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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 Sagamorehttps://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 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.

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

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 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

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 journalhttps://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#abstractStrategy for Conveying Asynchronous Course Material During the “Inclusive” and Anti-Ban Era: Studying a Case of Storytelling as Professionally Generated Scenarios.

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.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552204573918Humour and comics for academic change and well-being:https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324001397

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 canadahttps://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 paperAfrican 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 Interdisciplinary Group of Leisure Studies and Coordinator of the Brazilian World Leisure Centre of Excellence. Recipient of the University of Sao Paulo Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013 and the George Torkildsen Literary Award in 2023, he is an author from the Global South and published several articles and books about sports, leisure, health promotion and physical activities sciences. Professor Uvinha is a founding member and current Secretary General of The BRICS Council of Exercise and Sports Science.

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 University of Bath, after a MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and several years of professional activity as a clinical psychologist with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on leisure and expressive forms of physicality as lenses to address the reciprocal constitution of bodies, spaces, power and subjectivities in contemporary contexts of (forced) migration, uneven urban changes, and social exclusion. Nicola is also an Associate Editor of both Leisure Sciences and the Leisure Studies journal.

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 researchPublished 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 Thompsonhttps://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.

In this Episode Prof Kate Dashper and Prof Sandro Carnicelli speak to Dr Carlos Monterrubio from the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico and author of the paper: Navigating the landscape of tourism, leisure, and sport studies in Mexico https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/16078055.2024.2347982

This week we spoke to Aby Sene-Harper from Clemson University and author of the paper: A Reflection on Imperialism in Nature Conservation from African Conceptions of Care https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2024.2306587

In this Episode Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Louise Mansfield talk to Dr Carla Luguetti from University of Melbourne and author of the paper: “Everybody’s talking about doing co-design, but to really truly genuinely authentically do it […] it’s bloody hard”: Radical openness in youth participatory action research https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/14767503231200982

In this episode we talk to Dave Cook from University College London and author of: What is a digital nomad? Definition and taxonomy in the era of mainstream remote work. Published by the World Leisure Journal, 2023, 65(2)

In this Episode we talk to Dr Aarti Ratna from Northumbria University and author of the book: A Nation of Family and Friends?: Sport and the Leisure Cultures of British Asian Girls and Women published by Rutgers University Press - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Nation-Family-Friends-Cultures-Critical/dp/1978834128

In this Episode Prof Sandro Carnicelli talks to Prof Rasul Mowatt from North Carolina State University and author of the paper: Fear City, Cop City and Other Tales, a Call for Police Research https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490400.2023.2270981

This is the Final EP of Season 1 - This is a conversation between: Sandro Carnicelli (World Leisure Journal), Tom Fletcher and Ian Jones (Leisure Studies), Justin Harmon (Leisure Sciences) and Belinda Wheaton (Annals of Leisure Research).

Conversation with Prof Sam Punch from the University of Sterling hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Dr Ian Jones. More information: https://bridgemindsport.org    @bridgemindsport

Conversation with Dr Liza Berdychevsky from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Louise Mansfield

Conversation with Dr Utsa Mukherjee from Brunel University London and co-hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Tom Fletcher

Conversation with Professor Audrey Giles from University of Ottawa. Hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli

Conversation with Dr Jordi Nofre from Nova University Lisbon. Hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli

Conversation with Dr Rebecca Olive from RMIT University and Co-Hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Louise Mansfield

Conversation with Dr Justin Harmon from University of North Carolina hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli