Qualifications: Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Windsor; Master in Sports
Management, Bond University 

Winston is a Doctoral (PhD) Candidate in Cultural Studies of Sport and Exercise at
Western University Canada, specializing in Comparative and International Sport and High
Performance Sport. He is currently the Chair of Sport Development for
Lifesaving/Sauvetage Canada, the Canadian National Sport Organization of Lifesaving
Sport. He has a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Windsor (Canada) and a
Master in Sports Management from Bond University (Australia). He has had professional
experiences working with sports organizations such as the Gold Coast Blaze (NBL), Surf
Life Saving Australia, Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club, KooGa Australia, and Queensland
Events Gold Coast. 

Contributions to Books

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Comparative high performance sport models (with Peter Smolianov and Darwin Semotiuk), Managing High Performance Sport (2012)

This chapter discusses different models that have been used to compare high performance sport (HPS)...

 

Popular Press

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Cuba offers more than 'sports for all' (with Dana Poeta and Brook Russell), Western News (2011)

A summary about the Cuban sport system and their philosophy on "sports for all" from...

 

Presentations

Exposing a lack of communication regarding sport policy: An analysis of the Canadian talent identification process (with Geoff Schoenberg and David Legg), 18th Annual Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference (2012)

The Sports Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success (SPLISS), a comparative high performance and...

 

The funding structure of the Norwegian sport and physical activity system (with Bryn Jones and Darwin Semotiuk), 18th Annual Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand (SMAANZ) Conference (2012)

Norway is a country that has simultaneously developed a successful high performance and elite sport...

 

The Application of Social/Political Theories to the SPLISS (Sport Policy Factors Leading to International Sporting Success) Model (with Bryn Jones, Juliann Desjardins, and Darwin Semotiuk), 18th International Society for Comparative Physical Education and Sport (ISCPES) Biennial Conference (2012)

This research focuses if a sociocultural theory such as the stakeholder theory or social value...

 

An investigation of the prevalence of quantitative research studies within the sociocultural area of sport, 2012 Tri-University Conference for the Trans/Disciplinary Study of Sport (2012)

This research study is to investigate if there is a prevalence of academic quantitative research...

 

The reorganization of a professional sports league - A critical analysis of the restructuring of the Australian National Basketball League (with Shayne Quick and Darwin Semotiuk), The 19th Conference of the European Association for Sport Management (2011)

There are numerous examples of professional sports leagues that have failed. Australia has witnessed professor...