Events

Professor Simone Fullagar will be visiting Waterloo from the University of Bath in the U.K. Simone is this years 2015 Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award winner and will be giving a public lecture and will be made available for a reception afterwards.

Please join us in welcoming Diane Phillips, Professor in the School of Management, Canberra University.

Dr. Fabian Frenzel, University of Leicester, is an internationally renowned expert in the study of tourism and urban poverty, and the spaces where these two intersect. 

In honour of the Department’s 50^th Anniversary the Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award will be presented to two recipients who have shown innovative, creative, and courageous research.  

Iceland began ‘upstream’ prevention initiatives in the mid 1990s and have seen massive reductions in the use of cannabis, alcohol and tobacco amongst youth. Professor Alfgeir Kristjansson of Reykjavik University discusses the key elements of their sustained success.

Award-winning CBC Sports broadcaster Scott Russell discusses the potential of sport and play, and how it can shape a country and its citizens.

Dr. Mark Johnson and Dr. Tom Brock present their research on consumable virtual items purchased within video games and the debate around the effects of these "loot boxes".

Professor Donna Chambers examines female sex tourism in the post-colonial world through the lens of whiteness theory.

Professor Justin Garcia of Indiana University examines romantic and sexual attitudes and behaviours of single adults in the digital age.

Professor Rasul Mowatt will receive the Shaw-Mannell Leisure Research Award recognizing his international contributions to the study of leisure and influence on leisure scholarship in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies.