Chair's Comments                Scott Fleming
Newsletter Editor's Notes                David Leslie
Theme Editors' Introduction                Scott Fleming and John Schulz

LSA Conferences

18 March, 2008, University of Bolton and Bolton Museum
Recording Leisure Lives: Histories, Archives & Memories of Leisure in 20th century Britain

7--9 July, 2009, Canterbury Christ Church University
Leisure Experiences: Participating, Planning, Providing

8--10 July, 2008, Liverpool John Moores University
Community, Capital and Cultures: Leisure and Regeneration as Cultural Practice

Leisure Reflections No. 17 The Leisure Basis of Caring
               Bob Stebbins

Changes in post-graduate leisure management courses at Sheffield University
               Geoff Nichols

Feature Articles - Research Methods and Ethics

'The researcher's hat': An ethical issue for conducting and reporting research
               Graham McFee

Weaving in and out of distance - 'insider' identity and knowing
while conducting ethnographic research among amateur and professional boxers in England
               Alex Stewart

"I'm fat, aren't I Miss?": Reflections on field testing with children
               Non Thomas and Scott Fleming

Insider research in sports 'fields': Getting in, building trust and establishing rapport
               Jessica Macbeth and Jonathan Magee

Conference Reports

International Conference On National Days, Glasgow Caledonian University, November 2007
               Hugh O'Donnell

ANZALS Biennial Conference, January 2008, Melbourne
               Kirsten Holmes

LSA Publications Taster Chapter

Exposure by Association: Anonymity and integrity in autoethnographical research
               Robyn L. Jones, Paul Potrac, Hussain Haleem and Christopher Cushion

Conference Announcements

• [March 2008, Manchester] On the Edge: Leisure, Consumption and the Representation of Adventure Sports
• [April 2008, London] Studying Sports Development: Researching, teaching and writing in the field
• [May 2008, London] Olympic Legacy: People, Place, Enterprise
• [January 2009, Glasgow] National Heroes / National Icons
• [June 2008, London] "Communicating Experiences"
• [August 2008, London] Sex and the Sexual in the Leisure Environment: Overcoming the moral straightjacket

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