Dr Vertommen holds a MA in Ethics, a MSc in Criminology and a PhD in Health Sciences. Dr Tine Vertommen heads the Safeguarding Sport and Society research team at Thomas More University of Applied Sciences, Belgium and is a visiting professor in the department of Physical Education at Ghent University, Belgium. Tine is the owner of The Safeguarding Arch, a consultancy company to support sport organisations in strengthening their safeguarding initiatives. She is appointed as a consultant to the IOC Safe Sport Unit where she is responsible for the knowledge transfer and the evidence-base development of the IOC’s tools, policies, and procedures to promote safe sport. Her research focusses on the prevalence and prevention of interpersonal violence against children and adolescents. Dr Vertommen’s latest projects focus on the development of bystander interventions to detect and prevent interpersonal violence in local sport clubs. At the international level, Dr Vertommen is a member of the Council of Europe’s Safe Sport Pool of International Experts, the Academic Advisory Board of the IOC Certificate Safeguarding Officer in Sport, and the European Commission High-Level Expert Group on Gender Equality in Sport.
