The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is a division of the Faculty of Health
Lisbeth Berbary
Associate Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: Liberatory social theorypractices (critical, feminist, critical race, Black radicalisms, abolition, poststructural, queer, decolonizing/anti-colonialist, post humanist); Qualitative methodologies and decolonizing critiques of inquiry as invasion; Sociopolitical mobilizing/organizing/transformation with/in community; Creative Analytic Practices/Reverse research that extracts from the university towards community liberation
Karla Boluk
Associate Professor, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: ethical consumption, fair trade, corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, volunteer tourism
Troy D. Glover
Professor; Department Chair
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
Associate Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
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
Kimberly J. Lopez
Assistant Professor
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
Professor, Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
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
Katie Misener
Associate Professor
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
Zara Rafferty
Continuing Lecturer
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: leisure and the arts, qualitative inquiry, inclusion in leisure contexts, experiential education, child and youth leisure
Brendan Riggin
Lecturer
Approved master's and doctoral committee member
Research interests: sport marketing, corporate social responsibility, social impact of sport, consumer behaviour, and program evaluation.
Kylie Wasser
Lecturer
Approved master's and doctoral committee member
Research interests: interplay between recreation, sport, events and policy; evidence-based policy making to understand concepts such as inclusion, access, and delivery of sport and recreation programming; sport event bidding and hosting impacts on individuals, communities and the environment; sustainability; interrelated systems and structures that surround sport and recreation locally, nationally, and globally