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Recreation, Sport & Tourism

Jonathan Rocha De Oliveira

Jonathan Rocha De Oliveira

Expected graduation date: May 2025

jro5@illinois.edu

Professional profile: LinkedIn

Research portfolio: ResearchGate | GoogleScholar

Curriculum Vitae:
CV - PhD (Jonathan) Fall 2022.pdf

Jonathan is passionate about sports event management and leverage, especially looking at the economic and social impacts (short-term) and outcomes (long-term). His current focus relies on small-scale sports events for doctoral dissertation purposes, but he is also interested in large-scale ones. He wants to better understand the various stakeholders’ roles and influences in the managerial processes to leverage sports events, advocate for positive impacts and outcomes, and promote (host) community development through them.

Additionally, he holds research experience in sport tourism, working on analyzing and understanding how sports facilities manage and operate their products, services, and experiences offer in stadiums and museums of sport. 

He earned both bachelor's and master's degrees in Physical Education (minor in sociocultural aspects of Sport and Leisure) at the Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba (Brazil).