Gretchen Kerr PhD

Dean and Professor
Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education
University of Toronto

Dr. Gretchen Kerr is a full professor and Dean of the Faculty of Kinesiology & Physical Education at the University of Toronto, with responsibilities for both the Faculty’s academic and research activities as well as the sport and recreation programs that serve the university and surrounding communities. As an expert on gender-based violence in sport, Dr. Kerr is frequently commissioned to inform decision-makers in the high-performance sports community about her research which focuses on athletes’ experiences of maltreatment in sport, and the systemic changes needed to advance safe, healthy, inclusive and welcoming sport. The current public and political attention to maltreatment in sport was presaged by years of empirical evidence accumulated in the published research of Dr. Kerr and her graduate students.