LeisureSociety

In this episode, Prof Sandro Carnicelli interviews Dr Eric Legg. Dr Legg is an associate professor in the School of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Park and Recreation Administration published by Sagamore https://js.sagamorepub.com/index.php/jpra/index

In this episode, Prof Sandro Carnicelli - Editor of the World Leisure Journal - talks to Professor Kate Dashper, Dr Jason King and Dr Adele Doran. Coordinators of the Project Responsible Outdoor Recreation On Protected Sites in England. Funded  by Natural England. Professor Kate Dashper is Director of Postgraduate ResearchDegrees and Co-founder of Responsible Outdoor Recreation Research (RORR) at...

Professor Sandro Carnicelli from the World Leisure Journal interviews to Dr Felipe Tobar from Clemson University and producer of the documentary  The Match that Not Every Club Wants to Play   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgmbZ7vfEgk&t=316s and Dr Bryan Clift author of the Leisure Sciences essay Parting Thoughts: What Do we Want to Count for the Field? Creative Outputs in an Interdisciplinar...

Professor Sandro Carnicelli, Editor of the World LeisureJournal, interviews Dr Selçuk Açıkgöz  from the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and author of the paper: Bodies in the Making? Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces published by Leisure Sciences in April 2024. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490400.2024.2337188#d1e177

Prof Sandro Carnicelli from the World Leisure Journal interviews Professor Issahaku Adam - Professor of Tourism Management at the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana. Author of the Papers: Western tourists’ adjustment to cultural expectations in Africa https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743873X.2024.2329727 Leisure and psychological...

Professor Sandro Carnicelli, Editor of the WorldLeisure Journal. interviews Professor Louise Todd and Dr Mabel Victoria co-editors of the Special Issue Visual Methods in/as Leisure Research published by the World Leisure Journal in February 2026. https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rwle20/current

Professor Sandro Carnicelli, editor of the World Leisure Journal, interviews Dr Georgia Allen-Baker from the Northumbria University and Associate Editor on the Leisure Studies Journal and Dr. KangJae "Jerry" Lee from the University of Utah and a Senior Associate Editor for Leisure Sciences

Professor Sandro Carnicelli, editor of the World Leisure Journal, interviews Professor Ruth Jeanes from Monash University and author of the paper: Spatial justice, informal sport and Australian community sports participation Published by the Leisure Studies journal https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2022.2085772

In this Final Episode of Season 4, Sandro Carnicelli from the World Leisure Journal interviews Dr Arianne Reis and Dr Damion Sturm, Co-Managing Editors of the Annals of Leisure Research. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ranz20

Professor Sandro Carnicelli, editor of the World Leisure Journal, interviews Professor Lauren Duffy from Penn State University and co-author of the paper: Class consciousness and the limits of leisure: a critical commentary on/from the United States – Published by the World Leisure Journal in July 2025https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16078055.2025.2527195#d1e585

This week Professor Sandro Carnicelli from the World Leisure Journal speak to Dr Paul Gilchrist from the University of Brighton and one of the Co-Editors of the Book 'Other Everests: One Mountain, Many Worlds' published by Manchester University Press - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/98526

Our guest this week is Dr Katrina Black Reed from Penn State University, Abington. Dr Reed is an Assistant Professor of Recreation, Park, and Tourism Management and the Director of Inclusive Excellence at Penn State AbingtonShe is the author of the Paper published by Schole: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1937156X.2025.2540781#abstract Strategy for Conveying Asynchronous Course Mater...

In this Episode, Professor Sandro Carnicelli (from the World Leisure Journal) talks to Dr Daniel Theriault from the Appalachian State University and author of the paper: Lessons from Amilcar cabral for resistance research inleisure studies . Published by Leisure/Loisir in May 2025: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14927713.2025.2503187

In this Conversation Prof Sandro Carnicelli from the World Leisure Journal talks to Dr Trudie Walters from Lincoln University in Aootearoa New Zealand and co-author of the paper 'Beyond cultural renaissance: Indigenous eventsas sites of resistance and resilience' with Diane Ruwhiu: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/11745398.2025.2490516

Today we spoke to Dr Kalyan Bhandari from the University of the West of Scotland and author of the paper: Sociability in a leisure realm - published by Leisure Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2025.2535587

In this conversation, Prof Sandro Carnicelli welcomes Professor Giovanna Bertella from The Arctic University of Norway and Dr Lucia Tomassini from NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences and founders of the Comics Academic Line and authors of the paper: Humour and comics foracademic change and well-being. Published by Annals of Tourism Research in November 2024. The Academic Line: https://www.f...

In this episode Professor Sandro Carnicelli talks to the editors of Schole: Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education about the research in leisure education. If you want to know more about the journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/ujle20

In this conversation we talked to Dr Kim Lopez from the University of Waterloo in Canada and author of the paper: Leisure and (anti-)racism: Towards a critical consciousness of race, racism and racialization in so-called canada https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14927713.2023.2296544#abstract

Today we will talk to Professor Haike Schänzel from Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and co-author of the paper African centred research approach: beyond “ mining data ” to knowledge sharing rooted in Baraza published by World Leisure Journal.

In this conversation I welcome Professor Ricardo Uvinha fromUniversity of Sao Paulo in Brazil and co-editor of the Special Issue https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2023.2168032 - published by Leisure Studies in 2023Prof. Dr. RICARDO Uvinha is Full Professor and Dean in theSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil. Leader of the Interdiscipl...

In this conversation we have: Dr Stefanie Benjamin,Dr Karla Boluk and Dr Kai-Sean Lee who are the authors of the paper: Shit Has to Change, Right? A Call for “Good Trouble” in Tourism published by Journal of Travel Research in October 2024: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00472875241276542

This conversation is co- hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Louise Mansfield. Today we will talk to Dr Nicola de Martini Ugolotti author of the book Music, Forced Migration and Emplacement. Nicola is senior lecturer in Sport and Physical Culture at Bournemouth University, and member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy. He completed his PhD in Physical Cultural Studies at the Univer...

In this Episode we speak to Dr Lisbeth Berbary from the University of Waterloo and authors of the Paper: Imagining  Becoming Coalition : resisting academic ecosystems  from within and beyond  through coalition building and reversed research Published by Leisure/Loisir: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14927713.2023.2291034#abstract

Welcome to Season 3. In this episode our guest is Dr Brett Lashua. Well know for his work in leisure, culture, and music, Brett talks about his career and his latest book: Popular Music in Leeds: Histories, Heritage, People and Places. Edited by  Brett Lashua ,  Karl Spracklen ,  Kitty Ross  and  Paul Thompson https://www.intellectbooks.com/popular-music-in-leeds

Final Episode of Season 2 with editors of World Leisure Journal, Leisure Sciences, Annals of Leisure Research, and Leisure Studies.