Currently, the areas of active research in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies include: cultural development and the arts, leisure and health, work, family, lifespan and leisure, and disadvantaged groups, management and program evaluation, marketing and consumer behaviour, outdoor education, park planning, environmental assessment, resource management, policy development, social psychology and sociology of leisure, therapeutic recreation, tourism, urban recreation, and geography. Areas of research for faculty in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies can be found at the following website: http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/rec/biodetail/