Leisure Studies Association Prof. Scott Fleming, Chair

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Leisure Studies AssociationProf. Scott
Fleming, Chair
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Background

• Formed 1975
• A multi-disciplinary forum
• Arts, countryside recreation, heritage, leisure,
  sport and tourism

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Aim

• To foster academic exchange in leisure studies
  thereby enabling the development of rigorously
  informed theory, policy and practice.

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Organization

• Executive committee
• Professional assistant

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Membership

• Honorary Life
• Corporate (UK and International)
• Individual (UK and International)
• Student / Retired

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Core activities

• Newsletters
• Annual conferences
• Other symposia
• LSA Publications
• Website

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Newsletter

• Three times a year
• Regular features editorials, news and events,
  commentaries, reviews and reports.
• Themed issues
• 76 Leisure and gendered identities
• 77 History of leisure in Britain
• 78 Leisure and ethnicity
• 79 Research methods and ethics

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LSA Website

• Launched in 2002
• Extensive information on all LSA activities
• Links to other organizations

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Conferences

• Annual events since 1976
• Recent themes
• 2006 Making space Leisure, tourism and renewal
• 2007Whatever happened to the leisure society?
• 2008 Community, capital and cultures Leisure and
  regeneration
• 2009 Leisure experiences Participating,
  planning, providing

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One-day symposia

• Recent themes
• Volunteers in sport
• Ethical issues in leisure research
• Serious leisure
• Leisure studies and social capital discourse
• Recording leisure lives

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Publications

• Largest UK leisure studies publisher
• Own publishing house
• Over 100 titles in 2008
• Leisure Studies international peer reviewed
  journal published by Taylor and Francis

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Other links

• Academy of Learned Societies in Social Sciences
• Higher Education Academy
• Quality Assurance Agency
• Other organizations, e.g. ATHE, BSA, geog?

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Leisure Studies
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Leisure Studies AssociationProf Scott Fleming
Chair