The Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies is a division of the Faculty of Health
Sherry L. Dupuis
Professor, University Research Chair
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
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
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
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.
Ryan Snelgrove
Associate Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: organizational change; organizational theory; social change; social innovation and impact; youth sport; sport development.
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
Laura Wood
Associate Professor
Approved master's and doctoral dissertation supervisor
Research interests: consumer behaviour of sport participation; sport marketing; spectatorship; tourism; event manangement.