Terri Byers

Current research projects

• ERASMUS+ funded, Safeguarding Children in Sport 2023-2025
• New Brunswick Innovation Foundation funded, Sport Innovation VR Lab – Increasing Social Inclusion in/through Sport: The Role of Virtual Reality, 2024-28
• World Anti-Doping Agency funded, Anti-Doping Education: Cross Country Analysis and Capacity Building (8 countries)
• Understanding how Sport Organizations Learn: Advancing Theory and Practice of Sport Governance through innovation
• UNESCO Chair in Governance and Social Responsibility in Sport, Research & Funding Scientific Advisory Committee Co-Chair

Recent publications

++Yang, Y., Byers, T., & Koenigstorfer, J. (2025). A Machine‐Learning Approach to Understanding Performance of Canadian Nonprofit Sport Organizations. Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 35(3), 663-675.

++Headley, D., & Byers, T. (2025). Corporate social responsibility through sport for development: social innovation in nonprofit sport organizations in Barbados. In Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport (pp. 213-232). Edward Elgar Publishing.

++Asamoah, C. O., & Byers, T. (2025). The intersection of governance and social responsibility in sport: re-conceptualizing fair play through the kaleidoscope and living organisms metaphors. in Research Handbook on Corporate Social Responsibility in Sport (pp. 161-176). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Byers, T., & +Owusu, C. (2024). Metaphors for Competition within and Between Organizations: The Value and Use of Sports Metaphors, in Örtenblad, A. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Metaphors in Organization Studies, Oxford University Press.

Anagnostopoulos, C., Byers, T. and Papadimitriou, D. (2024, paperback). Sport Governance Insights, London, Routledge.

Byers, T., Mason, F., & ++Lunga, P. (2022). Sport management education in response to COVID-19 pandemic: An Atlantic Canada perspective. In Sport Management Education (pp. 221-232). Routledge.

Byers, T., Hayday, E. J., Mason, F., ++Lunga, P., & ++Headley, D. (2021). Innovation for positive sustainable legacy from mega sports events: Virtual reality as a tool for social inclusion legacy for Paris 2024 paralympic games. Frontiers in sports and active living, 3, 625677.

Slack, T., Byers, T. and Thurston, A.J. (2020). Understanding Sport Organizations: Applications for Sport Management. Champaign, Human Kinetics.

++Research students