This week we’re highlighting essays written by the Leisure Sciences editorial team. 🧠
Co-editor Justin Harmon reflects on existentialism, responsibility, and meaning in leisure in a new essay.
📖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#LeisureSciences #LeisureStudies
CfA 📢 Gaetano Cozzi Price, Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche
🏆Two prizes for unpublished essays by young scholars on the history of play, leisure, and sport (antiquity–WWII).
⏰16 March 2026
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#CallForPapers #Prize #HistoryOfSport #LeisureStudies
🎥 Leisure Documentary Feature 🎥 / 'My Serious Life' /
...continues w/ EPISODE #2 "Church & Volunteers"
⁉️ Explore serious leisure experiences at one of Calgary's largest churches and volunteer hubs.
Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RVF...
#leisurestudies #leisure #worship #volunteering
February Leisure Feature 🎥: My Serious Life -- Documentary
⁉️ Should leisure be taken seriously?
...Enjoy this six-part series starting with...
Episode 1: Introducing the Serious Leisure Perspective - Feat. Robert A. Stebbins
Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwrS...
#leisurestudies
Open Access 🌐🔓 [World Leisure Journal]
Curious about new methods in leisure research?
Read:
"Rich picture building: a visual method for future serious leisure studies"
Authors:
Brianna Wyatt, Anna Leask & Paul Barron
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#leisurestudies #worldleisure #leisure
Open Access 🌐 🔓 via LSJ
***Read the latest on animal leisure***
‘Becoming-with in animal leisure: working dog search training as human and nonhuman intra-actions’
Authors: Hanna-Mari Ikonen & Samu Pehkonen
Read/download: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#leisurestudies #LSA #animalleisure
🔍 LSA Conference 2026 @Brunel University London 🔍
More updates slated for release soon including:
… Academic Programme Announcements (this month!)
… PGR & ECR Training Programme Announcement (March)
Keep watch on the LSA website and socials for the latest news.
#LSA2026 #leisurestudies
🔄 Leisure experiences are co-created.
A recent Leisure Sciences article examines how family support, serious leisure, and co-production shape campers’ place dependence.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies #OutdoorRecreation
🔗 Equity in outdoor recreation matters.
A recent Leisure Sciences article explores nature-based positive youth development for Black children, emphasizing community, representation, and intentional design.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies #YouthDevelopment
🌿 Leisure as a pathway to resilience.
A recent Leisure Sciences article examines how leisure supports institutionalized youth in foster care in Brazil, highlighting relationships, participation, and social connection as key protective factors.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies #Youth
📖 New year, new reading.
A recent book review in Leisure Sciences explores An Introduction to the Philosophy of Leisure (J. Holt, 2025), reflecting on authenticity, meaning, and why philosophy still matters for leisure studies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies #AcademicReading
Small brittle title page of a book from 1845 titled Domestic Scenes New Zealand printed in LONDON for the society for promoting Christian knowledge.
Page 24 A missionary to New Zealand depicts indigenous Māori community reacting to the stormy sea. The Māori are told it is not a spirit who makes the storms, as they assume, but God in heaven being the clouds. Page 25 is the missionaries further account of a Māori child being born and bathed in the sea before offering their colonising narrative on the savage Māori preferring boys and mothers sometimes putting their girl babies to death.
Took a trip to the archives today… 😳 #academicsky #leisurestudies #criticalstudies
I’m pleased to share the publication of my new article in Leisure Studies:
From Cosmopolis to Claustropolis: Accelerated culture and the case for a claustropolitan sociology of leisure
📄 Open access article: lnkd.in/eE8u_SpD
#LeisureStudies #DigitalCulture #Claustropolitanism
In marine tourism, recreational involvement can spark psychological recovery and deepen meaning—both linked to enhanced well-being.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies #TouristExperience
🔓 Open Access: What kind of sports fan are you — all-in or just-for-fun?
A Leisure Sciences article explores the full spectrum of fandom and how it shapes our everyday leisure.
📖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#OpenAccess #SportFandom #LeisureStudies #LeisureCulture
🌈 Leisure Sciences study by Yan & Berdychevsky explores how leisure can be a space for identity, empowerment, and resistance—offering new insight into gendered experiences through a Foucauldian lens.
📖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
#LeisureStudies #Inclusion #GenderDiversity
🦃 Happy Thanksgiving from Leisure Sciences!
We’re grateful for our authors, reviewers, and readers—and for the moments of rest and connection that remind us why the study of leisure matters. 🍁
#LeisureStudies #Thanksgiving #AcademicCommunity
🏙️ Leisure Sciences study finds park access boosts activity overall—but its benefits are weaker in segregated Black and Latino communities in Chicago.
📖 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#LeisureStudies #HealthEquity #UrbanRecreation
💼 In The Gig Economy, Alienation, and Leisure, Dunlap & Rose reflect on how gig work transforms both labor and leisure into sites of alienation and commodification.
Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#LeisureStudies #GigEconomy #MarxistTheory #LeisureAndWork
Dr Daniel Theriault - Amilcar Cabral, resistance and anti-colonialism: implications for Leisure Research
Excellent #LeisureSociety podcast episode hosted by Sandro Carnicelli
@leisure-studies.bsky.social #LeisureStudies
open.spotify.com/episode/3gtT...
Absolutely fantastic final day at #WLC2025! Great sessions on 1) virtual reality use in leisure, 2) nature experiences and 3) the restorative effects of nature and a fantastic keynote on VR & AR in Leisure.
#PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #LeisureScholar #RestoratativeLandscapes #NatureImmersion
Great second day of #WLC2025 at BUas including a keynote on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a debate on social and ecological sustainability at leisure destinations, and the beginning of the week's plenary sessions.
#WorldLeisureCongress2025 #PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #WorldLeisureOrganization
Fabulous kick-off to #WLC2025 at the Grote Kerk - truly inspiring keynotes on Leisure and Cultural Heritage from Ilja Simons and Bert Smit discussing stories, stages and the soul of the City and Van Gogh's legacy respectively.
#PostdocLife #LeisureStudies #WorldLeisureCongress2025
Trending Research Note 📈
Philosophical chemistry: what the alchemy of Gadamer And Aristotle brings to leisure studies.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#leisure #leisurestudies #philosophy
🔔 New Issue Alert 🔔
Leisure Studies, Volume 44, Issue 4 (2025), is now available!
Read more here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/rlst20/4...
#LeisureStudies #NewIssue #Research
Leisure is more than “fun.”
It’s a reflection of our values, choices, and systems.
🧠 Leisure Sciences publishes research on leisure + society, culture, health, space, and more.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/journals/uls...
#LeisureStudies #DigitalLeisure #LeisureResearch
What is leisure?
From urban parks to e-bikes to video games—Leisure Sciences examines leisure in society through philosophy, psychology, sociology & more.
📘 Peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary, and globally engaged.
🔗 www.tandfonline.com/journals/uls...
#LeisureStudies #AcademicResearch
Why do tourists go green? 🌱
This vs. That:
— For the planet? ♻️
— Or for the price tag + convenience? 💰🚲
A new Leisure Sciences study shows pro-environmental attitudes are key—but personal motivations like cost savings & tech appeal make the real difference.
🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0149...
#LeisureStudies
Thank you to everyone who made the 50th LSA Conference unforgettable!
We at Leisure Sciences are proud to be part of this field and this moment.
Tag us in your favorite sessions, photos, and reflections—we’re not done talking about #LSA2025 just yet.
#LeisureStudies
Happy first day of the 50th LSA Conference! 🎉
We're thrilled to celebrate this milestone in leisure research.
Tag @LeisureSciences in your posts—we’d love to see your presentations, insights, and favorite moments.
#LSA2025 #LeisureStudies
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