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
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
Leeann Ferries
Continuing Lecturer; Associate Dean Undergraduate Studies
Approved master's committee member
Research interests: therapeutic recreation, evidence-based practice, leisure and persons with disabilities, leisure and mental health
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
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