Matt Ventresca

Dr. Matt Ventresca is a critical sport and health researcher whose work is situated across sociology, cultural studies, media studies, and science and technology studies. He works at the intersections of qualitative research, public knowledge mobilization, digital scholarship, and creative methods. Matt has also spent the past decade researching sociocultural inequities within sport’s “concussion crisis." His latest book Violent Impacts: How Power and Inequality Shape the Concussion Crisis (2025), co-authored with Dr. Kathryn Henne (Australian National University), explores how structural violence influences experiences and understandings of brain injury across different social contexts.