Neil Carr (PhD, University of Exeter) is associate professor of Tourism at the University of Otago, having previously lectured at the University of Hertfordshire, UK and University of Queensland, Australia. His research focuses on leisure and tourist behaviour. In particular, Neil’s research is focused on young people, university students, children, families, and non-humans (particularly dogs) and their owners. In addition, Neil has undertaken research into visitor safety and education, and gender differences and gendered identities within the pleasure environment. Neil has published over 35 peer-reviewed papers in a variety of academic journals and edited books and is on the editorial boards of three journals, including the Annals of Leisure Research. Neil has supervised 19 PhD students (5 to completion) and taught across a variety of courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels
Matthew J. Forss is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a screenwriting emphasis at Goddard College-Plainfield, VT. One of his current areas of academic study involves film aestheticism in American and African films. Also, he works as a freelance scriptwriting consultant on stageplays and screenplays.
He received a B.A. in Biology from Lakeland College-Sheboygan and an M.S. in Exercise Science from Northern Michigan University-Marquette, MI. He has been an ethnomusicology journalist for InsideWorldMusic.com since 2000 and frequently contributes articles and reviews on world music, anthropology, sociology, and other global and regional cultural areas to various magazines and journals.
His work has been published in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Asia Journal of Global Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Songlines, with forthcoming articles in Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, African Music Journal, PaleoAnthropology, American Review of Canadian Studies, and the Encyclopedia of the Caribbean. Additionally, he maintains an ever-growing collection of ethnic music from over 180 different countries. He is also an antique dealer and an authority on early American bottles, mining artifacts, and porcelain signs. He also studies and actively participates in ultramarathons - footraces beyond the marathon distance of 42 km!
Dr Kirsten Holmes is a Research Fellow at Curtin Business School, examining the role of volunteerism within tourism. Before moving to Australia she lectured at the University of Sheffield in leisure management and at the University of Surrey in tourism. She has served Vice Chair of the UK Leisure Studies Association 2005-7. . Her research interests include volunteerism within leisure and tourism, volunteerism as leisure, cultural regeneration and cultural tourism. Recent publications include Culture, Leisure, Sport and Social Capital: Discourse and Practice, edited with Mike Collins and Alix Slater (2008, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association); "Volunteers in the Heritage Sector: a neglected audience?" in Sandell, R & Janes, R. Eds. (2007) "Museum management and marketing and City Centre Masterplanning and Cultural Spaces: a case study of Sheffield" (2007) Journal of Retail and Leisure Property with Yasminah Beebeejaun. She is currently completing a book for Butterworth-Heinemann on Managing Volunteers in Tourism with Dr Karen Smith, Victoria University, Wellington.
Dr. Edward Jackiewicz is an Associate Professor of Geography at California State University, Northridge. His research and teaching interests encompass the broad area of development with regional interests in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the United States. Most recently and more specifically he is engaged with research on the sociocultural and economic impacts of tourism, transnational behavior and the significance of public space.
He recently co-edited a book titled Placing Latin America (Rowman and Littlefied, 2008).
Web: http://www.csun.edu/~ej76852/main.html
Dr. Singleton has been employed by the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University since 1981. Dr. Singleton is cross appointed to the School of Nursing ,Sociology and Anthropology at Dalhousie University and to the école de Kinésiologie et Récréologie, Université de Moncton. Dr. Singleton has also been cross appointed to the Department of Health at the University of Toronto and the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Dr. Singleton has been involved with Therapeutic Recreation and Older Adults for the past thirty years. Dr. Singleton has published articles in Canadian Association on Gerontology, Activities Adaptation and Aging, Journal of Leisurability, Leisure Today, Journal of Occupational Science Australia, World Leisure and Recreation Journal, and the Journal of Leisure Research. Dr. Singleton has made presentations on his work in a variety of professional conferences ranging from the Recreation Association of Nova Scotia, Leisure research Symposium, Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, National Therapeutic Recreation Society Institute, Gerontological Society of America, Canadian Association on Gerontology and the World Demographic Association. He was made a Fellow of the World of the World Demographic Association in 2006. The Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association in 2007 recognized his contribution to Therapeutic Recreation by awarding the Therapeutic Professional of the Year to him.
Iheanyichukwu N. Osondu earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Geography/Education (with minor in History) from the University of Lagos, Lagos Nigeria; A Master of Science degree in Urban Environmental Resources Management and Planning from the University of Jos, Jos Nigeria and a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography & Planning from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland U.K. His research interests are in Urban environmental Planning, Housing and the use and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Matthew J. Forss is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Creative Writing with a screenwriting emphasis at Goddard College-Plainfield, VT. One of his current areas of academic study involves film aestheticism in American and African films. Also, he works as a freelance scriptwriting consultant on stageplays and screenplays.
He received a B.A. in Biology from Lakeland College-Sheboygan and an M.S. in Exercise Science from Northern Michigan University-Marquette, MI. He has been an ethnomusicology journalist for InsideWorldMusic.com since 2000 and frequently contributes articles and reviews on world music, anthropology, sociology, and other global and regional cultural areas to various magazines and journals.
His work has been published in the Berkshire Encyclopedia of Extreme Sports, Asia Journal of Global Studies, Ethnomusicology, and Songlines, with forthcoming articles in Himalayan and Central Asian Studies, African Music Journal, PaleoAnthropology, American Review of Canadian Studies, and the Encyclopedia of the Caribbean. Additionally, he maintains an ever-growing collection of ethnic music from over 180 different countries. He is also an antique dealer and an authority on early American bottles, mining artifacts, and porcelain signs. He also studies and actively participates in ultramarathons - footraces beyond the marathon distance of 42 km!
Dr Kirsten Holmes is a Research Fellow at Curtin Business School, examining the role of volunteerism within tourism. Before moving to Australia she lectured at the University of Sheffield in leisure management and at the University of Surrey in tourism. She has served Vice Chair of the UK Leisure Studies Association 2005-7. . Her research interests include volunteerism within leisure and tourism, volunteerism as leisure, cultural regeneration and cultural tourism. Recent publications include Culture, Leisure, Sport and Social Capital: Discourse and Practice, edited with Mike Collins and Alix Slater (2008, Eastbourne: Leisure Studies Association); "Volunteers in the Heritage Sector: a neglected audience?" in Sandell, R & Janes, R. Eds. (2007) "Museum management and marketing and City Centre Masterplanning and Cultural Spaces: a case study of Sheffield" (2007) Journal of Retail and Leisure Property with Yasminah Beebeejaun. She is currently completing a book for Butterworth-Heinemann on Managing Volunteers in Tourism with Dr Karen Smith, Victoria University, Wellington.
Dr. Edward Jackiewicz is an Associate Professor of Geography at California State University, Northridge. His research and teaching interests encompass the broad area of development with regional interests in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as the United States. Most recently and more specifically he is engaged with research on the sociocultural and economic impacts of tourism, transnational behavior and the significance of public space.
He recently co-edited a book titled Placing Latin America (Rowman and Littlefied, 2008).
Web: http://www.csun.edu/~ej76852/main.html
Dr. Singleton has been employed by the School of Health and Human Performance at Dalhousie University since 1981. Dr. Singleton is cross appointed to the School of Nursing ,Sociology and Anthropology at Dalhousie University and to the école de Kinésiologie et Récréologie, Université de Moncton. Dr. Singleton has also been cross appointed to the Department of Health at the University of Toronto and the School of Social Work at the University of Toronto. Dr. Singleton has been involved with Therapeutic Recreation and Older Adults for the past thirty years. Dr. Singleton has published articles in Canadian Association on Gerontology, Activities Adaptation and Aging, Journal of Leisurability, Leisure Today, Journal of Occupational Science Australia, World Leisure and Recreation Journal, and the Journal of Leisure Research. Dr. Singleton has made presentations on his work in a variety of professional conferences ranging from the Recreation Association of Nova Scotia, Leisure research Symposium, Canadian Congress on Leisure Research, National Therapeutic Recreation Society Institute, Gerontological Society of America, Canadian Association on Gerontology and the World Demographic Association. He was made a Fellow of the World of the World Demographic Association in 2006. The Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association in 2007 recognized his contribution to Therapeutic Recreation by awarding the Therapeutic Professional of the Year to him.
Iheanyichukwu N. Osondu earned a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) in Geography/Education (with minor in History) from the University of Lagos, Lagos Nigeria; A Master of Science degree in Urban Environmental Resources Management and Planning from the University of Jos, Jos Nigeria and a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography & Planning from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland U.K. His research interests are in Urban environmental Planning, Housing and the use and application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
