Bookings now open for internationally acclaimed leisure conference

The annual Leisure Studies Association (LSA) Conference, brings together academics, students, practitioners, policy makers and professionals who work within leisure, sports, tourism and events to discuss and exchange ideas on contemporary leisure issues.

Bookings are now open for the event, which was last hosted by Leeds Beckett in 2010, and will explore the social role of leisure processes in an everyday context.

The conference will be split into five streams, within the over-arching theme of ‘Enacting leisure, Re-creating leisure’. With a view to answer the following question, ‘What can leisure research on identities, lifestyles and play reveal about social relations, inequalities, power and privilege?’

Conference Themes:

• Theme 1 - Enacting leisure: identities, lifestyles and play
• Theme 2 - Spaces of leisure
• Theme 3 - Leisure and social justice
• Theme 4 - Leisure mobilities
• Theme 5 - Open stream

Dr Thomas Fletcher, Senior Lecturer in Events, Tourism and Hospitality at Leeds Beckett University, explained: "We are delighted that Leeds Beckett will once again host the Leisure Studies Association Conference. Leeds Beckett University has a long history and strong reputation in the field of Leisure Studies; with many of those responsible for the development of Leisure Studies over the years being based here Our theme of 'Enacting leisure, reclaiming leisure' aims to be truly multi-disciplinary, which we hope will attract attendees from a range of fields and interests, both nationally and internationally."

Dr Fletcher added: “Leisure is a fundamental part of human culture, contributing to both personal health and the maintenance of social life. However, it is greatly contested, constrained and constructed. The conference will allow people within the subject field, and those looking at leisure from other subject fields, to re-claim leisure as a subject of thinking, theorising, researching and doing.”