Martin Camiré

Martin Camiré is a professor in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa. Through his research, Prof. Camiré examines how various aspects of development can be fostered in the context of sport, especially with youth populations. As well, he uses postfoundational approaches to view aspects of the inquiry process through an alternative lens. His teaching interests include ethics, health promotion and (post)qualitative methods.

• Promoting quality developmental experiences for sport participants
• Fostering sporting environments conducive to mental health and social justice
• Deploying postfoundational (postqualitative, posthumanist) approaches to inquiry

SSHRC grants

Grants as principal investigator

• Camiré, M. (PI), Strachan, L., Bean, C., & Newman, T. J. (2021-2023). Reimagining High School Sport Coaching through a Social Justice Lens. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant ($86,732).
• Camiré, M. (PI), Cairney, J., & Bruner, M. (2019-2024). High school sport participation and its association to psychosocial development and mental health. SSHRC Insight Grant ($95,142).
• Camiré, M. (PI), Bean, C., Pierce, S., & Amorose, A. (2019-2020). Designing and validating the coaching life skills in sport questionnaire. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant ($24,989).
• Camiré, M. (PI) & Bean, C. (2017-2018). Examining the associations between implicit and explicit life skills development processes and program quality in youth golf. SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant ($24,592).
• Camiré, M. (PI) & Trudel P. (2016-2018). The testing, dissemination, and evaluation of the teaching life skills through sport training program for high school coaches. SSHRC Insight Grant ($131,060).
• Camiré, M. (PI), & Forneris, T. (2014-2015). Teacher-coaches' influence on the global development of student-athletes: An examination of perceived dual role benefits and challenges. SSHRC Insight Development Grant ($43,641).

Grants as co-investigator

• Turgeon, S. (PI), Camiré, M., & Rathwell, S. (2022). Translation and validation of the French version of the coaching life skills in sport questionnaire. SSHRC Insight Development Grant. ($29,487).
• Bean, C. (PI) & Camiré, M. (2021). Walking the talk: Mobilizing knowledge to enhance evaluation capacity in the Canadian sport sector. SSHRC Connection Grant. ($24,992).
• Trottier, C. (PI), Camiré, M., Drapeau, V., Goulet, C., & Lemyre, P. N. (2016-2018). Conception, implantation et évaluation d'un programme d'enseignement des habiletés de vie en contexte de sport scolaire. SSHRC Insight Grant ($132,000).
• Holt, N. (PI), Camiré, M., Fraser-Thomas, J., MacDonald, D., Strachan, L., Tamminen, K., & Côté, J. (2015-2018). Promoting positive youth development through sport: PYD SportNET. SSHRC Partnership Development Grant  ($195,456).
• Forneris, T. (PI), Camiré, M., & Fortier, M., & Fraser-Thomas, J. (2015-2017). Positive youth development through sport: Examining and understanding program quality. SSHRC Insight Grant ($146,889)

See Martin Camiré’s publications on Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

• Camiré, M. (2024). Critical posthumanisms, postqualitative inquiry, and conventional qualitative research: Some interrogations and contemplations on their entangled identities and futurities. Qualitative Research in Psychology.
• Kramers, S., & Camiré, M. (2024). “It’s necessary work”: Stories of competitive youth sport coaches’ developing critical praxes. The Sport Psychologist.
• Santos, F., Camiré, M., Pierce, S., MacDonald, D. J., Strachan, L., Newman, T., Vella, S., & Milistetd, M. (2024). Using social learning spaces to think beyond and innovate conventional conferencing formats. Kinesiology Review.
• Santos, F., Camiré, M., MacDonald, D. J., Strachan, L., Ferreira, M., & Rathwell, S. (2024). Decision-makers’ interactions that co-determine positive youth development through sport: A critical realist examination. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 16(2), 181-196.
• Ciampolini, V., Kramers, S., Camiré, M., Nascimento, J. V., & Milistetd, M. (2024). The shy girl who became national team captain: A bioecological narrative of an Olympian’s life skills development. Sport in Society, 27(5), 783-803.
• Camiré, M., Santos, F., Newman, T., Vella, S., MacDonald, D. J., Milistetd, M., Pierce, S., & Strachan, L. (2023). Positive youth development as a guiding framework in sport research: Is it time to plan for a transition?Psychology of Sport & Exercise, 69 (102505).
• Camiré, M. (2023). Sport coaching as intra-action: An agential realist diffraction. Sports Coaching Review.
• Camiré, M. (2023). The two continua model for life skills teaching. Sport, Education and Society, 28(8), 915-928.
• Bishop, E., Turgeon, S., Tang, W., Newman, T. J., Strachan, L., Bean, C., & Camiré, M. (2023). White privilege in Canadian high school sport: Investigating white coaches’ perspectives on social justice issues. Sports Coaching Review.
• Camiré, M. (2023). Building a case for infusing posthumanist thinking in the qualitative training of sport and exercise psychology researchers. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
• Camiré, M. (2023). Assemblage thinking as attunement to race, gender, and sexuality in youth sport research. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 47(1), 56-74.
• Camiré, M. (2023). Proposing an ontological shift from intervention to intravention in sport and exercise psychology. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 64 (102342).
• Turgeon, S., Martin, L., Rathwell, S., & Camiré, M. (2022). The influence of gender on the relationship between the basic psychological needs and mental health in high school student-athletes. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology.
• Camiré, M. (2022). A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: A call to postqualitative inquiry. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 14(6), 900-915.
• Camiré, M., Newman, T. J., Bean, C., & Strachan, L. (2022). Reimagining positive youth development and life skills in sport through a social justice lens. Journal of Applied Sport Psychology, 34(6), 1058-1076.
• Camiré, M., Sabourin, C., Gladstone Martin, E., Martin, L., & Lowe, N. (2022). “My life sucks right now”: Student-athletes’ pandemic-related experiences with screen time and mental health. The Sport Psychologist, 36(4), 251-261.
• Sabourin, C., Turgeon, S., Martin, L., Rathwell, S., Bruner, M., Cairney, J., & Camiré, M. (2022). Sport participation, extracurricular activity involvement, and psychological distress: A latent class analysis of Canadian high school student-athletes. Journal of Clinical Sport Psychology, 17(3), 327-345.
• Darnell, S. C., Whitley, M. A., Camiré, M., Massey, W. V., Blom, L. C., Chawansky, M., Forde, S., & Hayden, L. (2022). Systematic reviews of sport for development literature: Managerial and policy implications. Journal of Global Sport Management, 7(2), 249-266.
• Kramers, S., Camiré, M., Ciampolini, V., & Milistetd, M. (2022). Development of a life skills self-assessment tool for coaches. Journal of Sport Psychology in Action, 13(1), 54-64.

• Camille Sabourin: 2019 – 2023 (PhD)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
  • Nicole Bégin-Heick Scholarship
• Sara Kramers: 2018 – 2023 (PhD)
  • SSHRC - Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship
• Nikolas Martin: 2017-2020 (MA)
• Kelsey Kendellen: 2014 - 2019 (PhD)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Doctoral Scholarship
  • SSHRC - Sport Participation Research Initiative Doctoral Supplement
  • SSHRC - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (University of Birmingham, UK)
  • Ontario Graduate Scholarship
  • SCAPPS 2019 Franklin Henry Young Scientist Award in Sport Psychology
  • Nicole Bégin-Heick Scholarship
• Laura Martin: 2017 - 2019 (MA)
  • Queen Elizabeth II Graduate Scholarship in Science and Technology
• Sara Kramers: 2016 - 2018 (MA)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship
  • SSHRC - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (Loughborough University, UK)
• Evelyne Felber Charbonneau: 2015 - 2017 (MA)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship
  • SSHRC - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway)
• Jonathan Roy: 2014 - 2016 (MA)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship
• Colin Deal: 2013 - 2015 (MA)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship
• Kelsey Kendellen: 2012 - 2014 (MA)
  • SSHRC - Joseph-Armand Bombardier Master’s Scholarship