Robert Schinke, Professional Standards Division Head

Robert Schinke, a former equestrian, competed in four North and South American Junior Championships from 1983-1987. In his last year as a junior, Robert was selected to Canada’s 1987 Pan-American Games Team. In 1992, Robert began his graduate studies in Kinesiology (Ottawa University), and later earned a Doctorate in Education (University of Alberta) and completed a Post-doctoral year in Positive Psychology (University of Pennsylvania), supervised by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman. In 2002 Robert joined the School of Human Kinetics at Laurentian University and recently became a full professor. His publications include four authored books and six co-edited textbooks, including “Cultural Sport Psychology,” the “Cultural Turn in Sport Psychology,” and “Contemporary Sport Psychology.” Robert has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications and guest co-edited the International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology (Autumn, 2009), the Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology (Autumn, 2011), the Journal of Sport and Social Issues (Autumn, 2011), and at present he is guest co-editing Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health. He is the Editor of Athletic Insight and a recently appointed Associate Editor for the Journal of Sport and Social Issues. Robert has been awarded the Canadian Sport Science Research Award for Community Research resulting from his health promotion work with Indigenous youth, and a Canada Research Chair in Multicultural Sport and Physical Activity. A former AASP student representative, Robert has just completed his term as Chair of AASP’s Ethics Committee. Since 2000 he has worked extensively with world champion professional boxers featured on HBO.