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Kerry McGannon

Kerry McGannon

Full Professor, School of Kinesiology & Health Sciences
School of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
Faculty of Education and Health
kmcgannon@laurentian.ca, B.F. Avery Physical Education Centre
705.675.1151 ext 1204 kmcgannon@laurentian.ca

Biography

Professor McGannon began her faculty position at Laurentian September 2010 after working as a Professor at the University of Iowa from January 2003-August 2010. From July 2001-December 2002 she was the Research Associate at the Alberta Centre for Active Living, University of Alberta. Peer reviewed scholarship includes empirical and theoretically-driven contributions on 175 publications in refereed journals and scholarly books and 106 national and international conference presentations.

She is co-editor of five books. One on cultural sport and exercise psychology, one on community research, and the Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology. Two recent books centre qualitative methods/methodologies. The first book is on motherhood and sport, stories and identities published by Routledge. The recent book published summer of 2024 focuses on trauma informed qualitative research practices in sport, exercise and health.

She is on the journal editorial board for Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology and served on editorial boards in the sport sciences (e.g., Sociology of Sport Journal, Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health). She is Co-Editor of the journal Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health (IF 4.9), Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (IF 3.2; journal of Association for Applied Sport Psychology) and Psychology of Sport and Exercise (IF 5.11; journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology). She is one of three Ex-Officio members of the International Society of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise (QRSE).

Professor McGannon has over 25 years experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Sport and Exercise Psychology, and Health. These courses emphasize the psychological, social and cultural influences of sport and physical activity participation, and the health implications.

Education

  • BA, Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (1993)
  • MA, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia (1996)
  • PhD, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (2002)

Academic Appointments

  • Full Professor, School of Human Kinetics, Laurentian University, July 2018-present
  • Associate Professor, School of Human Kinetics, Laurentian University, 2015-June 2018
  • Assistant Professor, School of Human Kinetics, Laurentian University, 2010-2015
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Sport Studies, University of Iowa, USA, 2004-2010
  • Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Health & Sport Studies, University of Iowa, USA, 2003-2004
  • Research Associate, Alberta Centre for Active Living, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, 2001-2002

On The Web

  • http://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=GsCgKcoAAAAJ&hl=en​
  • http://ca.linkedin.com/pub/kerry-r-mcgannon-phd/36/898/1b
  • http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kerry_McGannon/publications/



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Research

Professor McGannon's research program advances the use of qualitative research methodologies to understand sport and physical activity behaviour. This work is grounded in social constructionism and critical psychology, focusing on socio-cultural influences of sport and physical activity participation.

One research stream explores self-identity, sport and physical activity. A second stream involves critical interpretations of sport and physical activity and implications for psycho-social experiences and health. Professor McGannon also studies the media/digital landscape as a cultural site that constructs self-identity in the context of sport, performance and health.​ 

​The above streams are grounded in social constructionist theories (e.g., discursive psychology, narrative inquiry) and qualitative methodologies (e.g., discourse analysis, narrative analysis). The goal of this research is to produce knowledge that contributes toward creating space for people as cultural beings in physical activity contexts to improve health and well-being. 

This research has been supported by grants as Principal and Co-Investigator from the Canadian Instutites of Health Research (CIHR), Social Sciences Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), Advanced Olympic Resarch Grant Programme, International Olympic Committee (IOC), and the Centre for Research in Occupational Safety and Health (CROSH).

Awards

  • Laurentian University Research Fellowship, Faculty of Health and Eductation Recipient - 2024-2027.
  • Social Sciences Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) - Insight Grant - Principal Investigator - 2021-2025.
  • Sport Participation Research Initiative Grant (through SSHRC) - Principal Investigator - 2022-2023.
  • Centre for Research in Occupational Health and Safety (CROSH) - Seed Grant - Principal Investigator - January 2023 - December 2023.
  • North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) - Research Fellow - 2022.
  • Advanced Olympic Research Grant Programme, Olympic Studies Centre, International Olympic Committee - Co-Investigator - 2020-2021.
  • Sociology of Sport Journal - Outstanding Article Award, 2019 - co-authored paper awarded by the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS); McMahon, J., Knight, C.J., & McGannon, K.R. (2018). Educating parents of children in sport about abuse using narrative pedagogy. Sociology of Sport Journal, 35, 314-323.
  • Top 10 Research Achievements of 2019 (awarded Feburary 2020) – co-authored paper of the year from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS).
  • University of Tasmania, Australia, Visiting Scholar Award, 2017
  • Top 10 Researcher, Faculty of Health -- 2015, 2016
  • Faculty of Health Research Excellence Award, Laurentian University, 2014 (awarded December 4, 2014).
  • Outstanding Paper Award of 2013, Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research - Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Watson, J. & Busanich, R. Moving toward trust and partnership: An example of sport related community based participatory action research with Aboriginal people and mainstream academics. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 5, 201-210. (awarded March, 2014).
  • Psychology of Sport and Exercise (Official Journal of the European Federation of Sport Psychology) Reviewer of the Year Award, 2013.

Teaching

  • PHED 1006 - Exercise Science in Health and Wellness
  • PHED 3406 - Mental Training in Sport Psychology
  • PHED 4216 - Sport Psychology
  • PHED 4516- Stress Management
  • PHED 3061 - Exercise Psychology
  • PHED 3996 - Group Dynamics in Sport and Exercise Psychology
  • PHED 4707 - Cultural Diversity in Sport Psychology
  • PHED 4546 - Mental Health and Wellness
  • ​PHED 4996 - Sport Psychology Internship
  • PHED  5116/6116 - Seminar in Multi-Cultural Physical Activity and Sport
  • INDH 5106 - Theoretical Perspectives - Interdisciplinary Health 

Publications

Career Total (edited books, scholarly book chapters, refereed journal articles) - 175

Breakdown of Publications/Scholarly Outputs

Guest Editor, Special Issues Refereed Journals (career total = 4)

  • Smith, B., McGannon, K.R., & Atkinson, M. (Eds.). (2023). Advancing participatory approaches to co-production, co-design, and community-based research in sport, exercise and health. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 15(2).
  • Cairney, J., McGannon, K.R. & Atkinson, M. (Eds.) (2018). Exercise is Medicine Qualitative Contributions. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 4(3).
  • Schinke, R.J.,McGannon, K.R. (Eds.) (2015). Cultural Sport and Exercise Psychology: Intersecting Identities. Special Issue. Psychology of Sport and Exercise.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (Eds.) (2013). Community Research and Physical Activity: Special Issue. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5(3).

Academic Books (career total = 5 published)

  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (Eds.) (2024). Trauma informed research in sport, exercise and health: Qualitative methods. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • Spowart, L., & McGannon, K.R. (Eds.) (2023). Motherhood and sport: ​Collective stories of identity and difference. London: Routledge.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (Eds.) (2016). The Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology. London: Routledge.
  • Schinke, R.J. & McGannon, K.R. (Eds.) (2015). The Psychology of Sub-Culture in Sport and Physical Activity: Critical Perspectives. Series on International Perspectives on Key Issues in Sport and Exercise Psychology. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (Eds.) (2014). Community Based Research in Sport, Exercise and Health Science. London: Taylor & Francis.

Academic Book Chapters - Selected (career total = 50)

  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J.,& Kulkarni, S. (forthcoming, 2024). The value of big and small stories in the digital landscape: Narrative research from motherhood and sport. In V. Goodyear & A. Bundon (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of digital technologies in sport, exercise and physical education. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 
  • Rich, K., & McGannon, K.R. (2024). Reviewing participatory research: Guiding principles and considerations. In K. Rich, R. Smith & A. Giles (Eds.), Participatory research methodologies in sport and exercise (pp. 224-237). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2024). Introduction: Trauma-informed research communities in sport, exercise and health. In J. McMahon & K.R. McGannon (Eds.), Trauma-informed research in sport, exercise and health: Qualitative methods (pp.1-12). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2024). Abstracting the legacy of abuse in post-sport: Using arts-based methods and friendship as method to limit re-traumatisation in abuse and trauma research. In J. McMahon & K.R. McGannon (Eds.), Trauma-informed research in sport, exercise and health: Qualitative methods (pp.69-88). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McGannon, K.R., & McMahon, J. (2024). Future directions in trauma-informed research in sport, exercise, and health. In J. McMahon & K.R. McGannon (Eds.), Trauma-informed research in sport, exercise and health: Qualitative methods (pp.248-261). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2023). The continuation of ‘slim to win’: The sustained impact of dominant cultural ideologies on one athlete post-sport. In L. Jones, Z. Avner, & J. Denison (Eds.), Exercise and well-being after high performance sport: Post-retirement perspectives (pp.71-84). London: Routledge.
  • Smith, B. & McGannon, K.R. (2023). Coproduction and impact: Challenges and opportunities. In N.K. Denzin, Y.S. Lincoln, G.S. Cannella, & M.D. Giardina (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of qualitative research (6th edition) (pp. 535-548). London: Sage.
  • McGannon, K.R. (2023). Getting back on the track: An ethnodrama of an elite runner’s journey through motherhood. In L. Spowart & K.R. McGannon (Eds.), Motherhood and sport: Collective stories of identity and difference (pp. 162-175). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Spowart, L. (2023). Future directions for research into motherhood and sport. In L. Spowart & K.R.McGannon (Eds.), Motherhood and sport: Collective stories of identity and difference (pp.194-203). London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis.
  • McGannon, K.R., Graper, S., & McMahon, J. (2022). Narrative inquiry: A cultural approach for understanding big and small stories of motherhood and sport on Instagram. In J. Sanderson (Ed.). Sport, social media and digital technology: Sociological approaches (pp. 89-106). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R., & Zehtner, C.(2022). Sport and health risk culture. In J. Sanderson & M. Weathers (Eds.), Health communication and sport: Connections, applications and opportunities (pp. 125-138). Maryland, US: Lexington Press. 
  • McGannon, K.R. & McMahon, J. (2021). (Re)assembling ‘balance’: A creative non-fiction of athlete mothers negotiating sport and family. In F. Cavallerio (Ed.), Creative non-fiction in sport research (pp. 67-79). London: Routledge.
  • McMahon, J, McGannon, K. R., & Zehntner, C. (2021). The impact of selection and deselection on athlete wellbeing in Australian women’s cycling. In N. Campbell, A. Brady, & A. Smith (Eds.). Developing and supporting holistic wellbeing for athletes: Person first, athlete second.(pp. 92-106). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & McMahon, J. (2020). Sport media research: Examining the benefits for sport injury psychology and beyond. In R. Wadey (Ed.), Critical perspectives in sport injury psychology (pp. 25-35). London: Routledge.
  • McMahon, J. & McGannon, K.R. (2020). Slim-to win to inury: How swimmers are engaging with ‘health risk’ culture due to entrenched body ideals. In R. Wadey (Ed.), Critical perspectives in sport injury psychology (pp. 74-84). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J., & L’Estrange, M. (2020). A cultural perspective on growth following adversity: Using autobiography to understand addiction recovery through sport. In M. Day, R. Wadey & K. Howells (Eds.), Growth following adversity in sport (pp. 75-87). London: Routledge. 
  • McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (2020). Self-identity: Discursive and narrative conceptions and applications. In R.J. Schinke & D.Hackfort (Eds.), International encyclopaedia of sport psychology. London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. (2019). Going public with pain: Athlete stories of disordered eating in discourse. In K. Young (Ed.), The suffering body in sport: Shifting thresholds of pain, risk and injury (pp. 105-120). Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing.
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J. & Zehntner, C. (2019). Working within culturally diverse environments: The role of discourse in identity construction and implications for coaching. In R. R. Thelwell & M. Dicks (Eds), Professional advances in sports coaching: Research and practice (pp.126-155). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & McMahon, J. (2017). Mommy blogging: Understanding online athlete mother identities in a running community using discursive psychology. In A. Bundon (Ed.), Digital qualitative research in sport and exercise (pp. 109-124). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Schinke, R.J. (2017). Cross cultural considerations in exercise promotion: A cultural sport psychology perspective. In M.L. Sachs & S. Razon (Eds.), Applied Exercise Psychology: The challenging journey from motivation to adherence (pp. 160-174). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. (2016). Critical discourse analysis in sport and exercise: What, why and how. In B. Smith & A.E. Sparkes (Eds), International Handbook of Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise(pp. 230-242). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Busanich, R. (2016). Athletes and motherhood. In R.J. Schinke, K.R. McGannon & B. Smith (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology (pp. 286-295). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. & Schinke, R.J. (2016). Closing the loop. In R.J. Schinke, K.R. McGannon & B. Smith (Eds.). The Routledge International Handbook of Sport Psychology (pp. 591-595). London: Routledge.
  • Smith, B. & McGannon K.R. (2016). Psychology and sociology in sport studies. In R. Giulianotti (Ed.), Routledge handbook of the sociology of sport (pp. 194-204). London: Routledge. 
  • Smith, B. & McGannon, K.R. & Williams, T.L. (2016). Ethnographic creative non-fiction: Exploring the what’s, why’s and how’s. In G. Molner & L. Purdy (Eds.), Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research (pp. 59-73). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Schinke, R.J. (2015). Situating the subculture of sport, physical activity and critical approaches. In R.J. Schinke & K.R. McGannon (Eds.) The Psychology of Sub-Culture in Sport and Physical Activity: Critical Perspectives (pp. 3-15). London: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis.
  • Schinke, R.J. & McGannon, K.R. (2015). Continuing the dialogue on criticality and subculture in sport and physical activity. The Psychology of Sub-Culture in Sport and Physical Activity: Critical Perspectives (pp. 196-206). London: Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis.
  • Schinke, R.J. Blodgett, A.T., McGannon, K.R. & Parham, W.D. (2014). Cultural diversity within group dynamic in sports. In M. Eys & M. Beauchamp (Eds.), Group Dynamics in Sport and Exercise Psychology (2ndEdition) (pp. 319-334). London: Psychology Press, Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R., Schinke, R.J. & Busanich, R. (2014). Cultural sport psychology: Considerations for enhancing cultural competence of practitioners. In L.S. Tashman & G. Cremades (Eds.) Becoming a Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Professional: International Perspectives (pp. 135-142). London: Routledge.
  • Schinke, R.J. & McGannon, K.R. (2014). The landscape of sport psychology service in Canada: Responding to diversity in the sport context. In L.S. Tashman & G. Cremades (Eds.) Becoming a Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology Professional: International Perspectives (pp. 210-216). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Cameron, K.A. (2013). Exercising fat control, resistance and self-compassion: Two ethnographic stories from the field. In R.J. Schinke & R. Lidor (Eds.), Case Studies in Sport Development: Contemporary Stories Promoting Health, Peace, and Social Justice (pp. 75-89). Morgantown, West Virginia: Fitness Information Technology
  • McGannon, K.R., Johnson, C.R. & Spence, J.C. (2011). I am (not) BIG…it’s the pictures that got small: Examining cultural and personal exercise narratives and the fear of fat. In P. Markula & E. Kennedy (Eds.), Women and Exercise: The Body, Health and Consumerism (pp. 101-120). London: Routledge.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Metz, J.L. (2010). Through the funhouse mirror: Understanding access and (un)expected selves through confessional tales. In R.J. Schinke (Ed.) Contemporary Sport Psychology (pp. 153-170). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Busanich, R. (2010). Rethinking subjectivity in sport and exercise psychology: A feminist post-structuralist perspective on women’s embodied physical activity. In T. Ryba, R.J. Schinke & G. Tenenbaum (Eds.) The Cultural Turn in Sport Psychology (pp. 203-229). Morgantown, West Virginia: Fitness Information Technology.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Johnson, C.R. (2009). Strategies for reflective cultural sport psychology research. In R.J. Schinke & S.J. Hanrahan (Eds.), Cultural Sport Psychology (pp. 57-75). Champaign, Ill: Human Kinetics Inc.

​Refereed Journal Articles - Selected (career total published = 120)

  • McGannon, K.R., & McMahon, J. (2024). Words of wisdom from mother runners: Using creative non-fiction advice letters to show psycho-social tensions and strategies influencing performance. Asian Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 4, 109-115.
  • McGannon, K.R., Hladun, W., Kulkarni, S., Bundon, A., & Pegoraro, A. (2024). From birth to rebirth: Comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian elite athlete mothers' sporting journeys. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2024.2376249.
  • McGannon, K.R., Bundon, A., Pegoraro, A., & Kulkarni, S. (2024). Tangled and bumpy roads to gender equity: Socio-cultural insights from media stories about Olympic athletes and motherhood. American Behavioral Scientist: Special Issue Behavioral Perspectives of the Olympic Games and Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241261260 
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2024). Implementing an organizational trauma-informed approach to Olympic sites: An urgent priority to protect elite athlete wellbeing during Olympic Games participation. American Behavioral Scientist: Special Issue Behavioral Perspectives of the Olympic Games and Sport. https://doi.org/10.1177/00027642241261253
  • McMahon, J., McGannon, K.R., & Zehntner, C. (2024). Arts-based methods as a trauma-informed approach to research: Making trauma visible and limiting harm. Methods in Psychology, 10, 100141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100141
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J., & Zehntner, C. (2024). Reflections on hermit crab creative nonfiction methodology: Examples from a narrative study of running fathers. Methods in Psychology, 10, 100142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.metip.2024.100142
  • Kulkarni, S., McGannon, K.R., & Pegoraro, A. (2024). Expanding understanding of elite athlete parenthood in socio-cultural context: A meta-synthesis of qualitative media research findings on motherhood and sport. Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, 27, 1254-1273.
  • McGannon, K.R., Kulkarni, S., Hladun, W., Bundon, A., & Pegoraro, A. (2023). Exposing the motherhood penalty in sport: A feminist narrative inquiry of media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ journeys to the Tokyo Games. Communication & Sport. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/21674795231187916
  • McGannon, K.R., Towers, K., & McMahon, J. (2023). On the road to redemption: A case study of triathlon participation and substance use recovery stories. Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 7, 107-115.
  • Zehntner, C., McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2023). Gender order through social censure: An examination of social exclusion in sport coaching. Sport, Education and Society, 28, 105-116.
  • McMahon, J., Lang, M., Zehntner, C., & McGannon, K.R. (2023). Athlete and coach led abuse education that teaches about abuse: An overview of education theory and design considerations. Sport, Education and Society, 28, 855-869. 
  • McGannon, K.R., & McMahon, J. (2022). Stories from mother runners: A case study and narrative analysis of facilitators of competitive running. Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6(1), 102-109.
  • McGannon, K.R., Graper, S., & McMahon, J. (2022). Skating through pregnancy and motherhood: A narrative analysis of digital stories of elite figure skating expectant mothers. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 59, 1-9.
  • McGannon, K.R., Staden, T.G., & McMahon, J. (2022). From superhero to human: A narrative analysis of digital news stories of retirement from the NFL due to injury. Journal of Applied Sport Pscyhology, 34, 938-957.
  • McGannon, K.R. & McMahon, J. (2022). (Re)Storying embodied running and motherhood: A creative non-fiction approach. Sport, Education and Society, 8, ​960-972.  
  • McMahon, J., McGannon, K.R., Zehntner, C., Werbicki, L., Stephenson, E., & Martin, K. (2022).Trauma-informed education in sport: Engaging athlete abuse survivors as educators and facilitating a community of care. Sport, Education and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2022.2096586  
  • McMahon, J., McGannon, K.R., & Palmer, C. (2022). Body shaming and asociated practices of psychological abuse: Athlete entourage as perpetrators of abuse. Sport, Education and Society, 5, 578-591.
  • McGannon, K.R., Smith, B., Kendellen, K., & Gonsalves, C.A. (2021). Qualitative research in six sport and exercise psychology journals between 2010-2017: An updated and expanded review of trends and interpretations. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 19, 359-379.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2021). “I hurt myself because it sometimes helps”: Former athletes’ embodied emotion responses to abuse using self-injury practices. Sport, Education and Society, 26, 161-17.
  • Harding, K. Whittingham, L., & McGannon, K.R. (2021). #Sendwine: An analysis of motherhood, alcohol use and #winemom culture on Instagram. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 15, 1-9.
  • Gonsalves, C.A., McGannon, K.R., & Pegoraro, A. (2021). A critical discourse analysis of gendered cardiovascular disease meanings of the #MoreMoments campaign on Twitter. Journal of Health Psychology, 26, 1471-1481.
  • McGannon, K.R., & Butryn, T.M. (2020). Get that S.O.B. off the field: A critical discourse analysis of National Football League (NFL) owner’s responses to President Trump’s comments about athlete protests. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37, 291-300.
  • McGannon, K.R., L'Estrange, M., & McMahon, J. (2020). The role of ultrarunning in drug and alcohol addiction recovery: An autobiographic study of athlete journeys. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 46, 1-10. 
  • McGannon, K.R., Pomerleau-Fontaine, L., & McMahon, J. (2020). Extreme sport, identity and well-being: A case study and narrative approach to elite skyrunning. Case Studies in Sport and Exercise Psychology, 4, 1-10. 
  • McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (2020). Expanding socio-cultural identity research in sport psychology: The potential of athlete autobiographies. Quaderns de Psicologia International Journal of Psychology, 22 (3), e1556, 1-20.
  • McMahon, J. & McGannon, K.R. (2020). Acting out what is inside of us: Self-management strategies of an abused athlete Sport Management Review, 23, 28-38.
  • McMahon, J. & McGannon, K.R. (2020). The athlete-doctor relationship: Power, complicity, resistance and accomplices in recycling dominant sport ideologies. Sport, Education and Society, 25, 57-69.
  • Gonsalves, C.A., McGannon, K.R., & Schinke, R.J. (2020). Social media for health promotion: What messages are women receiving about cardiovascular disease risk by the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation? Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 1017-1029. 
  • ​McMahon, J., Zehntner, C., McGannon, K. R., & Lang, M. (2020). The fast tracking of one elite swimmer into a coaching role: A practice contributing to the perpetuation and recycling of abuse in sport? European Journal for Sport and Society, 17, 265-284.
  • Zehntner, C., McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2020) An intensive longitudinal investigation of a parent-coach's practices and strategies 'in action': Challenges and opportunities. Sports Coaching Review, 9, 147-167.
  • Gonsalves, C.A & McGannon, K.R. (2020). Constructing women’s heart health and risk: A critical discourse analysis of cardiovascular disease portrayals on Facebook by a U.S. non-profit organization. Journal of Health Psychology, 25, 2317-2327.  
  • Middleton, T.R.F., Schinke, R.J., Oghene, O.P., McGannon, K.R., Peterson, B., & Kao, S. (2020). Navigating times of harmony and discord: The ever-changing role played by the families of elite immigrant athletes during their acculturation. Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology, 9, 58-72.
  • McGannon, K.R., & McMahon, J. (2019). Understanding elite female athlete disordered eating and recovery through narrative turning points in autobiographies. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 40, 42-50.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Schinke, R.J., Ge, Y., & Blodgett, A.T. (2019). Negotiating gender and sexuality: A qualitative analysis of elite women boxer intersecting identities and sport psychology implications. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 31, 168-186.  
  • McGannon, K.R., Tatarnic, E., & McMahon, J. (2019). The long and winding road: An autobiographic study of an elite athlete mother’s journey to winning gold. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. 4, 385-404.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R., & Zehntner, C. (2019). I am fast but I do not fit: An autoethnography of a swimmer’s experiences of ‘competitive performance’ stigma in two sporting contexts. Sport, Education and Society, 24, 283-297.​ 
  • Zehntner, C., McGannon, K.R., & McMahon, J. (2019). Control, consent and complicity in the coaching of elite women’s cycling in Australia: A media analysis. Sport, Education and Society, 24, 520-532.​​ ​
  • McMahon, J., Knight, C.J.. & McGannon, K.R. (2018). Educating parents of children in sport about abuse using narrative pedagogy. Sociology of Sport Journal, 35, 314-323.
  • Smith, B. & McGannon, K.R. (2018). Developing rigor in qualitative research: Problems and opportunities within sport and exercise psychology. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 11, 101-121.
  • McGannon, KR, McMahon, J., &  Gonsalves, C.A. (2018). Juggling motherhood and sport: A qualitative study of the negotiation of competitive recreational athlete mother identities. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 36, 41-49.
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J., & Price, J. (2018). Becoming an athlete father: A media analysis of first time father tennis star Andy Murray and implications for identity. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 16, ​670-687.
  • Cairney, J., McGannon, K.R., Atkinson, M.(2018). Exercise is medicine: Critical considerations for expanding the qualitative research landscape. Qualitative Research in Sport,Exercise and Health, 4, ​391-399.
  • Clark, M., McGannon, K.R., Berry, T.R., Norris, C.M., Rodgers, W.M., & Spence, J.C. (2018). Taking a hard look at the Heart Truth Campaign in Canada: A discourse analysis. Journal of Health Psychology, 23, 1699-1710.
  • Berry, T.R., Jones, K.E., Courneya, K.S., McGannon, K.R., Norris, C.M., Rodgers, W.M., & Spence, J.C. (2018). Believability of messages about preventing breast cancer and heart disease through physical activity. BMC Psychology, 6, 1-9.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2017). Re-immersing into elite swim culture: A meta-autoethnography by a former elite swimmer. Sociology of Sport Journal. 34, 223-234.
  • McMahon, J. Zehntner, C. & McGannon, K.R. (2017). Fleshy, female and forty: A docudrama of a former elite swimmer who re-immersed herself into the elite swimming culture. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5, 546-553.
  • McMahon, J.A., McGannon, K.R., & Zehntner, C. (2017). Slim to win: An ethnodrama of three elite swimmers presentation of self in relation to dominant cultural ideology. Sociology of Sport Journal, 34, 108-123. ​
  • Blodgett, A.T., Ge, Y., Schinke, R.J., & McGannon, K.R. (2017). Intersecting identities of female boxers: Stories of cultural difference and marginalization in sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 32, 83-92.
  • Schinke, R.J., Blodgett, A.T., McGannon, K.R., Ge, Y., Oghene, O.P. (2017). Adjusting to the receiving country outside the sport environment: A composite vignette of Canadian immigrant amateur elite athlete acculturation. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 29, 270-284.
  • McMahon, J., & McGannon, K.R. (2017). Do what (s)HE says and you will be a champion: Poetic representations and the umuting of my swimmer body. Qualitative Inquiry, 23, 411-415.
  • ​Gonsalves, C.A., McGannon, K.R., Schinke, R.J., & Pegoraro, A. (2017). Mass media narratives of women’s cardiovascular disease: A qualitative meta-synthesis. Health Psychology Review, 2, 164-168. 
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J., Schinke, R.J., & Gonsalves, C.A. (2017). Understanding athlete mother transition in cultural context: A media analysis of Kim Clijsters’ tennis comeback and self-identity implications. Sport, Exercise and Performance Psychology, 6, 20-34.
  • McGannon, K.R., McMahon, J., Gonsalves, C.A. (2017). Mother runners in the blogosphere: A discursive psychological analysis of online recreational athlete identities. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 28, 125-135.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Atkinson, M. (2017). Editorial. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 9, 1-3.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Berry, T.R., Rodgers, W.M., & Spence, J.C. (2016). Breast cancer representations in Canadian news media: A critical discourse analysis of meanings and the implications for identity. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 13, 188-207. ​​
  • McGannon K.R. & McMahon, J. (2016). Media representations and athlete identities: Examining benefits for sport psychology. Qualitative Methods in Psychology Bulletin, 21, 43-54.
  • Gonsalves, C.A., McGannon, K.R., Schinke, R.J., & Michel, G. (2016). Are you ‘woman enough’ to control your leading cause of death?: An ethnographic content analysis of women’s cardiovascular disease and identities in media narratives. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 13, 130-148.
  • ​McMahon, J. & McGannon, K.R. (2016). Whose stories matter? Re-vising, reflecting and rediscovering a researcher’s embodied experience as a narrative inquirer. Sport, Education and Society, 21, 96-113. 
  • ​Busanich, R., McGannon, K.R., & Schinke, R.J. (2016). Exploring disordered eating and embodiment in male distance runners through visual narrative methods. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 8, 95-112.
  • McMahon, J., Franklin, R., & McGannon, K.R. (2016). Body classification in sport: A collaborative autoethnography of two female athletes. Psychology of Women Section Review, 18, 48-59.
  • Schinke. R.J., Blodgett, A.T., McGannon, K.R., & Ge, Y. (2016). Finding ones footing on foreign soil: A composite vignette of elite athlete acculturation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 25, 36-43.
  • Schinke, R.J., Blodgett, A.T., McGannon, K.R., Ge, Y., Oghene, O.P., & Seanor, M.(2016). A composite vignette on striving to become “someone” in my new sport system: The critical acculturation of immigrant athletes. The Sport Psychologist, 30, 350-360. 
  • Berry, T.R., Curtin, K.D., Courneya, K., McGannon, K.R., Norris. C.M., Rodgers, W.M., & Spence, J.C. (2016). Heart disease and breast cancer perceptions: Ethnic differences and relationship to attentional bias. Health Psychology Open, July-December, 1-11.
  • Berry, T.R., Stearns, J.A., Courneya, K.S., McGannon, K.R., Norris, C.M., Rodgers, W., & Spence, J.C. (2016). Women’s perceptions of heart disease compared to breast cancer and the association with media representations of the diseases. Journal of Public Health, 38, e496-e503.
  • Witcher, S.G., McGannon, K.R., Hernandez, P., Dechman, G., Ferrier, S., Spence, J.C., Rhodes, R.E. & Blanchard, C.M. (2015). A qualitative exploration of exercise among pulmonary rehabilitation participants: Insight from multiple sources of social influence. Respiratory Care, 60, 1624-1634.
  • Blodgett, A.T., Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., & Fisher, L.A. (2015). Cultural sport psychology research: Conceptions, evolutions and forecasts. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 8, 24-43. 
  • McGannon, K.R., Gonsalves, C.A., Schinke, R.J., & Busanich, R. (2015). Negotiating motherhood and athletic identity: A qualitative analysis of Olympic athlete mother representations in media narratives. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 20, 51-79.
  • McGannon, K.R., & Smith, B. (2015). Centralizing culture in cultural sport psychology research: The potential of narrative inquiry and discursive psychology. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 17, 79-87.
  • Jason, T., McGannon, K.R., Blanchard, C.M., Ranheim, D., & Dechman, G. (2015). A systematic gender-based review of physical activity correlates in coronary heart disease patients. International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 8, 1-23.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Yukleson, D., Cummings, J., & Parro, W. (2015). Helping with the acculturation of elite immigrant coaches in Canadian sport contexts. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 6, 17-27.
  • Oghene, O.P., McGannon, K.R., Schinke, R.J., Watson, S., & Quartiroli, A. (2015). Understanding the meanings created around the aging body and sports through media representations of elite masters athletes. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 7, 739-758.
  • Schinke, R.J. & McGannon, K.R. (2015). Cultural sport psychology and intersecting identities: An introduction to the special section.​ Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 17, 45-47. 
  • Saunders, T.J., Dechman, G., Hernandez, P., Spence, J.C., Rhodes, R.E., McGannon, K.R., Ferguson, C., Bourbeau, J., Maltais, F., Marciniuk. D.D., Camp, P. & Blanchard, C. (2015). Distinct trajectories of physical activity among pulmonary rehabilitation patients with COPD. Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, 12, 539-545.
  • McGannon, K.R., Busanich, R., Witcher, C.S.G., & Schinke, R.J. (2014). A social ecological exploration of physical activity influences among rural men and women across life stages. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 6, 517-536.
  • Busanich, R., McGannon, K.R., & Schinke, R.J. (2014). Comparing elite male and female distance runners’ experiences of disordered eating through narrative analysis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15, 706-712.
  • Blodgett, A.T., Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Coholic, D.A., Enosse, L., Peltier, D. & Pheasant, C. (2014). Navigating the insider-outsider hyphen: A qualitative exploration of the acculturation challenges of Aboriginal athletes pursuing sport in Euro-Canadian contexts. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15, 345-355.
  • Schinke, R.J. & McGannon, K.R. (2014). The acculturation experiences of (and with) immigrant athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 12, 64-75.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Battochio, R.C. & Wells, G. (2013). Acculturation in elite sport: A thematic analysis of immigrant athletes and coaches. Journal of Sports Sciences, 15, 1676-1686.
  • Blodgett, A.T., Coholic, D.A., Schinke, R.J. McGannon, K.R., Peltier, D. & Pheasant, C. (2013). Moving beyond words: Exploring the use of an arts based method in Aboriginal community sport research. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5, 312-331.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R. & Smith, B. (2013). Expanding the sport and physical activity research landscape through community scholarship. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5, 287-290.
  • Schinke, R. J., Smith, B. & McGannon, K. R. (2013). Future pathways for community researchers in sport and physical activity research: Criteria for consideration. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 5, 460-468.
  • McGannon, K.R., Cunningham, S.M. & Schinke, R.J. (2013). Understanding concussion in socio-cultural context: A media analysis of a National Hockey League star’s concussion. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14, 891-899.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Schinke, R.J. (2013). “My first choice is to work out at work; then I don’t feel bad about my kids”: A discursive psychological analysis of motherhood and physical activity participation. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 14, 179-188.
  • Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Watson, J. & Busanich, R. (2013). Moving toward trust and partnership: An example of sport related community based participatory action research with Aboriginal people and mainstream academics. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, 5, 201-210.
  • Glenn, N. M., McGannon, K. R., & Spence, J. C. (2013). Exploring media representations of weight-loss surgery. Qualitative Health Research, 23, 631-644.
  • Battochio, R.C., Schinke, R.J., McGannon, K.R., Tenenbaum, G., Yukelson, D. & Crowder, T. (2013). Understanding immigrated professional athletes’ support networks during post-relocation adaptation through media data. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 11, 101-116.
  • McGannon, K.R., Curtin, K., Schinke, R.J. & Schweinbenz, A.N. (2012). (De)Constructing Paula Radcliffe: Exploring media representations of elite athletes, pregnancy and motherhood through cultural sport psychology. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 820-829.
  • McGannon, K.R. (2012). Am “I” a work of art(?): Understanding exercise and the self through critical self-awareness and aesthetic self-stylization. Athletic Insight, 4, 79-95.
  • McGannon, K.R., & Spence, J.C. (2012). Exploring news media representations of women’s exercise and subjectivity through critical discourse analysis. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 4, 32-50.
  • McGannon, K.R., Hoffmann, M.D., Metz, J.L., & Schinke, R.J. (2012). A media analysis of a sport celebrity: Understanding an informal “team cancer” role as a socio-cultural construction. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 26-35.
  • Busanich, R., McGannon, K.R. & Schinke, R.J. (2012). Expanding understandings of the body, food and exercise relationship in distance runners: A narrative approach. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 13, 582-590.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Schweinbenz, A.N. (2011). Traversing the qualitative-quantitative divide using mixed methods: Some reflections and reconciliations for sport and exercise psychology. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 3, 367-381.
  • McGannon, K.R. & Spence, J.C. (2010). Speaking of the self and physical activity participation: What discursive psychology can tell us about an old problem. Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise, 2, 17-38