Roslyn Fiona Kerr is a New Zealand sports sociologist and parks manager.
Kerr completed a PhD titled Assembling high performance: an actor network theory account of gymnnastics in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury in 2010.
[2] Kerr also convened the university's Living Laboratory, which is a collaboration between academia and land-sector partners such as industry, Māori organisations, government and schools to allow students to have real-world experience to test ideas.
[3][4] The laboratory has worked on revitalising the university's arboretum, testing ideas about science in dairy farming, and land use and policy around restoration at Mt Hutt Forest and Bike Park.
[2][5][6][7] Her work on gender in sport has gained worldwide attention, and has been featured in the New York Times and Nature Outlook.