Lyndsay M.C. Hayhurst

Lyndsay Hayhurst is a York Research Chair (Tier II) in Sport, Gender, Development and Digital Participatory Research, and an Associate Professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Science at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is an award-winning sociologist of sport and feminist physical culture, and her research interests include sport for development (SFD); sexual and gender-based violence prevention and sexual and reproductive health rights promotion in/through SFD; cultural studies of youth, de/anti-/postcolonial feminist theory, global governance and corporate social responsibility.

She has published over 60 articles and chapters on these topics, and is a co-author (with Holly Thorpe and Megan Chawansky) of Sport, Gender and Development: Intersections, Innovations and Future Trajectories (2021). Dr. Hayhurst’s research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, The Canadian Foundation for Innovation, Abuse-Free Sport Canada (The Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Her current research uses digital feminist participatory action research to: 1) critically investigate the use of the bicycle as a possible catalyst for achieving mobility justice, gender equity, and global development; 2) address physical inactivity and assess inequities amongst highly marginalized pregnant and/or parenting self-identified women (*cis and trans) and youth who are affected by violence and trauma; and 3) examine how SFD programs may create novel possibilities for feminist climate justice activism and educational strategies to prevent SGBV. She has previously worked for the United Nations Development Programme and Right to Play.