Kate Dashper, Jason King and Adele Doran - Outdoor Recreation and Partnerships

Kate Dashper, Jason King and Adele Doran - Outdoor Recreation and Partnerships

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 the Carnegie School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University. She is one of the Managing Editors of Leisure Studies. Her research focuses on responsible outdoor recreation, gender, and more-than-human perspectives.   Dr Jason King is a Senior Lecturer in Outdoor Education in the School of Sport at Leeds Beckett University, UK. His research focuses on responsible outdoor recreation and leadership. His PhD explored the role of leadership behaviour in building trust in low-predictability environments. He has over 20 years of experience working in outdoor recreation across the globe and is a co-founder of the Responsible Outdoor Recreation Research Group (RORR), based at Leeds Beckett University. Dr Adele Doran is an Associate Head, leading Research and Knowledge Exchange at Sheffield Business School, Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Her research focuses on recreation, including responsible recreation, gender, decent work, leadership, and outdoor education, and she works with both private and public sector organisations.

Dr Bryan Clift and Dr Felipe Tobar - Documentaries: Creative Outputs in an Interdisciplinary Leisure Studies

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 InterdisciplinaryLeisure Studies - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490400.2025.2475846

Dr Selçuk Açıkgöz - Racial Body Schemas and Roma Youth in Leisure Spaces

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

Professor Issahaku Adam - Leisure and Tourism Research in Africa

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 Africahttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743873X.2024.2329727Leisure and psychological wellbeing of people with visual impairmenthttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16078055.2022.2125570

Prof Louise Todd and Dr Mabel Victoria - Visual Methods in/as Leisure Research

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