President: Bryan Smale, University of Waterloo
Bryan Smale, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and Director of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing Network housed in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He is a cross-appointed Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at UW, a Research Faculty Associate in both the Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program (MAREP) and the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR). He is the current President of CALS, President of the Ontario Research Council on Leisure (ORCOL), and Chair of the Canadian Research Agenda Task Group for CPRA. He is Editor-in-Chief of Leisure/Loisir and a member of the Editorial Board for the Encyclopaedia of Quality of Life Research. His research programme and teaching focuses on the role of leisure in the health and wellbeing of individuals and communities, the spatial distribution and analysis of leisure opportunities in communities, time use allocation, social indicators research, innovative applications of multiple research methods, and multivariate statistical techniques and applications.
Dr. Susan Markham-Starr is a Professor in the School of Recreation Management and Kinesiology at Acadia University where she has worked since 1987. She has served CALS as a board member from 1993 to 1999; as president from 1999 to 2005; and as past-president from the 2005 to 2011. She was chair of CCLR9 at Acadia University in 1999. She has also served the Canadian Parks and Recreation Association as a member of its Policy and Resolutions Committee, writing the CPRA policy on Research; as chair of the Editorial Committee; as co-chair of the CP/RA 50th Anniversary Committee, writing several articles for the Recreation Canada history of CP/RA; and as chair of the CPRA Integrated Research Dissemination Strategy Project. Susan is one of the few scholars conducting historic research into the roots of recreation and parks in Canada. She has also been a park planner for the provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta, recreation planner for the City of Halifax, and a consultant on a variety of research and planning projects in Alberta and Nova Scotia. Her website is at http://www.acadiau.ca/~markham
Heather Mair is Associate Professor of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. Her research and teaching interests include: the role of recreation, leisure and tourism in community development, critical approaches to leisure and tourism research, the role of sport in rural community life, issues of diversity in sport and food-related social movements. Heather served as the Vice President/Treasurer of CALS from 2005 to 2010. More information can be found at: http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/rec/research/mair.html
Secretary: Susan Tirone, Dalhousie University
Susan Tirone is an Associate Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University, in Halifax. She is cross appointed to the Dalhousie College of Sustainability where she co-teaches a problem based learning course for the second year students in the Environment, Sustainability and Society program. Susan’s research and teaching focuses on interdisciplinary approaches to understanding communities, social change, sustainability, and leisure. She is particularly interested in how communities support, enhance or constrain the well-being of people who experience poverty, and challenges associated with race, ethnicity, immigration status, and by physical and/or mental disability.
Directors (nine to be elected)
Denis Auger
Denis Auger, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Département d’études en loisir, culture et tourisme at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; Director of the Département d’études en loisir, culture et tourisme at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières; member of the Laboratoire en loisir et vie communautaire at the UQTR and Observatoire Québécois du loisir. Before coming to UQTR, Dr. Auger held positions at the University of Ottawa and several American universities. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses (AEG1001 - Loisir et temps libre: Fondements historiques et conceptuels; GRL 1007 - La gestion des ressources humaines dans le domaine du loisir, de la culture et du tourisme; PPK-1054 - Projet de fin d’études; SLO6058 - Gestion stratégique des organisations publiques; AEG-1010 - Internat en loisir, culture et tourisme) which are at the core of the recreation program at UQTR. Denis is working and has worked on several research projects dealing with recreation attitudes, perceptions and behaviours, recreation administration and performance measures, etc. Denis has collaborated on a wide variety of projects in the United States, Canada, and within the province of Québec. These projects (research and other) have been done with such organizations as the AQLM, the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sport, Ministry of Tourism and the URLS.
Fern Delamere
Fern Delamere is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her scholarship interests are leisure, gender, disability and digitally mediated leisure behaviours. Her research is qualitative and inter-disciplinary oriented with her foundation in leisure studies while crossing the boundaries of game studies and digital media studies. Her current research explores health and disability groups in an online virtual world called Second Life. Her leisure passions are varied expanding the bounds of the physical (cycling, swimming, walking my dog, and gardening), cerebral (reading, graphic design, photography, and playing guitar) and social worlds (social networks –virtual and in-person, family gatherings, and culinary play). http://ahsc.concordia.ca/the-ahsc-community/faculty-and-staff/full-time-faculty/Delamere.php
Elizabeth Halpenny
Elizabeth Halpenny is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. She has a PhD in Recreation and Leisure Studies (University of Waterloo), a MES in Environmental Studies (York University), and a BA in Geography (Wilfrid Laurier University.). She currently teaches and conducts research in the areas of tourism, marketing and protected areas planning and management. Elizabeth’s research interests and projects are often related to individual's interactions with nature environments, sense of place, and environmental stewardship. Current research projects include: (a) nature-based volunteerism, (b) the affect of mobile digital technologies on tourists’ visitation experiences, (c) individual’s attitudes towards and use of natural areas, and (d) the relationship between World Heritage designation and tourism development. Elizabeth has strong ties with the parks practitioner community; she currently serves as membership director for the IUCN-WCPA Tourism and Protected Areas Specialist Group. Other memberships include: Tourism and Travel Research Association - Canada Chapter and the International Association for Society and Natural Resources.
Howard Harshaw
Howard Harshaw is a Research Associate, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia. Although the majority of my time is spent on research, I also supervise graduate students and teach undergraduate classes. My research and teaching explores outdoor recreation within the context of forest landscape management. I focus on four areas: 1. Structural social psychological characteristics outdoor recreation participation; 2. The role of recreation specialization in recreationists’ preferences for natural resource management; 3. Public participation in natural resource decision-making; and 4. Social criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management. In addition to my academic activities, I have served as a director of the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, a non-profit organization that promotes the benefits of public outdoor recreation and represents the interests of the outdoor recreation community to government, industry, and the public. I am passionate about canoeing and white water kayaking, and enjoy rock climbing.
Paul Heintzman
Dr. Heintzman (Associate Professor, Leisure Studies, University of Ottawa) worked as a recreation practitioner for many years throughout Canada before completing his PhD at the University of Waterloo. Paul previously taught at Acadia and Brock Universities. He is recipient of the AALR Literary, SPRE Teaching Innovation, CSKLS Literary and CSKLS Distinguished Service Awards as well as the WLRA Rivers International Scholarship. Paul is editor of the CCLR9 Book of Abstracts, co-editor of the book Christianity and Leisure, guest editor of a special issue of Leisure/Loisir on leisure and spirituality; and author of numerous publications on leisure and spirituality; recreation and the environment; and the philosophy and ethics of leisure. He has served as Assistant Editor of JARR, ORCOL Treasurer, member of the CCLR9 planning committee and Chair of the AALR Student Literary Award Committee. Currently he is an Associate Editor of Leisure/Loisir and a board member of both ORCOL and CALS. http://www.health.uottawa.ca/profiles/pheintzm.htm
Colleen Hood
Dr. Colleen Deyell Hood is Chair, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University. Her other major academic appointments include Oklahoma State University, and Dalhousie University. She has a B.P.E (Physical Education) from the University of Calgary, an M.S. in Therapeutic Recreation from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in Leisure Behaviour also from the University of Illinois. She has been involved with CALS since her first CCLR in Waterloo in 1990. Her research interests include leisure and well-being, therapeutic recreation professional practice, theory-based professional practice, leisure and recovery, and women and leisure. She has a number of publications and presentations related to the theoretical foundations of therapeutic recreation practice, particularly strengths-based practice. She travels all over North American speaking to the importance of strengths-based practice in therapeutic recreation and is currently involved in research projects related to health promotion, leisure and well-being, and leisure education. http://www.brocku.ca/applied-health-sciences/faculty-directory/recreation-leisure-studies%20/colleen-hood
Susan Hutchinson
Susan Hutchinson (PhD, University of Georgia) is an Associate Professor cross-appointed in the Health Promotion and Recreation and Leisure Studies departments within the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University. Her applied health research focuses on identifying ways to promote health and well-being amongst older adults and others living with chronic health conditions. She is leading a CIHR Partnerships for Health System Improvement team development grant to bring together researchers and professionals to address chronic disease prevention and management through intersectoral collaborations in Nova Scotia communities and is a co-investigator on three applied health research projects to support chronic disease self-management and the mental health promotion needs of vulnerable seniors who are socially isolated. As well as serving as a reviewer for many different journal publications, Susan has served as an Associate Editor for the Therapeutic Recreation Journal and Leisure Sciences since 2000.
Alan Law
Alan Law is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Trent University, contributing member of the Centre for Sport in Canadian Society at The U of Ottawa, Vice President of the Research Committee on Leisure, International Sociological Association and Director of the self supporting Trent Applied Social Research lab at Trent University. Alan has been teaching the senior sociology of sport and leisure course at Trent for 13 years, in addition to courses on introductory and advanced research methodology as well as statistics. Alan’s research agendas situated in Canadian and Australian jurisdictions broadly locate on topics of work/leisure tensions, tourism economics, leisure subcultures and the role of the state. Prior to coming to Trent, he served for four years as a policy strategy consultant with price Waterhouse Coopers. Professor Law brings a substantial professional network and skills set to the table in addition to a strong desire to contribute to his ‘home’ discipline.
Jerry Singleton
Jerry is a Professor of Leisure Studies; he is also cross-appointed with nursing, sociology and social anthropology at Dalhousie. He completed his PhD at the University of Maryland (1981). He also has a Doctorate Certificate on Aging from the University of Maryland Center (1981). Dr. Singleton is a Certified Therapeutic Recreation Specialist (NCTRC) and has been involved with therapeutic recreation and older adults for 30 years. He was made a Fellow of the World of the World Demographic Association in 2006 and was named Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association Professional of the Year in 2007. He was recognized by the Recreation and Leisure Studies program at the University of Waterloo as a Distinguished Alumni in 2008. Jerry is also founding member of the Leisure and Aging Research Group, which was established in 2008. Dr. Singleton is currently a Research Associate with the Dalhousie European Centre of Excellence.
Anne-Marie Sullivan
Anne-Marie Sullivan is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics & Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Recently, Anne-Marie teaches Ethics in RLS, Leadership, and a number of TR courses. She has been instrumental in the development of a TR program at Memorial which allows students to meet the requirements for certification through NCTRC. Presently, she is focused on 3 research areas including family leisure, scope of TR practice in NL, and community recreation for newcomers to NL/Atlantic Canada. More about Anne-Marie and the program at Memorial can be found at www.mun.ca/hkr.
Christine Van Winkle
Christine Van Winkle is an Assistant Professor in Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba. After obtaining her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Recreation Studies at the University of Manitoba, Christine pursued her PhD in Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University (South Carolina, USA). Currently, Christine teaches a broad range of Recreation Management courses and has an active research program that explores visitors' experiences at festivals and cultural sites. Christine is committed to conducting research that not only advances our theoretical understanding of leisure experiences, but also contributes to enhancing practice. Christine is actively involved in her community serving as the Vice-President of the Gas Station Arts Centre and as an Associate Editor of Event Management. Her knowledge, experience and commitment to the field of leisure studies will ensure Christine is a valuable member of the CALS board.
http://umanitoba.ca/faculties/kinrec/grad_programs/about/van_winkle.html
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President:
Bryan Smale, University of Waterloo
- Past-President:
- Susan Markham-Starr, Acadia University
- Treasurer/VP:
- Heather Mair, University of Waterloo
- Secretary:
- Susan Tirone, Dalhousie University
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