Nominees for the CALS Executive and Board of Directors 2008-2011
The following slate of individuals have been nominated for the Executive and Board of Directors of CALS. The election of the new Board for the period 2008 to 2011 will be held at the Annual General Meeting of CALS on Wednesday, May 14th, 2008 during the 12th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research. As attendees of CCLR are automatically members of CALS, everyone attending the AGM is entitled to vote.
Nominees for the Executive
President: Bryan Smale
Bryan Smale is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies and Associate Dean for Computing and Special Projects in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at the University of Waterloo. He also holds an appointment as an Associated Graduate Faculty Member in the School of Environmental Design and Rural Development at the University of Guelph and is an Associated Faculty Member with the Research Institute for Aging at UW. Bryan has B.A. and M.A. degrees in Leisure Studies from the University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Western Ontario. Bryan is the current President of both CALS and the Ontario Research Council of Leisure, and Chair of the CPRA’s Canadian Research Agenda Task Group. His research focuses on leisure, health, and well-being for individuals and communities (especially among persons caring for those living with dementia), social policy, time allocations in daily life, spatial analysis of leisure resources, behaviour, and perceptions, and contributions of place meanings to well-being. Bryan teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in research methods and design, basic and advanced statistics, and spatial perspectives on leisure. [Website]
Past President: Susan Markham-Starr
Dr. Susan Markham-Starr has been a faculty member in the School of Recreation Management and Kinesiology at Acadia University since 1987. She has served CALS as a board member from 1993 to 1999; as president from 1999 to 2005; and as past-president of CALS for the 2005 to 2008 term. 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. [Website]
Treasurer/VP: Heather Mair
Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. She has a B.A in Political Science and an M.A. in Political Economy, both from Carleton University, and a Ph.D. in Rural Studies from the University of Guelph. Her research and teaching interests include: tourism planning and development in small communities; the role of sport and recreation in rural community health; leisure and civic engagement; and critical approaches to leisure studies. [Website]
Secretary: Susan Tirone
Dr. Susan Tirone is the Associate Director (Graduate Program) and Associate Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in community development, youth issues, and mental health. Her research explores how leisure is either enhanced or constrained by societal factors such as immigration status, poverty, race, and ethnicity. She is the principal investigator of several studies of Canadian immigrant families from non-western countries, a study of families and children living in a low-income housing development in Atlantic Canada, and she is a member of a national research team that studied the accessibility of municipal recreation services for children and families in low income communities. She is the principal investigator for a longitudinal study of second generation South Asian Canadians and a member of the Coasts Under Stress research project which produced numerous publications including book chapters, journal articles, and a video about the lives of youth in Northern Newfoundland called: “It’s who we are, it’s our ways.” Susan’s recent publications include book chapters and articles appearing in Canadian Sport Sociology, Canadian Ethnic Studies journal, Leisure/Loisir, and Canadian Journal of Community Mental Health. [Website]
Nominees for the Board of Directors
Nine Board members to be elected from the 13 nominees listed alphabetically below.
Denis Auger
Denis Auger, Ph.D., is Professor in the Département d’études en loisir, culture et tourisme at Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, director of the Recreation Resource Centre at the UQTR (Laboratoire en loisir et vie communautaire) and a member of the Observatoire Québécois du loisir. Before coming to the 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^Òétudes; 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 and the URLS. [Website]
Dorothy Chase
No biography available.
Fern Delamere
Dr. Fern Delamere is Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University. She received her Ph.D. in Recreation and Leisure Studies from the University of Waterloo. She teaches courses in the area of Therapeutic Recreation and Leisure Studies. Her research specialties are gender, leisure and disability, and digital games. [Website]
Elizabeth Halpenny
Dr. Elizabeth Halpenny is an assistant professor at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation. She has a Ph.D. in Recreation and Leisure Studies (University of Waterloo), a M.E.S. in Environmental Studies (York University), and a B.A. in Geography (Wilfrid Laurier University). Elizabeth obtained significant project management and administrative experience during several years of employment with an international NGO prior to her current academic service. While employed with the NGO she achieved extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of sustainable tourism, ecotourism, international development and tourism destination development. She currently teaches and conducts research in 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 explore outcomes associated with a number of leisure and recreation activities including volunteerism, visitor experience in natural areas, garden tourism, and sport tourism. Elizabeth has strong ties with the parks practitioner community including memberships with Canada's Science and Management of Parks and Protected Areas Association as well as the George Wright Society (a national US parks association). Other memberships include: Tourism and Travel Research Association – Canada Chapter; International Association for Society and Natural Resources, National Parks and Recreation Association (US), and the Canadian Association of Geographers. [Website]
Maureen Harrington
Dr. Maureen Harrington is a Canadian-Australian, with a Ph.D. in Sociology (1988) from U.C. Santa Barbara. She taught at the University of Ottawa from 1988 to 1995 in the Department of Leisure Studies, and since 1995, she has been teaching in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She has been a member of CALS since 1988 and a member of the Australia New Zealand Association of Leisure Studies (ANZALS) since 1995. She attends the AGM of both organisations at each conference giving her a broader and comparative perspective on directions within Leisure Studies in Canada and Australasia. If elected to the Board of Directors of CALS, she will encourage dialogue between the two associations over issues arising in either context and share strategies for keeping up with change. She has been on the Editorial Board of Leisure/Loisir and is currently on the Editorial Board of Leisure Studies. She has written articles on recreation and homelessness, sports volunteers, and career volunteering as serious leisure. She has also written articles and book chapters on women’s work, leisure and family lives, and on family leisure. Her current research is in family leisure practices and notions of risk and healthy lifestyles. [Website]
Paul Heintzman
Dr. Heintzman (Assistant Professor, Leisure Studies, University of Ottawa) worked as a recreation practitioner for many years throughout Canada before completing his Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo. Paul previously taught at Acadia and Brock Universities. He is recipient of the AALR Literary, SPRE Teaching Innovation, and CSKLS Literary 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 CSKLS. [Website]
Colleen Deyell Hood
Dr. Colleen Deyell Hood is the Interim Associate Dean, Undergraduate Affairs, Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Brock University. Most recently, she served as Chair of the 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 and a Ph.D. in Leisure Behaviour, both 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 recently completed a six-year term as Lead Editor for the Therapeutic Recreation Journal and has a number of publications in press related to the theoretical foundations of therapeutic recreation practice. She travels all over North American speaking to the importance of theory-based practice in therapeutic recreation and is currently involved in research projects related to problem gambling prevention, leisure and well-being, and leisure education. [Website]
Yoshi Iwasaki
Dr. Yoshi Iwasaki is a Professor in the College of Health Professions (Therapeutic Recreation) at Temple University in Philadelphia. He has a B.Sc. from the University of Maryland and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Leisure Studies from the University of Waterloo. His research examines health, life quality, and diversity/cultural issues including the roles of leisure in coping with stress, healing from trauma, and promoting mental health. Dr. Iwasaki has over 60 publications, many of which have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Leisure Research, Leisure Sciences, and Leisure/Loisir as well as Social Science & Medicine, Social Indicators Research, Journal of Community Psychology, Psychology, Health & Medicine, and Journal of Health Psychology. Dr. Iwasaki has received the prestigious Rh Award (Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship and Research) in the Social Science Category at the University of Manitoba in 2004 and Establishment Award by the Manitoba Health Research Council (2002-2005). Dr. Iwasaki is currently a CALS Board member and Editor of Leisure/Loisir and serves on the editorial boards of International Journal of Stress Management, Journal of Leisure Research, and Therapeutic Recreation Journal.[Website]
George Karlis
Dr. George Karlis has been a professor at the University of Ottawa since 1992, his current rank is Associate Professor in the School of Human Kinetics. Dr. Karlis has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles with the bulk of his research focusing on community and social issues related to leisure, recreation, and sport. Dr. Karlis’ academic textbook, entitled Leisure and Recreation in Canadian Society (Thompson Educational Publishers, Toronto), is one of the first of its kind and presents a comprehensive overview of the history of leisure, recreation, and sport in Canada, while also exploring the commercial, government, and voluntary sectors of leisure and recreation. He has presented over 50 papers at local, national, and international conferences, including the delivery of the keynote address at the recent European Association for Sport Management Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus. [Website]
Fiona McQuarrie
Dr. Fiona McQuarrie is a professor in the Department of Business Administration at the University College of the Fraser Valley (UCFV). She graduated from the University of Alberta in 1995 with a Ph.D. in Organizational Analysis. Her research interests involve the intersection of work and leisure commitments, particularly for individuals who participate in serious leisure, and her work has been published in Leisure/Loisir, the Journal of Career Development, and Society and Leisure/Loisir et Société. She has been a member of CALS since the 1995 CCLR. She has also had board experience with national scholarly associations through serving two terms on the executive of the Administrative Sciences Association of Canada. [Website]
Jerry Singleton
Dr. Singleton has been employed by the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University since 1981. He is cross-appointed to the School of Nursing, Sociology and Anthropology at Dalhousie University and to the école de Kinésiologie et Récréologie, Université de Moncton. Dr. Singleton has also been cross-appointed to the Department of Health and to the School of Social Work, both at the University of Toronto. He has been involved with Therapeutic Recreation and Older Adults for the past 30 years, and has published articles in Activities Adaptation and Aging, Journal of Leisurability, Leisure Today, Journal of Occupational Science Australia, World Leisure and Recreation Journal, and Journal of Leisure Research. Dr. Singleton has made presentations on his work in a variety of professional conferences ranging from the Recreation Association of Nova Scotia, NRPA’s Leisure Research Symposium, Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, National Therapeutic Recreation Society Institute, Gerontological Society of America, Canadian Association on Gerontology, and the World Demographic Association. He was made a Fellow of the World Demographic Association in 2006. The Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association this year recognized his contribution to Therapeutic Recreation by awarding him the Therapeutic Professional of the Year. [Website]
Anne-Marie Sullivan
Dr. Anne-Marie Sullivan is Assistant Professor in the School of Human Kinetics & Recreation at Memorial University of Newfoundland. She joined Memorial in 2002 and has spent much of her time developing and teaching courses in Therapeutic Recreation. As well, she teaches courses in Ethics, Leadership, and Leisure Theory. Her three primary areas of research include leisure across the lifespan, deviant leisure, and therapeutic recreation. She serves on various committees both in her home unit and across campus. Currently, she serves as the Chair of the Committee of Undergraduate Studies in HKR and the Chair of the HKR Research Ethics Board. As well, she sits on the Interdisciplinary Committee on Ethics in Human Research. Outside of the university, she sits on the Newfoundland & Labrador Therapeutic Recreation Association executive and participates annually in the NLTRA Conference. In her time away from work, she is the mother of two girls, ages 4 and 1, and much of her leisure time is devoted to family and establishing her identity as mother and professor. [Website]
Gordon Walker
Dr. Walker’s research program integrates social, environmental, and cross-cultural psychology into leisure theory. He is particularly interested in how culture and ethnicity affect leisure participation (e.g., gambling, outdoor recreation) and leisure behaviours (e.g., motivations for, constraints to, experiences during, and benefits from, leisure). To date, Dr. Walker’s research has focused primarily on Mainland Chinese, Chinese/Canadian, and British/Canadian people’s leisure, with funding from the Alberta Gaming Research Institute and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada resulting in a number of conference abstracts, book chapters, and refereed publications. Dr. Walker was a recipient of the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Award of Merit for Outstanding Research in 2007 and a University of Alberta McCalla Professorship for 2008/2009. [Website]