Ms Catherine Ordway

Dr Catherine Ordway is a Visiting Scholar at UNSW Canberra.  Catherine specialises in sport integrity issues. Catherine’s Sport Management PhD was on Protecting Sports Integrity: Sport corruption risk management strategies from the University of Canberra.  Catherine is a sports lawyer with degrees from the University of Adelaide, a Graduate Diploma in Investigations Management from Charles Sturt University, and continues to consult to a range of sport organisations.  Catherine instigated the evacuation of the Afghan Women’s Cricket team, administrators and their families to Australia following the handing over of the country to the Taliban in August 2021.  In 2025, Catherine was awarded the Australian Lawyers Alliance (ALA) (ACT) inaugural Civil Justice Award.  Together with Melanie Jones OAM and Emma Staples, Catherine was awarded the MCC Spirit of Cricket Award, by Lords [the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC)].

Catherine’s international roles include: the World Anti-Doping Agency Social Science Research Expert Advisory Group, the International Cricket Council Independent Review Board, the International Canoeing Federation Arbitration Panel, the World Curling Federation Anti-Doping Hearing Panel, and the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities Council on Anti-Illegal Betting and Related Crime.  In Australia, Catherine is a member of the National Sports Tribunal and the Victorian Government Racing Integrity Board.

Catherine’s other academic adjunct include: Auckland University of Technology (AUT), AUT Sports Performance Research Institute New Zealand (SPRINZ), New Zealand; the University of Minnesota, Global Institute for Responsible Sport Organizations (GIRSO), USA; and Charles University, Sports Ethics Research Centre, Czech Republic.  Most recently, Catherine was Associate Professor (Sports Management) and Sport Integrity Research Lead at the University of Canberra, and a Senior Fellow with The University of Melbourne Law School.

Catherine has contributed to a range of sport integrity research publications and projects on topics ranging from anti-doping. match-fixing, corruption, gender equality and transgender inclusion policies.  Her edited text, Restoring Trust in Sport: Corruption Cases and Solutions (2021) was published by Routledge.  Catherine also co-authored the textbook, “Sports Management: Principles and Applications” (6th ed., 2022).  Routledge has recently commissioned the 7^th edition of this textbook for 2026.