“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. ”
FUll Curriculum VITAE
SAMPLE PRESENTATION 1 (VIDEO)
Sample presentation 2 (video)
Peer-Reviewed Publications
2023
The influence of leisure on the quality of life of refugees in Turkey
2022
2021
Promoting creativity in undergraduate recreation and leisure services classrooms
2020
Thinking About Leisure During a Global Pandemic
Implicit Attitudes and the Challenge of Becoming a Reflexive Leisure Scholar
Rights of Passage Programs: Culturally Relevant Programs for Black Youth
How to End a Course Well and Why it Matters
2019
Does Culture Matter? The Role of Culture in Program Implementation
A Systematic Review of Rural Latino Health and the Built Environment
The Credit Card or the Taxi: Parent Involvement in Indoor Competition Climbing
2018
Travel and Adolescent Identity
Injustice in Mobile Leisure: A Conceptual Exploration of Pokemon Go
Interpreting Perceived Constraints to Ethnic Recreation Participation: A Recreation Systems Approach
Vertically Integrated Leisure Theory
2017
Advancing Methodological Rigor in Recreation Research
Measurement of Transformative Learning in Study Abroad
Indoor Competition Climbing as a Context for Positive Youth Development
2016
Triple Gain: Practical Ideas for Maximizing Connections Between Students and Faculty
Competition Climbing: From Leisure Pursuit to Lifestyle Sport
2015
Competition Climbing as Serious Leisure
Non-Peer Reviewed Publications and Reports
2022
Integrating innovative digital technologies into use assessment of parks and protected areas
2020
Services Marketing Chapter in Wescott and Anderson’s Introduction to tourism and hospitality in BC
2019
2018
Adaptive Sport for Social Change Summary Report
2017
The Business of Lifestyle Sport - Book Chapter
Town of Pendleton Recreation Programs and Resources Audit
2016
Grant County Public Utilities District Usage and Capacity Report
Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Areas Usage and Capacity Report
2015
Sister Cities International: Anderson-Ireland Summer 2014 SCI Exchange- Summary Evaluation Report
The United Way of Oconee County 48th Annual Report
The State of the Sport: Report and Analysis of USA Climbing Winter 2014-Spring 2015 Data
Sister Cities International: Cultivating Youth Relationships and Programs that Last
Yvonne and Kay Whitmore Global Management Center Annual Evaluation Report
2013
Utah Valley University Student Retention Evaluation Plan
Yvonne and Kay Whitmore Global Management Center Annual Evaluation Report
Clearfield Aquatic Center Statistical Report
2012
Presentations
2024
Unlocking museums' mysteries with data analytics
(American Alliance of Museums)
2023
I have a PhD, now what? Taking the non-faculty route into industry
(Clemson University)
So, You Want to Do a Member Survey?
(American Museum Membership Conference)
2022
Collaborative Online International Learning: Opportunities and Challenges
(World VIU Days)
2020
Working smarter not harder: Tips for embedding research into the classroom
(Center of Innovation and Excellence in Learning)
2019
(Nanaimo Pecha Kucha)
Credit Card and the Taxi: Parent Involvement in Youth Sport
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
Simple Activities to Facilitate Meaningful Interaction in Diverse Classrooms
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
The Role of Culture in Program Implementation
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
International Adaptive Sport Programming and Attitudes Towards Disability
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
2018
Beginners are Many But Enders are Few: Ending a Course Well and Why it Matters
(BC Teaching and Learning Conference)
Situating Learning: Bringing the Messiness of Life into the Classroom
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
Collaborative Online International Learning
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
2017
Implicit Attitudes and Reflexivity: Becoming a Critical Leisure Scholar
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences)
Case Study Learning: A Tool for Critical Thinking - Invited Presentation
(Clemson Thinks 2 Faculty Institute)
Rural Latino Health and the Built Environment
(GRADS Research Symposium)
2016
Assessing Recreation Use Via Field-based Cameras & Timelapse2 Software
(National Recreation & Parks Association)
Clicks, Openings, and Impressions: Navigating Contemporary Online Survey Research
(National Recreation & Parks Association)
Play as Prevention: How Play Mediates the Relationship between Mother's Health and Child's Risk Behaviors/Handout
(Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research)
A Case Study of Visitor Use Management and Planning at Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area
(River Management Society & National Outdoor Recreation Conference)
(South Eastern Travel and Tourism Research Association)
Alternative Strategies for the Assessment of Socioeconomic Status in the Leisure Sciences
(George Wright Society)
Triple Gain: Practical Ideas for Maximizing Collaboration Between the Classroom and the Profession
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences Teaching Institute)
Engaging Students in Critical Thinking: Preparing Students For the 21st Century Workplace
(The Academy of Leisure Sciences Teaching Institute)
Beyond Composite Scores and Cronbach's Alpha
(North Eastern Recreation Research Symposium)
2015
(American Anthropological Association Annual Conference)
Toward Definitional Congruence in Ethnic and Racial Constraints Research
(George Wright Society)
Assessing Recreational carrying Capacity for Reservoirs of the Priest Rapids Hydroelectric Project
(Southeastern Recreation Research Conference)
National and Global Identities: Travel as a Mechanism for Youth Identity Development
(College of Health and Human Development Research Forum)
Indoor Competitive Climbing as a Context for Positive Youth Development
(Academy of Outdoor Recreation Educators)
Ethnic and Racial Participation in Leisure: Introducing to a Systems Model
(National Recreation and Parks Association Annual Congress)
Public Service Values as Predictors of Recreation Decision Making
(National Recreation and Parks Association Annual Congress)
Competitive Climbing as Serious Leisure
(North Eastern Recreation Research Symposium)
Fidelity in Experiential Education: Toward a Scientific Model of Program Evaluation
(North Eastern Recreation Research Symposium)
(South Eastern Recreation Research Conference)
On Belay: An Assessment of Climbing
(Academy of Outdoor Recreation Educators)
Connecting Youth to Nature: Rock Climbing as a Strategy to Get Youth Outdoors
(U.S. Play Coalition)
(Winthrop Conference for Teaching and Learning)
The Learning Activities Survey: Conceptual and Operational Definitions of Transformative Learning/Handout
(Winthrop Conference for Teaching and Learning)
2014
Study Abroad as a Meaningful Learning Experience
(Experience Industry Management Conference)
Transformative Travel: Measuring Study Abroad Activities and Outcomes - Long form
(National Recreation and Parks Association Annual Congress)
Transformative Travel: Measuring Study Abroad Activities and Outcomes - Short form
(Travel Education Future Initiatives Annual Conference)
