columbia and played roller hockey and street hockey as a child. When reflecting on her experience in sports, she said, "I’ve been very fortunate to have positive experiences, but what I’ve realized the more I study it is that I’m one of the lucky ones and that it’s by chance." She attended North Delta Secondary School and earned her Bachelor of Human Kinetics degree from the University of British Columbia. Upon receiving her degree, Szto travelled to Ontario for her Master's degree from the University of Toronto before returning to BC to earn her Doctorate of Philosophy from Simon Fraser University. As a graduate student, Szto received the 2014 Dr. Hari Sharma Foundation Annual Graduate Scholarship award and was a finalist for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Storytellers grant.
Courtney Szto's Published Works
Published Works
- Sport for Development and Peace: a public sociology perspective (2011) (88)
- Corporatizating Activism Through Sport-Focused Social Justice? Investigating Nike’s Corporate Responsibility Initiatives in Sport for Development and Peace (2016) (28)
- #LOL at Multiculturalism: Reactions to Hockey Night in Canada Punjabi From the Twitterverse (2016) (11)
- Changing on the Fly (2020) (11)
- Serving up change? Gender mainstreaming and the UNESCO–WTA partnership for global gender equality (2015) (8)
- Forgive me Father for I have Thinned: surveilling the bio-citizen through Twitter (2015) (6)
- Saving Lives With Soccer and Shoelaces: The Hyperreality of Nike (RED) (2013) (6)
- Driving to the “Net” (2015) (6)
- Public Sociology of Sport and Digital Media: A Self-Reflexive Analysis of Public Engagement in the “Hockey Blogosphere” (2019) (5)
- Brown skin, white ice: South Asian specific ice hockey programming in Canada (2020) (5)
- Changing on the Fly: Situating multiculturalism, citizenship, and hockey through the voices of South Asian Canadians (2018) (2)
- Serving up change? Corporate Social Responsibility as a Tool for Social Change: A case analysis of the UNESCO-WTA Tour partnership for global gender equality (2011) (1)
- #ForTheGame: Social Change and the Struggle to Professionalize Women’s Ice Hockey (2020) (1)
- A Reflection of Reality? The Consumption and Reproduction of Obesity Discourses by The Biggest Loser’s Viewers Through Facebook (2016) (0)
- Reduce, re-use, re-ride: Bike waste and moving towards a circular economy for sporting goods (2022) (0)
- Racial Taunts or Just Trash Talking? South Asian Hockey Players and the Reluctance to Name Racism (2018) (0)
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