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 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 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/