Dawn Trussell
Associate Professor
Recreation and Leisure Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
My research interests focus on leisure and sport culture in the lives of individuals, families, and communities. I seek to understand diverse social contexts and issues of power and social inclusion, particularly related to constructs of family, children and youth, gender and sexual diversity, and rurality. My work has a social justice orientation and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. I have served as the Vice-President/Treasurer for the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies since 2014.
Research Interest
Parents’ and young people’s experiences in youth sport, diverse family structures, and building a sense of community; The nexus of public policy and leisure for women as they experience the transition to motherhood; The gendered dimensions of family leisure.; Young people’s experiences in leisure activities; Methodological and ethical issues in the research process
Publications
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Kovac, L., & Trussell, D. E. (2015). ‘Classy and never trashy’: Young women’s experiences of nightclubs and the construction of gender and sexuality. Leisure Sciences, 37, 195-209.
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Trussell, D. E., *Xing, T., & *Oswald, A. (2015). Family leisure and the coming out process for LGB young people and their parents. Annals of Leisure Research, 18(3), 323-341.
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Trussell, D. E. (2016). Young people’s perspectives of parent volunteerism in community youth sport. Sport Management Review. 16, 332-342.
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Paterson, S., Trussell, D., Hebblewaite, S., *Evans, M, & *Xing, T. (2016). Playing with motherhood: The politics of leisure and the transition to motherhood in Montreal and Toronto. Canadian Review of Social Policy/Revue Canadienne de Politique Sociale, 74, 109-144.
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Trussell, D. E. (2017). Parents’ leisure, LGB young people and “when we were coming outâ€. Leisure Sciences, 39(1), 42-58.
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Trussell, D. E., *Kovac, L., & Apgar, J. (2017) LGBTQ parents’ experiences of community youth sport: Change your forms, change your (hetero) norms. Sport Management Review.Â
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Trussell, D. E., Paterson, S., Hebblethwaite, S., *Xing, T., & *Evans, M. (in press). Negotiating the complexities and risks of an interdisciplinary research team. International Journal of Qualitative Methods.
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Trussell, D. E., Jeanes, R., & Such, L. (in press). Revisiting family leisure research and critical reflections on the future of family-centred scholarship. Leisure Sciences.
