Ruth Jeanes Editor & Author

Dawn E. Trussell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Brock University, Canada. The Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada has funded her research. She has written in the areas of family leisure, youth sport and transition to motherhood through a social justice lens. She is currently Vice President for the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies. Ruth Jeanes is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on the relationship between sport and social exclusion/inclusion. She has written in the areas of family leisure, with a particular focus on children’s voice and the mediating impact of gender, disability and culture on young people’s involvement in sport. She is currently president of the Australia and New Zealand Leisure Studies Association. Elizabeth Such is a Research Fellow at the School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research focuses on issues of health and social equity, and includes projects on leisure, physical activity, family life and marginalized populations. She served for many years on the Leisure Studies Association executive.