Martha Barnes
Associate Professor
Recreation and Leisure Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Dr. Martha Barnes’ research focuses on understanding interorganizational relationships in community recreation. Barnes explores the way in which collaborations facilitate and/or hinder service delivery at the community level. Projects, including a Sport Canada SSHRC grant, have used social network theory and analysis to study community recreation, sport, parks, and health networks. The impact of this work has led to greater understanding by community organizations on the value of collaborations and the identification of strategies aimed at strengthening relationships. Dissemination of scholarly activity occurs in a wide variety of academic and community outlets.
Research Interest
Social network analysis of community recreation and sport; Neighbourhood park network development; Planning in community recreation
Publications
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Cousens, L., Barnes, M., & MacLean, J. (2012). Community Sport Collaboration: A Sport Participation Driver. International Journal of Sport Management and Marketing (IJSMM), Vol.12 (3/4), 198-216.
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Mull, R., Forrester, S., & Barnes, M. (2013). Recreational Sports Programming (5th ed). Champaign, IL: Sagamore Publishing.
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Barnes, M., Forrester, S., & Leone, M. (2013). A City Looks to its Past to Discover its Future: A Retrospective Case Study Examining the Effects of an Artificial White-Water River Development 25 years Later. Managing Leisure, 18(1), 16-30.
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Phillips, C., & Barnes, M. (2015). Whose legacy is it, anyway? A tale of conflicting agendas in the building of the Hamilton Pan Am Soccer Stadium†special issue on Sporting and Cultural Events: Contested Legacies, Annals of Leisure Research, 18(4), 549-568.
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Leone, M., Barnes, M., & Sharpe, E. (2015). What Gets Plans off the Shelf? A Case Study of Municipal Recreation Plan Implementation. Journal of Park and Recreation Administration, 33(4), 51-68.
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Barnes, M., Lauckner, H., & Hutchinson, S. (2017). Linking recreation and health with people living with chronic conditions. World Leisure Journal, 59(1), 6-20.
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Brooks, D.J., Barnes, M., & Stevens, J. (2017). What happens at the national level stays at the national level: A case study of community curling. International Journal of Sport Management, 18, 1-24.
