Pierre Trudel

A professor emeritus since retiring in 2016 after 30 years of service in the School of Human Kinetics at the University of Ottawa, Pierre Trudel continues to pursue his academic and professional activities. His academic contributions include the publication of articles and book chapters, and participation in many symposia as a guest professor. As an associate professor at Université Laval (Quebec City), he is involved in supervising students and collaborates on many research projects. Professionally, he serves as a university career development consultant for professors and leads projects to develop sports coaches for Canadian (Quebec’s Ministry of Education) and international (in Singapore and Belgium) organizations.

Professor Trudel is not accepting new students for thesis supervision.

• University professors’ career development
• Sports coaches’ career development
• Culture of development in sports organizations

1. 2021–2024. Mise en œuvre d’un programme d’accompagnement favorisant le développement positif des élèves-athlètes destiné aux intervenants scolaires et aux parents (funding: SSHRC $200,000, partners $210,000)
   1. Principal investigator: C. Trottier
   2. Six collaborators (including Pierre Trudel)
2. 2019. Assessing the needs of school sport stakeholders and student athletes regarding positive youth development (funding: SSHRC $25,000)
   1. Principal investigator: C. Trottier
   2. Six collaborators (including Pierre Trudel)
3. 2019. Évaluation des enjeux et besoins des élèves-athlètes faisant partie d’un programme de type sport-études au secondaire (funding: Quebec Ministry of Education and Ministry of Higher Education $40,000)
   1. Principal investigators: C. Trottier and V. Drapeau
   2. Six collaborators (including Pierre Trudel)

Book chapters

• Trudel, P. & Gilbert, W. (2024). Foundations and evolution of coach development. In S. B. Rynne & C. J. Mallett (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Coach Development in Sport (pp. 3-21). Routledge.
• Kulinna, P.H., Banville, D., & Trudel, P. (2024). Current state and future of teacher/coach education. In R. Marttinen (Ed.), Routledge Resources Online – Sports Studies. Routledge.
• Mallett, C., Rynne, S., & Trudel, P. (2021). Continuing education in coaching. In D. Gould & C. Mallett (Eds.), Sport Coaches Handbook, (pp. 239-258). Human Kinetics.

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

• Duval-Brassard, P., Trudel, P., Trottier, C. (in press). The graduate students’ catch 22: Caught between the inaccessibility of the systematic review and the biases of the narrative review. STAPS.
• Milistetd, M., Trudel, P., Cortela, C., Tozetto, A., Culver, D., Lima, C., Souza, V. (2023). The perspectives of a sport club’s key actors who collaborated in a coach development project. International Sport Coaching Journal, 1-9.
• Milistetd, M., Trudel, P., Culver, D., Cortela, C.C., Tozetto, A.B., Lima, C.O., & Guilherme, V. (2021). A second look at a 24-month collaborative initiative to develop coaches in a multi-sport club. Journal of Sport Pedagogy and Research, 7(6), 51–62.
• Trudel, P., Paquette, K., & Lewis, D. (2021). The process of ‘becoming’ a certified high-performance coach: A tailored learning journey for one high-performance athlete. International Sport Coaching Journal, 9(1), 133–142.
• Rodrigue, F., Trudel, P., & Culver, D. (2021). Coaching high-performance sport coaches: The 12-month learning journey of two university head coaches. International Journal of Coaching Science, 15(1), 3-40.
• Rodrigues, H., Brazil, V., Milistetd, M., & Trudel, P. (2021). Learner-centered teaching in a Higher Education course: a case study with a recognized researcher in Sports Coaching. Research, Society and Development, 10(3), 1-17.
• Trudel, P. & Cloes, M. (Juilllet, 2020). Les sources de connaissance privilégiées par les entraineurs belges francophones. eJRIEPS, 47, 65- 87.
• Trudel, P., Milistetd, M., & Culver, D. (2020). What the empirical studies on sport coach education programs in higher education have to reveal: A review. International Sport Coaching Journal, 7(1), 61-73.
• Culver, D., Werthner, P., & Trudel, P. (2019). Coach developers as ‘facilitators of learning’ in large-scale coach education programme: One actor in a complex system. International Sport Coaching Journal, 6(3), 296-306.
• Paquette, K., Trudel, P., Duarte, T., & Cundari, G. (2019). Participating in a learner-centered coach education program: Composite vignettes of coaches’ and coach educators’ experiences. International Sport Coaching Journal, 6(3), 274-284.
• Rodrigue, F., Trudel, P., & Boyd, J. (2019). Learning from practice: The value of a personal learning coach for high-performance coaches. International Sport Coaching Journal, 6(3), 285-295.
• Rodrigue, F., & Trudel, P. (2018). Reflective practice: A case study of a university football coach using reflective cards. LASE Journal, 9(1), 39-59.
• Milisteted, M., Peniza, L., Trudel, P., & Paquette, K. (2018). Nurturing high-performance sport coaches’ learning and development using a narrative-collaborative coaching approach. LASE Journal, 9(1), 6-38.
• Duarte, T., Culver, D., Trudel, P., & Milistetd, M. (2018). Parasport coach development: Evidence from the Canadian context. LASE Journal, 9(1), 78-90.