Delivering another panel-as-podcast to your ears! Get ready to tune-in to another panel recording from the 'Advancing Mobility Justice, Gender Equity, Climate Action, and Sustainable Development through Sport Symposium,' an event hosted by the DREAMING in Sport Collaboratory held at York University from October 15-17, 2025.

This episode is titled, 'Innovative Approaches to Mobilizing Knowledge: Advancing Gender Equity and Health Rights through Movement.' This panel featured contributions from some brilliant colleagues leading creative, diverse and alternative modes of knowledge translation in through gender, food justice and health research.

Dr. Francine Darroch, Dr. Courtney Szto, and Dr. Cathy van Ingen explore how digital methods, community-led knowledge, and forms of movement knowledge travel, policies are influenced, and gender equity and health rights are advanced in practice.

First, we hear from Dr. Francine Darroch, who’s an associate professor in the department of Health Sciences at Carlton University. Dr. Darroch is an interdisciplinary scholar specializing in qualitative research on public health and equity in physical activity, with particular attention to the intersections of gender, trauma and structural violence.

Next, we have Dr. Courtney Szto. Dr. Szto, who is an associate professor in the School of Kinesiology and Health Studies at Queen's University. Her research explores the relationship between physical cultures and intersectional justice, asking how systems such a racism, sexism, and ableism are compounded by climate catastrophe. Her doctoral research was published as Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians (Rutgers University Press, 2020), for which she received the Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport in 2021. She also is the executive producer of the award-winning short documentary Revolutions - focused on bicycles waste.

And finally, we have Dr. Cathy van Ingen, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at Brock University. Her work bridges academic research and community activism, examining trauma-informed approaches to sport and physical activity and gender-based violence at the intersections of sport, inequality, and social change through a feminist and critical race studies framework. In 2024, she completed an MFA in documentary media and launched Catchweight Films, a production company that expands her research practice to include film as both a methodology.

Dr. Francine Darroch's LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/francine-darroch-phd-74482a123?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Dr. Courtney Szto: https://www.linkedin.com/in/courtney-szto-128aa222?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Dr. Cathy van Ingen: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathy-van-ingen-7570b576?utm_source=share&utm_campaign=share_via&utm_content=profile&utm_medium=ios_app

Featured in this episode: Dr. Francine Darroch, Dr. Courtney Szto, Dr. Cathy van Ingen, and Dr. Lyndsay Hayhurst.

Music by: Kevin McLeod and Broke for Free via the 'Free Music Archive'.

Album artwork: Keiron Cobban.