Lisbeth Berbary
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: social change; inclusivity and equity; interconnections among race, class, gender, ability, sexuality, status; improvisational qualitative methodologies; arts-based and creative analytic practices; macro social theories (ie. critical, critical race, feminism(s), post-structural, queer, post-humanism); bisexual/pansexual erasure and biphobia
Karla Boluk
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: ethical consumption, fair trade, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, volunteer tourism
Sherry L. Dupuis
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: culture change in long-term care; dementia and dementia care; leisure, aging and care; leisure, health and wellness; arts-based research; participatory action research
Leeann Ferries
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: therapeutic recreation, evidence-based practice, leisure and persons with disabilities, leisure and mental health
Troy D. Glover
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: urban recreation, place meanings, social capital development, grassroots organizing, and narrative inquiry
Bryan S. R. Grimwood
Research interests: geographies of nature-based travel; tourism, outdoor recreation, and leisure; tourism ethics and environmental responsibility; arctic tourism, livelihoods, and special places; community-based participatory research; experiential education and outdoor learning
Kelsey Johansen
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: narratives produced by and for tourists/recreationists, the transmission of inter-cultural knowledge and sustainability practices, host and guest interactions, the phenomenological experience of tourism, recreation and leisure, and rural community tourism development.
Corey W. Johnson
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: dominant and non-dominant relations in leisure contexts, inclusive recreation and disability, masculinity, sexual and gender identity, anti-racist, anti-sexist, and heteronormative activism and anti-hegemonic volunteering, cultural and digital media, qualitative methods - ethnography, collective memory and creative analytic practice
Kimberly J. Lopez
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: narrative inquiry; participatory action research; community engagement; qualitative methods and methodologies; critical social theories; caring and care work; leisure, wellness, well-being, and health; inclusive/therapeutic recreation and leisure; leisure, aging, and later life; difference and marginalization; digital storytelling, body mapping, photo-elicitation and photo voice, digital, arts-based methods and representation
Heather L. Mair
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: leisure, tourism and sport policy development; food and leisure; the politics of tourism and rural development; leisure, tourism, sport and community development; critical and qualitative inquiry
Ron E. McCarville
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: marketing, management, consumer behaviour, persuasion, service quality
Katie Misener
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: nonprofit management, organizational capacity, community sport organizations, sport and social capital, social responsibility through sport, service-learning
Steven E. Mock
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: lifespan development, sexual minority development, leisure as a coping resource, social nature of coping and decision-making, retirement planning
Diana C. Parry
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: women's leisure, gender, health and well-being, qualitative inquiry, feminist theory
Luke R. Potwarka
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: consumer behaviour related to sport events, exploring the role of mega-sport events in the promotion of physical activity and sport participation, exploring commercial and tourism-related responses to mega-sport events, cognitive function and leisure/sport participation
Zara Rafferty
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: leisure and the arts, qualitative inquiry, inclusion in leisure contexts, experiential education, child and youth leisure
Bryan Smale
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: leisure, health, and well-being of individuals and communities; social indicators research; spatial analysis of leisure and well-being; time use allocation
Ryan Snelgrove
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: organizational change; organizational theory; social change; social innovation and impact; youth sport; sport development.
Laura Wood
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: consumer behaviour of sport participation; sport marketing; spectatorship; tourism; event manangement.
