Cultivating Care-Full Futures Research Group research and awards | Recreation and Leisure Studies

Research publications

Production and proliferation of a Philippine diaspora: resettlement as a promise of leisure in exchange for labour

Authors: Giana Tomas¹ and Kimberly Lopez²

¹Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

²Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

“It's easy being together”: Creating a shared space of belonging within a day program

Authors: Darla Fortune¹ and Kimberly J. Lopez²

¹Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Canada

²Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

Borders as promises of leisure and passageways to freedom-making: leisure at the cost of labouring bodies

Authors: Kimberly J. Lopez¹and Giana Tomas²

¹Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

²Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Faculty of Health, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Developing and Sustaining Dementia Capable Communities: An Analysis of the Current Evidence

Authors: Samantha Biglieri¹, Neha Ahmed², Sarah Main³, Olivia Leslie Tupling⁴, Roslyn Vijayakumar⁵, Jennifer Boger⁶, Christine Daum⁷, Sherry Dupuis⁸, Melissa Koch⁹, Lili Liu¹⁰, Kimberley Lopez¹¹, Jim Mann¹², Michelle Martin¹³, Carrie McAiney¹⁴, Huda Jamal Nasir¹⁵, Nada Nasir¹⁶, Bethany Pearce¹⁷, Rachel Weldrick¹⁸, Kathleen Vanderlinden¹⁹, Laura Middleton²⁰

¹School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

²School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

³School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁴School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁵School of Urban and Regional Planning, Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, ON, Canada

⁶Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁷School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁸Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

⁹School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

¹⁰School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
¹¹Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

¹²Dementia Advocate, British Columbia, Canada

¹³Alzheimer Society Waterloo Wellington, Waterloo, ON, Canada

¹⁴School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

¹⁵School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

¹⁶University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada

¹⁷City of Kitchener, Kitchener, ON, Canada

¹⁸Department of Political Science, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada

¹⁹Person with Lived Experience of Dementia, Waterloo, ON, Canada

²⁰School of Public Health Sciences, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

Awards

"Now you’re speaking ‘our’ language”: Unpacking mobility, security, integration, and hope in migrant language learning

Awarded $8343 University of Waterloo/Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) in July 2026

HSS endowment fund

Navigating Ethical Tensions in Long-Term Care: Moral Residue and the Micropolitics of Care

Awarded $10000 Network for Aging Research (NAR) Catalyst Grant in July 2026

Catalyst Grant