Alison Doherty - Author

Alison Doherty is a professor in the Sport Management program in the School of Kinesiology, Faculty of Health Sciences at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada.

Her research focuses broadly on the management of nonprofit and community sport, and particularly sport and event volunteerism, group dynamics, and organizational capacity and innovation.

Doherty is the editor of Sport Management Review and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Sport Management.

She is a NASSM research fellow and recipient of the Dr. Earle F. Zeigler and Dr. Garth Paton Distinguished Service awards from that organization.