GLOBALISATION AND HYBRIDITY

Alan Hockley (Buckinghamshire New Univ., UK) Construction and Hybridisation of Landscapes ­ A peripatetic perspective.

Dr Kim Polistina (Symbiotic and Sustainable Systems Outdoor Learning, Sustainability and Global Citizenship, UK) Colonisation of Outdoor Leisure into Sport ­ An unsustainable option?

Chair: Prof Jonathan Long (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

Dr Joel Rookwood (Liverpool Hope Univ., UK) Playing Football and Building Peace in Liberia: The impact of value-led initiatives

Dr Ian Brittain (Coventry Univ., UK) Disability Sport is going back to its Roots: Rehabilitation of military victims of violent conflict in the twenty-first century

Chair: Dr Jonathan Magee (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

Dr Dave O'Brien (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Leading the European Capital of Culture 2008: Networks, resources and the study of cultural leadership

Zara Rafferty (Wilfred Laurier Univ., Canada), Dr Sherry Dupuis, & Dr Susan Arai (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) Everyone can Dance the colour Pink: Exploring the meanings and experiences of inclusive arts programmes for practitioners

Dr Holly Thorpe (Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand & Univ. of Brighton, UK) 'Riding High': Theorizing risk and pleasure in contemporary physical youth culture

Chair: Prof Anne Flintoff (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Dr Jack Fawbert (Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK) Social Inclusion and Social Exclusion: Has the process of 'gentrification' of football fandom stalled in the recession?

Alison Bambridge (Univ. of Staffordshire, UK) Support for All? A global comparison of 'enabling' spectatorship in sports stadiums

Chair: Dr Aarti Ratna (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Prof Carol Cutler Riddick, Keri Schmidt & Caitlin Mosholder (Gallaudet Univ., USA) Reliability and Norms of the Leisure Diagnostic Battery (LDB) in a Sample of Undergraduate Recreational Majors who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

Caitlin Mosholder, Professor Carol Cutler Riddick & Keri Schmidt (Gallaudet Univ., USA) Formative and Summative Evaluation of a Biggest Loser Contest Piloted for Univ. Incorporating a Meaningful Project for a Research Methods Course

Alex McInch (Univ. of Wales Institute, UK) Embodied Identity Negotiation between Amateur Boxers and Univ. Footballers

Chair: Dr Peter Millward (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

OPEN

Dr Barbara Humberstone (Buckinghamshire New Univ., UK) Engagements with Nature: Ageing and windsurfing

Dr Ina Stan (Buckinghamshire New Univ., UK) Gender, Body Image, Wellbeing and the Outdoors

Stefan Lawrence (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Whiteness, Masculinities and Athletic Bodies: Media representations of 'the powerful' and 'the other' in the (British) sports and leisure media

Chair: Dr Hazel Hartley (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

GLOBALISATION AND HYBRIDITY

Trends in Leisure Studies
Lead facilitator: Prof. John Horne (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Feminist Leisure Studies
Lead facilitator: Prof. Sheila Scraton (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Child Welfare in Sport
Lead facilitator: Dr Melanie Lang (York St John Univ., UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

The Future for Sports Equality Policies
Lead facilitator: Dr Jim Lusted (Univ. of Northampton, UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

The Future of the HE Academy HLST Subject Centre
Lead facilitator: John Buswell (Univ. of Gloucestershire, UK)

OPEN

Exploring the Google Gaze
Lead facilitator: Peter Robinson (Univ. of Wolverhampton, UK)

GLOBALISATION AND HYBRIDITY

Dr Brett Lashua (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Oral Histories of the Vanishing Social Clubs of Liverpool 8: Mapping black musical experience in Liverpool through collaborative intergenerational documentary filmmaking

Dr Hannah Lewis (Leeds Metropolitan Univ.) Music and Dance as Freedom and Belonging: Social exclusion, choice and community moments among people seeking asylum in the UK

Associate Prof Gordon Waitt (Univ. of Wollongong, Australia) & Dr Chris Stapel (Univ. of Kentucky, USA) "Fornicating on Floats"? The Sydney mardi gras parade beyond the Metropolis

Chair: Dr Beccy Watson (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

Dr Nico Schulenkorf (Auckland Univ. of Technology, New Zealand) & Alana Thomson (Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia) United through Sport - The management strategies of Sport-for-Development projects in Sri Lanka and Australia

Lee Tucker (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Forza Forza Republica: A case study of politics and socialist culture in a Sunday league football club

Mick Totten (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Freedom through Football: A tale of football, community, activism and resistance

Chair: Dr Bob Snape (Univ. of Bolton, UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

Dr Stephen Bradbury (Loughborough Univ., UK) It's not as Simple as Black and White: Challenging racism in professional football through locally grounded multi-agency collaboration

Dr Jim Lusted (Univ. of Northampton, UK) One Size fits All? A critical assessment of the sports equity approach in grass-roots sport

Dr Jamie Cleland (Staffordshire Univ., UK) Working together through Sport? Local Authority Provision for Ethnic Minorities in the United Kingdom

Chair: Annette Stride (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Tom Fletcher (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Common Culture? Cricket, globalisation and colonialism

Hazel Maxwell (Univ. of Technology Sydney, Australia) Social Inclusion of Muslim Women in Australian Community Sport: The development of the "burqini"

Dr Aarti Ratna (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Playing the Feminine "Exotic" Other? British Asian Females' Experiences of Gender and Sexualities in Women's Football

Chair: Dr Kim Polistina (Symbiotic and Sustainable Systems Outdoor Learning, Sustainability and Global Citizenship, UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

John Walker (Univ. of Sussex, UK) Creating Spaces: Facilitating deaf people's health and wellbeing

Dr Jessica Macbeth (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK) Reflections of a non-Disabled Researcher inside a Disability Sports Events

Dr Jonathan Magee (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK) Social Exclusion, Disabled Families and the 'Fear' of Leisure in Northern Ireland

Chair: Dr Sherry Dupuis (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada)

OPEN

Prof Arnold Grossman, Prof John A Frank & Prof Marty Aaron Cooper (New York Univ., USA) Recreational Sexual Experiences among Sexual Minority and Sexual Non-Minority Youth Entering Services

Assistant Prof Steven Mock (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) The Role of Seasonal Home Recreation and Leisure in the Lives of Sexual Minorities

Katherine Dashper (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) "Dressage is full of Queens!" Giving voice to gay riders within equestrian sport

Chair: Dr Philippa Velija (York St John Univ., UK)

GLOBALISATION AND HYBRIDITY

Dr Karl Spracklen (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Hybridity, Harmony or Western Hegemony? Understanding the authentic in world music as an expression of unresolved Habermaisian rationalities

Gabby Riches (Univ. of Alberta, Canada) Keeping the Metal Dance Underground: Metal, music, backspaces and gender transgression

Dr Peter Millward (Leeds Metropolitan University, UK) New Social Movements and Glocalisation: English football fans and 'foreign' ownership

Chair: Dr Brett Lashua (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

Clint Godfrey (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK) Sport for Development Coaches: Evaluating impact

Iain Lindsey (Univ. of Southampton, UK) & Davies Banda (York St John Univ., UK) Sport and the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Zambia: A 'partnership' approach?

Dr Ruth Jeanes (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK) Examining the Importance of Leadership in Sport and Social Inclusion Initiatives

Chair: Dr Geoff Nichols (Sheffield Univ., UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

Dr Bob Snape & Phil Binks (Univ. of Bolton, UK) Changing Emphasis and Attitudes through a Programme to Build Social Capital, Increase Leisure Based Physical Activity and Promote Healthy Eating amongst British South Asian Women

Susie Brown (Loughborough Univ., UK) A Safe Haven: The importance of social comfort in facilitating physical activity among over-weight young people

Chair: Dr Jamie Cleland (Staffordshire Univ., UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Dr Geetha Garib (Tilburg Univ., Netherlands) Diversity Perceptions in Leisure Organisations

Prof Jonathan Long, Dr Kevin Hylton, Dr Aarti Ratna, Dr Karl Spracklen & Dr Hannah Lewis (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Space for Inclusion? The construction of sport and leisure spaces as places for migrant communities

Chair: Dr Jim Lusted (Univ. of Northampton, UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Emily Coates (Buckinghamshire New Univ., UK) Exploring the Experiences of Parents who Rock Climb

Richard Wright (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Objects in the Rear-view Mirror: A reflective exploration and autoethnographical evaluation into the multiple reasons why whatever goes on tour will never be able to stay there

Dr Beth Fielding-Lloyd (Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK) & Dr Lindsey MÍan (Arizona State Univ., USA) Gender Problems? Discursive approaches to equality in coach education

Chair: Dr Hannah Lewis (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

OPEN

Dr Sam Elkington (Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK) "Optimal" Leisure Experiences: The pathway to personal growth and subjective well being?

Dr Sherry Dupuis, Dr Colleen Whyte, Dr Jennifer Carson, Leah Sadler & Dr Lisa Meschino (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) Liberating Leisure from Therapy

Prof Bryan Smale (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) & Associate Prof Holly Donohoe (Univ. of Ottowa, Canada)The Contribution of Leisure to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Chair: Prof Tony Veal (Univ. Technology Sydney, Australia)

GLOBALISATION AND HYBRIDITY

Ladan Cockshut (Univ. of Durham, UK) The Online Game: A new, hybridised approach to play

James Cherrington (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) You Better Know Yourself: Hybridity, fluidity and consumption in basketball and meaning of contemporary identity

Robert Burton & Rhian Jones (Southampton Solent Univ., UK) Trolls with Poles vs 'Gays on Trays': Looking beyond the banter texplore the similarities and differences in sub-cultural identity amongst snowboarders and skiers

Chair: Dr Hayley Fitzgerald (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

PEACE AND RECONCILIATION

Dr Lynn Minnaert (Univ. of Westminster, UK) An Olympic Legacy for All? Longitudinal scoping review of non-infrastructural social impacts on low-income groups in the host community (Atlanta 1996 - Beijing 2008)

Dr Louise Mansfield (Canterbury Christ Church Univ., UK) & Dr Lara Killick (Univ. of the Pacific, UK) The Netball Superleague in the UK: Women, sport and commercial potential?

Andrew Adams (Southampton Solent Univ., UK) Epistemic Considerations in Evidencing Strategic Level Approaches to Forming Social Capital through the Medium of Sport in Local Authorities

Chair: Dr Kevin Hylton (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

Dr Amanda Waring (Loughborough Univ., UK) Opening Doors: Promoting social inclusion through increased sports opportunities

Dr Dulce Suassuna & Dr. Alfredo Feres Neto (Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil) City's Sport & Leisure Programme (Programa Esporte e Lazer de Cidade): Social Impacts from a federal program towards leisure in Brazil

Adjunct Prof AJ Veal (Univ. Technology Sydney, Australia) Leisure and the Spirit evel

Chair: Dr Sam Elkington (Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Janine Partington & Mick Totten (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Community Sport, Empowerment and Transformation

Oscar Mwaanga (Southampton Solent Univ., UK) Re-thinking the way we Research International Sport and Development

Dr. Antonis Theocharous, (Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus) The Contact Hypothesis in a Noncontact Society: Daily cross-border visits by
Greek and Turkish Cypriots

Chair: Phil Binks (Univ. of Bolton, UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Georgina Roy (Brighton Univ., UK) The Female Surfer: An icon or feminism undone?

Associate Prof Audrey Giles (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada) Decolonizing Water Safety: The result of a four year study

Dr Hazel Hartley (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Speak for the Dead - Protect the Living: Stories from research activism, post-disaster legal reform and collaboration with alternative voices

Chair: Prof Sheila Scraton (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

OPEN

Associate Prof Arzmi Yaacob (Universiti Teknologi Mara, Malaysia) Remedial Actions for the Sad State of Sport in Malaysian Schools

Sheryl Clark (Univ. of London, UK) Health, Ability and Fun: Competing discourses of sporting participation

Kate Hughes (Leeds
Metropolitan University, UK) Using the Power of a Sporting Mega?event as a Catalyst for Creating Social Legacy: A case study of the 2005 UEFA Women's Championships

Chair: Dr Ashley Hardwell (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Dr Alex Stewart (Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK) Social Inclusion and Sport in Consumer Society: A boxer's embodied and somewhat narcissistic reflections

Stan Timmins (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Ethnography in Action: A black researcher inside rugby league

Chair: Mick Totten (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

SHIFTING POLICIES

Shia Ping Kung, Girish Ramchandani & Prof Peter Taylor (Sheffield Hallam Univ., UK) An Investigation of Customer Satisfaction and Importance of Service Dimensions at Sport Facilities by different Socio-demographic Groups and other Parameters

Kathryn Cureton (The Univ. of British Columbia, Canada) Insufficient Support for Leisure Access Work: The consequences of not listening to frontline staff

Sandro Carnicelli-Filho (Univ. of Otago, New Zealand) Equalising Emotions: White water rafting guides in New Zealand

Chair: Dr Ruth Jeanes (Univ. of Central Lancashire, UK)

INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION

Dr Geoff Nichols (Sheffield Univ., UK) & Rita Ralston (Manchester Metropolitan Univ., UK) Social Inclusion through Volunteering - an unanticipated legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games

Karen Gallant, Prof Bryan Smale & Dr Susan Arai (Univ. of Waterloo, Canada) Volunteering, Serious Leisure and Obligation: Development of a scale to explore perceptions of obligation to volunteer

Kevin Harris & Oscar Mwaanga (Southampton Solent Univ., UK) Empowering Alternative Voices: A critical insight into student volunteering through communities of practice

Chair: Dr Amanda Waring (Loughborough Univ., UK)

ALTERNATIVE VOICES

Dr Hayley Fitzgerald & Annette Stride (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Young People's Narratives of Family, Sport and Disability

Dr Carly Stewart (Univ. of Wales Institute, UK) Sporting Autobiographies, Identities and the Narrative Construction of Lives

Dr Ashley Hardwell (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK) Mediating Identities: The search a common sub-cultural core in UK rock climbers

Chair: Prof Anne Flintoff (Leeds Metropolitan Univ., UK)

OPEN

Dr Carolyn Downs (Univ. of Salford, UK) Leisure in the Margins: The adoption of place t facilitate use of alcohol in the leisure lives of young people

Geraldine Straker (University of Sunderland, UK) An Exploration of Visitor Motives and Values at the Castle Keep, Newcastle upon Tyne

Chair: Dr Audrey Giles (Univ. of Ottawa, Canada)