30 JUNE – 3 JULY

Creative, Connected Communities of/in/with Leisure: Theoretical & Methodological Advances

Key Dates:

LSA 2026 Conference Announcement………………………………………September 2025

First Call for Abstracts……………………………………………………………..1st October 2025

Second Call for Abstracts……………………………………………………….12th January 2025

Announcements of Keynote Speakers & Panels…………………..Dec 2025 – Feb 2026

Academic Programme Outline………………………………………………………February 2026

PGR & ECR Training Programme Announcement……………………………….March 2026

Registration Announcement & Bursary Offers…………………………………….March 2026

Social Programme………………………………………………………………………………April 2026

Full Programme Confirmed…………………………………………………………………May 2026

Co-Chairs: Profs Caroline Scarles & Louise Mansfield

Brunel University London, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH

2026 LSA Conference Committee!

▪️ Professor Louise Mansfield is Professor of Sport, Health and Social Sciences, Vice Dean for Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Health and Wellbeing across the Lifecourse in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University of London, UK.

▪️ Professor Caroline Scarles is Professor of Technology in Society and Vice Dean for Research at Brunel Business School, Brunel University of London. Her research focuses on technology for social good, nature connection, wellbeing, and accessibility in arts and heritage, recreation, and travel.

▪️ Professor Rasul Mowatt is a Department Head and Professor at North Carolina State University, with research and teaching focus linked to theories of race, legacies of racial violence, and colonial histories.

▪️ Professor Emma Wainwright is a Professor in the Department of Education at Brunel, with broad research interests in the geographies of education, training and welfare, and social and educational inequalities.

▪️ Dr Utsa Mukherjee is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Research at the Department of Education, Brunel University of London, where he also co-leads the ‘Education, Identities and Society’ Research Group.

▪️ Dr Tarryn Godfrey is a Lecturer (Sport Development) and Director of Recruitment and Admissions in the Department of Sport, Health and Exercise Sciences, and the Centre for Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse at Brunel University of London.

▪️ Dr Lewis Charles Smith is a Lecturer in Marketing at Brunel University of London, with research interests in business and marketing history, corporate heritage, public and third sector marketing.

▪️ Jake Gifford is a Doctoral Researcher in the Centre for Health and Wellbeing Across the Lifecourse in the College of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences at Brunel University of London.

We look forward to seeing you at the conference in 2026!

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